News media cover first day of inaugural class of College of Dental Medicine

News media from around the state covered the opening day of the inaugural class of UNE's College of Dental Medicine on Aug. 28th.

The dental school is the first in northern New England. The inaugural class of 64 students includes 24 students from Maine, representing 11 counties and more than 20 towns. There are also five students from New Hampshire, four from Vermont and the other students represent 16 states in addition to Canada.

Stories on WCSH6, WMTW8, and WGME ran video of the students in the dental simulation lab of UNE's new Oral Health Center on the Portland Campus. UNE President Danielle Ripich and College of Dental Medicine Dean James Koelbl were interviewed. The WCSH6 and WMTW stories also featured dental medicine student Dustin Nadeau, who got a head start on dental school by helping to build the new Oral Health Center as an employee of Allied Construction.

Stories also ran in the Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel, Bangor Daily News, Sun Journal, Forecaster and several dental media outlets.

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The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.