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Ms. Merri Jones, MSDH, RDH was awarded tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor. Jones was a Program Coordinator for the EWU Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene degree completion program at Lake Washington Institute of Technology before joining the Dental Hygiene faculty as Assistant Professor in 2013. Merri teaches undergraduate and graduate…

42 Dental Hygiene students graduated on May 3, 2019 with their Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene. Next stop practicing Registered Dental Hygienists! Congrats!

On May 3rd, Ashlee P., Mayuko J., and Michelle W. joined me at the spring Head Start Advisory Council meeting (HSAC). Each of them was assigned one of three classrooms/teachers (infants, preschoolers/kindergarten+) and provided oral health education and fluoride varnish to the children! Students talked with parents about the EWU Dental Clinic, as well.

On May 10th, Trista B., Kimbo H., and Mayuko J. participated in the ACFF grant funded project at St. Margaret’s Shelter, where they provided oral health education, discussed access to care, and provided fluoride varnish treatments for children. EWU/WSU CSD speech-hearing students worked alongside Professors Doreen Nicholas and Barbara Peregoy in providing swallowing/speech screenings and…

Sarah Jackson, MSDH, BSDH, RDH was promoted to Full Professor in May 2019. Jackson has been with EWU since graduating from the Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene program in 2005. She began her career as a clinical instructor and gained tenure as the preclinical lead. She has continued in this role as well as…

Windy Rothmund, MSDH, BSDH, RDH and Lisa Bilich, MSDH, BSDH, RDH both alumni and faculty members at EWU were elected as officers in the Addiction Education Section of the American Dental Education Association in March 2019 in Chicago, Illinois.  Professor Bilich was unable to attend however she will be Chair for 2019-2020 and Rothmund Chair-elect.…

Ms. Cheri Barton, MSDH, BSDH, RDH was elected Vice President of the National Dental Hygiene Honor Society, Sigma Phi Alpha. Barton is an alumnus of the EWU Master of Science in Dental Hygiene program who just completed her first year as a special faculty/lecture in the Department of Dental Hygiene. Ms. Barton will be Senior…

Junior Dental Hygiene Students Kimbo Harward and Michelle Wagner along with Senior Dental Hygiene student Tashjia Fortune presented a research poster on Sleep Apnea at the Washington State Dental Hygienists’ Association Symposium April 12-13, 2019. Professor Sarah Jackson, MSDH, BSDH, RDH mentored these students and will accompany them to the American Dental Hygienists’ Association in…

EWU Senior Dental Hygiene students: Tessa Heiydt, Tori Anderson, Ronni Sonderman, and Megan Bennet placed first in the Research Poster contest at the Washington Dental Hygienist’s Symposium April 12 and 13, 2019 in Bellevue, Washington. They presented on “Marijuana: Let’s Be Blunt.”  Windy Rothmund, MSDH, BSDH, RDH, special faculty/ lecturer and EWU alumni,  accompanied them…