 Dr.
Francis Mante from the University of Pennsylvania School
of Dental Medicine and Dr. Nejat Duzgunes from the University
of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry
were selected by the Board of Governors as recipients
of the 2006 Burton C. Borgelt/SCADA Faculty Advisor
Awards. They were presented by Dr. Janet L. Harrison,
Vice President, during a DENTPSLY-sponsored Student
Reception conducted during the 83rd Annual Session of
the American Dental Education Association on March 9
at the Swan Hotel in Orlando, FL.
Dr. Francis Mante, Associate Professor and Director
of Biomaterials, has been a faculty member at the University
of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine for 15 years
and has organized their annual Oral Health Fair and
Table Clinic Session for 14 years. In any one year,
Dr. Mante supervises from 12 to 30 dental students who
participate in the table clinics. He also oversees the
preparation of the program for the Oral Health Fair
and Table Clinic Session, which contains the abstracts
of the student posters. He arranges the judging of the
posters and raises support by soliciting dental product
companies to sponsor the event. In addition to organizing
the annual event, Dr. Mante personally serves as research
mentor to one or two students per year and has been
its only faculty advisor.
 Dr.
Nejat Duzgunes is Chair of the Department of Microbiology
at the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School
of Dentistry and has been the faculty student research
advisor since 1997. In this capacity, he also serves
as chair to Pacific's Student Research Group and of
the local chapter of the American Student Dental Research
Association. Although Pacific is the only three-year
dental school in America, Dr. Duzgunes has managed to
increase the proportion of the student body engaged
in research from about 20 each year to a current high
of 46 - approximately 10 percent of the student body.
A major innovation has been the creation of a dental
school research day scheduled at the same time and in
the same location as the OKU sponsored Clinical Excellence
Presentations.
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