Third Annual NIH History Day
Thursday, 22 September 2005

The Office of NIH History is pleased to announce that the third annual NIH History Day will take place on the NIH campus in Bethesda on Thursday, 22 September 2005. The program will include welcoming remarks by NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and Director of Intramural Science Dr. Michael Gottesman, an illustrated lecture by Office of NIH History Director Dr. Victoria A Harden, and the display of two panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt.

At the lecture, all NIH Staff who worked on AIDS research or patient care in any capacity during the 1980s will be asked to stand and be recognized.

The NIH History Day lecture is free and open to the public. This event will be videocast. Go to: http://www.videocast.nih.gov/.

Two panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will hang in the NIH Clinical Center (Building 10) from 12 September-12 October 2005. The quilt is the largest community art project in the world and has been visited by over 14 million people worldwide. The project, in which individuals and groups sew panels commemorating their loved ones, raises money for AIDS service organizations.

Above, left: the quilt's first square, created in 1987; Above, right: the quilt on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in 1988.

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Please note: Non-NIH employees may enter the NIH campus at only two
entrances: from Rockville Pike at South Drive and from Old Georgetown Road at Center Drive. Your car will be stopped for inspection. You must present a picture ID for admission to all NIH buildings and receive a visitor's pass. Please leave enough time for these procedures. Access to NIH by Metro's red line (at Medical Center) remains convenient and is recommended. For detailed directions, shuttle information, and maps of the NIH campus, click here.

For special accommodations, contact the Office of NIH History.

Office of NIH History
National Institutes of Health
Building 31, Room 5B38, MSC 2092
Bethesda, MD 20892-2092
Phone: 301 496 6610
Fax: 301 402 1434
Email:

History Day Lecture
"'An Indescribable Experience': NIH Researchers and the AIDS Epidemic, 1981-1990."

Victoria A. Harden, Ph.D.
Office of NIH History & Stetten Museum

National Institutes of Health

11:00 am
Lipsett Amphitheater
NIH Clinical Center
Building 10

Victoria A. Harden has done extensive research on the NIH response to the AIDS epidemic. In the 1980s and 1990s she interviewed dozens of NIH researchers, including scientists, administrators, and Clinical Center nurses about their experience.

Before beginning her work on the history of AIDS research, she wrote Inventing the NIH: Federal Biomedical Research Policy, 1887-1937 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986) and, for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: History of a Twentieth Century Disease (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990). She has published numerous articles about her research on AIDS history and is co-editor of two books, AIDS and the Historian (NIH, 1989) and AIDS and the Public Debate: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (IOS Press, 1995).

Above: Drs. Thomas Folks and Guido Poli discuss their AIDS research, c. 1985. For more photographs and documents related to the NIH response to AIDS see:

http://www.history.nih.gov/NIHInOwnWords/.

History Day 2005 T-shirts will be available at R&W stores!
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