Wechsler Receives APHA Award

Henry Wechsler, lecturer on social psychology in the Department of Health and Social Behavior, has received the 2001 College-Based Leadership Award, given by the American Public Health Association (APHA). The award, in its second year, recognizes an individual who has demonstrated outstanding efforts in a college-based campaign to reduce alcohol, tobacco or other drug use among college-age students. Wechsler is director of the College Alcohol Studies Program at HSPH. The award was announced in Atlanta on October 23 during the 129th APHA Annual Meeting and Exhibition.

Carsons Make Gift for Scholarships

Russ and Judy Carson, longstanding friends of the School, recently made a lead gift of $1 million to the Dean’s Scholarship Challenge Fund. The newly established Scholarship Challenge Fund allows HSPH to continue to attract and train the best students from around the world by increasing student financial aid. The Carsons’ gift–one of only two gifts of this size made for scholarship support in the history of HSPH–will bolster scholarship funding for students throughout the school.

The Carsons are committed to scholarship support. In 1994, they established the Carson Family Scholarship Fund, which provides financial aid for students in the Department of Health Policy and Management.

Mr. Carson is a founding partner of Welsh, Carson, Anderson, & Stowe, one of the nation’s largest investment firms specializing in the purchase of privately owned companies in the information services and health care industries. Mrs. Carson is the founder and executive director of Learning to Look, a program that teaches art appreciation to inner-city children.

Move to Landmark Building Completed

The Environmental Science and Engineering group and Environmental Epidemiology group in the Department of Environmental Health, as well as the Department of Health and Social Behavior, have moved to new offices on the fourth floor of the Landmark Building on Park Drive.

New phone numbers have been issued, and callers to old numbers will be told the new number and connected. The prefix for the building is "384."

Interoffice mail will be delivered to the building twice a day and should be addressed to Landmark Building with the office number indicated.