WHK Is Better Than an A

WHK Student Intern Chris Hu presents a scientific poster

Thursday, August 29, 2019

Editor’s note: The following is a retrospective commentary on the Werner H. Kirsten Student Internship Program from a recent alumni. Here I was, an 18-year-old student intern with a chance to interview a prominent research scientist and suddenly, face-to-face with her, I ran out of questions. Silence filled the room. Now what? My Urbana High School classes had not prepared me to answer that question. Well, they had not prepared me to interview a scientist, either.

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Inside the Scientific Arsenal: Three Devices to Explore the Unknown

Photo of Sequencing Facility employee working with the NovaSeq 6000

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

“Here are lions.” This fanciful phrase for the unknown embellishes the blank areas of antiquated maps. Sometimes cartographers used the phrase “Terra Incognita” (“unknown land”) instead. Either way, the message was clear: we don’t know what’s beyond this point. The modern study of genetics is similar.

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You Can Make a Difference for Just $9 a Year

Photo of costumed employees rounding a bend in the road during the Halloween 5k

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

You probably receive a plethora of ads in your inbox that you delete before giving them a second thought. But if you take a closer look at some of them, you’ll discover that you’re passing up cookies, donuts, yoga, and fun Christmas and other events, among many other opportunities. That’s right—the Recreation and Welfare (R&W) Club, a group dedicated to the health and well-being of NCI at Frederick staff as well as the local community, hosts a variety of entertaining events.

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Where Are They Now: Jackie Stewart’s Story Comes Full Circle

hoto of JJackie Stewart, in personal protective equipment, working in an LASP facility

Friday, August 9, 2019

When Jackie Stewart accepted her dream job with the Frederick National Laboratory’s Laboratory Animal Sciences Program last year, it wasn’t the first time she had set foot on the sprawling campus owned by NCI at Frederick, the national lab’s government sponsor and partner. Stewart had spent the 2007–2008 school year and every summer and winter from 2008–2011 as a student intern at the Frederick National Laboratory and NCI at Frederick.

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Operations and Maintenance August Newsletter

Monday, August 5, 2019

Utility outages are necessary to complete maintenance, new installations, or repairs of the utilities serving our buildings. Our goal is to minimize impacts; however, in occupied facilities there may be inconveniences due to construction and outages.

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