By Robin Meckley, Contributing Writer
The 14th annual Book and Media Swap will be held on Wednesday, April 16, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the lobby of the Conference Center in Building 549.
The staff is holding the swap to coincide with National Library Week, an annual celebration of libraries that occurs in April.
As of April 10, the library had collected nearly 2,000 books, DVDs, and CDs for the swap. Employees who donated these items received book cards indicating the number of items donated.
Platinum Publications are selected from articles by NCI at Frederick scientists published in 21 prestigious science journals. This list represents new publications generated from PubMed as of the date shown above.
Articles designated as Platinum Highlights are noteworthy articles selected by Dr. Craig Reynolds, associate director, National Cancer Institute, from among the most recently published Platinum Publications.
Your challenge is to correctly identify the item and its location from the picture below. Clue: It’s somewhere at the NCI campus at Frederick or Fort Detrick.
Win a framed photograph of the Poster Puzzler and have your photo featured on the Poster website by e-mailing your guess, along with your name, e-mail address, and daytime phone number, to poster@mail.nih.gov.
All entries must be received by Friday, June 27, 2014, and the winner will be drawn from all correct answers received by that date.
By Ken Michaels, Guest Writer
The following are actual headlines from local, national, and international newspapers*:
Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
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Grandmother of 8 Makes Hole in One
Lack of Brains Hinders Research
By Nancy Parrish, Staff Writer
Data Management Services, Inc. (DMS), has announced the opening of its spring session of software training classes, available to all employees at NCI at Frederick. Classes begin on March 31 and run through June 30.
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