On Campus

Presidential Award winner: Daniel Lawrence Dent, M.D.
May 25, 2016
Daniel Lawrence Dent, M.D., clinical professor, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, received the Teaching Excellence Award.

Presidential Award winner: Adelita G. Cantu, Ph.D., RN
May 18, 2016
Adelita G. Cantu, Ph.D., RN, associate professor, Department of Family and Community Health Systems, School of Nursing, received a Teaching Excellence Award.

Message from the Dean: MD Anderson and CTRC
May 18, 2016
The CTRC and the MD Anderson Cancer Center are exploring possible avenues of partnership and cooperation.

Advances in pain management: TPR’s Think Health Science series
May 18, 2016
Health Science Center faculty members Barbara J. Turner, M.D., MSED, MACP, and Jennifer Sharpe Potter, Ph.D., M.P.H., will be the speakers at Texas Public Radio’s Think Health Science presentation: Advances in pain management, on June 9.

Dental student named UT System student regent
May 17, 2016
Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed Varun Pokkamthanam Joseph, a fourth-year dental student from the Health Science Center , as the new student regent for the University of Texas System Board of Regents.

Dentistry honors health pioneer James P. Hollers
May 16, 2016
The School of Dentistry and the Health Science Center honored the memory of a staunch supporter of health care in South Texas at the James P. Hollers Drive Dedication and Celebration on May 13.