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Carter: Well, revamping The NIH Catalyst into, I think, a better-looking publication. Training the writers—I’m proud of all the writers we’ve trained. And I’m proud that, as a result of a story we did, we rescued something that’s now in the NIH Clinical Center. The story was on Building 7, which I mentioned before is where infectious disease research was going on. I was able to go on a tour with Michele Lyons [from] the History Office just to see what the inside of that building looked like before they completely tore it down. Michele was looking for artifacts that they might use for the History Office. As we went up the stairs to a conference room, I noticed this beautiful window that had an art deco image of a waterfall. It was a big window. The building was going to be destroyed—that window with it. Well, I couldn’t let that happen. On the back of the Catalyst, in our “Photographic Moment” section, I had a picture of the waterfall window, and a little bit about its history—who had it installed and all that. I said, “If anybody’s interested in this, please let us know, because it’s going to be destroyed.” John Gallin, who was head of the Clinical Center at the time, saw the story and said he wanted it. He had it removed from the building, brought over to Building 10, and installed on a wall near Lipsett Amphitheater. It’s backlit and there’s a little history about it on the side, so people know where it came from and who the inspiration was for it. I’m proud of that, too. I’m also proud that some of our stories alerted researchers to the work of others and led to collaborations.

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