After 20 years of federal service, Dr. Carmen Brewer, chief research audiologist in the audiology unit at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), retired on Oct. 27.

NICHD director Dr. Diana Bianchi was recently named in the Forbes 2022 “50 Over 50” Impact list for her leadership of NICHD.

Dr. Richard Youle, a senior investigator in the biochemistry section of NINDS’s Surgical Neurology Branch (SNB), was recently inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Jennifer Levithan was recently appointed as deputy executive officer of NIGMS.

Alesha Holliday, director of NCI’s Office of Management Policy and Compliance (OMPC), recently retired after more than three decades at NIH.

Dr. Bruce Nisula, a longtime member of the intramural community who began his NIH career in 1971, died Aug. 30, after a long battle with cancer.

Dr. Cendrine Robinson has been selected as NIDCD’s first chief diversity officer. She joins NIDCD from the Department of Veterans Affairs, where she served as a scientific program officer and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) chair.

Israel L. Burch, acting fire chief of the NIH Fire Department, died on July 19 after battling melanoma that had been diagnosed in April. He was 49 years old.

After 36 years of federal service—34 with NIH—Janice Cordell, a nurse consultant and clinical research program manager in NINDS’s Division of Clinical Research (DCR), retired on July 30.

Dr. Geoffrey Mueller, director of the NIEHS Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Research Core Facility, was awarded the John W. Yunginger, M.D., Memorial Lectureship at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) held in Phoenix earlier this year.