Ann Arbor, MI — April 22, 2013 — University of Michigan School of Dentistry professor Dr. Alexandre DaSilva is using a 3-D hologram device that may provide insights about what goes on in a person’s brain during a migraine headache and how the brain may make its own chemicals to kill those pains. View the video–Decode Migraine …
Ann Arbor, MI — April 16, 2013 — Dean Peter Polverini will deliver the commencement address to University of Michigan School of Dentistry graduates on Friday, May 10. The program begins at 1:00 p.m. at Hill Auditorium. His second five-year term as dean ends August 31. Polverini’s career at Michigan began in 1992 as a …
Ann Arbor, MI — April 10, 2013 — Dr. Peter Ma, a professor of dentistry in the Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, is one of three scientists worldwide to receive a prestigious award from the Society for Biomaterials. The Society today presented Ma with the Clemson Award …
Ann Arbor, MI — March 28, 2013 — Dr. Nisha D’Silva, professor of dentistry in the Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, was recently recognized for her research and mentoring. She received the Distinguished Clinical and Translational Research Mentor Award during a Michigan Institute of Clinical and Health Research (MICHR) symposium March 15. The award was established …
Ann Arbor, MI — March 28, 2013 — Three dental students and a dental hygiene faculty member from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry received awards for their work during the recent annual session of the American Dental Education Association in Seattle. J.J. Sae-ung, a fourth-year dental student was one of 12 winners of the ADEA/Johnson …
Ann Arbor, MI — March 12, 2013 — The first graduate program primarily focused on emerging innovations in computerized dentistry is being offered by the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. The Computerized Dentistry Program offers qualified dentists an opportunity to learn about how they can use digital technology in their practice to deliver quality …
Ann Arbor, MI — March 11, 2013 — It’s an idea that, if successful, could benefit many, including war veterans who have sustained battlefield injuries and, ultimately, children and adults with developmental or acquired facial defects from trauma or disfiguring cancer surgery. Dr. Stephen Feinberg, a professor of dentistry in the Department of Oral and …
Ann Arbor, MI — February 27, 2013 — Jane Halaris, an adjunct clinical lecturer in dental hygiene at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, will receive an award next month for her graduate student research. Halaris will receive the Joan K. Wilder Graduate Studies Research Award from the University of Detroit Mercy during its annual honors …
Ann Arbor, MI — February 7, 2013 — A pain application that allows persons suffering from migraine headaches and facial pain to precisely record the location of the pain in real time on an iPhone or iPad, as well as quantify the intensity and impact of the pain, has won first prize in a University …
Ann Arbor, MI — January 24, 2013 — A group of dental students who created a service project for homeless veterans who lack access to dental care, a dental hygiene alumna who provides oral health care screenings to low-income preschoolers, and an adjunct clinical lecturer who recruits underrepresented minority students from high schools across Michigan …