Scenes from Orientation 2016.
Orientation begins with campus tours.
Students get to know their new colleagues.
Yvette Cozier, assistant dean for diversity and inclusion, left, and Lisa Sullivan, associate dean for education.
Harold Cox, associate dean for public health practice.
Graduate Student Life staff get a
wave going (a vital skill for life in Boston).
A panel of recent graduates share tips.
Students mingle over a bag lunch.
The first lecture of the year comes from Dean Sandro Galea: Why Public Health?
Students set out for the Practice Plunge and get to know SPH's neighborhood.
One Practice Plunge team visits a nearby playground.
Another team visits a community garden
Another lunch, another opportunity to meet and mingle with new students, continuing students, and faculty and staff.
New students compete in a teamwork expertise, trying to build the tallest structures out of marshmallows.
Lessons learned in the marshmallow activity, and other activities during orientation.
A poster session gave new students (and the rest of our community, including Associate Professor of Global Health James "Wolffy" Wolff) a chance to learn about this summer's practicum projects.
On August 30 and 31, SPH welcomed its new students to campus, with activities to get them thinking about public health on campus, out in the community, and around the world.