Luciana Shaddox, D.D.S., M.S., Ph.D. Luciana Shaddox, D.D.S., M.S., Ph.D., an assistant professor, received the prestigious American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) Teaching Fellowship Award during the association’s annual meeting in October. Given by the AAP Foundation, the award recognizes a successful young…
Congratulations to Luisa Betancur and Melvin Lopez, class of 2014, who both received a Proctor & Gamble Hispanic Dental Association Scholarship Award of $1,250. Luisa Betancur Melvin Lopez Betancur and Lopez applied for these scholarships which are…
The college’s second annual Gator Bookworms Used Media sale netted $1,265 for the UF Campaign for Charities, which raises money for nonprofit agencies in the community. For the past several months, faculty, staff and students of the college, and some other areas of the Health Science…
Faculty at the University of Florida College of Dentistry received five grants totaling nearly $7 million to improve access to dental care for underserved children and adults from the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The funding will be…
The University of Florida College of Dentistry welcomed eight new faculty members to the college between July 1 and August 24 in the endodontics, operative dentistry, oral biology, orthodontics and periodontology departments. Kathleen Neiva, D.D.S., Ph.D. Department of Endodontics Kathleen Neiva, D.D.S., Ph.D., joined the Department of Endodontics…
Thirty-five participants from under-represented minority groups across Florida got an impression of what dental school is like during the Third Annual Impressions Program on July 23, coordinated by the UF College of Dentistry Chapter of the Student National Dental Association. Students, faculty and staff assisted with hands-on experience…
Members of the UF SNDA Chapter pose with their award-winning scrapbook. Congratulations to the UF College of Dentistry Chapter of the Student National Dental Association (SNDA) members. The chapter won Chapter of the Year and…
Teresa A. Dolan, D.D.S., M.P.H., dean of the University of Florida College of Dentistry, recently graduated from the HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute, held June 18-July 2 at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa. The Summer Institute, a 35-year partnership between Bryn Mawr College and Higher Education Resource Services…
“Do I want to be a dentist?” Ten undergraduate students from Florida colleges and universities spent 10 days discovering their answers to that question as part of the college’s Ninth Annual Summer Learning Program held July 7 – 16, 2010. The program, one of several college outreach programs for…
From left: Steve Kostewicz, Lamar Brooks, Charles Lesch and Justus Weber. Congratulations to the UF College of Dentistry Clinical Education Model Transition Team members — winners of a 2010 Prudential Davis Productivity Award from UF.
