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The NLM family fared very well at spring's MLA annual meeting. Assistant Director for Health Services Research Information and Deputy Associate Director, Library Operations Betsy L. Humphreys was chosen to present this year's prestigious Janet Doe Lecture. NLM Associate Fellow Marlo Maldonaldo Young received the 2001 Rittenhouse Award for her paper, "Consumer Health Informatics: A Preliminary Exploration of Latino Culture as a Provider of Health Information." And NLM Board of Regents member Allison Bunting received the Marcia C. Noyes Award, recognizing an individual who has made lasting and significant contributions to the health sciences librarianship profession. She is Director of the Louise Darling Biomedical Library at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

Marlo Maldonado Young with J. Michael Homan, MLA President, 2000-2001. Allison Bunting holds the Marcia C. Noyes Award.

Julia Royall, Special Expert in the Office of Health Information Programs Development, was named one of Federal Computer Week magazine's "2001 Federal 100 Winners" for her "in the trenches" work with the Library's Multilateral Initiative on Malaria. The award recognizes the most talented and dedicated employees of the federal government.

Lucie Chen, a Technical Information Specialist with the Specialized Information Services Division, is one of the women employees of NIH to be profiled on a new website created by its Office of Science Education. You can read the story of Lucie's life and career at the "Careers in Science: Women in Research" site, osedev.od.nih.gov/posterview.

Crystal Smith, a Collection Access Specialist in the History of Medicine Division, has received a 2001 Spectrum Initiative Scholarship Award from the American Library Association. The Spectrum Initiative works to recruit applicants and award scholarships to African American, Latino/Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander and Native American/Alaskan Native students for graduate programs in library and information studies. Each scholarship winner receives $5,000.

Toxicologist Dr. Walter J. Decker of La Crosse, Wisconsin, recently reached the milestone of serving 25 years as a peer reviewer on the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) and Toxicology Data Bank (TDB) for the Specialized Information Services Division. Dr. Decker, who earned his PhD in biochemistry from George Washington University, served with the U.S. Army and retired as a lieutenant colonel. He next became an associate professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, and then president of Toxicology Consultant Services in El Paso, Texas. Dr. Decker, currently an adjunct clinical professor at Texas Tech University, El Paso, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology and a member of Society of Toxicology. He has published numerous papers of toxicological subjects. His is best know for his research in the prevention of poisoning in children, and studies establishing the efficacy and acceptance of activated charcoal. He has enjoyed the opportunity of working with outstanding scientists in the two review groups.