Faculty and Staff
Staff professional development
A Dec. 9 professional development opportunity is in the works for staff members at Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry interested in learning more about organizational tips and tricks. Here are the details: Getting Organized Seminar 1-2 p.m., Tuesday, ... Read More
Inaugural Minutes in Motion competition culminates with staff awards, luncheon
Staff members at Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry got in motion this fall with a new health and wellness initiative from the TAMBCD Resource Team. Minutes in Motion, which ran Sept. 25 through Nov. 5, encouraged college employees ... Read More
Everything Zen
Stan Richardson joined the TAMBCD staff 35 years ago, but he started playing the Japanese bamboo flute long before that. Now he is Smithsonian bound. The shakuhachi is a deceptively unassuming instrument. Traditionally fashioned from bamboo, this end-blown flute could ... Read More
Mallonee nabs award for dental hygiene, dietetic interprofessional practical experience
In 2004, Lisa Mallonee developed an innovative clinical rotation that gives dietetic interns at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas the opportunity to work collaboratively with dental hygiene students at Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry. A decade after ... Read More
Hutchins receives emeritus title
The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents recently awarded Dr. Bob Hutchins professor emeritus status for his contributions to the college’s biomedical sciences department. Hutchins retired in 2014 after nearly 30 years at the dental school. In 1985, he ... Read More
Kang receives faculty educator development award
Dr. David Kang, assistant professor in oral and maxillofacial surgery, received a $120,000 award from the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation. The Faculty Educator Development Award is intended to encourage surgeons to choose academic oral and maxillofacial surgery and remain ... Read More
An institution in her own right
Jan Steele has worked at Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry longer than any other employee on record. The question on every colleague’s lips: What will the dental school do without her? Every periodontist who has completed the specialty’s ... Read More
Taylor completes academic leadership course
Dr. Reginald Taylor, director of predoctoral orthodontics, recently completed the Chairs and Academic Administrators Management Program. Taylor was among 55 attendees from across the U.S. and abroad who attended this interprofessional program, which is geared toward department chairs and academic ... Read More
Dr. Ronald Woody receives emeritus title
The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents recently awarded Dr. Ronald Woody professor emeritus status for his contributions to the college’s restorative sciences department. Woody retired in 2013 after 30 years at the dental school, two decades of which ... Read More
Research associate wins award, will present at International Bone & Mineral Society meeting
Dr. Yan Jing, postdoctoral research associate in Dr. Jian Feng’s lab, is the 2014 recipient of the Osteoarthritis Award for the International Bone & Mineral Society. As the award winner, Jing will present a poster, titled, “Defective Chondrocytes are Directly ... Read More