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Ann Arbor, Mich., Jan. 18, 2022 – Dr. Robert W. Browne, an alumnus of the School of Dentistry and one of its most generous benefactors over the last 50 years, died Jan. 8 in Florida. He was 97. Dr. Browne earned his DDS from the school in 1952 and returned for his graduate degree in …
Dr. Mark Johnston told his wife, Mary, recently that one of these days he needs to learn how to say no to volunteer opportunities. It’s not something he has done much of over the 36 years of his dentistry career so far. His CV is crowded with not just membership in local, state and national …
Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov. 5, 2021 – The School of Dentistry’s DDS and MS classes of 1970 and 1971 were celebrated as they marked the 50th anniversary of their degrees during the school’s annual Reunion Weekend this Thursday through Saturday. About 20 members of each DDS class and three alumni who received master’s degrees in …
This profile is one in an ongoing series highlighting School of Dentistry alumni, donors and students. Editor’s Note: Jane Plasman, a retired University of Michigan alumna living in upstate New York, made a series of major financial gifts to U-M over the last year, including one to the School of Dentistry. Earlier this summer she …
Ann Arbor, Mich., Sept. 15, 2021 – Janet Kinney, director of the Dental Hygiene Program at the School of Dentistry, was installed Tuesday as the inaugural Dr. Dorothy G. Hard Legacy Professor. Dr. Hard built the school’s Dental Hygiene program into a national leader during her 44 years as director from 1924-68. The Hard professorship …
Ann Arbor, Mich., Aug. 25, 2021 – A student scholarship endowment fund started only five years ago to honor two longtime faculty members at the School of Dentistry has now collected gifts from more than 500 people totaling more than half a million dollars. The Donald and Ronald Heys Scholarship fund, in honor of the …
This is one in an ongoing series of profiles of School of Dentistry alumni, faculty and students. When Barbara Zola was growing up in Saginaw, Michigan, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, she spent a lot of time at her father’s dentist office. At first it was within walking distance of their home, then …
Ann Arbor, Mich., May 7, 2021 – The School of Dentistry has announced the creation of a new professorship to honor Dr. Dorothy Hard, who built the school’s Dental Hygiene program into a national leader during her 45 years as director from 1924-68. The establishment of the Dr. Dorothy G. Hard Legacy Professorship carries two …
This profile is one in an ongoing series highlighting School of Dentistry alumni, donors and students. When James “Jay” Roahen was growing up in Wisconsin in the 1950s, a dentist was about the last thing he wanted to be. His childhood dentist, who Roahen said was likely trained in the 1920s and never modernized his …
This profile is one in an ongoing series highlighting School of Dentistry alumni, donors and students. Ann Arbor, Mich., April 5, 2021 – Two paintings from the renowned Detroit artist Gilda Snowden will soon hang in the University of Michigan School of Dentistry thanks to a gift from the late artist’s estate. Snowden’s father, John …
