Current issue
Milestones
Promoted:
Fei Dou,
from postdoctoral associate to research associate, Greengard Lab.
Cecilia G. Unson, from senior research associate to research associate
professor, Merrifield Lab.
Hired:
Shane Baker, assistant for research, Heintz Lab.
Donna Berardo, project manager, Planning and Construction.
Gwenola Bougras, assistant for research, Munz Lab.
Julie Boyer, member of the adjunct faculty, Gotschlich Lab.
Maria Chiuchiolo, visiting fellow, Gotschlich
Lab.
Aaron Ciechanover,
visiting professor, Steller Lab.
Fernando Colon, mechanic 1, Faculty Housing.
Jaime Echeverria, gardener, Grounds.
Gabriel Farias, supply technician, LARC.
Brian Ford, assistant for research, Heintz Lab.
Jane Godoy, doorperson, Scholar’s Residence.
Shuba Gopal, visiting assistant professor, Gaasterland Lab (formerly
a student).
Neil Hackett, member of the adjunct faculty, Gotschlich Lab.
Talisha Harper, animal attendant, LARC.
Hiroaki Hemmi, postdoctoral fellow, Steinman Lab.
Yuichiro Hori, postdoctoral fellow, Muir Lab.
Marta Ipsan, executive assistant, Office of the President.
Yoshiko Iwai, postdoctoral fellow, Steinman Lab.
Janet Kallo, secretary, Goulianos Lab.
Mona Khan,
postdoctoral fellow, Mombaerts Lab.
Anja Krause, member of the adjunct faculty, Gotschlich Lab.
Robert LaRue, office assistant, Development.
Tien-Shun Lee, science writer, Communications and Public Affairs.
Donny Licatalosi, postdoctoral associate, R. Darnell Lab.
Karsta Luettich, visiting fellow, Gotschlich Lab.
Christina Marney,
assistant for research, Gilbert Lab.
Amanda Martinez, development assistant, Development.
Eduardo Martinez, mechanic 3, Power Plant.
Dana Panepinto, unit clerk, Hospital Nursing Care.
Robert Pergolizzi, member of the adjunct
faculty, Gotschlich Lab.
Jane Rendall, corporate secretary, Office of the President.
Luis Rivera, security guard, Security.
Susanne Schwenke, visiting scientist, Ott Lab.
Ashley Searles, laboratory administrator, Tuschl Lab.
Uri Seligsohn, visiting professor, Coller Lab.
Barry Shea, visiting fellow, Gotschlich Lab.
Amanda Sierra Saavedra, postdoctoral fellow, McEwen Lab.
John Ted Skolnick, scientific programmer, Center for Theoretical Studies.
Edwin Smith,
research assistant professor, Allis Lab.
Takashi Soyano, postdoctoral fellow, Chua Lab.
Gerald Spath, member of the adjunct faculty, Nussenzweig Lab.
Kaori Takai, assistant for research, de Lange Lab.
Jason Tanny, postdoctoral associate, Allis Lab.
Hailin Wang, applications programmer, Information Technology.
Chelle Willetts, administrative secretary, Greengard Lab.
Iakov Zhurinskiy, postdoctoral associate, Nurse Lab.
Orlee Zorbaron, office assistant, Roeder Lab.
Awarded:
Bruce McEwen, who delivered the first of two Distinguished Lectures in
the Science of Comple-mentary and Altern-ative Medicine at the
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, part of
the National Institutes of Health. McEwen’s lecture,
“From Molecules to Mind: Stress, Individual Differences, and
the Social Environment,” occured March 31 in Bethesda,
Maryland.
Paul Nurse, who has been appointed to the United Kingdom’s
Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology, the
British government’s top-level advisory board on science,
engineering and technology policy. Nurse is one of the prime
minister’s 16 new appointments to the council announced on
March 19.
Sid Strickland, the 2002-2004 International Society for Fibrinolysis and
Proteolysis Prize. Awarded by the International Society for
Fibrinolysis and Proteolysis, the prize honors outstanding
contributions to the field and is sponsored in part by the D.
Collen Research Foundation. It was presented in Melbourne,
Austrailia on March 21.
Alexander Tomasz,
a $15,000 grant from the American Austrian Foundation, a
non-profit, non-governmental organization that seeks to enhance the
relationship between the United States and Austria through
exchanges in medicine, communications, science and the arts.
Torsten Wiesel, an honorary doctor of science degree from Bowdoin
College at its 199th Commencement, to be held May 29.
The Office of Communications and
Public Affairs and IT, the
self-bestowed flattery-by-imitation award for the Rockefeller
University Web site, a nearly identical copy of which was recently
spotted at Harvard: www.mcb.harvard.edu.
Obituaries:
Joel Feinberg,
professor of philosophy from 1967 to 1977, died March 29 of
complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 77. Feinberg, a
political and social philosopher, did work in the fields of
individiual rights and the authority of the state. His first book, Reason and Responsibility: Reading in Some Basic
Problems of Philosophy is in its
12th edition and remains one of the top-selling anthologies of
philosophical writings. Feinberg received his Ph.D. from the
University of Michigan and held positions at Brown, Princeton, the
University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of
Arizona. He lived in Tucson, Arizona.
Michael J. Lyons,
adjunct faculty member, died March 26, 2004, of complications of
lung cancer. He was 73. Lyons had been associated with Associate
Professor Emeritus John B. Zabriskie’s laboratory since 1982.
With Zabriskie and colleagues, Lyons studied virus-induced obesity
and neurological syndromes in mice. He was a research associate in
former professor David Moore’s laboratory at Rockefeller from
1961 to 1966, where he identified and characterized mouse mammary
tumor virus. As a graduate student at the University of Glasgow in
1956, he was the first to show that cigarette smoke contains
carcinogens. Rockefeller University has established the Michael J.
Lyons Fund in Lyons’s honor. Gifts may be sent to the Dr.
Michael J. Lyons Memorial Fund, c/o The Rockefeller University,
1230 York Avenue, Box 164, New York, NY 10021. Checks should be
made payable to The Rockefeller University.
This publication lists new hires, retirements,
awards and academic appointments and promotions of The
Rockefeller University. Please send notices of awards to
zach.veilleux@rockefeller.edu or to Box 68.
April 26, 2004
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