Texas A&M College of Dentistry

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Lopez receives Community Health Charities volunteer award

Pat Lopez, regional human resources director, was presented with the 2014 Volunteer of the Year Award from Community Health Charities, which unites workplace donors with health charities by coordinating employee giving programs. Lopez received the award during the organization’s annual ... Read More

Qin, Chunlin

Qin selected for IADR leadership position

Dr. Chunlin Qin, professor in biomedical sciences, was elected vice president of the Mineralized Tissue Scientific Group of the International Association for Dental Research/American Association for Dental Research. The vice president progresses through an additional three years of leadership: one ... Read More

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City of dreams

The prospect of change lured Dr. Claude Williams to Dallas. After 44 years, his quest to foster inclusion still spurs opportunity. We crowd into the elevator, and the questions start. Dr. Claude Williams knows this process well. We’re giving a campus tour to dental assisting students from Kaplan College. One young man recognizes Williams, asks him about his service in the Navy. There are more questions from others who want to know about this pioneer: the first African-American orthodontist in the Southwest and the first African-American faculty member at Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry. Williams answers as many students as he can, but time during the campus visit is limited. Read More

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2014 Teacher of the Year awards

Student picks include a three-time award recipient and a clinical instructor with a wealth of international experience. Every year, with sponsorship from the Baylor College of Dentistry Alumni Association, dental and dental hygiene students cast their votes to recognize teachers ... Read More

Dr. Eric Solomon

Solomon receives TDA Service Award

Dr. Eric Solomon received the Texas Dental Association’s Service Recognition Award on May 3 during the organization’s annual meeting. Solomon, executive director of institutional research, provided analytic services to TDA’s Committee on Access, Medicaid and CHIP. Read More

Dr. Nancy Burkhart

Periodontics professor invited to speak at North Carolina hygienists’ meeting

Dr. Nancy Burkhart, adjunct associate professor in periodontics, presented a three-hour seminar titled “Oral Cancer, HPV and Oral Lichen Planus” to the Forsyth component of the North Carolina Dental Hygiene Association in Winston-Salem on April 29. Read More

Dr. Kathy Svoboda

Svoboda receives honors for AAA service

Dr. Kathy Svoboda, Regents Professor in biomedical sciences, received the AAA/Wiley A.J. Ladman Exemplary Service Medal from the American Association of Anatomists on April 29 during the organization’s annual session in San Diego. As part of the honor, given for ... Read More

Glickman elected to ADA leadership role

During the 2014 American Dental Education Association Annual Session & Exhibition held March 15-18 in San Antonio, Dr. Gerald Glickman was elected to a four-year term on the American Dental Association Council on Dental Education and Licensure. His term will ... Read More

Orthodontic faculty present in Mexico before an international audience

Several faculty members from the Department of Orthodontics were invited to speak during the Asociacion Mexicana de Ortodoncia annual meeting, which was March 4-8 in Cancun, Mexico. Drs. Peter Buschang, Richard Roblee and Terry Adams comprised three of the four ... Read More

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All awards on the table

Orthodontic faculty members were recognized during this statewide organization’s annual meeting. [...] Read More