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Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
Dr. Roger Alexander was an invited speaker on June 28 at the 48th Annual Colonel Allyn D. Burke Memorial Dental Symposium in Monterey, Calif., sponsored by the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry. For Alexander’s third ...
Periodontics
Publications: DeLong L, Burkhart N. General and Oral Pathology for The Dental Hygienist: 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2013:704. Presentations: Dr. Nancy Burkhart presented a luncheon continuing education course at the American Dental Hygienists’ Association Annual Session in ...

Restorative Sciences
Dr. Stan Cobb spoke at the Emerging Leaders in Dentistry Symposium, which was June 28-30 in Bristol, Tenn., at the Christian Medical & Dental Association headquarters. Cobb joined others from the Dawson Academy — a dental continuing education course provider ...

Dental Hygiene
Congratulations to DH2 Hua Nguyen, who was awarded the 2013 Sigma Phi Alpha Undergraduate Scholarship of the American Dental Hygienists’ Association Institute for Oral Health. The $1,000 award is given to just one undergraduate dental hygiene student nationwide each year.

Biomedical Sciences
Leslie Smith, a biomedical sciences graduate student, finished her first year of an American Association of Anatomists-funded training program by completing an intensive weeklong course at Oxford University in England. Smith is one of just a handful of graduate students ...

Just call her ‘dean’
Niessen takes on a new post — and title — at Nova Southeastern’s dental school. [...]

The Golden Pen
Public health sciences contributes to an award-winning article series. [...]

Wong’s 30 years at college commemorated with retirement reception
On Aug. 21, Dr. Brendan Wong, associate professor in biomedical sciences, celebrated his retirement among colleagues and friends during a reception on the 17th floor of Baylor University Medical Center’s Roberts Hospital. Since 1983, Wong has dedicated his career to ...

A tough goodbye
The college loses Hall-of-Famer Dr. Bill Binnie. [...]

What’s in a name?
Enjoy this glimpse into the ebb and flow of the dental school's past. [...]

Sports drinks: Read before you swig
What may be good for hydration could be harmful to our teeth. [...]

Progress notes
Restoring oral health to give geriatric patients the smile they’ve always wanted [...]