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April 7, 1998, NIH Record, Vol. L, No. 7 B ~ C 0 R a Still The Second Best Thing About Payday Chesney Suggests New Ways of H _ G H LI G H ,T,S 'Biggest and Best' of the Feds Thinking About Women's Health By Susan M. Persons On Heels of Success, Tech Transfer Crystal Ball uvou've come a long way baby," a phrase Time for OTT Community Thinks Ahead often used to convey the progre.ss of By Carla Garnett women in U.S. society, was actually coined REGO Not Done aybe it was March Madness, but the recent all-day years ago by a tobacco company as a Yet at NIH retreat held by NIH's technology transfer community campaign slogan targeted to increase the M had much of the flavor of a sports team meeting or number of women who smoke. The irony training camp, including a talk by the team's general manager, in is that today, lung cancer is the leading this case, NIH director Dr. cause of cancer death among women. New Day Care Harold Varmus. Facility Planned More than 100 people "This is hardly progress," reported Dr. had gathered Mar. 16 in a Margaret A. Chesney, invited speaker at the small room at the Chevy NIH behavioral and social sciences research Unraveling the Chase Holiday Inn. They coordinating committee seminar series. Brain's Mysteries were speaking their own " The importance of smoking to women's language: "CRADAs" health cannot be overemphasized. It is (cooperative research and simply unacceptable that the number of New Portrait development agreements), women who smoke has increased while the Graces NLM "intellectual property," number of men the "Bayh-Dole Act" and 1' who sm oke has the "FITA" (laws enacted NHGRI's tech transfer chief Dr. Ron decreased; that in the 1980's that form Kin1; leads a strategy session. women are the bases for technology transfer activities) and "EIRs" (employee more likely invention reports). than men to The morning led off with greetings from NIH deputy director for return to SEE TECH TRANSFER, PAGE 6 smoking after OER Unveils NIH Reinventing Government stopping; and Agenda for FY 1998 that more adolescent girls By MaryJo Hoeksema than boys he "reinventing government " movement is alive and prosper­ initiate Ting at NIH. Proof of its vitality was evident at a recent smoking. We meeting of the extramural program management committee need to Dr. Margaret Chesney {EPMC), where Dr. Wendy Baldwin, NIH deputy director for continue social extramural research, and Geoffrey Grant, director, Office of and behavioral research to examine why Policy for Extramural Research Administration, unveiled the NIH this is so, and to develop new, effective extramural reinvention priorities for fiscal year 1998. The campaigns to address t his health threat." presentation highlighted initiatives that the Office of Extramural U.S. Department Research, in partnership with other institutes and centers, has of Health and selected this year for development, testing and, in some cases, Professor of medicine and epidemiology at Human Services the School of Medicine, University of execution. The goal of each initiative is to reduce administrative National 111',tirurt·, burdens, enhance NIH interactions with the research community, California, San Francisco, Chesney began of Health her presentation with expressions of and facilitate science. gratitude for those who have contributed to "The NIH reinvention plan for fiscal year 1998 is exciting April 7, 1998 because it embodies a wide range of projects that are in various SEE WOMEN'S HEALTH, PAGE 4 Vol. L, No. 7 SEE REINVENTION, PAGE 8 - ---- - ----------- = New Day Care Facility To Be Built = - By Carol Wigglesworth = A line item for construction of a new $3.5 million voluntary, professionally sponsored accreditation c-, day care facility has been approved for fiscal year system for early childhood schools and child care = centers. Accreditation is given for a period of 3 = 1999, according to Paul Horton, director of ORS's e, Division of Space and Facility Management, who years, and accredited programs submit annual = ,, made the announcement recently to the NIH day reports to NAEYC. According to ECDC Director care oversight board. The new facility will be Anne Schmitz, "Our NAEYC accreditation validates located in the southeastern portion of campus, near the outstanding efforts made by ECDC staff and Christina Bruce the Natcher Conference Center. families in giving the loving, quality care all children has joined the Scheduled to open in 2000, the new facility will deserve." ECDC currently provides day care to 218 National Cancer house an expanded Parents of Preschoolers, Inc., children. Institute as Childkind is also NAEYC-accreditedi.POPI is director of the center currently located in Bldg. 35. In addi­ diversity and tion to classrooms for approximately 100 children, currently undergoing reaccreditation. Ill employment the 21,000-square-foot structure will include programs. She administrative spaces, interior and exterior play will develop a areas, kitchen and laundry facilities, parent/teacher APAO Seeks Award Nominations comprehensive conference areas, and spaces for equipment and The NIH Asian/Pacific American Organization seeks diversity program utility systems. The building will comply with all nominations from NIH employees for its 1998 as well as oversee accessibility standards. the operation of Mary Haas, POPI director, expressed enthusiasm Outstanding Achievements and Scholarship Awards. NCI's EEO Recipients will be honored in the evening program about the potential for expansion and an improved office. Bruce, a of the annual Asian/Pacific Americans Heritage Cuban-American, facility: "We are thrilled to expand our school. Besides the obvious advantages of being able to Program on Friday, May 22. The categories of comes to NCI awards are: for significant accomplishments in serve more families, we will be able to build onto from Project advancing NIH/IC's EEO goals; for significant Management our existing curriculum with the addition of a new accomplishments in scientific research or administra­ Group, Inc., a library and an indoor exercise room. Children consulting firm learning and growing in a space designed specifi­ tive work; a scholarship of $1,000 to an outstanding that provides cally for them is an ideal situation." POPI cur­ college-bound student. multidisciplinary rently provides day care to 65 children, ages 2 ½ to For instructions on how to apply, contact Dr. management Rashmi Gopal-Srivastava, EPN, Rm. 609, 496-2378. 5 years. consulting Nominations for the awards should be sent to her as services in the Bldg. 35 To Undergo Renovation well. The closing date for nominations is Apr. 10. area of EEO and Recipients will be notified in mid-May. liJ employment law. Once POPI moves into the new facility, the She comanaged a vacated space in Bldg. 35 is scheduled to be 3-year discrimina­ renovated into a modernized day care facility for tion education additional capacity, should the need still exist. The and outreach Division of Engineering Services is currently program for the developing the programming and concept design N I H R f ~ 0. A a state of Florida's documents for the new facility. The results of the Published biweekly at Bethesda, Md., b)' the Editorial Operations department of recent survey of NIH employees concerning their Branch, Division of Public Information, for the information of health and day care needs are currently being analyzed and employees of the National Institutes of Health, Department of rehabilitative Health and Human Services. The content is repriniable without services. Prior to will be considered by the oversight board and ORS/ permission. Pictures may be available on request. Use of funds for DSFM, in decisions regarding the occupancy of the printing this periodical has been approved by the direcror of the her work as a Office of Management and Budget tb,ough Sepr. 30, 1998. management soon-to-be-refurbished Bldg. 35. consultant, she Also on the horizon are plans to relocate NIH Record Office Pbone 496-2125 was executive Childkind, which has occupied temporary quarters Bldg. 31, Rm. 2B03 Fax 402-1485 assistant to the in Bldg. T-46 for more than a decade, into new president of temporary quarters in late spring. Childkind Web address http://www.nih.gov/news/NIH-Record/archives.htm Florida Interna­ provides day care to 33 children, ages 6 weeks to 2 tional University years old. Editor The NIH Record reserves for 8 years. Richard McManus the right to make ECDC Gains Accreditation [email protected] corrections, changes, or deletions in submitted NIH's Executive Child Development Center, Assistant Editor copy in conformiry with located at 6006 Executive Blvd., is now accredited Carla Garnett the policies of the paper by the National Association for the Education of [email protected] and HHS. Young Children (NAEYC}. NAEYC accreditation U The Record is recyclable as office white paper. is the largest and most widely recognized national, Mider Lecture Probes Where in the Human Brain Is. .. 7 By Jules Asher sing newly available imaging technologies, Dr. the "test" face was the same as one of the three they ULeslie Ungerleider, chief of NIMH's Laboratory had previously seen. of Brain and Cognition, has been unraveling how the As hypothesized, a previously unrecognized, brain maintains, modifies and retrieves information. functionally distinct region in the middle upper part She discussed these recent findings in her G. of the frontal cortex-just in front of an area that Burroughs Mider Lecture, "Neural Mechanisms of was activated by an eye movement task-showed NCI director Dr. Human Cognition: Insights from Brain Imaging sustained activity during the pause in the spatial Richard Klausner Studies," Feb. 25. Her talk explained how observa­ working memory task, confirming that it is special­ recently was tions first made in monkeys are now being extended ized for that function. A region in the lower left awarded the in humans using techniques like functional magnetic International frontal cortex similarly betrayed itself as specialized Raymond resonance imaging (fMRI).
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