{"id":56612,"date":"2012-03-16T13:50:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T17:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=56612"},"modified":"2014-01-17T08:31:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T13:31:30","slug":"green-theme-to-health-safety-environment-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/03\/green-theme-to-health-safety-environment-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Theme to Health, Safety, Environment Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[flickr-gallery id=&#8221;72157629599348797&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Health, Safety and Environment Fair, held the day before St. Patrick\u2019s Day, had a green theme, highlighted by collections of recyclable material and an option to switch to a residential electricity provider that uses renewable energy sources.<\/p>\n<p>Held in the UConn Health Center\u2019s Food Court, the fair also included blood pressure and cholesterol screenings, information about the state\u2019s Health Enhancement Program, a chance to sign up or recommit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/employees.uchc.edu\/engagement\/justmove.html\">Just Move<\/a> fitness program, vendors, raffle prizes, a Jeopardy challenge game, a cat food drive, and new this year, a Bioscience Connecticut booth with an employee quiz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uconndocs.uchc.edu\/Home\/Physician?profileId=Skolnik-Paul\">Dr. Paul Skolnik<\/a>, Department of Medicine chair, and <a href=\"http:\/\/uconndocs.uchc.edu\/Home\/Physician?profileId=McFadden-David\">Dr. David McFadden<\/a>, Department of Surgery chair, hosted this year\u2019s opening ceremonies. Both are new to the Health Center since last year\u2019s fair.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pull-left\">\n<p><strong>Bioscience Connecticut Employee Questionnaire Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>True or false \u2013 Bioscience Connecticut will impact all three parts of the Health Center\u2019s mission (education, research, clinical care)?<br \/>\n<strong>True<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Where will the new hospital tower be located?<br \/>\n<strong>Next to the existing hospital tower<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><\/strong>Under Bioscience Connecticut, student enrollment in the Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine will increase by what percentage?<br \/>\n<strong>30%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Where will the new Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine be located?<br \/>\n<strong>On the site of the lower campus research complex, near Dowling South<\/strong><\/li>\n<li> Have you visited the Bioscience Connecticut website: biosciencect.uchc.edu ?<br \/>\n<strong>Yes<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/biosciencect.uchc.edu\/\">click here to make sure<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Follow\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchc.edu\">UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uconnhealthcenter\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uconnhealth\">Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/uconnhealth\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recycling and renewable energy helped make for an event fitting of a fair held on the eve of St. Patrick\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":56634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[57,2010],"class_list":["post-56612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 05:19:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56612"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88499,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56612\/revisions\/88499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/56634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56612"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=56612"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=56612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}