The annual Montgomery County Police Department Santa Ride in support of the Children's Inn at NIH took place Dec. 9.

On Jan. 27 at 11 a.m., the Office of Research on Women’s Health will launch a new virtual lecture series titled “Diverse Voices: Covid-19, Intersectionality and the Health of Women.”

The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) 2020, “Show Some Love and Be the Face of Change,” is still underway and continues through Friday, Jan. 15.

The NIH Director’s Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series (WALS) will host a lecture and panel discussion on Jan. 13, in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the first complete bacterial genome, the 20th anniversary of the publication of the human genome and the 15th anniversary of the first human metagenome.

Dr. Harvey Alter, who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine, was honored Dec. 8 in an afternoon ceremony at Natcher Bldg. attended by Karin Olofsdotter, Sweden’s ambassador to the United States.

The Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) is hosting 3 virtual meetings to celebrate 30 years of women’s health research and sex and gender studies within and beyond the NIH scientific community.

In 2019, NIH employees lost an estimated $3.5 million in annual leave. Don’t lose yours. The Leave Bank offers you the opportunity to put that leave to use by donating your use-or-lose leave to the bank by Jan. 2, 2021, via ITAS.

The National Symphony Orchestra Ensemble brought live music once again to the Clinical Center atrium on Nov. 19.

A central web portal called Combat COVID recently went live, in both English and Spanish. This provides a one-stop resource to help the public and doctors find information about different stages of Covid-19 illness, NIH-supported Covid-19 prevention and treatment clinical trials, and locations to donate plasma.

The bluegrass quintet We RNA String Band performed in the atrium of the Clinical Research Center on Nov. 10.