17 August 2016 Navy Week Des Moines Kicks Off with Parade, Vietnam Veterans Commemoration Pin Presentation Kicking off Navy Week in Des Moines, Iowa was the Veterans Parade at the Iowa State Fair, followed by a commemoration pin presentation for local Vietnam veterans Aug. 15...
17 August 2016 EXWC, UCSB Host PIPELINES Design Challenge Awards The Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (EXWC) and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), hosted a Problem-based Initiatives for Powerful Engagement and Learning in Naval Engineering and Science (PIPELINES) event Aug. 12...
17 August 2016 Naval Medical Center San Diego Makes History as First DoD Medical Facility to Perform Allogeneic Stem Cell Infusion on a Patient Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) made history Aug. 9 when dermatologists performed their first allogeneic mesenchymal stem cell infusion on a patient -- the first ever performed at a U.S. military treatment facility...
17 August 2016 Down to the Wire: ONR Researchers, New Bacteria Scientists sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) have genetically modified a common soil bacteria to create electrical wires that not only conduct electricity, but are thousands of times thinner than a human hair, officials announced Aug. 16...
16 August 2016 Pacific Missile Range Facility Holds Change of Command Capt. Vincent R. Johnson relieved Capt. Bruce W. Hay Jr. as commanding officer of Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) at a change of command and retirement ceremony held at the base air operations hangar Aug. 12...
16 August 2016 Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit 2 Changes Charge Cmdr. Marion Gregg relieved Cmdr. Jennifer Espiritu as officer-in-charge of Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit (NEPMU) 2 during a change of charge ceremony conducted at Naval Station Norfolk, Aug. 11...
16 August 2016 Nimitz Sailor Volunteers To Preserve A Piece Of Bremerton Naval Heritage Quartermaster 3rd Class Jeremy Bloom, a Sailor assigned to aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) and native of Chicago, along with local veteran volunteers guided tourists around the USS Turner Joy (DD 951) Naval Destroyer Museum Ship Sunday...
16 August 2016 Navy Medicine Laboratory in Peru Studies How Fever Affects Mobility, Medical Modeling to Predict Pandemics in Developing Countries Navy Medicine researchers recently published a study reporting for the first time how fever affects mobility during an outbreak of a mosquito-borne pathogen like dengue. The study was published in "Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences."...
16 August 2016 Wasp Stays Connected with VTC Three Sailors and one Marine aboard amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) participated in a family video teleconference (VTC) in the ship's flag conference room Aug. 9...
16 August 2016 Navy Medicine Researchers Attend Military Health System Research Symposium Navy Medicine researchers from around the globe are attending the Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) which kicked off Aug. 15...