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From the Deputy Director for Intramural Research

Eric Betzig's Nobel Prize: A Homegrown Success

BY MICHAEL GOTTESMAN

The NIH intramural program has placed its mark on another Nobel prize. You likely heard that Eric Betzig of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus (Ashburn, Virginia) will share the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.” What you may not know is that Eric’s key experiment came to life right here at the NIH.

Colleagues: Recently Tenured

Meet your recently tenured colleagues: Christopher Baker (NIMH); Amy Klion (NIAID); Yoh-Suke Mukouyama (NHLBI), pictured; Vipul Periwal (NIDDK); and Peter Williamson (NIAID)

The Training Page

FROM THE OFFICE OF INTRAMURAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION

The NIH Graduate and Professional School Fair

BY PATRICIA KIESLER, NIAID

“We care deeply about the next generation of scientists and health-care providers and people working at the interfaces of various disciplines,” said Sharon Milgram, director of NIH’s Office of Intramural Training and Education (OITE), during her opening remarks at the seventh annual NIH Graduate and Professional School Fair.

NEWS FROM AND ABOUT THE NIH SCIENTIFIC INTEREST GROUPS

The Scientific Interest Group on Chronobiology and Sleep has been resurrected and will serve as a scientific and technical resource for researchers in the intramural research program.

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From the Annals of NIH History

Waterfall Window

This Art Deco style window, depicting a waterfall, towers above a stairwell leading to what used to be a conference room on the fourth floor in the now-vacant Building 7.