Events
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Pregame Social Iowa vs Iowa State
Saturday, September 7, 2024 11:30am to 2:30pm
Join UI College of Dentistry faculty and staff for a Pregame Social Tailgate behind the Dental Science Building on Saturday, Sept. 7 at 11:30 a.m.
![2024 College of Dentistry Alumni Reunion promotional image](/sites/dentistry.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/f/9/f9d0cc2a8e68801f97150bf56b61ad2e.jpg?itok=EpyqEiUx)
2024 College of Dentistry Alumni Reunion
Friday, September 13 8:30am to Saturday, September 14, 2024 7:00pm
The College of Dentistry Alumni Reunion Weekend is scheduled for Sept. 13-14, 2024 for class years ending in 4s and 9s.
![Pregame Social Iowa vs Troy promotional image](/sites/dentistry.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/5/7/572e6dfc1b1b0b164e02e8911baf9e4d.jpg?itok=mPEvtnhw)
Pregame Social Iowa vs Troy
Saturday, September 14, 2024 12:00pm
Join UI College of Dentistry faculty and staff for a Pregame Social Tailgate behind the Dental Science Building on Saturday, Sept. 14 at noon.
![Pregame Social Iowa vs Northwestern promotional image](/sites/dentistry.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/5/7/572e6dfc1b1b0b164e02e8911baf9e4d.jpg?itok=mPEvtnhw)
Pregame Social Iowa vs Northwestern
Saturday, October 26, 2024 11:30am to 2:30pm
Join UI College of Dentistry faculty and staff for a Pregame Social Tailgate behind the Dental Science Building on Saturday, Oct. 26 at 11:30 a.m.
News
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Iowa dental researchers selected for OVPR Award
Thursday, June 22, 2023
The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) awarded Hongli Sun, Kyungsup Shin, and their co-principal investigator a $235K Interdisciplinary Scholars grant for their project investigating a novel approach to to orofacial cleft reconstruction.
![Tooth](/sites/dentistry.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2023-06/tooth.png?h=abfb2115&itok=Ladi2UG0)
A new partnership between Cedar Rapids clinic and Iowa Dentistry
Thursday, June 15, 2023
Iowa Dentistry and the His Hands Clinic in Cedar Rapids, under dental director Jeff Akey ('87 DDS) began a new partnership this year offering clinical outreach experiences for second-, third-, and fourth-year dental students on select Saturday mornings.
![Steve Levy](/sites/dentistry.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2022-03/Levy_Steve_082318_1000x1000.jpg?h=6b0e383c&itok=_cfxuovk)
NIH awards subcontract to Iowa Dentistry researchers
Thursday, June 15, 2023
The University of Iowa was one of four research institutions, along with Michigan, Duke, and Indiana, collaborating on a newly-funded National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)/ National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant investigating the causes and implications of adolescent tooth decay, especially among underserved populations.
Military Service and Iowa Dentistry
Thursday, June 1, 2023
From our career-retired military dentists who spend the second half of their career teaching at Iowa to our veteran students, from our esteemed alumni who carry on the Iowa legacy throughout their military careers to our veteran patients who wouldn’t have access to dental care without our college, Iowa Dentistry is committed to those who have served in the United States armed forces.
![Tim Nguyen](/sites/dentistry.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2023-05/Nguyen_Tim_011221_color2x3.jpg?h=37d9d89f&itok=xmRX2-H3)
NIH Awards Nguyen Training Grant to Investigate Midface Development
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Tim Nguyen, a T90 trainee in the Iowa Institute of Oral Health Research and a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics, was awarded an F31 grant.
![Joseph Curtis](/sites/dentistry.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2023-05/Curtis_Joseph_070121_1000x1000.jpg?h=d191ef15&itok=7s0Uyhc4)
Pilot study: Options for custom tray and record base design for complete dentures
Thursday, May 18, 2023
The college’s Clinical/Dental Education Research Initiative Support Program (CRISP) selected Joseph Curtis's pilot study assessing various modern methods of the design and fabrication of custom edentulous impression trays and record bases. This purpose of the study is update the third-year curriculum incorporating more modern, digital components into the denture design process.
![Iowa dentistry leaders with Governor Kim Reynolds at a bill signing](/sites/dentistry.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2023-05/1.jpg?h=4521fff0&itok=u_R2Za_l)
State of Iowa adopts Dentists and Dental Hygienists Licensure Compact
Thursday, May 4, 2023
On Thursday, April 27, Governor Kim Reynolds signed the Dentists and Dental Hygienists Licensure Compact bill into law.
![Students reciting the dental oath at the 2023 White Coat Ceremony](/sites/dentistry.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2023-05/4Z4A4962.jpg?h=1677b7f8&itok=RmlzLwFX)
White Coat Ceremony 2023
Thursday, May 4, 2023
The Class of 2026 was granted faculty-supervised clinical privileges on Thursday, April 27 at the 2023 White Coat Ceremony.
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Hongli Sun selected for Iowa Mid-Career Award
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Hongli Sun, associate professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, was one of four Iowa faculty members to receive the 2023 Iowa Mid-Career Faculty Scholar Award. The award recognizes some of the most promising scholars at Iowa with three years of financial support for their research. Sun is a rising star in the field of biomaterials and tissue engineering, focusing on innovative strategies to improve bone tissue regeneration.
![I-Ching Wang](/sites/dentistry.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2022-10/Wang_I-Ching_081821_1000x1000.jpg?h=e020e93d&itok=gbtn0MGm)
Iowa Dentistry faculty receives grants from the Academy of Osseointegration
Thursday, April 27, 2023
The Academy of Osseointegration awarded I-Ching (Izzie) Wang, clinical assistant professor of periodontics, and Anvita Maharishi, assistant professor of family dentistry, a $30,000 translational and clinical science research grant for their project, Correlation Between Peri-implant Mucosa Color and Tissue Dynamics: Phenotype and Health Recognition Using Dental Ultrasonography.
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78 %
of iowa dentists graduated from the University of Iowa college of Dentistry
![Graduating dental students](/sites/dentistry.uiowa.edu/files/2021-08/graduates.jpg)
10 th
national ranking for research funding
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90 %
of incoming dental students chose Iowa because of the innovative curriculum