AADR NSRG Awards & Contests

NSRG offers multiple contests for LSRGs.

• Apply for the Outstanding Local Research Group Award
• Submit your newsletter to compete in the Best LSRG Newsletter contest.
• Get your membership up to have the most new members.
• Encourage research and win the award for most Student Abstracts submitted to the Annual Meeting

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View all the award opportunities for Students under the AADR awards pages and the IADR awards pages.   

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In 1997, the AADR National Student Research Group (NSRG) initiated the NSRG Mentor Award. This award was established in order to provide national recognition for outstanding faculty mentors. The recipient of the NSRG Mentor Award will receive a plaque and will be the guest speaker at the annual SRG Faculty Advisors’/SRG Presidents' event during the AADR Annual Meeting & Exhibition.

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NIDCR is one of 27 separate Institutes and Centers located at the NIH on a suburban campus-like environment approximately 10 miles from the center of Washington, D.C. Students in high school, college, graduate school, or the professional schools (dental, medical, veterinary) can spend a summer or work part-time through the academic year at the NIDCR in Bethesda, Maryland.

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This year the American Association for Dental Research (AADR) National Student Research Group (NSRG) along with the Government Affairs Committee (GAC) would like to recognize a student for outstanding contributions in advocacy for oral health research by awarding The Student Advocate of the Year Award.

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The NIH Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP) is a comprehensive, year-long research enrichment program designed to attract the most creative, research-oriented medical, dental and veterinary students to the NIH intramural campus in Bethesda, Maryland. AADR has supported the MRSP providing a yearly contribution to NIH to ensure at least one selected is a dental student.

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