In Brief
Burton Featured in Nature Medicine
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) Professor Dennis Burton
is profiled in the April 2003 issue of Nature Medicine.
The article
begins, "In HIV vaccine research—where the stakes are
high both scientifically and financially—it is rare to
find a scientist as universally liked as Dennis Burton."
Seminar on AAAS Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy
Are you interested in the interaction of science, technology,
and government in the United States and around the world?
Would you like to participate in the public policy-making
process of the federal government? The American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology
Policy Fellowship Programs provide opportunities for postdoctoral
to mid-career scientists and engineers to contribute to federal
decision-making in Washington, D.C., while learning how government
works. A seminar will feature two former fellows: Ashwin Vasvada,
Ph.D. in Planetary Science, Congressional Fellow, 2000-2001;
and Elizabeth Wadolkowski-Gordon, Ph.D. in Microbiology, Diplomacy
Fellow, 1990-91. The event will be held in the Valerie Timken
Amphitheater, Scripps Green Hospital, on Tuesday, April 15,
from 2 to 3:30 PM. For more information about the fellowship
program, see www.fellowships.aaas.org.
New English-as-a-Second-Language Class Begins
A new English-as-a-second-language class will begin Tuesday,
April 22. Instructor Cassandra Wadkin's class meets from 6:30
to 8:30 every Tuesday evening in the Immunology Building West
Conference Room. The price for three months (12 classes) is
$60. Each intermediate-level English class is divided into
speaking and listening, idioms and vocabulary, and reading
and writing. If you would like to improve your English communication
skills and better understand your friends and colleagues,
movies, television shows, and the news, this class is for
you. The instructor uses movies, games, television shows,
grammar books, songs, drawing, and novels to teach standard
American English. For more information, please leave a message
at x4-2176.
Don't Miss the Spring Craft Fair
TSRI's Spring Craft Fair will be held on Thursday, April 17,
from 11 AM to 2 PM in the Immunology Galleria. The crafts
for sale will include jewelry, ceramics, soaps, airplants,
chocolates, handmade quilts, cards, and decorative pillows.
For more information, contact Bonnie Towle, x4-2146 or e-mail
btowle@scripps.edu.
Tips on Changing Medical Coverage
If you are enrolled in or eligible for TSRI's medical plan
and have a "status change" affecting coverage, please remember
to submit a Benefits Coverage Change Form to Human Resources
within 31 days. Changes that enable you to add coverage include
marriage, attainment of domestic partnership status, birth
or adoption of a child, legal entry of a dependent into the
United States, or loss of other health coverage for yourself
or dependent. Changes that enable you to drop coverage include
divorce, termination of domestic partnership status, dependent
reaching ineligible age/status, death of a dependent, or dependent
obtaining other coverage. If coverage is not added or dropped
within 31 days of a status change, you will be required to
wait until TSRI's next Open Enrollment period to make the
change. Please contact Benefits Administration at x4-8487
or benefits@scripps.edu
to request a Benefit Coverage Change Form or access the form
on the web.
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