Pandemic Projects Occupy NIH’ers’ Free Time

NIH employees, notoriously accomplished in their free time, were recently asked to share with us their creative projects, undertaken during those hours when a commute would normally occupy their time. Since the global coronavirus pandemic has made telework mandatory for many, we asked to see what’s been going on outside of work hours. Here is some of the harvest. Feel free to submit your project to the editors by Aug. 24.

“I am sharing these chalk drawings my husband and I did at the beginning of all this for our kids,” said Neyal Ammary-Risch of NHLBI’s communications office. “Because I’m a nerdy public health educator married to a professional artist, we took it as an opportunity to help explain things in a fun way (and use up some of hundreds of pieces of sidewalk chalk we’ve accumulated). I had a few more punny ideas but ran out of driveway!”