Players from the National Football League’s Washington Commanders visited the Clinical Center pediatrics unit on Oct. 23, just in time for Halloween festivity planning.

It’s often said that physical activity is a key factor in creating and maintaining a healthy mind and body, but no one said that activity could not also be fun. Dr. Methode Bacanamwo of the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) takes this view to heart.

Two wood sculptures by Dr. Lionel M. Bernstein were dedicated at the Clinical Center (CC) on Oct. 6 in a ceremony held on the 7th fl. atrium, outside the CC chapel. A gastroenterologist born in Chicago in 1923, Bernstein had a long career at NIH, including serving as director of the National Library of Medicine’s Lister Hill Center from 1978 to 1983.

Hundreds gathered in the Clinical Center atrium on Sept. 13 for a classical performance by the National Symphony Orchestra.

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) sponsored its second dinner of the year at the Children’s Inn at NIH on Sept. 6 and a dozen staff members were at the inn for kitchen patrol.

NIH human resources specialist Jim Cheskawich has a reason to celebrate: his Samoyed Teddy recently won Best in Show at his second American Kennel Club show.

The Public Health Service introduced its first-ever mascot in a July visit to NIH: Lieutenant commander Abigail, a two-year-old Labrador Retriever.

The NIH Powerlifting Club, a group sponsored by the Recreation and Welfare Association, hosted a Lift-A-Thon on Aug. 11 outside its Bldg. 53 gym. Proceeds from the fundraiser benefited Feds Feed Families, the annual effort to provide food for communities in need.

If you were in the atrium of the Clinical Research Center at lunchtime on July 25, you were treated to a Young Artists Noon Concert by musicians of the Tacy Foundation.

The University of Maryland Jazz Ensemble performed a lunchtime concert in the atrium of the Clinical Research Center on July 13.