UW-Madison pharmacy students and faculty held a benefit Friday in honor of student Adam Nickel, who died unexpectedly in March after finishing a marathon in Arkansas.

The event raised money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Team in Training program, in which Nickel, a third-year pharmacy student, was involved with.

Friends and student organizers named the event R.A.N, an acronym for “Remember Adam Nickel.” Anne Walterman, a third-year UW-Madison pharmacy student, said many students and faculty members helped with the organization.

“We had a lot of people help out with the process, it was not directly led by one or two people,” Walterman said. “I got the idea from a classmate of mine … We originally had planned to do a charity dance, but after Adam’s death we decided to raise money in his honor.”

Organizers set up a memorial slideshow, and directors from Nickel’s team handed out training information.

Walterman said many of the members from the pharmacy student organization Christian Pharmacists Fellowship International helped lead a successful evening.

“Overall I think it went really well; we had about 250 purchase [event] tickets and we raised a little over $3,000,” she said.

The Pharmacy Global Health Interest Group, Phi Delta Chi, Rho Chi, Wisconsin Society of Pharmacy Students and the Minority Affairs Program in Pharmacy also participated in organizing the event.