An NIH Director’s Award is the most prestigious non-monetary award at NIH to recognize the outstanding achievements of all institutes, centers and offices. Each nomination undergoes a rigorous review process that includes each institute/center director, the NIH awards review committee and selection by the NIH director for special recognition.

When the Record asked readers to talk about projects they’d pursued during lockdown, one new NIH’er literally shared volumes.

ORWH helped provide editors of online and print publications with an article titled “7 Steps to Manage Stress and Build Resilience.”

The Office of Research on Women’s Health recently hosted an online panel discussion titled “Improving Chronic Disease Outcomes Through Approaches that Address Social Determinants of Health,” part of an ORWH lecture series.

The National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Md., has won a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Mentoring for its Werner H. Kirsten Student Internship Program.

Have a cool photo you took of a sunset, a rainbow, a pack of wild animals you spotted? Send them over; the NIH Record will publish the best submissions.

The 2020 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) will be open Monday, Sept. 21 through Nov. 2. This year, the survey will include an extensive section on the impact of Covid-19.

On Friday, July 31, NIH director Dr. Francis Collins played a host of songs, from classical to standards, during the lunch hour in the Clinical Center atrium.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has announced that a lab led by Dr. Michael E. Ward, an investigator at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, is part of one of 30 pairs of researchers to receive an award from CZI’s Neurodegeneration Challenge Network

The Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum has initiated “Behind the Mask: Real Stories from NIH Staff About Life During the Covid-19 Pandemic.”