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A team of University of Texas School of Dentistry dental hygiene students won first place in the table clinic at the Texas Dental Hygienists’ Association Student Annual Session Feb. 2-4 in San Marcos, another student won a scholarship and yet another drew praise for creating a video about the school’s dental hygiene program. They were among 57 UTSD students who represented the school at the annual meeting.
Jessica Blackman, Jackie Ross, Susan Peguero and Kara Glowczwski won first place for their table clinic "Third-Hand Smoke." Their faculty sponsor was Victoria Patrounova, RDH, MHA. Thao Katherine Nguyen was awarded the Omega Scholarship of Excellence for her participation in Student Chapter of ADHA, community service activities and academic excellence. The table clinic featured 13 presentations, including four from UTSD.
New white buses recently purchased for the UT Shuttle service will be returned to the vendor because they are too tall to fit under the Medical School breezeway. Charles Figari, UTHealth vice president and chief Auxiliary Enterprises officer, said temporary buses will be used until replacements get here in about 120 days. When the buses were ordered, their specifications listed their height as 10 feet, 1 inch, but when the buses arrived, the turned out to be nearly 11 feet tall. “That will just barely fit under the breezeway, but not if you hit a bump,” Figari said.
The American Student Dental Association invites UT School of Dentistry dental students to compete in the 2012 UTSD Dodge Ball Tournament from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15 at the UT Recreation Center’s Tennis Courts. At stake? Your face on a plaque to be hung at the new building, plus a Starbucks gift card. Only UTSD students are eligible (no significant others). ASDA will provide drinks and refreshments.
Beginning today, UTSD eFlash! begins bi-weekly publication to accommodate demands of other communications projects for the school. Special editions will be distributed at the direction of the dean.
Abstracts by 12 University of Texas School of Dentistry at Houston (UTSD) students have been accepted to the 2012 American Association for Dental Research (AADR) Annual Meeting March 21-24 in Tampa, Fla. Michelle Eldiwany will present two posters; Andre Nguyen will do an oral presentation, and Jireh Yue will compete in the AADR DENTSPLY/Caulk Competition. Websites for abstracts are included below to show what the UTSD students (and their mentors) have been up to:
The special challenges facing moving companies that bid to handle UT School of Dentistry’s move to a new building in May led the agenda at this week’s Move Team meeting.
Purchasing Director Danny Rawson and Purchasing Contracts Administrator Mike Ochoa from the UTHealth Procurement Office said they’ve been in touch with moving companies to learn what information should be in the university’s request for proposals. The successful bidder will move the packed contents of the “Dental Branch Building” to the new school at 7500 Cambridge St. over the weekend of May 19-20. University police will be stationed at both buildings.
During the actual move, only key employees should be present. Everyone else should leave their workstations Friday, May 18 with all personal belongings and trash cleared out. Anything to be moved should be packed in labeled boxes that indicate where they came from and where they’re going.
Construction Superintendent James Young said the demand for boxes has been strong. Five hundred forty boxes have been distributed and another 1,000 have been ordered and should arrive this week. They will be distributed as quickly as possible. UTSD employees should go through their department representatives to order boxes. The approved boxes are from Office Depot and measure 10” height by 12” wide by 15” deep.