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New PHS & NSF Disclosure of Significant Financial Interests forms

Starting October 15, 2014, the Division of Sponsored Programs and Division of Research Compliance will  require  investigators to use the new Public Health Services (PHS) Disclosure of Significant Financial Interests form and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Disclosure of Significant Financial Interests form which can be found at the following…

Extramural Loan Repayment Program

Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Research (LRP) is a program that “encourage promising researchers and scientists to pursue research careers by repaying up to $35,000 of their qualified student loan debt each year” This program is available to aid our students in…

Faculty Spotlight

Roger B. Fillingim, PhD, a faculty member in the Department of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science, has been a member of the UFCD faculty since 2,000.  He also recently joined the UFCD Research Committee. A Clinical Psychologist by training, he has had a longstanding interest in research to…

Student Spotlight

Amanda Francis and Taylor Capasso have been selected to represent UFCD at the Hinman Symposium this year! They were part of our summer 2014 research program and are incoming freshmen to the UF College of Dentistry DMD program.   Amanda Francis’s project is“Epigenetic Regulation…

Faculty Spotlight

Dr. Shaddox has been working at University of Florida College of Dentistry Department of Periodontology since 2006. Since her second year of dental school, Shaddox has actively participated in the scientific research development in Periodontology, both nationally and internationally. She joined the University of Florida Oral Biology department as a…

Research Residents

The mentorship support from our College across all specialties is remarkable. Our residents present their research and compete for awards at the national level with projects from basic science to translational research. The following are some of the awards received this year: American Association of Orthodontics meeting: Dr. Nancy Huynh…

2014 Summer Research Students

This year’s Summer Research students have been selected and matched with their mentors. The students’ orientation occurred on May 19th and this year’s program runs through Friday, July 25th, when the students will give oral presentations of their abstracts at 1 PM in D3-3. A reception will follow immediately after…

Kyulim Lee Wins 2nd Place in Capetown, Africa

Kyulim Lee, a second-year dental student at the University of Florida, earned second place in the International Association for Dental Research Unilever Hatton Competition in the Junior Category during the IADR Annual Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, in June 2014. Lee entered the competition after winning first place at…

Spring Synergy-Celebration of Science Scheduled for April 4th

The Spring Synergy – Celebration of Science will be held on Friday, April 4, 2014. Spring Synergy will be held at Emerson Alumni Hall located at 1938 W. University Ave. We are pleased to invite faculty, post-docs, DMD students, graduate students, residents, undergraduate students, and staff to participate in program…

Requirements and Procedures for Sponsored Projects/Mandatory Investigator & Staff Training

As an enhancement to the University of Florida’s good practices in sponsored project accounting operations, and to further appropriate stewardship of contracts and grants for all Sponsors, effective March 3, 2014, the University implemented new sponsored training requirements. Note: courses are found online, by navigating in myUFL > Main Menu > My Self Service > Training and Development…