Less than two years after studying together at the UI College of Dentistry, 2017 alumni Lucas Borg and John Lorenz found themselves last fall reuniting 6,000 miles from Iowa City as they began separate, yearlong assignments at Incirlik Air Base. Read more about them in Iowa Now.

The College of Dentistry's White Coat Ceremony was held on May 17. Congratulations on a great first year! Here's to many more as you start your career as health care professionals! A video of the ceremony is available here.

In late April, Dr. Miguel Romero-Bustillos, first year resident in the Advanced Education Program in Periodontics, was awarded First Prize in the Basic Research Competition of the International Osteology Symposium held in Barcelona. Read more on the College of Dentistry website. 

The American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) awarded three $60,000 Faculty Fellowship Awards, and Dr. Kyungsup Shin and Dr. Shankar Rengasamy Venugopalan were honored to receive two of them. Read more about the awards on the College of Dentistry website.

Dr. Mikaela Hazard and Dr. Jered Vislisel, both second-year Endodontic residents, each received awards for their oral presentations at the 2019 American Association of Endodontics Annual Meeting. Read more about their awards on the College of Dentistry website.

For the 2019 American Association of Endodontists, Dr. Keith Krell (adjunct in Endodontics) became the current president of the organization and he received the 2019 Journal of Endodontics Award for best manuscript of the year in the clinical category (Dr. Daniel Caplan was coauthor of the paper). Congratulations, Dr. Krell!