VOLUME 12, NUMBER 21 • MAY 4, 2001

AROUND CAMPUS

Alumni Reunion

The Rockefeller University community welcomes graduates of the Ph.D. program to campus this week for the Alumni Centennial Symposium and Reunion through Sun., May 6. More than 300 people are expected to return for this reunion, which will be the first major gathering of Rockefeller alumni since 1984.

The reunion program includes two days of scientific symposia featuring presentations by more than 50 Rockefeller alumni and students; a student poster session; and social activities, with many opportunities for discussion among alumni, faculty and current Ph.D. students.

Current graduate students are encouraged to attend the scientific symposia and reunion festivities. The full reunion schedule is available on the university’s Web site:www.rockefeller.edu/reunion/.

Left to right: Stuart Firestein, a professor at Columbia University and chairman of the awards committee; Mombaerts; and Stephen Roper, a professor at the University of Miami, who is the president of AChemS.

Mombaerts Receives Award

Assistant Professor Peter Mombaerts received the Takasago Award for Research in Olfaction at the annual meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS). The award honors a scientist who has made significant contributions to the field of olfaction.