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NIAID Has New Lab Complex
Bldg. 33 Dedicated to Congressman C.W. Bill
Young |
By Belle Waring |
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Rep. C.W. Bill Young (l) accepts an etching
of Bldg. 33 from NIH director Dr. Elias Zerhouni. |
The C.W. Bill Young Center for Biodefense and
Emerging Infectious Diseases was dedicated May 2 in honor of 18-term
Congressman Young (R-FL), chair of the House appropriations subcommittee
on defense. The brilliant spring afternoon found a crowd of friends,
colleagues and admirers gathered beneath a canopy outside the new
laboratory complex, built for the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases. The 4-story, 84,000-net-square-foot integrated
research facility was named for the man whom NIAID director Dr.
Anthony Fauci called "one of the most important figures responsible
for doubling the NIH budget."
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Hundreds Take Their Children to NIH for a Day |
By Rich McManus |
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Gowning up is part of the kids’ fun. |
On the typical workday at NIH, the most underrepresented
minority on campus is children. Once a year, however, Take Your
Child to Work Day remedies that situation. The sight of children
in the hallways and sidewalks of campus is slightly jarring, like
when a college student — inured to the company of peers — wanders
past a day care center and suddenly realizes that the entire world
is not age 18-35.
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