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News and Events

Police commissioner awards Otago PhD candidate
October 2012

Forensic Biology PhD candidate Darnell Kennedy was honoured in September for an article which appeared in the Australian Police Journal. The article “Forensic Dentistry and Microbial Analysis of Bite Marks” was published in March 2011, winning Ms Kennedy first place in the education sector of the journal’s awards.

Darnell Kennedy

Community: Assessing the impact of oral health programmes
September 2012

Assessing the impact of oral intervention programmes is vital, says Professor John Broughton of the Departments of Oral Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences and Preventive and Social Medicine.

Darnell Kennedy

Dr Michael Tholey
May 2012

Dr Michael Tholey, our first PhD student in Dental Technology, is employed in the Research and Development department of Vita Zahnfabrik, Germany and has recently visited the Faculty as part of the cooperation Vita Zahnfabrik has with the members of the Biomaterials discipline as headed by Professor Michael Swain.

Dr Michael Tholey

OSMRS Student Award
May 2012

Daniel Sundaresan is a final year BDS student who won first place in the Otago Medical School Research Society (OMSRS) student speaker awards held 9 May 2012.  Daniel carried out his research on a Summer Scholarship and was supervised by Nick Heng, Mary Cullinan and Bernadette Drummond.

Daniel Sundaresan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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