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CURRENT ISSUE - November 30, 2018

Gillman Pushes Past Hardships to Help Other Vets

A year ago, Jake Gillman attended a career fair as a veteran looking for a new opportunity. In September, he attended the same Hiring Our Heroes event at Nationals Park, this time as an NIH contractor...Read more

NIH Honors Legacy of Pioneering Cancer Scientist Rabson

Colleagues, friends and family of Dr. Alan S. Rabson gathered at Natcher Bldg. Oct. 30 to celebrate the life of the distinguished...Read more

Adult Care Resources Are Available to NIH’ers

NIH clinical research nurse Martina Lavrisha knew something was wrong when her mother...Read more

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Safra Family Lodge Gets Makeover

NIMH Addresses Strategies for Suicide Prevention

NIH Celebrates PA Week

NIEHS Warehouse Earns ‘Platinum’ Rating

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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY - November 28, 1989

GA Program Catalyzes Switch from Science to Administration

There is a 1-year program ar NI H that specializes primarily in taking people who have changed their minds about careers in laboratory research and turning them into science administrators.

Candidates usually start out as Ph.D. bench scientists who for one reason or another want to leave the laboratory and become HSAs— health scientist administrators.

This is a story about four people who, having decided that they would rather manage science than practice it in the lab, underwent a transformation. Already deep into the scientific specialization that is characteristic of the training received during postdoctoral years, they used the Grants Associate (GA) Program to acquire a broad overview of NI H and the biomedical enterprise

NIH Marks Women's History Month

"Critical Thinking." That's how women at NIH change America, according to organizers of the 2005 Women's History Month celebration, who adapted the occasion's national theme — "Women Change America" — for the NIH audience.

Leading off the celebration, sponsored by NIH's Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity Management on Mar. 9, Ann Timmons, a communication artist, performed the one-woman play, Off the Wall: The Life and Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Author in 1892 of The Yellow Wallpaper, a semi-autobiographical account of a woman's struggle with depression, Gilman was a pundit and lecturer on equal rights for women.