Timeline
1950s
| 1958 | Department of Stomatology is established to provide post-doctoral education in dentistry. |
1960s
| 1963-1964 | Boston University School of Graduate Dentistry is established and Henry Goldman is appointed its founding dean. |
| 1967 | Construction of the 100 East Newton Street building begins. |
| 1969-1970 | Principal clinical teaching activities are transferred to the new East Newton Street facility. |
1970s
| 1972 | Building on the strong foundations of post-doctoral education, a pre-doctoral program is launched. |
| 1975 | School transfers its teaching, clinical, and research activities to the newly completed seven-story building on East Newton Street. |
| 1975 | School graduates its first DMD class and Spencer Frankl is appointed dean designate by Boston University’s Board of Trustees. |
| 1977 | Henry M. Goldman, DMD, retires as dean; Spencer N. Frankl, DDS, MSD, assumes position. |
| 1978 | School is renamed the Henry M. Goldman School of Graduate Dentistry by the Trustees of Boston University. |
| 1979 | School of Graduate Dentistry and College of Liberal Arts initiate a combined BA and DMD curriculum. |
| 1979 | Department of Oral Biology formed and Dr. Morris Ruben is named its first chair. |
| 1979 | Booth Ambulatory Surgical Unit, which provides outpatient surgical care, is established. |
| 1979 | The post-doctoral and graduate degree programs are reorganized. |
| 1979 | The extramural program is established for the DMD curriculum. |
1980s
| 1980 | Dental Health Plan for University student body implemented. With its many partnerships in the community, the School continues to branch out beyond the confines of its four walls. This program initiates the “school without walls” concept and the vision of strategic partnering. |
| 1980 | The School’s Board of Visitors is formed. |
| 1981 | The prevention center and the dental plan for college students are expanded to include area schools and colleges. |
| 1981 | Dr. Dan Nathanson joins the faculty as the first chair of the new Department of Biomaterials. |
| 1983 | Department of Dental Public Health becomes the Department of Dental Care Management. |
| 1984 | The School is award a Pew National Dental Education Program Grant. |
| 1984 | The School’s first strategic planning process is initiated by Dean Spencer Frankl to address the future mission of the School. As an initial step, the Division of Dental Research is established with Dr. Carl Franzblau as director. |
| 1984 | The Geriatric Dentistry Division is established in the Department of Dental Care Management. |
| 1987 | The Career Resource Center and the Dental Placement Program are introduced. |
| 1988 | The School celebrates its 25th anniversary. |
| 1988 | Department of Diagnostic Sciences and Patient Services formed, comprising the Division of Oral Diagnosis and Radiology, the Division of Oral Pathology, and the Division of Patient Services. Dr. Thomas Kilgore is appointed its first chair. |
| 1988 | Department of Periodontology and Department of Oral Biology combined as the Department of Periodontology and Oral Biology and Dr. Frank Oppenheim is appointed its first chair. |
| 1989 | The APEX (Applied Professional Experience) program, which offers an experiential component to the DMD curriculum, is implemented. |
| 1989 | The School establishes the Boston University Dental Health Plan for University employees. |
1990s
| 1990 | The Implantology Center is formed under the direction of Dr. Zhimon Jacobson. |
| 1990 | Dr. Herbert Schilder is elected first vice president of the American Dental Association and Dr. Anthony Gianelly receives the Stang Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Orthodontics. |
| 1991 | The Dental Health Center at 930 Commonwealth Ave. is opened. |
| 1991 | Henry M. Goldman, the School’s founding dean, dies. |
| 1992 | The First International Symposium in Implantology is held. |
| 1992 | The School joins Boston University’s School of Management and School of Education in the Chelsea School Partnership. |
| 1992 | Major facility changes continue, including a reconfiguration and expansion of the pre-doctoral clinic space. |
| 1993 | A Post-doctoral Strategic Planning Committee is formed to evaluate, analyze, and recommend changes in post-doctoral programming in light of projected changes in dental education, research, and practice. |
| 1993 | The Division of Oral Biology moves into its new and expanded laboratory space in the Center for Advanced Biomedical Research. |
| 1993 | The Special Athletes, Special Smiles program is created to provide dental care to participants in the Special Olympics and joins Special Olympics International. |
| 1994 | The EXCEL program, a voluntary one-month prematriculation program, is implemented. |
| 1994 | The Office of Educational Research and Evaluation is established and Dr. Deborah Fournier is appointed its first director. |
| 1994 | The Department of Pediatric Dentistry initiates a joint program with the Pediatric HIV Center at Boston City Hospital. |
| 1994 | The Office of Information Technology is established. |
| 1995 | A clinical computer and information system is implemented. |
| 1995 | The Departments of Prosthodontics and Operative Dentistry are combined to form the Department of Restorative Sciences. |
| 1996 | The School is renamed the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine by the Trustees of Boston University. |
| 1996 | The Department of Health Policy and Health Services Research is created under the chair of Dr. Raul Garcia. |
| 1996 | The Office of Pre-doctoral Admissions and Student Affairs is merged with the Registrar’s Office to form Office of Admissions and Student Affairs. |
| 1996 | Boston City Hospital and Boston University Hospital merge to create the Boston Medical Center. |
| 1996 | The Clinical Research Center is launched under the direction of Dr. Thomas Van Dyke. |
| 1996 | The Learning Organization is implemented. |
| 1997 | The Departments of Restorative Sciences and Biomaterials are merged. |
| 1997 | The Mentoring Program is formally established. |
| 1997 | Research and sponsored programs continue to show major growth and new space is acquired to accommodate this expansion. |
| 1998 | Department of Molecular and Cell Biology is formed with Dr. Carlos Hirschberg its first chair and Dr. Phillips Robbins its senior member. |
| 1998 | First Henry M. Goldman Award for Distinguished Service, honoring a BUGSDM staff member who has shown outstanding dedication to the School’s mission, is awarded to Elizabeth DeSantis Bouhmadouche, registrar. |
| 1998 | New PhD program in oral biology launched. |
| 1999 | New gene discovered by Dr. Salomon Amar, professor in the Department of Periodontology and Oral Biology, and colleagues. The gene is involved in inflammatory diseases such as arthritis and Crohn’s disease. |
2000s
| 2000 | Department of General Dentistry formed. Dr. Judith Jones becomes its first chair in 2002. |
| 2000 | The digital library is launched, with students having the option of receiving textbooks via CD or hard copy. All incoming students are required to have laptop computers. |
| 2000 | Simulation Learning Center opens in Evans Biomedical Research Center. |
| 2002 | School expands to Evans Building with the move of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. |
| 2001 | School receives NIH grant to establish the Center for Research to Evaluate & Eliminate Dental Disparities (CREEDD). |
| 2002 | School receives grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to establish the New England Dental Access Project (NEDAP), which will provide access to dental care to underserved populations and recruit and train minority dentists. |
| 2003 | A new patient treatment center for pre-doctoral students opened on the sixth floor of 100 East Newton Street. |
| 2005 | GSDM is chosen from among 20 competitors to establish a dental school and dental health center in the Emirate of Dubai, where graduate dental education programs, research, and clinical care are overseen by BU faculty. |
| 2008 | Jeffrey W. Hutter, a United States Navy veteran and chair of Endodontics at GSDM, becomes Dean. |
| 2008 | New state of the art Dental Health Center opens at 930 Commonwealth Avenue. |
| 2010 | Electronic dental records and digital radiography are implemented in all patient treatment centers and the Dental Health Center. |
| 2011 | The School completes a year-long applied strategic planning process, which identifies goals for excellence in education, research, and patient care and analyzes space needs, leading to a new master facility plan for the School. |
| 2013 | The School celebrated its 50th Anniversary. |
| 2013 | The pre-doctoral program transitions to Group Practice Model. |
| 2014 | The School becomes the first dental school in the United States to transition into fully integrated digital dentistry. |