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Twenty-one Harrison College of Pharmacy (HCOP) students were inducted into the Zeta Chapter of the Rho Chi Pharmacy Honor Society on Sept. 16. The initiation ceremony was held on both the Auburn and Mobile campuses. The ceremony was the 101st initiation in the chapter’s history.

Dr. Courtney Alexander, assistant professor of clinical pharmacogenomics and chapter advisor, presided over the ceremony and administered the initiation along with the chapter officers. The officers were then installed by Alexander and chapter president Tyler Long.

Dr. Jennifer Peterson, a member of the HCOP Class of 2001 and the chief pharmacy officer with UAB Medicine, gave the keynote address.

Of the 21 initiated, 16 are Pharm.D. students and five are graduate students. Those initiated were:

Erin Blythe

Alexis Card

Braxton Wade Clines

Yuriah Blaize Cook

Adrian Courville

Chloé Sophie Dion

Vipasha Dwivedi

Oluchukwu Maureen Ezeala

Carsyn Hawkins

Virginia Elizabeth Hodge

Victoria Huffman

Peyton Frances Hurst

Maddie Kordecki

Nicholas McCormick

Bailee Mitchell

Michal J. Moore

Molly Michaela Orr

Anna Kathryn Smith

Kathlyn Smith

Sampada Prakash Tamhankar

Emma Tidmore

At the conclusion of the ceremony, the officers for the 2025-26 academic year were installed. Those assuming officer roles are Maddie Kordecki (President), Molly Orr (Vice President), Yuriah Cook (Secretary), Braxton Clines (Treasurer) and Carsyn Hawkins (Historian).

Founded in 1922, Rho Chi is an international honor society for pharmaceutical sciences that seeks to advance pharmacy through intellectual leadership. To be invited to join, students must rank in the top 20 percent of their class, have a minimum GPA of 3.0, have not been disciplined for violations of academic integrity or professional standards and must be elected by a vote of the current chapter members.

Auburn’s Zeta Chapter was established in 1925 as the sixth Rho Chi chapter in the country.