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Scenes from Orientation 2016.

September 9, 2016
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  • 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.

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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.

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