{"id":231264,"date":"2025-05-29T09:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=231264"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:59:32","slug":"awards-given-to-support-dental-faculty-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/05\/awards-given-to-support-dental-faculty-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards Given to Support Dental Faculty Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two School of Dental Medicine faculty recently received the first-ever Dr. Marion Frank Faculty Development Award.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_231268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-231268\" style=\"width: 481px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-231268 img-responsive lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 481px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 481\/392;border: 10px solid red\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/marionfrank2025.png\" alt=\"dentists with award\" width=\"481\" height=\"392\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/marionfrank2025.png 679w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/marionfrank2025-300x244.png 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/marionfrank2025-516x420.png 516w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-231268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drs. Anna Dongari-Bagtzoglou and Steven Lepowsky with Drs. Marion Frank and Rui Li. (Darlene Gugliotti photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This award, given to Dr. Rui Li, associate professor of prosthodontics, and Dr. Madison Doolittle, assistant professor in the Center of Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development, enables faculty to pursue their independently chosen career development activities.<\/p>\n<p>Drs. Li and Doolittle will be given $5,000 to support their research program development.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anna Dongari-Bagtzoglou, professor and associate dean of faculty affairs, congratulated the award winners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis competitive award provides funds for faculty development activities that support the individual career path of each faculty. The award recognizes\u00a0Dr. Marion Frank, a Professor Emerita, who has been a steadfast supporter of faculty development in the School of Dental Medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The awardees were chosen by the School\u2019s Faculty Development Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two faculty receive first-ever Dr. Marion Frank award to pursue research program development<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":183050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2166,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2177],"class_list":["post-231264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sdm","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-28 00:54:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235971,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231264\/revisions\/235971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/183050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231264"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=231264"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=231264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}