Nick Wilson makes outstanding student showing at research competition

Nick Wilson (DS3) has been selected as runner up in the recent ADA/DENTSPLY Student Clinician Research Program competition held in Hawaii with his work:

"Dimethacrylate Network Development in the presence of Chain-Transfer
Agents"

Nick also recently won an ARCS scholarship.

“I would like to also congratulate Dr. Jeff Stansbury who has served as
Nick's mentor on multiple research projects involving biomaterials over the past few years,” said Assistant Professor John Cusick, PhD. “According to Dr. Stansbury (to the best of our knowledge), this is only the 2nd time that a student from the School of Dental Medicine has placed this high in the ADA/DENTSPLY competition!

“We have either reached or met several milestones in our Student Research Group recently, and this has certainly been effective at enhancing the image of our institution among our peers,” Cusick continued.

Some of the notable milestones that have either been reached or met recently are:


ADA/DENTSPLY runner up;
2009   Nick Wilson (DS3)            Mentor: Dr. Jeff Stansbury
2002   Demetrios Syrpes             Mentor: Dr. Jeff Stansbury


Hatton Award Finalist at AADR meeting;
2009    Jonathan Bishop (DS2)       Mentor: Dr. David Clouthier
2008    Nicholas Bennetts (DS3)     Mentor: Dr. David Clouthier


National SRG's Presidential Award for Excellence in Dental Research
(1st place!);
2008    Nicholas Bennetts (DS3)     Mentor: Dr. David Clouthier


Dental Student Recipient of Research Grant;
2008    Kevin Baker-class of 2009   Mentor: Dr. David Gozalo


Congratulations to Nick and Dr. Stansbury and all the students who have been active in the SRG and all the Faculty mentors who make these research projects possible.