MARSHA A. VOELKER, CDA, RDH, MS, associate professor at the School of Dentistry, was elected president of Sigma Phi Alpha, the national dental hygiene honor society. Voelker joined UMKC in 2007. She also is junior clinic coordinator in the Division of Dental Hygiene. Her areas of expertise and interests are dental biomaterials, motivational interviewing and use of various classroom technologies, dental hygiene instruction and forensic dentistry.