American Academy of Periodontology Foundation awards two AAP student scholarships

The American Academy of Periodontology Foundation recently awarded two AAP student scholarships. The scholarship is a $5,000 one-time cash award made to qualified candidates during their final year of dental school who have been accepted into a postgraduate periodontal program.

The AAP scholarship was created with an endowed gift from the AAP to encourage outstanding dental students to consider a future in periodontics. The scholarship recognizes students with outstanding academic backgrounds. Other criteria weighed by the selection committee are financial need, commuity service, and extracurricular activities.

Recipients for 2004 are Melissa Morris, currently in the dental program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry (UNMC), and accepted into the periodontal program at UNMC; and Daniel Fishel, a student at Harvard School of Dental Medicine who has been accepted into a combined program in both periodontics and orthodontics at the University of Pennsylvania.