Halloween fun—and more
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health community members got into the Halloween spirit this fall with costumes and sweet treats.
Members of the Department of Molecular Metabolism (MET) have a longstanding tradition of dressing up for Halloween—they’ve been doing it since 2003, according to Tom Kelleher, faculty and department coordinator for the Department of Molecular Metabolism. This year, members of the Hotamışlıgil Lab outfitted themselves as characters from The Odyssey—a metaphor for the challenges that a researchers faces in scientific discovery and in getting published, Kelleher said.
As for the Manning Lab—which focuses on the role of the PI3K-mTOR signaling network in the control of cellular and systemic metabolism—their outfits were a take on “TerMinaTOR,” Kelleher said. Lab director and MET chair Brendan Manning dressed as the “Terminator” and lab members as various AI, aiming to convey the idea that AI is trying to take over the world.
Meanwhile, the Department of Environmental Health held a festive bake-off.
And in the Department of Epidemiology, members didn’t costume themselves—they costumed their pets instead.
