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Recent news from the Dugoni School, including the Pacific Center’s name change, the school’s 125th anniversary and the return of the White Coat Ceremony.
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Old School
For its first three years, the College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S) held dental classes in the rented Federation Hall in San Francisco.
Lessons Learned: Defining Best Practices in the Era of COVID-19
We can all agree that the past year and a half has affected every aspect of our lives, from businesses to public events to family gatherings. Dental education was no exception.
New Ways of Learning, New Tools to Learn
All dental professionalsāeven the youngest graduates of the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistryācan reflect on how dentistry has changed within their lifetimes because of evolving technology. The way that dental education is delivered has been transformed by technology too, especially during the recent pandemic.
A Family Affair
The extended Tittle family includes 11 dentists across four generations and still counting.
Philanthropy Corner
Class reunions are more than āa walk down memory laneā for alumni. The reunions also offer an opportunity to celebrate together, to make new memories and to connect more deeply with faculty who helped them grow personally and professionally.
Collaboration Amid Crisis
Amid the disruption of COVID-19, the Dugoni School community came together in new ways to collaborate and support each other.
A New Chapter in the Pacific Story
Callahan is making it his mission to learn and to tell the stories about how Pacific offers something unique in undergraduate and graduate education.
Identifying Unconscious Bias
Despite dramatic progress in diversity in both academia and the professional fields, we have a long way to go toward being fully equitable and inclusive in our interactionsāin the classroom, in the clinic or in society at large.
An Officer and a Dentist: from Scholarship to Service
26 Dugoni School of Dentistry students are enrolled through the Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP), which funds studentsā medical or dental education in exchange for future military service in the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy or U.S. Air Force. After graduating, the new doctors will serve as active-duty dentists on their assigned military bases for three or four years, depending on the terms of their scholarships.