DUBLIN, Ohio — Healthcare company Cardinal Health is donating almost $1 million to university pharmacy programs across the country.

Cardinal, based in Dublin, Ohio, said the donations were part of the Cardinal Health Pharmacy Scholarship Program, which it launched in June 2011 and which has donated more than $2.1 million to 20 universities.

The eight schools receiving the latest round of funding are the Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy, located in Birmingham, Ala.; the University of Florida College of Pharmacy, located in Gainesville, Fla.; the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, located in Storrs, Conn.; the Western University of Health Sciences College of Pharmacy, located in  Pomona, Calif.; the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy, located in Los Angeles; the Southwest Oklahoma State University College of Pharmacy, located in Weatherford, Okla.; the Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, located in Indianapolis; and the East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, located in Johnson City, Tenn.

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