Melissa Wages   Website wins more kudos Melissa Wages, SD'00, presented her poster, http://www.WomensOralHealth.org at the annual session of the American Association of Dental Schools meeting in Washington, DC. For her effort, Melissa received the "Best Poster Award" for the Student Poster Session which was accompanied by a cash prize of $500. She was also asked to orally present her findings at an AADS session entitled "Student Excellence in Education and Service," for which she received an honorarium of $250. Way to go, Melissa! Melissa's research and development of the project was sponsored by Heidi Christensen, SD'83, MS, assistant professor of oral diagnosis, radiology, and pathology. The table clinic won first place at the 1999 Alumni-Student Convention and the 1999 spring session of the California Dental Association. Dean's List, winter quarter 2000 The Office of Academic Affairs would like to extend congratulations to the students who attained Dean's List status at the end of winter quarter. The eligibility requirements for achieving Dean's List status are: achieve a term grade point average of at least 3.5 with no grade lower than a B- receive no Incomplete grades for the quarter complete at least 12 units of coursework during the quarter The academic review committee reviewed the performance of all students for the winter quarter 2000 and voted to include the following students on the Dean's List: Dentistry Class of 2003 Suk Young Ahn Tyler Baker Jihee Chun Joseph Elison Sara Gaje James Gibson Sean Gubler Shayne Hover Gary Hszieh Scott Johnson Steven Karmy Heather McGlone Jennifer Moseley Thien-lan Nguyen Elizabeth Park Letitia Scofield Mike Stafford Timothy Tien Heidi Zinke Dentistry Class of 2002 Soonmyo Baek Michael Erickson Michael Giddings Lisa Greene Sunny Hutchinson Jaleena Jessop Lori Rice Darryl Tkachyk Adrian Tomarere Hoa Truong Tina Yoo ESP chooses Oakwood student The diversity committee of the School of Dentistry has selected Trevor Vincent Fraser as the Early Selection Program (ESP) participant for the year 2000. Trevor is currently completing his junior year at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. He is scheduled to complete a bachelor of science degree with a major in biology in May 2001. Trevor was on the LLU campus last summer for the careers in dentistry workshop. He is currently the president of the pre-dental club, where he has assisted students in shadowing dentists, as well as put together an educational program in oral health care for children of students on campus. Trevor will be coming to LLUSD in August of this year to participate in ESP, and then be enrolled in classes with the freshman dental students during the fall quarter. He will then return to Oakwood College to complete his degree program. The ESP was established to identify promising students in minority communities that have an interest in dentistry. Mueni Mutinga, SD'01, and Phillip McIver, SD'03, were previous ESP participants in 1995 and 1997. Mr. Fraser is coming in under a partnership agreement established between Oakwood College and LLUSD. The program's goal is to assist pre-dental students in the competitive admission process as well as provide a more gradual transition into the dental school curriculum at LLUSD. Mueni Mutinga, SD'01, Trevor Fraser, and Ron Forde, SD'83, at Oakwood College. Mueni graduated from Oakwood College in 1997 and Dr. Forde graduated in 1979. Admissions officers visit the South   While recruiting on the campus of Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee, Lori Rice, SD'02, meets with Ann Kim, SD'04, Dr. John Perumal, her former pre-dental advisor (now Dean of a school in Thailand), and Dr. Steven Nyirady, chair of the biology department and current SAU pre-dental advisor.   Lori Rice, SD'02, recently accompanied Sylvia Davis, MA, director of admissions, to the campus of Southern Adventist University, from which Lori graduated in 1998, to meet with pre-dental students and host a dinner for students who will be admitted to dental school this fall. Pictured are Ann Kim, Lucelia Lima, Jeff Root, and Kim Riggs, who will become members of the Class of 2004.   University | Medical_Center | LLU&MC_home | Search | Employment | News_&_events | Academics | Our_mission | Admissions | Registration | Research | Alumni | Student_resources All contents copyright © 2001 Loma Linda University. All rights reserved. Revised Wednesday, February 28, 2001 2:19 PM Send comments and questions to webmaster@univ.llu.edu URL: http://www.llu.edu/