Ponca City, Oklahoma – where my aunt and uncle currently live – was founded during the land runs of the 1890s and developed rapidly with the influx of oil boom money in the decades that followed.

In fond memory of our good friend and colleague, I’m posting¬†the faked pulp mystery book cover I created several years ago. I initially did this as a quick way to tease the venerable professor about his recently unveiled, and¬†somewhat melodramatic, official department portrait (included after the jump).
I had this vision of him as a sort of Cinema Noir public health detective (a la Sydney Greenstreet). Dr Berg was so tickled by the whole thing I ended up giving him a framed copy and several duplicates for family and friends.

I developed this site as the public portal for the MATRICHS (Multidisciplinary Analytic Training for Reproductive, Infant, and Child Health Services) web-based training program (summarized here). While the course modules themselves reside on the University of Rochester’s Blackboard‚Ñ¢ system, this site provides a public link into the course, program information, and online registration forms for applicant teams.

This is a poster I created to photographically summarize the activities of the University of Rochester’s Division of Public Health Practice for 2002. While I was quite pleased with the final product, the loss of the original source files for this project was a tragic first lesson in proper backup planning.