Sunday Akintoye, an associate professor in Penn’s School of Dental Medicine, was selected as a Fulbright Scholar. The award will enable him to spend several months of the 2015-2016 academic year in Nigeria, his native country, teaching and mentoring students and young faculty members.

Dr. Akintoye will help to update the dental school curriculum at the University of Lagos to incorporate more instruction in how to conduct research. He will serve as an advisor to the senior students as they embark on thesis projects, and will teach a course on research methodologies.

He has also developed a research project that will be feasible to carry out with the equipment available to the students in Lagos. The investigation will look at the issue of how aging-related changes manifest in teeth, specifically examining changes in key molecular markers in dental pulp.