Three members of the House appropriations subcommittee spent the afternoon of Sept. 17 at NIH. They received scientific briefings and then met both patients and scientists in training.
Members and staff of the House freshmen working group on addiction visited NIH on the afternoon of Sept. 9 to learn about the HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) Initiative.
Constantly seeking new opportunities to promote genomic literacy and spark scientific curiosity, the National Human Genome Research Institute has teamed up with the National Center for Biotechnology Information to create an educational exhibit illustrating the remarkable scale of the human genome sequence.
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.
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.”