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Each semester, Gloria Friedgen, SPH’s graduate coordinator, works hard to put together our newsletter, which is coming out this week. The Healthy Turtle got an early peek at it, and this semester’s newsletter is chock-full of fun things. Among them:

* Glimpses back at our renovations progress;
* The Madieu Williams Center for Global Health Initiatives press conference;
* A notice about the spring’s Maryland Day;
* Information about the new student group, PHEAR;
* A piece on Dr. Rima Rudd’s visit to the Herschel S. Horowitz Health Literacy Center;
* And updates from Dean Gold and all of the department chairs.

One of The Healthy Turtle’s favorite features though, is the page of new faces at SPH. Each new faculty and staff member answered a whole bunch of fun questions about their hobbies, families and favorites. The only downside about the page is that each individual gave about 20 really interesting answers, and there was room enough for only two or three responses. So we are going to publish some of their interviews in their entirety on the blog.

So first up is Linda Vause, the new Faculty Research Assistant for Stress, Health and Addiction Research Program. She can be found in the Department of Public and Community Health. Here’s a bit about her:

Most recent job before UMD SPH: I wrote curriculum for an education management company in Tysons Corner. We designed and developed youth leadership programs…I retired from the Montgomery County Public School System after working many years as a school library media specialist and technology instructional specialist.
Education: BS, MLS University of Maryland….Go Terps!!
Your Public Health message for the World: There is no reason why people in our country, with its abundant resources, should be hungry. Proper nutrition is a key factor in promoting healthy, physical, social and intellectual growth.
Favorite part about being a part of UMD SPH: Being back on campus, rooting for the Terps and seeing how much has, and has not, changed since I was a student.
Hobbies: I enjoy golfing when the weather cooperates and I love art, both as a designer and as an appreciator.
Most exciting place you have visited/lived: Two places stand out, and they were both at the summit of mountains: Victoria Peak in Hong Kong and Ptarmigan Pass in the Rockies. Guess I like heights.
Favorite color: green
Food(s) you’d have a hard time living without: chocolate
Perfect weekend: Sightseeing with my husband, either locally or a bit farther away.
Something you’re good at: Organizing, although much of it is in my head.
Favorite season: Fall
Proudest of: Raising three wonderful children who tolerate my humor and love to come home for some good cooking.
Role model: Rosa Parks. I wish I could have met her. I admire her bravery and that she was part of the solution and didn’t sit back, watching. In the past, I wish I had been more assertive when the opportunity was there.
Goals: To embrace learning new things whenever I can. I also want to be more physically fit. I imagine that being a part of SPH will facilitate that!

Welcome to SPH! If you’d like to reach Linda, you can e-mail here at lvause@umd.edu.

Keep your eyes open for the newsletter coming out this week. In the meantime, take a look back at last semester’s.

Welcome back. We here at the School of Public Health hope you all had a fantastic holiday break.

Two brand new organizations here at SPH have been busy, helping to make the season brighter for some friends in Seat Pleasant. The University of Maryland Prevention Research Center and the Public Health Engaging and Representing student organization (PHEAR) organized drives to collect goodies to take to families in our neighboring community.

For several weeks, students and faculty members dropped off canned goods and warm clothing in bins around campus. A graduate student working with UMD-PRC says there was a great response from the campus.

There was even an honors student living off-campus who decided to set up her own collection box for the drive. Read on to see what else UMD-PRC graduate assistant, Tanisha Fuller, had to say about the drives and the upcoming Mayor’s Clothing Giveaway, scheduled for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Dec. 5th at the City of Seat Pleasant Town Hall.

Healthy Turtle: A first-time event for two up-and-coming organizations. How did it go?
Tanisha Fuller: I am very pleased with the results of both drives. The generosity of individuals from the School of Public Health is amazing and the drives did much better than what I had expected. I even received donations from an honor student from the University of Maryland who lives in Dorchester; she saw the e-mail and decided to create her own collection bin!

HT: UMD-PRC joined forces with another new group, PHEAR. How did that collaboration work, and will we see more of it?
TF: The working relationship between UMD-PRC and the PHEAR Student Organization was a good one. While the UMD-PRC focused more on communicating with the community and tallying the donations collected, PHEAR focused more on advertising about the drives; the honor student who collected donations on her own was made aware of the drives via an e-mail sent out by one of PHEAR’s officers. The working relationship was a good one and I do foresee the UMD-PRC and PHEAR working together on projects in the future.

HT: What exactly happened with the goodies once they left the bins?
TF: I am working directly with the City of Seat Pleasant Mayor’s Office to distribute collected articles of clothing to the community. I have already begun delivering canned foods to churches located in the Seat Pleasant community, as a gesture to thank the churches for allowing the UMD-PRC and the City of Seat Pleasant Mayor’s Office to place promotional flyers advertising the giveaway in their Sunday bulletins. I will be going out this Saturday to give out the canned foods that were collected this past week while asking the churches if I may once again place flyers advertising the Mayor’s Clothing Giveaway in their Sunday bulletins.