Month: June 2013
Students serve Operation Lone Star
From August until June, Edward Manzano Middle School in Brownsville, Texas, is filled with sixth- to eighth-graders. But for a few days in July 2012, dental and dental hygiene students from A&M Baylor College of Dentistry called it home. And ... Read More
$3.4 million grant funds new Center Of Excellence
A Center of Excellence to advance diversity in faculty and students at A&M Baylor College of Dentistry has been established through a $3.4 million grant to the college from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers of Excellence ... Read More
Endowed professorhip to honor Seale
Dr. N. Sue Seale ’70, ’72 (Pedo) is the inspiration for a development initiative geared toward raising $500,000 to establish an endowed professorship that will support the Department of Pediatric Dentistry while honoring Seale’s unwavering dedication to improving children’s oral ... Read More
Fellowship to honor Rees, advance stomatology center
Stomatology is no mystery at A&M Baylor College of Dentistry, where the Stomatology Center in the Department of Periodontics has been solving countless challenging cases for nearly three decades. Dr. Terry Rees ’68 (Perio), professor and founding director, is still ... Read More
Corporate gift funds new implant training program
Just a few months into the new postgraduate surgical implant training program at A&M Baylor College of Dentistry, coordinator Dr. William Nagy is enthusiastic about its progress. “There’s no other program like it in the country,” says Nagy, professor in ... Read More
Ceen’s career celebrated through new fund
Dr. Richard F. Ceen, recently retired professor and program director of graduate orthodontics, is being honored by the establishment of a new endowment fund in his name to enhance excellence for the graduate orthodontic program. The Richard F. Ceen Endowment ... Read More
Seidler noted for humanitarianism
Dr. Kevin Seidler ’78 fills an 80-hour workweek; more than half that time is spent on something other than patient care at his office in The Colony, Texas. He devotes many hours to his labor of love as president and ... Read More
A gift that changed a life
Jessie Strauch-Steele’s story begins with a devastating auto accident in New Mexico. The year was 1969, she was 18, and she had just broken every bone in her face and lost eight upper teeth after being thrown through the car ... Read More
Seventeen is a magic number
Ask Dr. Ritu Rao ’03 about the inspiration for her Bizzy Tooth Mommy blog, and she may say it comes at nap time. Not hers. Her kids’. That’s because this busy mom and practicing dentist knows how to snag time ... Read More
Hygiene graduate spawns family legacy
Jean Riddle Moore, member of the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene’s first graduating class, is a woman with stories even more remarkable than her distinctive moniker. The 1957 graduate, now 80 years old, is revered by the Mount Pleasant, Texas, ... Read More