The School of Dentistry’s student-led Wolverine Patriot Project, which provides oral health care to disabled and homeless veterans in northern lower Michigan, has won the American Dental Association Foundation 2013 Bud Tarrson Dental School Student Community Leadership Award. Led by third-year dental student Jesse Edwards, students said they saw an urgent oral health care need that was not being met and did something about it. The project was established in April 2012.
Fawwaz Ulaby, Emmett Leith Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and professor of electrical engineering and computer science, College of Engineering, is to be named one of two Arab Americans of the Year on April 12 at ACCESS’ 43rd Annual Anniversary Dinner at the Marriott at the Detroit Renaissance Center. The dinner traditionally draws more than 1,700 community supporters and political leaders.
Erik Mueggler, professor of anthropology, has won the Julian Steward Prize from the Anthropology & Environment Society for his book “The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet,” published in 2011 by the University of California Press. The book combines biography, ethnography, botany and geography with tales of adventure to follow the journeys of two early 20th-century botanists.
Sarah A. Stoddard, assistant professor of nursing, has been selected as a fellow in the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine. The title is granted to individuals who demonstrate a long-standing commitment to the welfare of adolescents and a willingness to advocate on their behalf at a local, regional, national or international level. She will be honored in March during the 2014 SAHM Annual Meeting in Austin.
