The National Cancer Institute at FrederickFrederick What is it? Where is it? Story on page 6. Campus Improvement Committee: DECEMBER 2004 Improving Your Work Environment IN THIS ISSUE A newly formed committee is Committee, which met for the fi rst seeking suggestions for ways to time on July 10th. New Faces at NCI-Frederick 3 improve the NCI-Frederick work Addressing the committee at this Poster People Profi le 4 environment. The mission of the meeting, Dr. Reynolds thanked them Campus Improvement Committee, for their participation. He advised The Poster Puzzler 6 originally the Campus Beautifi cation that no funds have been set aside Committee, is to develop and maintain specifi cally for campus beautifi cation, Platinum Publications 7 an aesthetically interesting campus so all proposed improvement projects that will enrich and inspire the NCI- will have to compete with other Employee Diversity Team 9 Frederick community. needs for funding support. Since Paul Miller, Program Analyst, Offi ce funding has either been eliminated or Science Today 10 of Scientifi c Operations, formed the signifi cantly reduced in most areas, NCI-Frederick Campus Improvement identifying areas for improvement 80 Years of Service 12 Poster-Script 14 Farmers’ Market 15 Did You Know? 16 Employee Recreation Council 18 Special Events 19 Technology Transfer Branch 20 Environment, Health, and Safety Program 21 McKesson BioServices 22 Data Management Services 23 (Left to right) Martha Summers, Mike Smith, John Bell, Mark Shrader, Mike Selby (on ladder), O. M. Zack Howard, Paul Miller, Rocky Follin (kneeling), Lori Smith, SAIC-Frederick, Inc. 24 Tim Rowe (in back), Scott Keimig, Ken Michaels, Gene Anderson, Zaida Parsons, and Moria Artlip Wilson Information Services Corporation 26 Committee last July at the request of that can successfully compete against Dr. Craig Reynolds, Director of the other proposed projects will be a Employment Opportunities 28 Offi ce of Scientifi c Operations. Of challenge. Therefore, the committee the 26 volunteers who attended one is tasked with coming up not only of two orientation meetings in June, with good ideas, but with good ideas 14 elected to join the Administrative continued on page 2 Campus Improvement Committee: Improving Your Work Environment continued from page 1 that will contribute what he described Since its formation, the committee Health, and Safety), Roberta Brown as “signifi cant value” to the NCI- has organized itself into four areas of (Protective Services), and Sharon Fritz Frederick community. emphasis and formed subcommittees (Protective Services), will oversee For example, Dr. Reynolds to screen proposals and generate ideas: proposals for planting, lawn cutting, explained, projects that contribute The Structures subcommittee, chaired landscaping and maintenance. to or enhance the environmental by John Bell (Facilities Maintenance A fourth subcommittee, chaired impact of the Master Plan may and Engineering), will oversee by Paul Miller, will deal with provide signifi cant value. He proposals for the installation and all proposals that do not fall added that identifying projects placement of long-term structures such within the purview of the other will require thinking in multiple as picnic tables, kiosks, and pavilions. three subcommittees. dimensions, as some projects will be The Signage subcommittee, The Administrative Committee is of major proportions, requiring large chaired by Ken Michaels (Scientifi c chaired by Mr. Miller, with Dr. O. M. commitments of funds and resources, Publications, Graphics & Media), will “Zack” Howard as recording secretary. while others will be more limited oversee proposals for the installation The entire community is welcome to in scope. Areas for consideration and placement of external and internal submit suggestions for improvements mentioned at the fi rst meeting ran the signs and artwork and maintain NCI- to campus aesthetics on-line gamut from improved gardening and Frederick’s graphic identity. (anonymously, if you prefer) via the landscaping to better signage and new The Planting subcommittee, co- campus Intranet, at http://web.ncifcrf. paint for buildings. chaired by Tim Rowe (Environment, gov/campus/committees/default.asp. Dr. Kristen Komschlies, to ensure that those requirements are potential clinical trials. Her role was to New Assistant followed carefully. perform experiments at NCI-Frederick Project Offi cer With a BA in biology from Gustavus that would help clinicians know how Adolphus College, Minnesota, to administer IL-7 to patients. She Dr. Kristen Komschlies, new Dr. Komschlies earned her PhD in said, “It was exciting work, and I assistant project offi cer for the NCI- immunology from the University enjoyed it.” Frederick Offi ce of of Connecticut. She In 2001, she resigned to spend time Scientifi c Operations, worked at NCI-Frederick with her family, only to return this oversees the scientifi c from 1986 to 2001 for past summer as an assistant project aspects of contracts. the Operations and offi cer in the NCI-Frederick Offi ce of She reviews the Technical Support Scientifi c Operations. Dr. Komschlies Statement of Work Contract, currently held said that having worked here before (SOW), documents by SAIC-Frederick, Inc. has made adjustment easier: she that show contractors Starting as a postdoctoral already knows a lot about the facility, what they are to do fellow, she eventually the people and the issues they face and evaluates the became a principal in the laboratory, and now she helps work performed. investigator with her develop mechanisms for laboratories In addition, own laboratory in to get the equipment, material, Dr. Komschlies support of the Laboratory services, and supplies they need. She is involved in of Experimental said that she has always liked working aspects of NCI- Immunology. here and wants to help support the Frederick as a FFRDC (federally During these years, Dr. Komschlies’ outstanding science being performed funded research and development focus was on immunology, specifi cally at this facility. center). In a recent interview, she IL-7, a natural component of the We’re happy to have Dr. Komschlies pointed out that NCI-Frederick is human body. With several colleagues, with us again and in her new role as the only biomedical FFRDC the US she studied the body’s normal use of Assistant Project Offi cer. She can be government has, and the government IL-7 and its potential application as an reached at 301-846-5131, or by e-mail imposes strict requirements on what anticancer immunological therapeutic at [email protected]. can and cannot be done. It is her job agent. The group developed IL-7 for The NCI-Frederick Poster 2 December 2004 New Faces at NCI-Frederick NCI-Frederick Welcomes New Staff Chad Berkhammer Eighty-fi ve people joined our Facility in May, June, July, and August 2004. NCI-Frederick welcomes… Erynn Mckenzie Xiu Chen Diogo Demartini Yiyin Chen Rachael Crist Diogo Demartini Bridget Dixon Jill Dunty James Gattis Sergei Grivennikov SAIC-Frederick, Inc., welcomes… Nicholas Hargus Jinyue Hu Eugene Anderson Megan Peach Monica Hui Eva Andersson Ruta Petraitiene Qiong Jiang Rebecca Arnold Cyra Ranji Theresa Duley Han-Jong Kim Teresa Belcher James Reilly Joon-Young Kim Chad Berkhammer William Rosano Kyeongeun Lee Eckart Bindewald April Schildtknecht Erynn Mckenzie Megan Boon Anja Schmidtmann Vinod Sing Niza Borchin Timothy Sheehy Markus Sitzmann Heath Bradley Woodrow Smith, Jr. Tami Thomae Anthony Brown, Jr. Nicole Smith Michaela Wendeler Carla Bryant Wei Tan Patty Smith Thomas Wuest Rita Corn David Thomas Yi Yang Christopher Courtney Terrence Thrasher Wei Yao Jacqueline Downer Michael Valmonte Huijun Zhi Theresa Duley Christopher Wiles Anne Gensler Patsy Worrell Braden Greer Leonard Wrona Patricia Hanes Ping Yu John Hart Tao Zhao Da Wei Huang Tongqing Zhou Elaine Hurt Tim Skoczen Deana Jackson Christopher Jacobs Stanislaw Kaczmarczyk Sergei Grivennikov Carson Kam Charles River Laboratories Cynthia Kim welcomes… Shilpa Kurian Nancy Parrish Chenwei Liu Kelly Goff Juanita Mercado Carly Kunze Charu Mullick Amber Smith Jose Nunez Patricia Smith Sarah O’Brien Joy Palabrica Data Management Services Nancy Parrish welcomes… Carly Kunze Smruti Patel Robert Patterson Timothy Skoczen The NCI-Frederick Poster 3 December 2004 Poster People Profi le What Do You Do? and earned my Offi ce Technology Being a secretary today is more than Certifi cate in 1993. typing letters and answering the phone: Ginny Greene I’ll never stop learning. When I need One must know how to implement to better understand software, I take various software and in-house What do you like best about your another class. But my greatest training programs. Multi-tasking is essential. work at NCI-Frederick? and education have come from When my 92-year-old mother, who We are making a difference! When my children. They have taught me was courted on a horse, asked me the cure for cancer is found, Charles teamwork, friendship, understanding, what e-mail is, I realized how much River Laboratories (CRL) will have patience, and most of all, love; all of computers have changed this world had a direct role because it is a global which I hope I practice at work. and the way we communicate. And, leader in the commercial production In 1994, when CRL acquired the after 9/11, one of the most frightening and supply of animal research models NCI-Frederick contract, I became changes has been the armed for use in the discovery, development, Dr. Patricia Fritz’s secretary, while guards at our gates. Things have and testing of new pharmaceuticals. continuing to support the entire certainly changed. management team and to work closely with Shirley Eyler, our In what ways do you participate in Human Resources representative. the life of NCI-Frederick? I am never bored. I might be The NCI-Frederick Canned Food working on an annual report one Drive, which donates money to the minute, timecards the next, and then Frederick Rescue Mission, is dear on a travel packet. The variety and to my heart.