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Five First-Year Dental Students to Compete for AADR Student Research...
February 2, 2015Five first-year dental students have been chosen to compete for American Association for Dental Research (AADR) Student Research Fellowship awards, to be announced at the 44th Annual...
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Dr. Steven W. Frank Appointed Director of UCSF Dentistry Orthodontics...
February 4, 2015Steven W. Frank, DDS, MS, has been appointed Director of the Orthodontics Residency Program at the UCSF School of Dentistry, effective Jan. 5.Dr. Frank comes to UCSF from 32 years in...
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UCSF School of Dentistry Dedicates William F. Bird Memorial Lab
February 4, 2015Advanced simulation lab reflects Dr. Bird’s passion for innovationFor 22 years, William Bird, DDS, DPH, was a teacher, friend and mentor to many at UCSF, making an indelible impact on...
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Three UCSF Dentistry Students Receive 2015 ADEA Preventive Dentistry...
February 4, 2015Fourth-year dental students Ligia Padilla and Chelsea E. Wong and third-year student Jean M. Calvo have each received a 2015 Preventive Dentistry Scholarship from the American Dental...
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UCSF Dental Student Research Group Receives First-Ever Outstanding Local...
February 4, 2015The National Student Research Group (NSRG) of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR) has selected UCSF Dentistry’s John C. Greene Society for its first-ever Outstanding...
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Dr. Gaurav Setia Honored With ICD Fellowship
February 19, 2015Gaurav Setia, DDS, Associate Professor in the Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences (PRDS), has been honored with a fellowship in the International College of...
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Alma Sandino Wins Journal of Dental Education’s Olav Alvares Award
February 19, 2015Alma Sandino, a recent graduate of the UCSF School of Dentistry’s Master of Science in Dental Hygiene program, has received a 2015 Olav Alvares Award for an Outstanding Article by a...
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Minerva Loi Awarded ADA Foundation Predoctoral Dental Student Scholarship
February 19, 2015Second-year UCSF dental student Minerva Loi has been awarded an ADA Foundation Predoctoral Dental Student Scholarship. The scholarships are awarded to 25 students each academic year to...
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UCSF Dentistry's Daniel A. Collins Honored at Black History Month Celebration
February 19, 2015Dental students, alumni, faculty and staff joined a diverse UCSF-wide contingent in celebrating the pioneering life and work of Daniel A. Collins, DDS, MDS, the first African-American...
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Bebhinn Halligan Joins Student Services as Data Analyst and Coordinator
March 4, 2015Bebhinn Halligan has joined the UCSF School of Dentistry as Student Services Data Analyst and Coordinator. She began her new position on Monday, March 2.In this role, she will manage...
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Record Attendance for 2015 International Symposium in Oral and Maxillofacial...
March 4, 2015A record 247 delegates attended the 2015 International Symposium in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in January, capping four years of steadily increasing attendance.Rotating between the...
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Shaun Abrams and Yolanda Ho Compete for Bernard G. Sarnat Craniofacial...
March 4, 2015DDS/PhD student Shaun Abrams and second-year dental student Yolanda Ho have been selected as finalists to compete for the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Bernard G....
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Oscar Humberto Reyna-Blanco Abstract Selected for European Orthodontics...
March 4, 2015An abstract by dental student Oscar Humberto Reyna-Blanco (Class of 2016) has been selected for presentation at the 91st Congress of the European Orthodontics Society in Venice, Italy,...
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Dr. Richard Jordan Receives $12.5 Million National Cancer Institute Grant to...
March 4, 2015Richard C.K. Jordan, DDS, PhD, FRCPath, is the contact principal investigator and recipient of a $12 million, five-year National Cancer Institute award to fund the NRG Oncology Biospecimen...
View ArticleAgain No.1 in NIH Funding: UCSF Dentistry and UCSF Medicine, Nursing and...
March 4, 2015The UCSF School of Dentistry and UCSF’s Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy led the nation in federal biomedical research funding for the second year in a row in 2014, with UCSF as a...
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Give Kids a Smile Day 2015 a Success
March 5, 2015A large contingent of volunteer UCSF Dentistry students, faculty and staff greeted children and parents at Give Kids a Smile Day 2015 on Saturday, Feb. 21, and the smiles were just as wide...
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In Memoriam: Dr. Richard Chong
March 6, 2015Former faculty member Richard Chong, DDS, passed away on Wednesday, March 4, following a long illness.Born in Fresno in 1935, he was a graduate of Stanford, Northwestern and Columbia...
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Third ‘Dreamer’ Admitted to UCSF School of Dentistry
March 9, 2015Three DACA-qualified Students Will Join the Class of 2019Angie Celis joins José Carrasco Sandoval and Laura Aguilar as the third dental student to gain admission to the UCSF School of...
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Diagnosis of Rare Dental Condition Brings Peace of Mind for Central Valley...
March 9, 2015With his 9-year-old son’s teeth turning brown and decaying at an alarming rate, Sayed Hashimi searched the Central Valley in what increasingly seemed a futile quest for answers.“We’d...
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UCSF School of Dentistry Loses Beloved Student
March 11, 2015The UCSF School of Dentistry is deeply saddened at the tragic loss of Randhir Kaur. Randhir was enrolled in the School of Dentistry's International Dentist Program. She was a treasured...
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