News Release
Dental Student Granted Year-Long Fellowship
The University of Detroit Mercy Dental School is proud to announce that student Jonathan Blatt was awarded a fellowship by the American Dental Education Association. The ADEAGies Foundation/AADR Academic Dental Careers Fellowship Program (ADCFP) is a year-long fellowship for seven students and their mentors beginning in summer 2010 and ending at the close of the 2010-11 academic year. Blatt was chosen to be a fellow under his mentor Michelle Wheater.
The fellowship is designed to reach students attending all U.S. and Canadian dental schools and ADEA Member allied dental programs. The fellowship is meant to encourage and prepare students to enter academic dentistry. The fellowship’s components include a day and a half summer fellow/mentor training session, biweekly collaborative meetings between fellows and mentors, faculty/administrator interviews, teaching practicum in four settings, career reflection essays, research practicum, poster presentation at the 2011 ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition, ADCFP portfolio and an ADCFP evaluation.
For more information, contact Richard F. Kelley at 313.494.6624 or by email at kelleyrf@udmercy.edu.
Release date: March 16, 2010
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