Awards

The following awards and prizes are presented annually at the Alumni Graduate Banquet honoring the graduating classes:

Scholarship

• Alpha Omega International Dental Fraternity award
• Dean's Valedictorian awards (DDS, IDS)
• Dean's Salutorian awards (DDS, IDS)
• OKU Clinical Excellence awards
• Inesi Award in Physiology

Leadership, Professionalism, Scholarship and Service

• Academy of General Dentistry award
• Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity, Bay Area Alumni award
• Alumni Association, School of Dentistry award
• American College of Dentists, Northern California Section award
• ASDA Award of Excellence
• Community Service award
• California Dental Association award
• Kevin Campbell Alumni Association Service award
• CHIPS Editors awards
• Delta Dental Plan of California Student Leadership award
• Norma T. & Robert Grosso Endowment Award for Future Dental Educators
• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
• Pierre Fauchard Academy awards
• International College of Dentists, USA Section award
• Charles, Charles Jr. and Joe Sweet Scholarship awards (for pediatric dentistry)
• Frederick T. West Leadership awards
• Herbert K. Yee Scholarship awards

Outstanding Performance

• AEGD Outstanding Resident (Stockton and Union City)
• Oral Surgery Outstanding Resident
• James C. Campbell, Jr. Omicron Kappa Upsilon award
• Charles A. Ertola award (for removable prosthodontics)
• William W.Y. Goon-OKU award
• Thomas B. Hartzell award (for periodontics)
• Lasky Family Endowment Pediatric awards
• Charles, Charles Jr. and Joe Sweet awards (for pediatric dentistry)
• Academy of Operative Dentistry award
• American Academy of Dental Materials awards
• American Academy of Dental Practice Administration award
• American Association of Endodontics award
• American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology award
• American Academy of Oral Medicine award
• American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology award
• American Academy of Orofacial Pain award
• American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry
• American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
• American Academy of Periodontology award
• American Association of Oral Biologists award
• American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons award
• American Association of Orthodontics award
• American Association of Public Health Dentistry award
• American Dental Society of Anesthesiology award
• American Equilibration Society award
• Excellence in Anatomy award
• Excellence in Biochemistry award
• Excellence in Implants award
• Excellence in Microbiology award
• Excellence in Oral Pathology award
• Excellence in Oral Surgery award
• Excellence in Oral Diagnosis award
• Northern California Academy of Endodontics award
• Organization of Teachers of Oral Diagnosis award
• Western Society of Periodontology
• National Society of Dental Practitioners, Inc. award
• Quintessence Book awards (one each for research achievement, periodontics, and restorative dentistry)

A detailed description of each award, including selection criteria, is available in the Office of Academic Affairs.

Graduation Honors

Upon recommendation of the Student Academic Performance and Promotion Committee, students who complete the requirements for graduation and whose academic record qualifies them for election to Tau Kappa Omega are graduated with honors. Those who complete graduation requirements and whose record qualifies them for election to Omicron Kappa Upsilon are graduated with high honors. The valedictorian is graduated with highest honors.