OSCAR Brightens the Christmas of Others

The faculty and staff of DSU’s Optical Science Center for Applied Research recently refocused their efforts from scientific inquiry to making Christmas nice for some folks that needed someone to remember them.

The OSCAR folks and other DSU individuals filled 10 Christmas bags with items such soap, lotion, socks, sweat clothes and other things that people need, to go to 10 patients at the Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill.

“These are folks that either have no family or no family that visits them,” said Debbie Roussell, OSCAR administrative assistant. “It was a pleasure for us to be able to help those who would otherwise have been forgotten this holiday season.”

She added that the OSCAR faculty and staff are already looking forward to next Christmas 2017, when they will set a goal of filling 20 bags for 20 patients.

Missing from the above photo are Dr. Melissa Harrington, Dr. Qi Lu, Rasheem Frasier, Dr. Hacene Boukari, Dr. Thomas Planchon, Dr. Gour S. Pati, Dr. Deborah Santamore.