image image Harvard Public Health NOW
image

Search Archives
image
September 5, 2003
Getting to Know HSPH: Tips for New Students

1. If you have questions about student services, contact Stan Hudson, shudson@hsph.harvard.edu, 617-432-4703, or the contacts below at these various student services offices:

Admissions: Vincent James, admisofc@hsph.harvard.edu, 617.432.1031

Alumni Affairs: Margaret Loret, mloret@hsph.harvard.edu, 617-432-2401

Career Services: Peter Crudele, peterc@hsph.harvard.edu, 617-432-1034

Registrar: Joann Wilson-Singleton, registra@hsph.harvard.edu,

617-432-1032

Student Affairs: Jim Glover, jglover@hsph.harvard.edu, 617-432-1036

Student Financial Services: Kathy Austin, osfs@hsph.harvard.edu, 617-432-1867

2. There are numerous student organizations at HSPH. Check your student handbooks for more information.

3. Visit the school’s web site at www.hsph.harvard.edu for the latest news about HSPH research and other items. Check Calendar at www.hsph.harvard.edu/calendar to see what events are going on at the school.

4. Kresge G-1 is Snyder Auditorium.

5. You can access HSPH’s wireless network from many locations on campus. For more information, visit www.hsph.harvard.edu/it/wireless.html.

6. The student lounge is in the FXB Building atrium above the Security Desk. To get there, take the steps next to the elevators in FXB to the second floor.

7. If you’re not feeling well, visit University Health Services (UHS). Doctors and nurses are available at Vanderbilt Hall, 275 Longwood Ave., (617-432-1370; M and Th, 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Tu, W, and F, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) and Holyoke Center, Harvard Square, 3rd Floor (617-495-8414, Mondays to Fridays, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.). For after-hours, urgent care, go to Holyoke Center, Harvard Square, 5th Floor on nights, weekends and holidays (617-495-5711). In life-threatening situations, call 911 (9-911 from a campus phone).

8. If you have an emotional problem or are concerned about a friend, call the Mental Health Service (617-495-2042; M, F, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; T, W, and Th, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.) or 617-495-5711 at night and on weekends and holidays.

9. To find out if the school is closed in bad weather or due to other circumstances, call 617-432-NEWS.

10. Free MASCO buses shuttle students between Harvard Square and Vanderbilt Hall, 107 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Monday through Saturday. Just show your ID card to board. Visit www.masco.org/transit/ptsM2.htm for the schedule.

11. The Longwood Area police are stationed at 180 Longwood Avenue. Urgent calls can be made to 617-432-1212. Campus Security can be reached at 617-432-1379. Register your bike and laptop with the Harvard University Police Department to help protect against theft. For more information, visit www.hupd.harvard.edu.

12. There is a postage machine next to the vending machines near Sebastian’s Café. The post office is at 1575 Tremont Street.

13. Visit www.cash.harvard.edu to sign up for "Crimson Cash" and debit food, laundry and copy machine costs from your account.

14. This is the fire drill procedure: one set of alarms, accompanied by blinking lights, goes off throughout the building. An automated voice announces there is an emergency. Listen for a second set of alarms–different from the first–that alerts people to leave specific floors that need evacuation. If you don’t hear the second announcement, you don’t need to leave, unless you feel uncomfortable staying.



Harvard Public Health NOW is published biweekly by the
Office of Communications
Harvard School of Public Health
665 Huntington Ave., SPH 1-1312
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
617-432-6052
Editor and Layout: Christina Roache
Contributing Writer: Mark Dwortzan
Calendar Editor: Melitta King
Photos Credits: Richard Chase, Suzanne Camarata, Graham Ramsay, Christina Roache


Archived Issues || HSPH Home

Copyright, 2007,  President and Fellows of Harvard College

Much Left to Learn about West Nile Virus Four Years after First Appearance in U.S. Around the School Defense Cartoon: Energy Crisis Solution? Annual Mission Hill Walk for Health to Raise Funds for Local Youth Programs Calendar Archived Issues Office of Communications Former Public Health Commissioner Begins as Head of Division of Public Health Practice New Department: Health across Life Span to Be Explored New Department: Health across Life Span to Be Explored