Every summer, interns flock to the NIH campus, eager for a chance to work side-by-side with professionals and experts in their fields. These enthusiastic college and high school students don’t come to take it easy, and they definitely don’t want only to make copies and fetch coffee. They want practical experience, exposure to real-world challenges,…
“Play,” Albert Einstein said, “is the highest form of research.” Implied in that observation is that often, with play, comes learning. That’s an idea that high school teachers Brock Eastman and Wendy Sparks have fully embraced. Both Eastman and Sparks interned for the second summer in a row with the National Library of Medicine Specialized…
Some people like to take a leisurely vacation in the summer. Not this group of lifelong learners. Instead, participants in the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar on the Spanish Influenza embarked on a journey of discovery, which included a visit to the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) History of Medicine Division. The…
Precision medicine is having a moment. All over the news these days, this evolving field takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle, promising exciting new drugs and diagnostics. Dr. Atul Butte, founding director of the newly-established Institute of Computational Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, spoke on “Data-Driven Precision…
NLM in Focus 