News & Events
BCD alum to be inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame
DALLAS—August 11, 2010— Fifty years ago, the U.S. Olympic basketball
team brought home the gold medal from the 1960 Olympics in Rome. This
remarkable team—all amateurs—posted such unequalled statistics that its
members will be inducted Friday night into the Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame.
Equally intriguing: Two of the 12 team members went on to become orthodontists. One of these is Dr. Jay Arnette, who graduated from Baylor College of Dentistry in 1971 and its orthodontic graduate program in 1973. Now retired, he practiced in Austin, Texas, for more than 30 years.
Read all about it in the July/August 2010 issue of the Baylor Dental Record Online ...
Read the news release in the HSC news ...
The votes are in and the HSC wins: BCD topic one of top three finalists
Fri 14 May 2010 5:05 pm
A topic submitted from BCD has been selected as one of the 3
finalists in the HSC accreditation process known as the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP).
Preparations for the Texas A&M Health Science Center accreditation have begun, and QEP represents an opportunity presented by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) for the entire HSC community to be involved.
After submission of topics by faculty, and a survey of faculty, staff and students throughought the HSC, it was announced that a topic submitted by faculty at BCD has been selected as one of the three finalists for this project.
Read all about it in the May 2010 issue of the Baylor Dental Record Online ...
Dental school students hold local Oral Cancer Walk
The
Student National Dental Association chapter at Texas A&M Health
Science
Center Baylor College of Dentistry led Dallas’ second annual Oral
Cancer
Walk on May 1 to raise awareness of a disease that kills more than 7,000
Americans each year. The walk was held at Concord Baptist Church.
Free oral cancer screenings and sealants (protective tooth coating) for children will be available at sites along the walk route.
The first 20 registered walkers received free Oral Cancer Walk T-shirts.
BCD record for diversity in enrollment is topic of ADEA spotlight
The practice of looking beyond the numbers to try and predict whether a potential student has what it takes to succeed in the profession of Dentistry is among the practices that have earned BCD a nod from the American Dental Education Association's Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education.
Click the ADEA logo, or the link to read the full article on the ADEA Website. Read more ...
Cheng receives grant to explore saliva test for oral cancer
Dr.
Yi-Shing Lisa Cheng, associate professor in diagnostic sciences at
Texas A&M Health Science Center Baylor College of Dentistry, has
received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to explore
using saliva as an early detection method in a high-risk group for oral
cancer.Her grant project, titled “Salivary biomarkers for oral cancer in lichen planus patients,” will receive more than $380,000 during the next two years from the NIH’s National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. The funding is available from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the economic stimulus package passed by congress in February.
Read the full story in the Baylor Dental Record Online.
