Texas A&M College of Dentistry

Administrative Changes at Texas A&M College of Dentistry

Faces in new places

An update on administration changes at the dental school Read More

Dean Lawrence Wolinsky

CODA appointment for Texas A&M College of Dentistry dean

Texas A&M College of Dentistry Dean Larry Wolinsky recently was appointed to the Commission on Dental Accreditation and began his role as a commissioner trainee at the conclusion of the ADA annual session held in Denver Oct. 20-24. Read More

Dr. Jack Long, associate dean for student affairs

Progress notes

For this associate dean, a career focus on students integrates multiple perspectives. Read More

Arlene Jackson

Our people

A few minutes with Arlene Williams, dental dispensing technician Read More

Dr. Carlos Parra

Top score for Parra

Big honors aside, it’s interactions with students and the potential for impactful research that foster this faculty member’s drive to excel. Read More

Dr. Larry Tadlock

Dewey Award for Tadlock

Dr. Larry Tadlock, 1984 alumnus and program director in orthodontics, received the Martin Dewey Memorial Award in September during the Rocky Mountain Society of Orthodontists and Southwestern Society of Orthodontists joint annual meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Dewey ... Read More

Dr. Janice DeWald during the Sept. 9 Caruth Luncheon

Voice of dental hygiene

Colleagues describe her as the matriarch of the department, a constant ally for Caruth students and team members alike. After more than 30 years on the college faculty, this director is now a retiree. Read More

Dr. Ibtisam Al-Hashimi

From start to finish, Al-Hashimi’s career rooted to the study of saliva 

For a quarter century, Dr. Ibtisam Al-Hashimi has relished her role as the self-described “Spit Doctor” of Texas A&M University College of Dentistry. Not long after joining the faculty, Al-Hashimi formed the dental school’s Salivary Dysfunction Clinic in 1991 — ... Read More

Linda Brock, program coordinator, stands in the clinic at the Center for Facial Pain and Sleep Medicine

Our people

Somewhere along the drive from Nebraska to Texas, the phone started ringing. Just a couple years prior, Linda Brock and her husband, Walter, had moved to Fullerton, Nebraska, to be closer to family following her mother’s death. Now it was ... Read More

Moira Allen’s passion for footwear isn’t exactly a secret. A mere glance in her office reveals some subtle giveaways: shoe stickers on her file cabinet, a tape dispenser shaped like a shoe and — during the holidays — a stocking hung on her office door with care, glittery heel and all. In all those years of wearing heels, Allen — whose late husband had to convert a linen closet just to store the collection — can’t recall one mishap, stumble or fall. Her feet never get sore. And kitten heels; forget it. “I don’t like little teeny, tiny heels,” Allen says. “But I wonderfully love a good pair of shoes.”

Big shoes to fill

The music swells inside the Meyerson Symphony Center, and the graduates file in, filling the back entryways. They’re poised for their procession down the aisle, but for the moment, they remain rooted to their posts. At the front of this ... Read More