The Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation has made a $1 million pledge to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Dentistry to establish the Dr. No-Hee Park Endowed Chair in Dentistry, according to the university.
The endowed professorship, which is intended to support the teaching and research activities of a distinguished faculty member at the dental school, will be held by the chair of the school's division of oral biology and medicine.
The Park chair is the latest gift to UCLA from Ralph and Shirley Shapiro, UCLA alumni with a long history of philanthropy to the campus and charitable organizations throughout Los Angeles and the U.S.
No-Hee Park, D.D.S, D.M.D., Ph.D., holds the titles of dean and distinguished professor of dentistry at the UCLA School of Dentistry and the title of distinguished professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He joined the faculty of the dental school in 1984 and has served as the director of the Dental Research Institute and as associate dean for research. Named dean of the school in 1998, he was appointed for a third term in 2006 and is the longest-serving dean in the dental school's history.
