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October 15, 2002
NIGMS Celebrates 40 Years of Discovery, Progress
CSR Kicks Off Annual CFC Campaign with Tent Event
Computational Cell Biology Is Focus of Stetten Symposium
Scrimshaw To Give FIC Anniversary Lecture
New Group Fosters Research on Women
19th Institute Relay
Dream Anatomy Film Series Kicks Off, Oct. 17
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Human Resources Undergoes Major Agency-Wide Restructuring By Carla Garnett
If the staff of your human resources office seem a little distracted lately, try to be understanding. For the past 11 months, human
resources at NIH has been in the midst of a major, fast-tracked reorganization that was scheduled to debut on Oct. 6. Although a few
issues remain to be settled, it is a testament to the hard work, creativity — and flexibility — of the 300-some employees
involved in NIH's HR enterprise that the restructuring appears seamless to most of us. The Future of Life By Rich McManus
On a day of agonizing remembrances, it was a mercy on 9/11 of 2002 to hear a talk on "The Future of Life," by renowned Harvard
professor emeritus Dr. Edward O. Wilson, a man whose soft, Alabama accent took a packed Masur Auditorium on a world tour of
conservation hot spots in desperate need of preservation, but who also was so down to earth that he could marvel at the biotic worlds in
just a few inches of topsoil. He spoke almost longingly of the biological riches strewn like jewels amid the eastern hardwoods that he
admired along the drive into Bethesda from National Airport, and declared at one point that a scientist "could spend a lifetime in a
Magellanic voyage around a single rotting beech tree stump and never classify" all the lifeforms to be found therein.
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