The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry in Lincoln
will host its 15th Annual Professionals Day and 34th Annual Student Scientific
Program on Friday, March 16 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., in the East Campus Student
Union. The event celebrates scholarly activities and provides students,
faculty and the dental community an opportunity to share professional and
academic activities.
It will be held in the Great Plains Room in the East Campus Union on
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus, located at 37th & Fair streets,
just north of Holdrege.
Activities will include the Annual Student Scientific Program at which
students will display dentistry projects from 9 to 11:30 a.m. The Frank
M. Wentz Memorial Lecture, featuring speaker, Richard Carr, Jr., D.D.S.,
deputy executive director of the American Dental Education Association
(ADEA), will be held at 1:30 p.m. Dr. Carrs speech is titled, A Sense
of Urgency in Addressing Future Oral Health Care Needs Planning Today
for the Demands of Tomorrow.
Faculty and students will be honored with awards and recognition at
2 p.m. In addition, a College of Dentistry faculty member will be named
the first recipient of the F. Gene and Rosemary Dixon Chair in Dentistry.
The Dixons, long-time contributors to the college, established a $500,000
fund through the University of Nebraska Foundation to create the colleges
first endowed chair. Earnings from the endowment will be used to provide
a stipend for educational and research activities of the recipient.