This dentist will be both Dr. Hulderman and Chef James One in a series of profiles of School of Dentistry alumni, donors and students. Ann Arbor, Mich., Dec. 18, 2018 — Fourth-year dental student James Hulderman is asked the question frequently. With just a semester left until he graduates from one of the top dental schools …
Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov. 19, 2018 -– Four students from the School of Dentistry who traveled to Brazil for an international study program earlier this year are the focus of a story featured on the home page of the University of Michigan website. “A Global Vision of Dentistry” documents the experience of students Mythili Ramakrishna Bhat, …
Ann Arbor, Mich., Sept. 27, 2018 -– Three dental hygiene students and a DDS student at the School of Dentistry received scholarships from CEW+ Sunday during the organization’s 48th annual awards program. The organization, formerly known as the Center for the Education of Women, presented 58 scholarships and four fellowships. The scholarship program was established in …
The route to dental school was indirect but rewarding This profile is one in a series highlighting School of Dentistry alumni, donors and students. Ann Arbor, Mich., Sept. 18, 2018 -– The precocious seven-year-old boy in the dental chair has a lot to say and dental student Amanda Robertson is listening patiently and exchanging kid-friendly banter …
Ann Arbor, Mich., Sept. 10, 2018 -– Fourth-year students and faculty from the School of Dentistry are featured in a new video and story produced for the university’s Michigan Impact Newsletter, which highlights U-M programs that benefit citizens throughout the state. The “Stories of Our State” video and story focus on students and faculty who spend three weeks each …
Ann Arbor, Mich., Aug. 8, 2018 -– A dual DDS/PhD student at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry has won one of the top awards for student researchers from the International Association of Dental Research. Alexandra Oklejas won the IADR Unilever Hatton Award for her project, “Combination chemotherapy decreases head and neck cancer stem cells.” The project …
Ann Arbor, Mich., Aug. 3, 2018 -– For the newly arrived students in the School of Dentistry’s Class of 2022, last week’s White Coat Ceremony was part symbolism and part pragmatic advice session. Each of the 109 students crossed the stage at Rackham Auditorium to don their personalized white clinic coat for the first time. The annual …
Ann Arbor, Mich., Aug. 3, 2018 -– History is repeating itself in a significant, multi-generational way with the Class of 2022 at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. Each class usually has several students with parents who attended the U-M dental school, but third-generation students are uncommon and fourth-generation students are rare. This year, 14 …
School’s annual free mouth guard clinic draws area athletes Ann Arbor, Mich., Aug. 3, 2018 -– Twelve-year-old Avery McEwen of Ann Arbor won’t have any trouble putting his new custom-fit mouth guard to good use. Name a sport and the Slauson Middle School student probably plays it. He rattled off baseball, basketball, soccer, cross country, wrestling …
Ann Arbor, Mich., Aug. 3, 2018 — Valerie Nieto, a first-year master’s student in the Dental Hygiene Program, has won a national award from the American Dental Hygiene Association for a research project examining oral health disparities among military veterans. Nieto received the 2018 ADHA/Sigma Phi Alpha Journalism Award for a manuscript entitled, “Attitudes and Access …