NCI and FNL Researchers Turn Lessons Learned into Stepping Stones

Imagine you’re building a dresser. You find all the wood and hardware you need and have the instructions, the right tools, and a team of professionals to help. As you and your team put it together, you realize that while the frame is solid, the drawers don’t open and close correctly. You might be tempted to feel discouraged by the results. But a group of scientists from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNL), and other collaborating institutions share a different perspective in their recent work published in PNAS. They weren’t trying to assemble furniture but rather generate a new, better mouse model of the most common kidney cancer, clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC).
Karolina Wilk, Editor, Staff Writer
 04.29.2025
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Features | Expanding STEM Education

If the only way for high school students to learn science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is through textbooks, then count me out. But how then do you get students to learn STEM outside of the classroom? The focus of this article is to advocate for high school STEM education through experiential learning.
By Nathalie Walker, Guest Writer; photo by Richard Frederickson, Staff Photographer 11.16.2015
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Events | Book Swap Now Open to All Employees

Not only did the year 2000 mark the start of a new millennium, the beginning of the Human Genome Project, and the opening of the International Space Station, but it was also the first year that the Scientific Library held its annual Book & Media Swap. Starting Nov. 12, the 15th annual Book Swap is open to all NCI at Frederick employees.
By Robin Meckley, Contributing Writer, and Pam Noble, Guest Writer; photos by Richard Frederickson, Staff Photographer 11.13.2015
Events Community November 2015

Features | New Poster Puzzler

Your challenge is to correctly identify the item and its location from the picture. Clue: It’s somewhere at the NCI campus at Frederick or Fort Detrick.
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Features Poster Puzzler November 2015

Features | Poster Puzzler Solution: Taking in Air

The current Poster Puzzler image shows the top of Building 560, where a new supply air handler was recently installed by Facilities Maintenance and Engineering (FME) staff, as part of lab renovations in wing 1, floor 1. FME staff enlarged the attic of the building to make space for the air handler. Building 560, the largest building at the NCI at Frederick campus, houses about 120 labs and has 19 air handlers.
By Ashley DeVine, Staff Writer; photo by Joe Meyer, Staff Photographer 11.04.2015
Features Poster Puzzler November 2015

Community | Softball Games Bring NCI and Leidos Biomed Employees Together

NCI and Leidos Biomed employees took to the fields at Nallin Pond for the third annual slow-pitch softball games on August 26. The series attracted 54 employees who were divided into four teams, Red, Blue, Gray, and White, and they were cheered on by about 40 enthusiastic spectators.
By Chris Ohler, Guest Writer; photos by Paige Kefauver, Werner H. Kirsten Student Intern, and Richard Frederickson, Staff Photographers 11.02.2015
Community Events People November 2015