Lasting Impressions | Fall 2014

44 © LASTING IMPRESSIONS CDM Impressions The College of Dental Medicine will always be a home for its many alumni, whether they graduated a decade ago or this year. And the College of Dental Medicine Alumni Society wants to make its alumni feel even more at home. Started earlier this year, the society is open to graduates and students of all the dental college’s degree, postdoctoral, and specialty programs. Non-alumni dental professionals, friends of the college, and faculty and staff members may join the Alumni Society as asso- ciate members. To keep alumni connected to CDM, the soci- ety is scheduling a variety of activities. These include service projects, reunions, social events, scholarship opportunities, mentoring, network- ing, and professional development. Alumni from the Tampa area recently had a chance to network during a reception hosted by Linda C. Niessen, D.M.D., M.P.H., M.P.P., dean of the College of Dental Medicine. Upcoming scheduled events include • October 17, 2014 A symposium for recent graduates will be held at NSU’s main campus. • November 7, 2014 Linda C. Niessen, CDM dean, will host a reception with alumni in the Orlando area. • February 19–22, 2015 Alumni Weekend is scheduled at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. For more information on alumni events, email Mindy R. Romer, coordinator for alumni relations, at mr1300@nova.edu . Alumni can update their information at dental.nova.edu/alumnirelations . u Alumni Society Events Scheduled Htet Bo, a junior dental student at the College of Dental Medicine, is 1 of 10 students in the United States selected to receive the 2014 Colgate Research Scholarship Award. The Colgate Research Scholarship Award is pre- sented to junior and/or senior dental students who have demonstrated excellence in research. Each recipient receives $500 and complimentary admis- sion to the annual meeting of the American Associa- tion of Women Dentists’ (AAWD) of which Sharon Siegel, D.D.S., is the chapter mentor. Bo has been an active participant in research while pursuing her master’s in chemistry and Doctor of Dental Medicine degrees. She serves as a lab research assistant focusing on stem cell research under the direction of Umadevi Kandalam, Ph.D., assistant professor of pediatric dentistry at the CDM. Their work was part of a poster titled Gelling Param- eters of Alginate and Viability of Umbilical-Cord Stem Cell that was presented at the 2014 Interna- tional Association for Dental Research meeting. A native of Canada, Bo is president of the Wom- en’s Dental Society (WDS), the AAWD student orga- nization at the CDM. She has organized the group’s participation in several fund-raisers including UNICEF and the Miami Breast Cancer Awareness Run for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Bo and the other nine winners were listed in the August issue of the AAWD’s Chronicle newsletter and on the organization’s Web site: www.aawd.org . u student awarded colgate scholarship Htet Bo has been an active participant in research while pursuing her Master’s of Science in Chemistry and Doctor of Dental Medicine degrees.