‘Week of Excitement’
NIH Research Festival Turns 22 |
| By Belle Waring |
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NIH director Dr. Francis Collins opens the 22nd Research Festival, the Intramural Research Program’s annual showcase of its science. |
Like a vast cousinage from the tribe of research scientists, hundreds of NIH’s principal investigators, postdocs, fellows, students and colleagues from sister agencies gathered in Masur Auditorium for the Oct. 6 kickoff of the 22nd annual NIH Research Festival.
“Welcome to a week of excitement,” said NIH director Dr. Francis Collins in remarks opening the 4-day event.
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A Trailblazer, a Balm
Angelou Speaks On Courage, Love, Protest |
| By Belle Waring |
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There was a time, in 1930s Arkansas, when the school-age Maya Angelou hid her uncle from the night riders. Men on horseback. The Ku Klux Klan.
“They weren’t wearing sheets,” she told a packed house in Masur Auditorium. “They didn’t need them.”
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