7 May 2010

St Andrews dental prize

A new student prize is to be established in the School of Dentistry at the University of Dundee thanks to the generosity of an alumni group.

The St Andrews Dental Alumni consists of those dentists who graduated from the School either before 1967 - when what is now the University of Dundee was Queen’s College, Dundee, part of the University of St Andrews - or in the few years after when students were free to choose to graduate from either Dundee or St Andrews.

Following a number of reunions in recent years, many of them to celebrate 40, 50 and even 60 year graduation anniversaries, it was decided to raise a fund for a student prize.

'We wanted to do something to mark our appreciation of the training and help we received in our time at what was then Queen’s College, Dundee, and also to honour the heritage of the St Andrews dental graduates,' said Professor Sir David Mason, one of the alumni group.

'As the students of the past, we were very keen to give some help to the students of the future.

'There are around 150 alumni we have been in contact with and the response has been very good. We have collected over £17,000 now which we will be donating to the University to fund a student prize.'

The details of what the prize will consist of and how it will be awarded are still being discussed in the School of Dentistry but it is anticipated it may fund student research projects.

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