Visit Emory 2012: Job Well Done
Last week's Visit Emory at Rollins was phenomenal, and the accolades for our facuty, staff, and students continue to roll in.
So much so, we decided to devote this issue to what has become our largest recruiting event. Visit Emory was a community effort. Visit Emory Recap
On March 22-23, RSPH hosted its annual Visit Emory event for newly admitted students. This program provides prospective students with in-depth information about the academic environment at Rollins and the opportunity to fully immerse themselves in the student life experience.
At the Visit Emory Research and Opportunities Fair at RSPH, approximately 40 research projects and co-curricular engagement opportunities were exhibited, offering visiting students a close-up view of the ingenuity behind our community’s research and contributions to the field of public health. The RSPH research portfolio has the potential to save lives, benefit communities, empower individuals, and directly impact the practice of public health. Research is one of the principal missions of RSPH involving faculty and students alike. Visiting students had the opportunity to explore and discuss a myriad of research projects and co-curricular programs that included health risks from environmental exposures, infectious disease control, health disparities, substance abuse, and community development and engagement.
The Visiting Student Perspective
Visit Emory participants were so motivated by their experience that they shared their impressions of RSPH in an online message board. Here is what they had to say: Visit Emory Sealed the Deal Felt at Home "Transitioning from a professional environment back to academia is slightly intimidating, but I felt more at ease after going to the visit day. I definitely felt that the faculty took the time to get to know prospective students, and I really appreciated it. As I was walking to one of the events, the associate dean and the admissions director recognized my face from the October open house and went out of their way to say hello and welcome me. So the friendly vibe doesn't seem fake or ingenuous at all because I literally ran into them out of the blue." |
Feeling that Rollins beat |
On the first day of Visit Emory, a group of students and staff surprised admitted students with a flash mob performance.
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