November 27, 2001
Vol. LIII, No. 24

What's In
History Office Files?

NIH Hosts
'Evolution' Preview

NIEHS Aids Cleanup
at World Trade Center

NIEHS Scientist Adds
an Artistic Touch

Hayward Joins NCRR
as Associate Director

Tuan Named Chief of NIAMS Branch

CIT Adds Web-based Customer Support

By Rich McManus

You would have thought that Katie Couric came back to Masur Auditorium by the number of NIH'ers who jammed the hall Oct. 31 for a special edition of Clinical Center Grand Rounds on the topic of bioterrorism; even guest speaker Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIAID, admitted afterward he was stunned by the audience's size. But that's because with 17 documented cases of anthrax up to that date, including the death that day of an unusually suspicious case, everyone was passionately interested in what NIH had to make of the emerging public health crisis.
M O R E . . .

Directors Depart from NIMH, NIDA and NIAAA

Dr. Steven Hyman

Several leadership changes will result in new directors for three NIH institutes: the National Institute of Mental Health, whose director is decamping for Harvard; the National Institute on Drug Abuse, whose director has accepted the top job at the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, whose director is retiring as the only one who ever led NIAAA.
M O R E . . .