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COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY NEWS
  • Student Kaitrin Baloue Honored at Hinman Symposium
  • Kaitrin Baloue, a DDS/PhD student at the UIC College of Dentistry, won a prestigious research award at the Hinman Student Research Symposium held in Memphis, TN, Oct. 28 through 30, 2011.
  • Eight awards were given for the most outstanding student presentations, four in clinical research and four in basic science research, in addition to an award from the National Students Research Group of the American Association for Dental Research.
  • Baloue received one of the awards in clinical research. Her research project studied the regulation of differentiation of embryonic stem cells to form the oral epithelium. Her participation in the project was directed by Dr. David L. Crowe, Professor in the Center for Molecular Biology of Oral Diseases at the UIC College of Dentistry.
  • The symposium featured oral and poster presentations of research projects by dental students and graduate students from dental schools across the nation; 90 students represented 41 dental schools in 24 states, the District of Columbia, and four Canadian provinces.
  • The symposium is sponsored by the University of Tennessee College of Dentistry and co-sponsored by the Hinman Dental Society, and is supported in part by grants from the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), the American Dental Education Association Gies Foundation, the Procter & Gamble Company, and the Tennessee Dental Association Foundation.