Neiders honored by SUNY
Dental faculty member named Distinguished Teaching Prof
By
SUE WUETCHER
Reporter Editor
Mirdza
E. Neiders, professor of oral diagnostic sciences in the School of Dental
Medicine, has been named a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor.
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The
designation, a rank above that of full professor, honors and recognizes
outstanding teaching. To earn the designation, recipients must have
a record of consistently superior performance in teaching skills, scholarship
and professional growth, student services and academic standards, requirements
and evaluation of student performance.
The
appointment was approved last week by the SUNY Board of Trustees.
A
UB faculty member since 1962, Neiders has served twice as acting chair
of the Department of Oral Biology in the School of Dental Medicine,
and was a member of the Biomedical Sciences Study Section for the National
Institutes of Health for eight years. She directed UB's Oral Pathology
Graduate Training program for four years.
She
is director of the Breath Disorders Clinic—one of five special-care
clinics in the dental school—and also serves as a primary consultant
to the Salivary Gland Dysfunction Clinic and the Oral Medicine Clinic.
She received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching
in 2001, which honors those who consistently have demonstrated superb
teaching at the undergraduate, graduate or professional level. She also
has been named Alpha Omega dental fraternity's Teacher of the Year.
Neiders
received a bachelor's degree from The Ohio State University, a master's
degree in general pathology from The University of Chicago and a dental
degree from the University of Michigan. She served her residency in
periodontics at UB.
She
resides in Snyder.
