PURPOSE
The ICD Dental Student Scholarship Program offers annual scholarships to dental students. This program demonstrates concern about the high cost of dental education and its negative impact on the career choices of graduating dentists by doing as much as possible for individual students and raising awareness of the serious issue of dental school student debt. International students are eligible.
2026 application deadline is April 30, 2026
NEWS
- February 24, 2026: The program, now called “ICD Dental Student Scholarship Program,” is accepting applications for 2026
- September 9, 2025: Meet the 18 student recipients of the 2025 ICD-WUDAA Scholarship
- February, 20 2025: The program is now accepting applications for 2025
- September 16, 2024: Meet the 14 student recipients of the 2024 ICD-WUDAA Scholarship
- August 29, 2023: Meet the student recipients of the 2023 ICD-WUDAA Scholarship
- August 1, 2022: Six students receive the 2022 ICD-WUDAA Scholarship
- August 12, 2021: Meet the Five ICD-WUDAA Scholarship Program recipients of 2021
- July, 20 2020 – ICD-WUDAA Program Selects Four Scholarship Recipients
- October 8, 2019 – Three Dental Students Receive Inaugural Scholarships
- November 26, 2018 – ICD-WUDAA Scholarship Program officially launches during 2018 Council Meeting in New York
- September 24, 2018 – $100,000 Dental Student Scholarship Program Approved
MEET OUR 2025 RECIPIENTS
(Left to right) Gabriella Ward, Travis Truong, John Button, Bushra Tahir Khan, Catie Pentlarge, Ayato Shigihara, Jiahe He, Jaclyn Montag, Katherine Vo, Max Meekin, Akosua Afriyie, Ethan Nettler, Antonio Cardoso, Katelyn Whitlatch, Brendan Tuholski, Holly Becker, Rebecca Odeh, Grace Martin.
COLLABORATION
- The International College of Dentists (ICD) and Global Visionary Fund (GVF)
Administers and manages the scholarship program and funds, as well as funds two scholarships per year. - The ICD Section I USA Foundation
processes the screening of candidates and final selection of student grant recipients, and funds multiple scholarships per year. - The Washington University, St. Louis Dental Alumni Association (WUDAA)
provides advisory support and contributes two scholarships per year. - Thank you to the Leon Aronson Endowment Fund, which contributed one scholarship per year to this program from 2021-2024.
GETTING SUPPORT FOR YOUR APPLICATION
Nominations and letters of endorsement on behalf of student applicants may be submitted by ICD Fellows, Washington University dental alumnus or dental school faculty members. Candidates shall demonstrate financial need and be in good standing at a USA dental school approved by ADA/CODA.