May 5, 2009

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A $25,200 gift from the Mobile Area Dental Society has created a new annual scholarship for students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Dentistry.

The Mobile District Dental Society Endowed Scholarship is open to students who are residents of, have graduated high school from, or have earned an undergraduate degree at an institution of higher learning in one of the counties represented by the society. They are Mobile, Baldwin, Choctaw and Washington counties. The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees recently approved the endowed scholarship.

Applications for consideration should be submitted to the UAB Office of Dental Student Admissions and Records. Call 205-934-3387

The society's members include dentists from Mobile, Baldwin, Choctaw and Washington counties. It is one of nine district-based groups within the Alabama Dental Association.

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