GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dr. Roger D. Wray, a clinical associate professor of community dentistry and behavioral science, has been appointed program director of the University of Florida College of Dentistry Faculty Practice. Wray previously served as residency program director for the college’s clinical program in Apopka.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — William P. McArthur, a professor of oral biology and director of the University of Florida’s Periodontal Disease Research Center, was appointed the College of Dentistry’s associate dean for faculty affairs, effective June 29. In this new position he advises faculty and college and campus administrators on matters affecting faculty and provides administrative support for the faculty’s role in shared governance.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dr. Matthew Dennis, a clinical associate professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery and diagnostic sciences, has been awarded the Florida Dental Association’s Dental Educator Award.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Lynne Thomas Gordon, a nationally recognized health-care executive, has been named an executive in residence for the department of health services research, management and policy at the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions.
Hala Azzam, of the University of Maryland will present “Public Health in the 21st Century: Multidisciplinary Approaches in Global Health” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 10, in Room G316 of the HPNP Complex on the UF campus. The lecture, sponsored by the College of Public Health and Health Professions’ department of epidemiology and biostatistics, is free and open to the public.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Blue Key’s annual production, Gator Growl, has showcased some of the top comedic talent in the past; this year will be no exception.
UF Bridges will update the myUFL portal from PeopleSoft version 8.45 to version 8.48 on Saturday, July 14.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Lonnie Ingram, director of the University of Florida’s Florida Center for Renewable Chemicals and Fuels, will join celebrities including California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a Florida conference on global climate change on Thursday and Friday in Miami.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Steve Dorman, dean of the College of Health and Human Performance will receive the 2007 William A. Howe Award at the American School Health Association national convention being held July 9-13, 2007, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Now that the second field season of excavating fossils at a site west of Gainesville has ended, Florida Museum of Natural History paleontologists are gearing up to begin work on the approximately 220 skeletons and literally thousands of specimens uncovered between mid-September 2006 and May.