Aina M. Meierovics, DDS, DMD, was born in 1920 in Riga, Latvia. She earned her DDS from the University of Latvia and had a German dental degree before coming to the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. In 1952, she was accepted to HSDM and graduated alongside Aina M. Auskaps as the first woman to graduate from HSDM. According to her entry in the 1955 HSDM yearbook, Dr. Meierovics was married to G.I.

Aina M. Auskaps, DDS, DMD, was born in 1921 in Raiskums, Latvia and got a degree specializing in dentistry from Riga University in 1941. In 1945, Dr. Auskaps obtained her DDS from the Dental School of Munich, Germany and then immigrated to the US with her mother during World War II. She was accepted to HSDM in 1952 with advanced standing, graduating in 1955 along with Aina M. Meierovics as the first woman to graduate from HSDM.

First American Indian Woman Dentist

Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” Delaney was born in 1891 in North Carolina. During World War I, she moved to New York with her younger sister, Sarah (or “Sadie”). Bessie was the only African-American woman entering the 1919 class at the Columbia School of Dental and Oral Surgery. She graduated in 1923, becoming the second African-American registered dentist in the state of New York. Commonly referred to as “Dr.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky was appointed to serve as the Director of the CDC in 2021. Walensky received her MD degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and earned her MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She was a Harvard Medical School Professor of Medicine from 2012 to 2020 and the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital from 2017 to 2020. During her tenure as CDC Director, Dr.

In June 2023, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Harvard College and the University of North Carolina’s admissions programs violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, which prohibits race-based discrimination by the government. Harvard’s nine-year effort to defend its policies came to a close, and the ruling effectively ended race-conscious affirmative action in the admissions programs of public and private universities. 

On May 25, 2020, a video depicting an incident of police brutality in Minneapolis, MN was posted to social media sites and quickly went viral.

Walter C. Guralnick, DMD, was born in 1917 and graduated from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 1941. During World War II, Dr. Guralnick served in the 7th General Hospital in England for four years before returning to Boston in 1946. He joined HSDM faculty in 1954 and is renowned for his significant contributions and leadership in oral and maxillofacial surgery education. Dr.

The Harvard School of Dental Medicine hired its first full woman professor, Vicki Rosen, PhD, in 2002. Three years later, in 2005, Dr. Rosen became chair of the Oral and Developmental Biology Department. Dr. Rosen’s research interests include musculoskeletal diseases and bone morphogenetic proteins.