In this issue, we are asking for your reactions in four areas: fostering research teamwork, interest group experiences, spending preferences, and cartoon creation.

Send your responses on these topics or your comments on other intramural research concerns to us via e-mail: <catalyst@nih.gov>; fax: 402-4303; or mail: Building 1, Room 209.

1) What steps can NIH take to encourage the formation and function of effective research teams?

2) Are you satisfied with the scope and organization of the current roster of NIH interest groups? What have you gotten out of your participation in an interest group?

3) How would you recommend NIH spend expanding research money?

4) Alex Dent's farewell potpourri appears on the other side of this page, as have his "Joe Postdoc" cartoon adventures since the January 1994 issue of the Catalyst. He's off to Indiana, from whence we hope he'll favor us with cartoons from the other side from time to time. But we are repeating our call (first aired last issue) for closet NIH cartoonists to push some of their efforts under our door(or fax them to 402-4303). A few of you have already done so (thank you, thank you, you'll be hearing from us), and we'd like a few more-kind of a rotating cartoon corner to display the multiplicity of humors bubbling on the NIH campus.

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