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SDM research fellow, student honored at dental conference
Aneta Liwosz, an SDM postdoctoral research fellow, recently won first place at the Yankee Dental Congress 30 Student Table Clinic, while David Buczak (SDM’07) took third place. The Yankee Dental Congress, sponsored by the Massachusetts Dental Society, is one of the nation’s largest meetings for dental professionals and the only scientific meeting. It was held January 27 to 30 at the Hynes Convention Center and attracted more than 20,000 dental professionals. The conference’s Student Table Clinics features research presentations by Boston-area dental students. Liwosz, who works in the laboratory of Maria Kukuruzinska, a MED professor of molecular and cell biology, presented Modulation of E-cadherin N-glycosylation and Adhesive Function Through Targeted Inhibition of Cellular Signaling. Buczak, who works for Louis Gerstenfeld, an SDM associate professor of orthopedic surgery, won for RunX2 Regulates TGFß Responses Associated with Breast Cancer Metastasis and Osteolytic Disease.
Waters named to presidential search committee
Sargent College Dean Gloria S. Waters was named to the University’s presidential search committee February 14, replacing Ronald K. Richardson, an associate professor of history and director of the African-American Studies Program. Richardson recently resigned from the committee in order to become a candidate for the presidency. The committee now includes two BU deans, four faculty members, one student, and eight trustees.
Waters, a SAR professor of communications disorders and a widely published researcher, became dean of Sargent College in January. A member of the faculty since 1997, she also serves as chair of the health sciences department. Her teaching and research areas include adult language disorders, aging and communication, neuroanatomy, and neurophysiology.
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February 2005
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