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February 22, 2000
NIH, Howard Collaborate on Architectural Problems
African American History Program Set, Feb. 24 in Masur
Auditorium
Nutrition Month Observed at NIH
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
Astronauts Show Movies of Mission, Delight NIH Audience
By Suzanne Lewis
What's a kid's idea of a fun thing to do on a school night? Perhaps
play computer games or watch television? How about talking with
real-live astronauts about what it's like to go into space? That's how
hundreds of kids, including patients from the Clinical Center and the
Children's Inn, spent the evening of Jan. 27 at the Natcher
Conference Center. The event was jointly sponsored by the
National Institute on Aging, the National Institute on Deafness and
Other Communication Disorders, and NASA. If Not by Science, then by Art By Rich McManus
There was a time when the "glass ceiling" perceived by professional
women in science was more like concrete than anything
see-through; as lavish as the talk was about feminism in the early
seventies, only a handful of women made it to the top. Dr.
Josephine Simonds, who was already a late
bloomer having obtained her Ph.D. in microbiology from
the University of Maryland at age 50 realized what the
score was after 6 years as a postdoctoral trainee at the National
Cancer Institute. So she did the same thing she did when, earlier in
her life, her artistic talent was discouraged by a nasty high school
teacher: She found a way to thrive anyway.
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