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Five dental students from the college’s Class of 2025 were recently selected as recipients of the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration’s National Health Service Corps scholarships. They are Sabrina Case, Camille Jackson, Martin McKay Smith, Ivanna Soto, and Beoline Uwampamo.
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Each year, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration’s National Health Service Corps offers scholarships to students pursuing training in primary care health professions. In return, each scholarship recipient provides health services for a minimum of two years in a federally-designated Health Professional Shortage Area.
Drawing applicants from across the U.S., these highly competitive awards provide full tuition and related expenses for four years of education and training for aspiring physicians, nurse practitioners and midwives, physician’s assistants, and dentists.
Sabrina Case ’25 (DDS)
Ivanna Soto ’25 (DDS) Camille Jackson ’25 (DDS)
Beoline Uwampamo ’25 (DDS) Martin McKay Smith ’25 (DDS)
Dante Davis ’23 (DDS) Andre Evans ’25 (DDS)
The Molina Foundation, a national nonprofit organization focused on reducing disparities in access to education and health, recently funded new scholarships for students enrolled in the DDS program at the College of Dentistry. Four of the college’s dental students were recently chosen as Molina Healthcare Scholarship recipients. They include Dante Davis ’23 (DDS); Andre Evans ’25 (DDS); Davern Holloway ’23 DDS; and Mosep Okonny ’22 (DDS).
The Molina Healthcare Scholarships provide support for dental students who have an awareness of the need to address health disparities in dental care, and who have a demonstrated commitment to supporting diversity. The scholarship provides full tuition and fees for each student’s time in the college’s DDS program. Recipients must have an interest in serving indigent patients and establishing their own dental practice in a federally-designated Dental Professional Shortage Area in Ohio.
Dental Hygiene Students Awarded Hummel Family Scholarship
Junior dental hygiene students Halleigh Anderson, Madeline French, and Kirsten Zink have been named as recipients of the Hummel Family Scholarship. Mrs. Carole Hummel is a graduate of the college’s dental hygiene Class of 1958, and her husband, the late Dr. Robert Hummel, graduated from Ohio State’s College of Veterinary Medicine in 1961. To provide financial assistance for students in the dental hygiene program, Dr. and Mrs. Hummel created the Hummel Family Foundation through which the Hummel Family Dental Hygiene Scholarship was established. This renewable award provides full tuition and fees for dental hygiene students who demonstrate leadership skills, financial need, contributions to society, and are the first member of their family to attend college.
Halleigh Anderson, ’23 DHY Madeline French, ’23 DHY Kirsten Zink, ’23 DHY
Ciara Kirkbride, ’23 DHY
Dental Hygiene Student Receives Yardley Family Endowed Scholarship
Junior dental hygiene student Ciara Kirkbride is the 2021 Yardley Family Scholarship recipient. Mrs. Lou Ann (Yardley) Moritz Ransom graduated from the College of Dentistry’s dental hygiene program in 1958. Her sisters, Jeanne Yardley Bogen and Mary Yardley Giannola, followed suit as they graduated with dental hygiene degrees from Ohio State in 1960 and 1979, respectively.
In 2011, Mrs. Moritz Ransom established the Yardley Family Endowed Scholarship in Dental Hygiene, which fully funds tuition, books, and licensure and examination fees for one student in the Division of Dental Hygiene for his or her two years in the program.
Mrs. Moritz Ransom said, “As alumnae of the college, my sisters and I are very proud to have established this scholarship that will allow its recipients to get an education that they may not have been able to afford on their own.” She added, “We also hope this scholarship will inspire others to follow our lead in supporting the college and its Division of Dental Hygiene.”
