Category Archives: Dental Students

ADA Foundation dental student scholarship, award programs deadline Nov. 13

Know any dental students who volunteer for community service projects? Three ADA Foundation dental student scholarship and award programs share a Nov. 13 application deadline. The Foundation’s Predoctoral Dental Student Scholarship Program — including the Underrepresented Minority Dental Student Scholarships, the Dr. Robert B. Dewhirst Scholarships and the Robert J. Sullivan Scholarships — helps predoctoral dental students defray… Read More »

Alabama’s Fifth District Dental Society establishes scholarship for ‘hometown’ students

According to an ADA News report, the Fifth District Dental Society of the Alabama Dental Association established a new scholarship program that awards dental students who call the Fifth District their hometown. The goal: to make a meaningful connection with University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry students, said Dr. Dugald R. McMillan III, Fifth District president.… Read More »

Three things I wish I paid more attention to in dental school

And just like that, you’ve graduated. With a degree, dental license and a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration number in hand (and an empty wallet), you’re off to practice dentistry in the real world. From time to time, you may find yourself reminiscing  about the “good ol’ days” of what dental school used to be like. While I won’t… Read More »

Student debt squeezing parents and children simultaneously

America’s crushing surge of student debt, now at $1.2 trillion, has bred a disturbing new phenomenon: School loans that span multiple generations within families, according to ABC News. Because of their own loans, many parents are unable to fund their children’s educations without sinking even deeper into debt. Surveys and data analyzed exclusively by The Associated Press found… Read More »

UNC dental students establish ‘DEAH DAY’ to honor late colleagues’ legacy of community service

Chapel Hill, N.C. —After the deaths of two of their own, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill dental students sought to create something lasting and impactful to remember the late Deah Barakat and Yusor Abu-Salha. Aptly called DEAH DAY, or “Directing Efforts and Honoring Deah and Yusor,” classes were canceled on Sept. 17 as about 350 UNC… Read More »

Making the jump from dental student to new dentist

By way of introduction, my name is Daryn Lu and I am a 2015 graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry. Born on the West Coast in San Francisco, and raised on the East Coast in Jacksonville, Florida, I have called Oklahoma my home for the past 16 years. By the time dental school graduation arrived,… Read More »