NIDA and NIAAA directors Drs. Nora Volkow and George Koob present the first jointly sponsored NIDA-NIAAA Lifetime Science Award to Dr. A. Thomas McLellan at the Joint National Advisory Council for the Collaborative Research on Addiction.

NIAID’s Dr. Yasmine Belkaid is among 84 new members and 21 foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Jane E. Shure, 71, longtime NIH employee and founding communications director at the National Institute on Aging, passed away in Lexington, Mass., on Apr. 8 of cancer. She will be remembered by her colleagues and the NIH community as an innovator, visionary and mentor.

Here are 10 things you didn’t know—call them snapshots—about Bill Branson, the longtime NIH photographer who retired Apr. 29, but who, along with his brother and fellow photographer Ernie, made “Call the Bransons” as reliable a professional shorthand as “Make a Xerox copy” or “Google it.”

NIDCD welcomes Dr. Trinh Ly to its Clinical Trials Program, which she will co-direct, along with Dr. Steven Hirschfeld.

Dr. James Ostell has been named director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a division of the National Library of Medicine.

Dr. Craig Hopp and Dr. Wen Chen of the NCCIH Division of Extramural Research recently assumed new roles within the division.

Dr. Faye Glenn Abdellah, 97, founding dean of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing and retired rear admiral of the Public Health Service, died Feb. 24 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Martin Goldrosen, director of the Division of Extramural Activities at NCCIH, recently retired. He planned and led the activities of scientific reviewers and other NCCIH staff to ensure the highest quality, objectivity and accountability in the center’s peer review process.

“The first child of the first child”—that’s how Dr. Raya Mandler describes her childhood on Ramat Rachel, a 95-year-old kibbutz near Jerusalem, Israel. Mandler transferred her love of farming and closeness to animals and plants on the kibbutz to a biological scientific career that led her to NIH.