Notes - 4/25/08

This week we marked Administrative Professionals Week.  I thought this was a holiday created by Hallmark to sell cards.  However, searching the web I found it was organized in 1952 as National Secretaries Week by the National Secretaries Association.  In 2000 the renamed International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP) changed the name to Administrative Professionals Week.

No matter what the name, this event is a reminder of the importance of the support and work that gets done behind the scenes.  We are fortunate to have a dedicated group of administrators that play a large but frequently unrecognized role in the success of our Department.  With limited resources and increasing demands they find a way to get things done and shield our faculty and researchers from all but the essential administrative tasks.   A heartfelt thanks to all of our Department administrative staff and the HSPH administrative staff who support us.    And a very special thanks to Jean Economos, Cheryl Magoveny and Linda Fox our Program Administrators and Ken Wenger our Department Administrator for leading our administrative efforts.  

Thanks to all of you we are a very productive and successful department making a very real and meaningful contribution to promoting Environmental Health.

By the way, Linda Fox celebrates her 39th anniversary at Harvard on May 19, 2008 - congratulations Linda!!

Have a great weekend!

Doug

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Update on this year's prize winners for Poster and Exhibit Day.  Congratulations again to Sonny Nguyen who received one of the two prizes for best poster by a Post-Doc.  Also congratulations to Marleen Welsh and Yen-Tsung Huang who each received awards for the two best posters by a Student.  Congratulations also to their faculty advisors – Heather Nelson, David Christiani, and Les Kobzik.

Student winners:
Marleen M Welsh, Karagas MR, Applebaum KM, Nelson HH  CTLA4 haplotypes, UV-induced tolerance, and risk of nonmelanoma skin cancer

Yen-Tsung Huang, Rebecca S. Heist, Lucian R. Chirieac, Xihong Lin, Vidar Skaug, Aage Haugen, Michael C. Wu, Zhaoxi Wang, Li Su, Kofi Asomaning, and David C. Christiani Genome-wide analysis of survival in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer

Postdoc winners:
Phuong-Son Nguyen; Alexey Fedulov; and Lester Kobzik  Maternal asthma causes epigenetic changes of IL4 and IFN-g promoters in asthma-susceptible T cells


Please join us on Thursday at 3:00 before the EH Colloquium to congratulate Russ Hauser on his promotion to Professor.  We will have cake and punch in the “Tea Room” outside the Department Office on the 13th floor.