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CURRENT ISSUE - June 14, 2019

Fleming Discusses Healing Powers of Music

The debate over whether music is a product of cultural invention, like writing, or of biological evolution, like speech, has divided scientists and other thinkers since Darwin’s time. Everyone must have experienced the mood-uplifting and optimism-inducing effects of music at some point in their lives, but few of us know...Read more

Improving Inclusion, Data Access for ‘All of Us’

It began as an ambitious idea: create a program to collect and analyze health data on a massive scale, ultimately enrolling...Read more

NIH’ers Celebrate Bike to Work Day

It was a gorgeous morning for a bike ride. Under sunny skies, hundreds of NIH’ers pedaled to work for NIH’s annual Bike...Read more

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

New Fellowships Bring African Scientists to Train at NIH

ORWH Hosts 4th Pinn Symposium

Fordham Scholars Visit for Ethics Training

NCI’s Wolin Gives WALS Talk, June 26

Farrar To Give Barmes Lecture, June 19

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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY - June 18, 1963

NIH Consolidates Extramural Programs As 1,000 Begin Move to New Building

The long-planned move of nearly 1,000 employees to the Westwood Building, to consolidate extramural programs there and to relieve overcrowding in other NIH buildings, is well underway. Transfer of personnel and office equipment to the new 9-story building at 5333 Westbard Avenue, Bethesda (between River Road and Massachusetts Avenue Extended) is scheduled for completion July 17. Relocation of offices now in buildings both on and off the reservation.

NIH Marks Women's History Month

"Critical Thinking." That's how women at NIH change America, according to organizers of the 2005 Women's History Month celebration, who adapted the occasion's national theme — "Women Change America" — for the NIH audience.

Leading off the celebration, sponsored by NIH's Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity Management on Mar. 9, Ann Timmons, a communication artist, performed the one-woman play, Off the Wall: The Life and Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Author in 1892 of The Yellow Wallpaper, a semi-autobiographical account of a woman's struggle with depression, Gilman was a pundit and lecturer on equal rights for women.