Dr. Yasmine Belkaid, chief of the mucosal immunology section in NIAID’s Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, has been awarded one of four Sanofi–Institut Pasteur 2016 International Awards.

Melinda Bennett has been named director of scientific review evaluation activities at the Center for Scientific Review. This group manages costs, contracts, payments and non-federal travel associated with NIH peer review meetings for CSR and 23 other NIH institutes and centers.

On Jan. 2, Israel Putnam retired as radioactive material supply management officer in ORS’s Division of Radiation Safety, Materials Control and Analysis Branch. Putnam was in charge of the radioactive material inventory used in biomedical research at NIH.

Why is this man smiling? For starters, he retired in December. But throughout his distinguished 35-year NIH communications career, Calvin Jackson often smiled and appeared mysteriously calm, even under tight deadlines.

Dr. Christine Hunter has been named deputy director of NIH’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research.

Betsy Humphreys retired as deputy director of NLM recently after more than 44 years of service.

Dr. Edward Hudson Oldfield, former chief of the Surgical Neurology Branch in the NINDS Division of Intramural Research, died on Sept. 1.

Dr. Paul Sorlie, chief of the Epidemiology Branch in the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, will retire from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute on Oct. 27 after 48 years of service.

Dr. Amy Poremba has joined NIDCD as a program director in the Division of Scientific Programs.

Jerry Sheehan was recently named deputy director of the National Library of Medicine.