Halloween spirit haunts the halls of Health Sciences

Oct. 30, 2023

A laboratory table has larg jars labeled "Zombie Virus" along with a couple of skulls and a manikin head with a mask sitting in a bowl. — The Functional Genomic Core lab on the ground floor of the Thomas W. Keating Bioresearch Building is the scene of a viral zombie outbreak. Keep an eye out for unsecure zombie virus as well as random body parts.

It’s that time of year when the creative, and sometimes macabre, side of your coworkers goes on display around the University of Arizona Health Sciences. Halloween is upon us, so keep your eyes peeled for low-hanging spider webs, bloody handprints and jugs of zombie virus as you head off to your next meeting.

Below are some examples of Halloween spirit you can visit in the next few days before they vanish like a ghost until next year.

Happy Halloween!

A cubicle wall with an image of an iron gate with skeletons trying to get through it.

Hallway with spider webs and other Halloween decorations on the walls and ghosts on a door.

A skeleton sits in an office chair with hands on the computer keyboard and headphones on.

Three orange jars sit on a desk with labels that represent types of poisons.

Little ghosts hang on a string across the front of a reception counter in an office. Spiders and small jack-o-lanters also decorate the area.

Black spider webs and an orange and black string of words say "Happy Halloween" along a cubicle wall.

A full size skeleton and a small mummy in a coffin stand in an entryway to an office.

Halloween decorations create an archway between cubicles in an office. the word "Boo" hangs from the top.

A white rectangle with a face pressing through it hangs on a door along with spiderwebs and small plastic spiders.

A very tall zomby in a black robe stands in a hallway of a lab.

View looking through an open glass office door with a sign that reads, "Witch Parking" with a small witch's broom hanging from it.

The lower part of a pantleg with a bloody foot sticks out from between a wall and piece of furniture.

A skeleton with a pirate bandana on its head sits on a desk with a candy bowl between its legs.

Looking through a closed glass door and sidelight covered with Halloween skeletons and witch's hats.

A wide reception desk with Halloween decorations all around it, including yellow caution tape, little ghosts hanging from the ceiling.

A wooden door with nine photos of the Addams Family with the faces replaced with staff members.

A hand sticks out from between two larg metal tanks with warning labels on them in a lab setting.

The reception desk in the Health Sciences Library is covered with various Halloween decorations.

Looking in through a glass office door at a large tree with hanging leaves and various other enchanted forest decorations.

Door in a hallway covered in orange paper with several ghosts in witch's hats, a spiderweb and bats flying off on the wall to the side.

This torturous cubicle is in the Medical Imaging offices in the basement of the Health Sciences Innovation Building.

The Internal Medicine Residency Program at the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson is the scariest residency in the college.

The new addition to the UArizona College of Medicine – Phoenix office of Faculty Affairs is one of the new “highly skulled” employees on the 9th floor of the Biomedical Sciences Partnership Building.

Visitors to the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center, located on the third floor of the UArizona R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy, can pick their poison while checking out a variety of venomous reptiles and insects.

Administrative offices in the UArizona R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy are decorated for Halloween. The offices are in the Skaggs Pharmaceutical Sciences Center.

There are scary cubicles at every turn in the UArizona College of Nursing’s administrative offices.

A word to the wise, be careful of advice coming from these two members of the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center, located on the third floor of the UArizona R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy.

UArizona College of Medicine – Phoenix office of Faculty Affairs staff, on the 9th floor of the Biomedical Sciences Partnership Building, created a spooky entrance to their haunted cubicles.

An office door in the UArizona Health Sciences Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center might just take your breath away. The center is located in the Arizona Health Sciences Center.

To no one’s surprise, visitors to the Functional Genomic Core lab, on the ground floor of the Thomas W. Keating Bioresearch Building, have stopped asking the new receptionist to validate their parking.

Apparently, some people don’t have to take the stairs or the elevator to get to their offices on the eighth floor of the Health Sciences Innovation Building.

This zombie gave his left foot to check out the Halloween decorations in the Functional Genomic Core lab, on the ground floor of the Thomas W. Keating Bioresearch Building.

Basements are scary enough without this skeleton hanging around guarding the candy bowl in the Medical Imaging offices in the catacombs of the Health Sciences Innovation Building.

A crew of playful skeletons welcome visitors to the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson, Division of Vascular Surgery offices.

The UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson’s Information and Technology team, located inside the Health Sciences Library, have found a way to keep zombies away from the support desk.

The clever team at the UArizona Health Sciences Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center put their staff’s faces into Addams Family photos on this “We are a Family” themed door. The center is located in the Arizona Health Sciences Center.

The staff at the Functional Genomic Core lab, on the ground floor of the Thomas W. Keating Bioresearch Building, are always available to lend a hand to researchers running experiments.

Shhhhhhhh, Halloween has come to the UArizona College of Medicine – Phoenix library, located on the third floor of the Health Sciences Education Building.

An enchanted forest has sprung up in an office in the UArizona Health Sciences Interprofessional Clinical and Professional Skills Center on the eighth floor of the Health Sciences Innovation Building.

The batty staff at the Thomas D. Boyer Liver Institute kept up their ghostly annual tradition of decorating their office for Halloween.

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