Awards

The School of Dentistry celebrated the graduation and completion of studies of the Dental Hygiene Class of 2024 with an awards banquet on Thursday, July 18. 

Kalyana Tejasvi Mondreti, DDS ’24, received the President’s Student Leadership and Service Award. 

Two members of the Division of TMD and Orofacial Pain achieved great success at this year’s American Academy of Orofacial Pain Clinical and Scientific Meeting.

School of Dentistry faculty received accolades at the American Association of Orthodontics Annual Session.

A School of Dentistry researcher and student group received accolades through the Student Unions and Activities office.

On the evening before their Commencement ceremony, members of the DDS Class of 2024 gathered in McNamara Alumni Center to celebrate their accomplishments as a class and honor the 2024 DDS award recipients.

Gary Anderson, DDS ’80, MS ’83, is the 2022 recipient of the School of Dentistry Distinguished Dental Alumni Award.

Nelson Rhodus, DMD, MPH, professor and director of the Division of Oral Medicine, Diagnosis and Radiology, was added to the University of Minnesota’s Scholar’s Walk on Foreign Academies in honor of his election to the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Stephen Shuman, DDS, MS, FGSA, professor, director of the Division of Hospital and Special Care Dentistry and director of the Oral Health Services for Older Adults Program in the School of Dentistry, was the 2024 Guest of Honor for the Minneapolis District Dental Society (MDDS) on April 15.

Yvette Reibel, EdD, LDH, assistant professor of dental hygiene, received an Institute of Health Community Service Grant through the American Dental Hygienists Association for her work with adopted children and those in foster care.