The 31st season of Manchester String Quartet performances at NIH is now underway. The concerts—all on Mondays—are free and begin at 12:30 p.m. in Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10.

On Aug. 15, NIH director Dr. Francis Collins and his wife Diane Baker spent the evening at Camp Fantastic, which hosts children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.

NIH's Adventures in Science, which now meets at the Washington Episcopal School, aims to show 8- to 11-year-olds the fun of science using hands-on activities—e.g., building (and launching) model rockets, dissecting frogs, visualizing the activity of enzymes, having children measure their own lung volumes and more.

NHLBI's Dr. John Tisdale was recently honored for his research on sickle cell disease.

Dr. Rita Charon will be the guest speaker at the second annual Gadlin Lecture Series on Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 2 p.m. in Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10.

It’s time for the 36th NIH Institute Relay and the event is moving back to Bldg. 1. It will be held Wednesday, Sept. 18 at 11:30 a.m.

The Office of Disease Prevention will hold a Methods: Mind the Gap webinar with Dr. Harvey J. Miller on “Geospatial Data for Healthy Places: Building Environments for Active Living Through Opportunistic GIScience.”

The National Library of Medicine curated an exhibition to honor the 50th anniversary of the first commercially available rubella vaccine, developed by two NIH intramural researchers.

NIDA director Dr. Nora Volkow delivered a plenary talk titled “Opioid crisis and its impact on HIV and HCV” at the 10th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science in Mexico City in July.

The NIH MedlinePlus magazine recently launched a new bilingual website that offers content in English and Spanish. Use the English/Español toggle in the magazine header to change the language.