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University of Amsterdam
The Executive Boards of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) have appointed Prof. Elsbeth Kalenderian as dean of the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), a joint venture of the Faculties of Dentistry of the UvA and of VU Amsterdam. Kalenderian is currently affiliated with the University of California – San Francisco School of Dentistry. The appointment is for a period of five years and will take effect on 1 August 2021. Kalenderian has also been appointed as professor of Comprehensive Dentistry at the UvA.
Elsbeth Calenderian (photo: Harvard University)
Kalenderian will succeed Prof. Frank Abbas, who has been in office since July 2019. The appointment was made in consultation with the Faculty Student Council and the ACTA Works Council.
Failing grades. Rising depression. Bay Area children are suffering from shuttered schools
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Senan Dokken, 9, attends online classes. His father, Erik, a handyman, has had to turn down some jobs to be home with his son.Photos by Santiago Mejia / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Senan Dokken, 9, at home during his online drama class on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in San Francisco, Calif. Dokken is in 4th grade in the city’s public school district. Schools continue to teach online, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier in the week, an agreement was announced with the school district to reopen the city’s public schools. The agreement allows a return to classrooms once the city reaches red tier, the second most restrictive level of California’s reopening blueprint, if vaccinations against the coronavirus are made available to school staff. If the city progresses to the orange tier, a less restrictive category with “moderate” virus spread, teachers