If it looks and feels like a lot is happening this week in the college, it’s because a lot is happening this week with ASDA Week and Annual Research Day.ASDA Week March 24-28, 2008The American Student Dental Association kicks off ASDA Week Tuesday…
On Saturday, March 15, ten people from the College of Dentistry volunteered to perform dental screenings and educate athletes during the Special Olympics in Lake City as part of the Special Olympics Special Smiles® Healthy Athletes program. It was a valuable service for the athletes and proved valuable for the…
Congratulations to Yue “Maggie” Wang who was selected as one of 10 dental students in the country for the Academic Dental Careers Fellowship Program by the American Dental Research Association (AADR) and the American Dental Education Association (ADEA). The fellowship program, designed to reach students attending all U.S. and…
LINDA BARTOSHUK, Ph.D., a professor of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science, was recently elected to a three-year term on the Council of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The NAS is charged with providing independent advice, outside the framework of government, to the nation’s leaders on science, technology and…
We are pleased to welcome W. Wallace McLendon, MSLS, as the new director of the Health Science Center Libraries, effective March 3, 2008. Mr. McLendon comes to us from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has served as deputy director of the UNC Health Sciences…
Congrats to our Grad Cup Winners! Five days . . . five grueling sports . . . four graduate programs represented . . . and the College of Dentistry’s team took home the Grad Cup for the second year in a row. During the week of February…
By Ann Griswold Millions of Americans make the New Years resolution to stop smoking, but far too many break ranks before Jan. 2. Their dismal success rate has health officials scrambling to come up with easier ways to quit, and many have toyed with the idea that smokeless tobacco…
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Longwood, Fla., entrepreneur Edward T. Quinn has made a $2 million gift to the University of Florida College of Dentistry in honor of M. Franklin Dolwick, a UF professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery. The gift will create the M. Franklin Dolwick University Chair and is…
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For the past week, 5-year-old Jorden Flowers, hands flashing through the air, has excitedly signed the words as he arrives at the University of Florida College of Dentistry: “New ears!” One of a set of fraternal twins born 10 weeks prematurely and weighing less than 3…
Jose E. Medina, D.D.S. GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Jose E. Medina, D.D.S., former dean of the University of Florida College of Dentistry and UF assistant vice president for facilities planning and operations, died Thursday (July 19). He was 81. Medina, who arrived at the…
