NIH chief officer for scientific workforce diversity Dr. Marie A. Bernard was awarded the John A. Hartford Foundation Trustees Award for her many years of dedication to improving the lives of older adults through research, education and clinical practice improvement.

Dr. Carter Van Waes, clinical director and chief of the Head and Neck Surgery Branch and tumor biology section at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, will retire on June 30.

NIAMS communications director Dr. Nancy Garrick retired after 28 years of NIH service. The former neuroscientist reflected on a fruitful NIH career, which started earlier than most.

The Association of Government Accountants (AGA) recently awarded NIGMS with a Certificate of Excellence in Citizen-Centric Reporting for fiscal year 2020.

Several designers in ORS’s Medical Arts recently were honored by Graphic Design USA. Winning pieces included posters, flyers, visual branding and murals for several NIH institutes, centers and offices.

Two NIBIB intramural trainees are recipients of 2022 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards.

Dr. Norman “Ned” Sharpless stepped down as NCI director, effective Apr. 30.

NIH had an impressive showing at the Association for Federal Information Resources Management (AFFIRM) awards celebration, which took place on December 8, 2021 in Washington, DC.

Dr. Carsten Bönnemann, chief of the neuromuscular and neurogenetic disorders of childhood section (NNDCS) in NINDS’s Intramural Neurogenetics Branch, recently received the first-ever Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Legacy Award for Achievement in Clinical Research.

Many consider NIH to be like a family, but for Melinda Nelson, it was even more true. Retiring from NIAMS after 45 years at NIH, she is part of three generations in her family to forge a career here.