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The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) is primarily a graduate-level university focusing on the health sciences. Located in the prestigious Texas Medical Center, UTHealth is the most comprehensive academic health center in the Southwestern United States - the only one in Texas with six schools -offering programs in biomedical science, dentistry, health informatics, medicine, nursing, and public health.

Interdisciplinary studies are encouraged at the university with eleven joint degree programs.

Senior Awards Banquet Honors Graduating Dental Students

Dozens of honors – both prestigious and comical – were handed out at the annual awards banquet in April for the graduating dental Class of 2013 at The University of Texas School of Dentistry at Houston.

The April 18 event, held at the Denton A. Cooley, MD and Ralph C. Cooley, DDS University Life Center, recognized seniors for excellence in academics, research, leadership and in various dental specialties – 51 awards in all – and also allows students and faculty to reflect on the previous four years.

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The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, to award certificate, bachelor, masters, doctoral, and professional degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia, 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4501 for questions about the accreditation of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.