Meet Denise Elwart
20 Questions
Denise Elwart
Department Manager, Comparative Pathobiology
- How do you start your day?
Walking my two dogs, Zoe and Ozzie, and drinking coffee (after walking).
- What is on your bucket list?
More travel to Europe.
- What three words best describe you?
Adaptable, determined, and dependable.
- If you could time travel, what year(s) would you visit?
2100 – I want to see how things have changed at the turn of the next century.
- What is your hidden talent?
I can move my pinkie toes by themselves.
- What book, movie, podcast, show would you recommend?
Podcasts: Disney Dish with Jim Hill and The Plot Thickens with TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz.
- What is your dream vacation?
Disneyland and Disney World are my happy places. Also love the Disney Cruise line.
- What or who has had the greatest impact on you?
My spouse, Linda. She has been very supportive in my career development, and is the reason I came to Tufts (so thank her or curse her…).
- What’s the best advice you ever received?
Volunteer for projects – you never know what skills you will learn and where it could lead.
- What is your least favorite word or phrase?
It’s not my job.
- What is your favorite junk food?
Cookies.
- What is your theme song?
On the Road Again by Willie Nelson.
- Dog or cat or ??
Dog.
- Who would play you in a movie?
Abby McEnany.
- What is your favorite season of the year?
Fall.
- What is your favorite color?
Spartan Green.
- Early bird or night owl?
Night owl.
- What is your biggest pet peeve?
When people don’t pick up after their dogs.
- What is your favorite type of surprise?
Cards or letters from family and friends.
- What or who makes you smile?
Dogs and coffee.