Scholarships and Awards
Student Awards
- Academy of Dentistry International Award
- Academy of General Dentistry Award
- Academy of Operative Dentistry Award
- Academy of Oseointegration Award
- American Academy of Craniofacial Pain Award
- American Academy of Implant Dentistry Award
- American Academy of Dental Practice Administration Award
- American Academy of Oral Medicine Award
- American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Award
- American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology Award
- American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Award
- American Academy of Periodontology Award
- American Association of Endodontists Award
- American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Award
- American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Dental Implant Award
- American Association of Oral Biologists Award
- American Association of Orthodontics Award
- American Association of Public Health Dentistry Award
- American Association of Women Dentists Award
- American College of Dentists Dean's Leadership Award
- American College of Prosthodontics Award
- American Society of Anesthesiology Award
- American Student Dental Association's Award
- Dentsply Removable Prosthodontics Award
- Hanau Best of the Best Prosthodontic Award
- International College of Dentists Achievement Award
- Pediatric Dentistry Alumni Association Award
- Pierre Fauchard Academy Award
- Sidney S. Friedman, Sr. Periodontology Award
- Southeastern Academy of Prosthodontics Award
- Special Care Dentistry Award
- Student National Dental Association Award
- Tennessee Society of Pediatric Dentistry Award
Scholarships
These scholarships are awarded to current students in the College of Dentistry and are not awarded to incoming, new D-1s.
- Dr. James T. Andrews Memorial Scholarship Award: The Andrews scholar has demonstrated outstanding abilities in the area of restorative dentistry during the pre-clinical and clinical years with financial need a considering factor.
- Dr. and Mrs. Lowell Dale Blevins Scholarship Award: The Blevins Scholar is selected primarily on financial need and secondarily on scholastic ability with preference given to married students whose spouse is employed.
- Doris Costello Bowyer Memorial Leadership Award: The recipient of the Doris Costello Bowyer Award is presented to a student who has demonstrated outstanding leadership ability by participation in student organizations, campus activities, organized dentistry, is recognized among peers and faculty as having a positive influence on classmates, and also demonstrated competence and professionalism in studies.
- Dr. and Mrs. Noah David Britton Scholarship Award: The Britton Scholar is selected on scholastic ability, financial need and dedication to dentistry as a career and profession.
- Dr. John T. (Jack) Camp Scholarship Award: The Camp scholar is a dental student that has participated in athletics (preferably football, basketball or baseball) as a college student and demonstrated financial need.
- Harold Cloogman, DDS, Scholarship Award: The Cloogman scholar will have demonstrated successful academic performance, demonstrated financial need and should be from East Tennessee.
- Delta Dental of Arkansas Scholarship Award: The Delta Dental of Arkansas scholar is an Arkansas student who has demonstrated scholastic ability and a dedication to dentistry as a career.
- Delta Dental of Tennessee Scholarship Award: The Delta Dental of Tennessee scholar is a Tennessee student who has demonstrated scholastic ability and a dedication to dentistry as a career.
- Dental Scholarship Endowment Fund Award: The Dental Scholarship Endowment Fund recognizes dental students demonstrating financial need, scholastic ability and dedication to dentistry as a career and profession.
- Dentistry Student Government Association Scholarship Award: The Dentistry SGA scholar must be a third or fourth-year dental student with financial need who has demonstrated clinical excellence.
- Dr. Winfield C. Dunn Scholarship Award: The Dunn scholar exhibits proven scholastic ability, leadership potential, community service and dedication to a career in the dental health care profession, as well as financial need.
- E. Mac Edington, Jr., DDS, and Linda Kay Edington Scholarship Award: The Edington Scholar is a Tennessee resident, who is married with at least one child, has demonstrated successful academic performance and has financial need.
- William J. Eells, DDS, Scholarship Award: The Eells Scholar is a dental student who has demonstrated scholastic ability, financial need and dedication to dentistry as a career and profession.
- Elizabeth Club Scholarship Award: The Elizabeth Club Scholar is a Tennessee female dental student with demonstrated academic ability and financial need.
- Dr. R.O. and Fannie B. Ford Scholarship Award: The Ford scholar is an incoming first year student that has demonstrated exceptional scholastic ability, leadership potential and a dedication to a career as a dentist or dental scientist.
- Dr. Kenneth L. Frame and Sara Jo Frame-Mazur Scholarship Award: The Frame-Mazur scholar is a fourth year student that has demonstrated excellence in the area of restorative dentistry.
- Helen Flanagan Fry Scholarship Award: The Fry Scholarship is awarded to a student doctor based upon scholastic ability and financial need. The recipient should be from the eastern part of the state of Tennessee.
- Dean James T. Ginn Scholarship Award: Established in honor of former Dean James T. Ginn by Dr. & Mrs. Perry Brickman, the Ginn Scholar is a dental student who ranks in the top third of his/her class. Financial aid may be considered.
- Dr. Joseph W. Graham, Sr. Scholarship Award: The Graham scholar is a dental student who has demonstrated scholastic ability, financial need and dedication to general dentistry with emphasis on excellence in restorative dentistry.
- Guthrie Family Scholarship Award: The Guthrie Family scholar is a fourth-year dental student from Upper East Tennessee demonstrating clinical excellence with financial need. This award is given in memory of Mrs. Maxie Jones Guthrie.
- Dr. and Mrs. F. Payne and Dr. Mark Hardison Scholarship Award: The Hardison scholar is a third-year dental student who has demonstrated scholastic ability, leadership potential and dedication to dentistry as a career and profession with preference given to Tennessee residents who attended UTK or MTSU.
- Dr. Earl O. Henry Scholarship Award: The Henry scholar is a fourth year dental student who has made a commitment to serve in the United States Armed Forces with preference given to those residing in the Second District of the Tennessee Dental Association.
- Thomas P. Hinman Meeting Scholarship Award: The Hinman scholar is selected for exceptional academic performance. The scholarship is awarded each year by, and at, the Hinman Dental Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
- Hinman Dental Society of Atlanta Scholarship Award: The Hinman Society Scholar is a dental student recognized for his/her leadership, clinical work, financial need and grade point average.
- Dr. and Mrs. Norris Howell Scholarship Award: The Howell scholar is a dental student who has exhibited proven scholastic ability and dedication to dentistry as a career and profession, with financial need a consideration.
- Dr. Gerald R. Karr Family Scholarship Award: The Karr Family scholar is a dental student with demonstrated scholastic achievement, financial need and a dedication to dentistry.
- Dr. W.C. ‘Dub’ Lady Scholarship Award: The Lady scholar is a dental student with demonstrated scholastic ability, financial need, and a dedication to dentistry as a career and a profession and should be from the eastern part of Tennessee.
- Dr. and Mrs. David Libby Scholarship Award: The Libby scholar is a D-3 student recognized for his/her leadership potential, personal and professional integrity and scholastic achievement.
- O.D. and Ruth McKee Scholarship Award: The McKee scholar is a dental student with demonstrated scholastic ability, financial need and dedication to dentistry as a career and profession. The recipient should be a resident of one of the following counties: Bradley County, Tennessee, Benton County, Arkansas or Augusta County, Virginia.
- Drs. Joe Miller and Chris Miller Scholarship Award: The Miller scholar is a dental student with proven scholastic ability and a dedication to dentistry as a career and profession.
- Dr. Joe and Pat Mosier Scholarship Award: The Mosier scholar is a dental student who has demonstrated financial need and a dedication to dentistry as a career and a profession and is ranked in the middle third of their class.
- Beverly and Dr. Tom Nash Scholarship Award: The Nash scholar is a dental student who demonstrates successful academic performance and has financial need.
- Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Onstott Scholarship Award: The Onstott scholar will have demonstrated successful academic performance, as well as a financial need.
- Dr. Malcolm Overbey Student Leadership Award: The Overbey student leader is recognized for his/her exceptional leadership potential, personal and professional integrity and scholastic achievement.
- Dr. Maurice E. Petrovsky Scholarship Award: The Petrovsky scholar is an outstanding fourth year student who has demonstrated the ‘passionate pursuit of perfection’ in the area of fixed prosthodontics.
- Redwine-Mitchell Scholarship Award: The Redwine-Mitchell scholar is a dental student with demonstrated scholastic achievement, financial need and is from East Tennessee.
- Second District Dental Society Scholarship Award: The Second District Dental Society scholar must be a resident in the Second District of the Tennessee Dental Association with a demonstrated financial need. This award is given to those students ranking in the middle third of their dental class.
- Shannon Slagle Scholarship Award: The Slagle scholar is a dental student who demonstrates successful academic performance and has financial need.
- Dr. Roy M. Smith Scholarship Award: The Smith scholar is a dental student with demonstrated scholastic achievement, financial need and is from West Tennessee.
- Dr. Buford and Lynda Suffridge Scholarship Award: The Suffridge scholar is selected primarily on the basis of financial need with special consideration given to those students ranking in the middle third of their dental class.
- Cecily W. Tipton Scholarship Award: The Tipton scholar is an outstanding dental student who has demonstrated academic excellence and financial need.
- University of Tennessee Alumni Association’s Andy Holt Scholarship Award: The University of Tennessee Alumni Association selects dental students for demonstrated academic excellence plus community service and participation in campus activities.
- University of Tennessee Alumni Association’s Legacy Scholarship Award: The University of Tennessee Alumni Association Legacy scholar is a first year dental student with the highest academic credentials who is also the child of a College of Dentistry graduate.
- Dr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Weems Scholarship Award: The Weems scholar is a dental student with proven academic ability and found to be deserving.
- Dr. Robert N. Wilson Scholarship Award: The Wilson scholar is a dental student who is married, has at least one child and has demonstrated financial need.
- Xi Psi Phi Fraternity Scholarship Award: The ZIP Fraternity scholar is a D-4 or a D-3 student with demonstrated academic ability and service to the Xi Psi Phi dental fraternity.