Viterbo Rec Sports is holding a “Boost Your Wellbeing” employee wellness challenge Monday, March 23–Sunday, April 17.

Each week will have a different focus/intention focusing on a different dimension of wellness. The purpose of this challenge is to help participants discover new avenues of health and how to better “level-up/boost” their health habits so that they may live out a strong and healthy lifestyle. 

Tasks will vary each week with the general goal to be intentional behavioral awareness. Engagement in the Facebook group is encouraged to connect with other ideas and discoveries of self and accountability.

Register at the Mathy Center front desk. The cost of the challenge is $5. Participants are eligible to win prizes each week, with the opportunity to win one grand prize at the end of the challenge worth $75.

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By Sue Danielson, health services

The spread of coronavirus, now called COVID-19, is continuing to occur globally. As of Feb. 27, there were 82,294 confirmed cases and 2,804 deaths around the world. China accounts for 78,630 of the cases and 2,747 deaths. The U.S. currently has 14 confirmed cases, plus 45 cases of people who have been repatriated back to the U.S. from Wuhan, China, and from aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship. Recently, Italy, Iran, South Korea, and Japan have increased their alert levels due to increases in cases of COVID-19 in these countries.  

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) continue to closely monitor the situation both in the U.S. and abroad. Currently the risk for COVID-19 in the U.S. remains low. There are indications that person-to-person spread is occurring, most likely between close contacts. At this time, this virus is not currently spreading in the community in the U.S.

The Viterbo University D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership’s spring lecture series will continue at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, as actor and historian Joe Wiegand presents “An Evening with Teddy Roosevelt” in the Fine Arts Center Main Theatre.

Wiegand is considered the world’s premier Theodore Roosevelt repriser, and his portrayals of Roosevelt in live performance, on television, and in film are amazing. Wiegand has been featured as President Roosevelt in The Men Who Built America on the History Channel, served as the model for the newest Roosevelt sculpture at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and has a feature role in National Parks Adventure, a film about U.S. national parks still showing in IMAX theaters throughout the country. He has also performed at the White House. He has been named a Wilkins Scholar, a Harry S. Truman Scholar, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellow.

This is one in a series of student profiles to be featured in Connections. The profiles are part of a project to articulate the Viterbo difference through storytelling.

Wednesday, Feb. 26

7:15 a.m. Ash Wednesday Mass and Distribution of Ashes – San Damiano Chapel

12:15 p.m. Ash Wednesday Mass and Distribution of Ashes – San Damiano Chapel. Classes are cancelled from 12:20–1:15 p.m.

1–2 p.m. APA Walk-in Hours – Academic Resource Center, Murphy Center 332

by Mary Rieder

During the recent Celebration of Teaching and Learning, library and instructional support services staff showed off the wide array of equipment available for faculty and students to check out from the library in our tech petting zoo. The library has laptops, video cameras, audio recorders, headphones, projectors, iPads, and other equipment available for 24-hour checkout to students and employees. 

Here’s a brief list of what we have: