Passion and Hope
Name: Stephanie Moody-Geissler, M.P.H. Position: Teaching Assistant in Public Health Program: Public Health & Environment, Kenya I was so excited when I was offered a teaching position with The School for Field Studies (SFS) for their Field Practicum in Public Health & Environment in Kimana, Kenya. As a newly minted Epidemiologist, I am enthusiastic to [...]
Truly Engaging
Name: Kristen McReath School: University of Wisconsin/Madison Program: Public Health & Environment, Kenya Being in Maasailand has been enchanting, with the baboons and vervet monkeys swinging in the nearby acacia trees and the bats pooping on us students at night. It’s always a thrill to watch for snakes, such as the red spitting cobra, and [...]
Van Otterloo Family Foundation underwrites Kenyan Students in Public Health Program
Thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Van Otterloo Family Foundation, newly appointed SFS President Dr. Jim Cramer invites five Kenyan college students to join SFS pilot summer session, Public Health and Environment, in Kimana, Kenya. The School for Field Studies was recently awarded $25,000 by the Van Otterloo Family Foundation for scholarship aid to [...]
Health Care System in Action
Submitted by Jackie Murphy, Boston University graduate Public Health program, Kenya Summer I On Saturday in early June, disorganized games of pickup soccer, finger puppets and sing-alongs filled the neighborhood school yard. Instead of the typical young students, however, this time SFS students could be found playing with children of all ages, who had come [...]
Alumni Profile: Becky Halvorsen
Becky Halvorsen, SFS East Africa Fall ’10, has a thrilling story about camping in the Serengeti: “One of the night guards, named Askari Bora, spoke hardly any English but he made fantastic animal noises,” she said. “He did a particularly awesome hyena impression. ‘Fisi hehehehehehe, Askari Bora BAM BAM BAM,’ he would say, while pantomiming [...]
Join SFS for a Tanzania Safari Spring 2012
I am thrilled to be organizing a special safari to Tanzania (March 10-22, 2012) for interested members of the SFS family! By Dr. Priscilla Deck I went to Tanzania for the first time last January. I was attending the annual Center Directors meeting at The SFS Center for Wildlife Management Studies with other SFS staff [...]
