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Annual poster day highlights internships and field experience of students in three SPH departments.

October 12, 2009, release from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--Approximately 150 second-year master's-degree students from the University of Michigan School of Public Health shared photos and findings from their summer internships and field experiences at an afternoon poster session on October 9, 2009. Three of the school's five academic departments hosted the event throughout the first and second floors of UM SPH's Crossroads building. Students, faculty, and members of the public sipped punch, browsed the aisles of posters, and discussed the fieldwork carried out in far corners of the globe, as well as rural and urban areas throughout Michigan and the United States.

"It was great to see the wide variety of field experiences that the students had, and the discussions and ideas that could be overheard all afternoon were fun and inspiring," said Sue Crawford, Student Administrative Coordinator in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences. EHS presented poster awards to 4 students in the department, including:

• FIRST PLACE: Robert Kelly, Reduction of Asthma Symptoms and Medical Care Visits for Children of Low to Moderate Income Families
• SECOND PLACE (TIE): Blaire Jarvie, The University of Michigan Adult Bariatric Surgery Program AND Nicole Piazza, Food Gatherers: One Carrot Goes a Long Way
• STUDENT CHOICE AWARD: Laura Maurer, 3-Nitropropionic Acid Induces Mitochondrial Flickering in DI-TNC1 Cells

The Department of Epidemiology (with chair Sharon Kardia pictured above, at right) also awarded prizes to three students:

• FIRST PLACE: Ashley Strahley, An Exploratory Study of Male Breast Cancer Incidence & Etiology in Egypt
• SECOND PLACE: Catherine Herzog, Hematopoietic Cancers in Gharbiah Province, Egypt
• THIRD PLACE: Kevin Loh, Prevalence and Correlates of Handgun Access Among Adolescents Seeking Care in an Urban Emergency Department

Also participating at the event was the UM SPH Department of Health Behavior and Health Education (see pictures at right). Also, watch short videos of HBHE students Rachel Oostendorp, Carrie Rheingans, Manuela Sifuentes, and Valentina Stackl discussing their internships (and other global health experiences) at the UM Spanish portal.

Contact: Mary Beth Lewis, Office of Communications
Phone: (734) 615-2279
E-mail: lewismb@umich.edu