Endowed support fund converted to endowed professorship

The Dr. Thomas W. Jones Endowed Professorship was created in the School of Dentistry.

The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees approved the conversion and renaming of the Dr. Thomas W. Jones Endowed Support Fund in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery as an endowed professorship during its meeting on Nov. 2, 2012. Jones was the first admitted resident and first graduate of the School of Dentistry’s Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residency program.