Northwestern University Dental School

In 1893, it moved into the new Medical School buildings on South Dearborn and East 24th Streets in Chicago.

In 1895, Northwestern University bought the American College of Dental Surgery and merged the two schools into one.

Arthur Black was instrumental in organizing the World Dental Congress along with the Century of Progress Fair in Chicago in 1933.

In addition, he promoted the foreign student program, and established the Cleft Palate Institute involving the dental, medical, and speech schools.

Olsen retired in 1995 and the next dean was Michael Heuer who in December 1997 announced the closing of the Dental School as dictated by the university board of trustees and president.