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The SIU School of Dental Medicine was established in 1972 to provide a source of dentists in the southern half of Illinois. [5]Its campus was one of two residential centers of SIUE from 1957 until the opening of the Edwardsville campus in 1965 and saw only limited use from 1965 to 1972.
The Northwestern University Dental School opened in 1891. Its first dean was Edgar Swain.The school was initially located on South State Street in Evanston, Illinois.In 1893, it moved into the new Medical School buildings on South Dearborn and East 24th Streets in Chicago.
The school taught its students orthodontics over a period of 3–6 weeks. [1] The school graduated 183 students until it closed in 1927. Among the graduates, 25 students became presidents of the American Association of Orthodontists, 11 students became head of orthodontic departments and three students became dental school deans. [2] [1]
This list of dental schools in the U.S. includes major academic institutions in the U.S. that award advanced professional degrees of either D.D.S. or D.M.D. in the field of dentistry. [1] It does not include schools of medicine , and it includes 72 schools of dentistry in 36 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
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The Urbana-Champaign campus was founded in 1867 as the Illinois Industrial University. It was one of the 37 public land-grant institutions created shortly after Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862. [8] The university changed its name to University of Illinois in 1885, and then again to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1982.
Hedding College (1855–1927), in Abingdon, absorbed by Illinois Wesleyan University in 1930; Hillsboro College (1847–1852), in Hillsboro, moved to Springfield in 1852 as Illinois State University (1852–1870), moved to Carthage in 1870 and became Carthage College; Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago (1916–2018, Chicago)
In 1966, Renfroe became the first African American to lead a department at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry when he was named head of the Department of Orthodontics. He was the first African American orthodontist to open an office in the Chicago downtown Loop area, and the first African American in Illinois to be ...