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Ready to Stand Up Oct. 1
Collins Gives Update on NCATS at Town Hall Meeting |
| By Carla Garnett |
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NIH director Dr. Francis Collins addresses employee morale, NCATS at town hall meeting.
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NIH’s proposed new addition—the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, or NCATS—is on schedule for its Oct. 1 delivery date, said NIH director
Dr. Francis Collins at a Mar. 14 town hall meeting
in Masur Auditorium. The 63-minute session provided a chance for him to update employees on NCATS progress and answer their questions.
Collins first acknowledged that the meeting was occurring during a time when global attention was fixed on a natural disaster. An earthquake-followed-
by-tsunami devastated northeastern Japan on Mar. 11 and threatened a much larger region past Japanese borders.
“All of us are watching with great alarm and concern,”
Collins said about events unfolding in the Pacific.
He said he and other staff are waiting to learn how NIH might help the situation.
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Alda Offers Ways to Improve Science Communication |
| By Rich McManus |
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Actor Alan Alda |
Actor Alan Alda, who once directed the powers
of geniality, wit and intelligence on the intractable rigidity of the Army in his role as physician Hawkeye
Pierce in the long-running TV comedy M*A*S*H, is now unleashing the same positive energy on another implacable institution: academic
science.
One of four guest speakers at a Mar. 1 STEP forum titled “Look Who’s Talking: Communicating
Your Message Fearlessly and Flawlessly,” Alda demonstrated how the tools of his profession,
specifically improvisational acting, can benefit the human-to-human contact that most effectively transmits scientific information.
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