COMING UP
Indiana University School of Dentistry
Calendar of Events
May 2005
Recognition Month for IUSD's
Computer Technicians
1 (Sun.)
ORTHODOX EASTER
2-4 (Mon.-Wed.)
NATIONAL ORAL HEALTH CONFERENCE (joint meeting of the American Association of
Public Health Dentistry and Association of State and Territorial Dental
Directors), Pittsburgh, Pa.
2-5 (Mon.-Thurs.)
PICK UP YOUR COMMENCEMENT CAP AND GOWN at University College, room 115 (open
9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday,10 a.m.-7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday)
3 (Tues.)
ALL FOURTH-YEAR DENTAL STUDENT GRADES DUE in the Student Office by noon
IUPUI FACULTY COUNCIL, 3:30-5:30 p.m. in IH 100
4 (Wed.)
CPR TRAINING for full-time clinical faculty and staff, 8 a.m.-noon at Walker
Plaza 201A. Register with Kathy Thompson
(kathdrak@iupui.edu).
GRADUATION AWARDS BANQUET FOR CLASSES OF 2005, noon-2 p.m. at University
Place Hotel Ballroom. By invitation.
STAFF COUNCIL, 12:15-12:45 p.m. in DS114
5 (Thurs.)
FOURTH-YEAR DENTAL STUDENT PROGRESS COMMITTEE, 9 a.m. in DS245
All MASTER'S DEGREE STUDENT GRADES must be entered in SIS or Oncourse by noon
IUSD FACULTY COUNCIL, noon-1 p.m. in DS S116
Indiana Section of the American Association for Dental Research features oral
presentations by 3 fourth-year predoctoral students, noon-1 p.m. in DS S117.
Everyone welcome. The speakers are:
Dr. Lorena S·: EFFECT OF DIFFERENT SURFACE TREATMENTS ON FLUORIDE
RELEASE FROM TWO DIFFERENT FLUORIDE-RELEASING RESTORATIVE MATERIALS
Jacob Froerer: DENTAL CARIES ASSOCIATION TO FLUORIDE EXPOSURE IN REMOTE
MEXICAN POPULATIONS
Trenton Thalman: METASTATIC VERSUS NONMETASTATIC OSTEOSARCOMA CELL LINES
6 (Fri.)
Indiana Section of the AADR presents THE MOB MENTALITY OF STREPTOCOCCUS
MUTANS: CELL-CELL SIGNALING AND SURVIVAL TACTICS FOR DENTAL PLAQUE, by Dr.
Dennis Cvitkovitch, Canada Research Chair in Microbiology, University of
Toronto Faculty of Dentistry; noon-1 p.m. in DS S117. All faculty, staff, and
students invited.
SPRING SEMESTER ENDS for fourth-year dental, dental hygiene, dental
assisting, and graduate students
NEW YORK STREET AT UNIVERSITY BOULEVARD CLOSES this evening at 6 o'clock to
make way for tomorrow's 500 Festival Mini-Marathon.
7 (Sat.)
Planning a trip to campus today? Don't forget that New York Street is closed
at University Boulevard for the MINI-MARATHON. Traffic and parking will be heavy
in and around campus anytime after 6 a.m. Easiest access to campus before and
during the race will be from the West Street exits of I65 to Michigan Street and
on Michigan Street from the east. The Blackford Street garage and Lot 80 will be
reserved for IUPUI permits during the event.
8 (Sun.)
IUPUI COMMENCEMENT, 3 p.m. in the RCA Dome. Faculty report by 1:45 and
graduates (dentistry, dental hygiene, and graduate dentistry) by 2. Processional
begins at 2:30. IUSD's POST-COMMENCEMENT ceremony, which also includes dental
assisting graduates, begins about 5 o'clock in the 500 Ballroom of the Indiana
Convention Center.
IUSD LIBRARY closed in recognition of IUPUI Commencement
Role Reversal Amidst the Pomp and Circumstance. At last year's IUPUI
graduation, Dianne Heid, quality assurance coordinator in Clinical
Affairs, sat in the audience as the extremely proud mother of dental hygiene
graduate Charla Heid. This Sunday, look for Charla to be sitting in the
audience with her family, the equally proud daughter of an IUPUI graduate, as
Dianne joins the 2005 Commencement parade and takes her place among the students
who are receiving an Associate of Arts degree in History through the IUPUI
School of Liberal Arts.
"I think my girls are even more excited about my graduation than I am! Well,
maybe not," Dianne jokes. "They're certainly looking forward to me having some
free time."
Dianne is yet another example of the hard-working and highly accomplished
staff associated with the IU dental school. We congratulate you on your
achievement, Dianne, and while we're at it, let's also send up a robust cheer
for all IUSD students who will be awarded a certificate or diploma in 2005.
We're proud of each of you.
9 (Mon.)
CPR TRAINING for full-time clinical faculty and staff, 1-5 p.m. at Walker
Plaza 201A. Register with Kathy Thompson.
10 (Tues.)
RESEARCH DAY ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, noon in DS S421
11 (Wed.)
BOOK CLUB meets at noon in DS S119 to discuss The Secret Life of Bees,
by Sue Monk Kidd. Everyone welcome.
13 (Fri.)
As part of the dental school's new Compliance Program, all IUSD faculty,
staff, residents, and students must begin displaying their MANDATORY ID BADGES
no later than today. Today is also the last day the school will cover the cost
of your ID card (an IUPUI Jagtag). You are responsible for the $10 charge after
the 13th. (Employees who already have a Jagtag or a med school ID can disregard
this notice.) Your department account manager must sign an authorization form,
which you can download at
www.jagtag.iupui.edu/docs/expenseform.pdf. Take the
form to Campus Card Services, Union Building #115. For more information, contact
Dr. George Willis, associate dean for Clinical Affairs.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE for Student Research Subcommittee's May 27th
meeting
CPR TRAINING for full-time clinical faculty and staff, 8 a.m.-noon at Walker
Plaza 201A. Register with Kathy Thompson.
Indiana Section of the AADR presents NOVEL NON-MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE
MEDIATED COLLAGEN DEGRADATION, by Dr. Fengyu Song, a PhD candidate in the
Department of Oral Biology and the 2005 recipient of the Maynard K. Hine Award
for Excellence in Dental Research; noon-1 p.m. in DS S117. All faculty, staff,
and students invited.
16-27 (Mon.-Fri.)
AXIUM TRAINING
17 (Tues.)
Lunch Box Discussion "LET'S SEE WHAT'S BEHIND DOOR NUMBER 3": USING OBJECTIVE
STRUCTURED CLINICAL EXAMINATIONS (OSCEs), by Dr. Stuart Schrader, IUPUI
Communication Studies; noon-1 p.m. in DS S421. All faculty, staff, and students
are welcome. No registration is required.
20 (Fri.)
CPR TRAINING for full-time clinical faculty and staff, 8 a.m.-noon at Walker
Plaza 201A. Register with Kathy Thompson.
RESEARCH COMMITTEE, 9 a.m. in DS245
Indiana Section of the AADR presents SOME RESIN POLYMERIZATION CONTROVERSIES,
by Dr. Jeffrey Platt, Ralph W. Phillips Scholar in Dental Materials and
director, Division of Dental Materials; noon-1 p.m. in DS S117. All faculty,
staff, and students invited.
21-26 (Sat.-Thurs.)
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORTHODONTISTS annual session, San Francisco, Calif.
23 (Mon.)
CPR TRAINING for full-time clinical faculty and staff, 1-5 p.m. at Walker
Plaza 201A. Register with Kathy Thompson.
25 (Wed.)
SUPERVISOR FOCUS GROUP for faculty and staff supervisors, 11:30 a.m.-1:30
p.m. in DS S307. Facilitated by Dan Griffith, IUPUI Human Resource
Services. No registration required. Participants are welcome to bring their
lunch.
DEAN'S STUDENT TOWN HALL, noon in DS114
BOOK CLUB meets at noon in DS S119 to continue its discussion of The
Secret Life of Bees
26-31 (Thurs.-Tues.)
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY annual session, Orlando, Fla.
27 (Fri.)
STUDENT RESEARCH SUBCOMMITTEE, 8 a.m. in DS B31
LAST DAY OF CLASSES for first- and second-year dental students
28-30 (Sat.-Mon.)
IUSD LIBRARY closed for the holiday weekend
30 (Mon.)
MEMORIAL DAY (school closed)
People, Places, and Things
IADR CARIOLOGISTS SHINE SPOTLIGHT ON IUSD PROFESSOR.
Congratulations to Dr. Andréa Ferreira Zandoná, assistant professor of
preventive and community dentistry, who has received the International
Association for Dental Research Cariology Group's Basil G. Bibby Young
Investigator in Cariology Award. Dr. Zandoná accepted the award during the IADR
meeting in Baltimore, Md., in March. Named in honor of the founding president of
the Cariology Group and a former dental dean at Tufts University, the award
acknowledges excellence in cariology research by investigators who are in the
early years of their careers. Dr. Zandoná is a co-director of the Oral Health
Research Institute's Early Caries Detection and Management Program.
FACULTY PROMOTIONS AND TENURE. The following promotions for IUSD faculty have
been approved by the Trustees of Indiana University: Dr. Patricia Capps,
promoted to clinical associate professor of dental assisting; Dr. Jeffrey
Platt, promoted to associate professor of dental materials, with tenure; Dr.
Brian Sanders, promoted to professor of pediatric dentistry (tenure was
awarded previously); and Dr. L. Jack Windsor, promoted to associate
professor of oral biology (School of Dentistry) and adjunct associate professor
of anatomy and cell biology (School of Medicine), with tenure. Dr. Suzanne De
Ball, associate professor of pediatric dentistry, has been awarded tenure.
Promotions are effective July 1, 2005, and tenure July 1, 2006.
IUPUI STAFF REPRESENTATIVES. Congratulations to the following staff members,
who have been elected to serve on the IUPUI Staff Council as representatives of
the School of Dentistry: Carol Dill, assistant to the dean; Michelle
Fatheree, assistant to the chair, Department of Restorative Dentistry; and
Lori Pennington, dental assistant, Comprehensive Care Clinic. The trio
will serve through June 2007.
DISTINGUISHED FACULTY AWARDS GO TO DRS. ZUNT, FONTANA. Although the IUSD
Research Day awards were briefly announced in April, we'd like to tell you a bit
more about the two professors who received the IUSD Alumni Association's annual
faculty awards during this event.
Dr. Susan Zunt, professor of oral pathology and chair, Department of
Oral Pathology, Medicine, and Radiology, received the IUSDAA's Distinguished
Faculty Award for Teaching. She has devoted 26 years of her career to IU's
students of dentistry, allied dentistry, and graduate dentistry, serving with
excellence and dedication not only as a teacher but also as a counselor and
adviser. She is in demand as a member of graduate student committees, working
with about 20 students each year. Dr. Zunt's commitment to teaching extends into
the dental community at large, where she has made some 200 contributions as a
Continuing Education lecturer and course presenter. In addition to accepting CE
invitations from groups throughout the country, she has also been a strong
supporter of and longtime contributor to IUSD's CE program, demonstrating a
special responsibility to Indiana's dental professionals, including many of our
alumni. Dr. Zunt's wide-ranging experiences as an educator at IU have benefited
her in her work over the years in such nationally respected positions as chair
of the American Dental Education Association's Council of Faculties and the
association's Pathology Section, and director of education for the American
Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, which awarded her diplomate status in
1982. In her longtime role with the American Cancer Society, including a term as
president of the Great Lakes Division, she has joined her colleagues in raising
public awareness of oral cancer, its detection and prevention. Dr. Zunt has
repeatedly earned awards for exceptional achievement in teaching from the
Indiana University Trustees.
Dr. Margherita Fontana, associate professor of preventive and
community dentistry and director, Microbial Caries Facility, received the alumni
association's Distinguished Faculty Award for Research. A quick glance
through the 2005 Research Day monograph will give you just one example of why
Dr. Fontana, a member of our faculty since 1997, is a highly deserving recipient
of this award: In addition to her outstanding performance as current president
of the Indiana Section of the AADR and chair of the Research Day Organizing
Committee, she presented a poster on one of her studies of fluoride dentifrices
and helped mentor or assist 9 other student, staff, and faculty participants
with their poster projects. In addition to her extensive work as a research
mentor, she teaches in numerous courses and directs the Undergraduate Caries
Education Program. As a principal investigator, Dr. Fontana has received more
than $1.1 million in research funds from industry, the National Institutes of
Health, and private foundations. Her research on the effects of the sugar
substitute xylitol on transmission from mother to infant of Streptococcus
mutans and other cariogenic bacteria was one of the campus projects Indiana
University chose to profile in the community during IU's widely publicized Life
Sciences Week last January. Dr. Fontana is a past recipient of the IADR's Basil
G. Bibby Award in Cariology, the Indiana Dental Association Outstanding Teacher
of the Year Award, and an IU Trustees Teaching Award. She is currently secretary
of the IADR's Cariology Group.
STAFF COUNCIL HONORS DEBRA LANNING. We trust that Debra Lanning,
senior administrative secretary in the Comprehensive Care Clinic, has been
enjoying her position as the latest recipient of the IUSD Staff Council Staff
Excellence Award, an honor that truly befits this employee. Deb's 18-year career
with IUSD started in the former Department of Prosthodontics, and, as her
reputation as a highly reliable staffer grew, she moved on to serve as
administrative assistant for former associate dean Dr. Donald Tharp.
Deb's crowning achievement in this position was working with the administration
and the entire school to prepare for the American Dental Association Commission
on Dental Accreditation's 1999 site visit, which resulted in one of the most
successful site-visit reports in the school's history. After Dr. Tharp retired,
Deb worked for a time in the Office of Dental Education before accepting her
current position.
"I believe Deb's strongest attribute is her willingness to help whenever she
is needed," says a co-worker and an award nominator. "When given a task, Deb
does not make faculty or staff feel that it is a chore to do the job and to do
it well. Since Deb started in 1987 for IUSD she has become a respected employee
and a very good friend to many faculty and staff."
Rounding out her exceptional qualities as a staff member is Deb's keen
interest in volunteering for Staff Council projects and fundraisers, including
the sizable task of chairing the annual IUSD fundraiser for the Susan B. Komen
Breast Cancer Foundation. She was the council's secretary for two years, and
later generously agreed to step in as interim president when called upon.
A TEACHER FINDS HIS TIGER WITHIN. Recently retired faculty member Dr.
Larry Ryan must feel a lot like Tony the Tiger® these days, although
Dr. Ryan's reasons for feeling grrrrreat! have nothing to do with Frosted
Flakes® and everything to do with the fact that, as a retirement gift, his
family sent him to a Detroit Tigers Fantasy Baseball Camp in Lakeland, Fla.
The former operative dentistry professor and lifelong Tigers devotee suited
up with some of Detroit's former big boys of baseball (including Mickey
Lolich, hero of the 1968 World Series) and 93 other Tigers fans (including 5
women, one of whom was 84), for a weeklong dream-come-true in January. Larry the
Tiger batted; pitched; ran some bases; guarded first base; sustained an injury
(a pulled muscle that necessitated a pitch runner to run his bases for him
during the remainder of camp); and, like many fellow campers, racked up a fine
or two (paid in kangaroo court and donated to charity) levied, in Larry's case,
for causing an excessive game delay while searching for the ideal-fitting helmet
in the dugout. Biggest thrill: Getting an exclusive invitation along with his
wife, Sara Ryan, to join Mickey Lolich and his wife for dinner one night.
Coolest coincidence: Being assigned locker #65 â€" the same locker number he was
assigned as a first-year IU dental student back in 1961.
"The former Tigers are down-to-earth people whose love for the game still
flourishes," Dr. Ryan says. "They became our companions quickly, and a comfort
zone developed naturally."
In March, Dr. Ryan's Floridian adventure was featured in the Hendricks
County Flyer. To read the story, go to www.flyergroup.com and type " target="_blank"Larry
Ryan" in the keyword search box.
End May 2005 Calendar
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