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Teaching awards honor Gilbert and Rice

Charles D. Gilbert, head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology, and Charles M. Rice, head of the Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, were the recipients of this year’s Rockefeller University Distinguished Teaching Awards. Established in 2005 to recognize outstanding individual contributions to the university’s educational environment, the teaching awards are presented each year to one or two faculty members. Chosen by a committee that includes the university’s scientific executive officers, awardees receive a plaque and a monetary gift. Dr. Gilbert teaches a course on neural systems that covers mechanisms of information processing in the adult nervous system at the level of neuronal ensembles and interactions.

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Dr. Rice is the primary organizer of a virology course that covers virus structure, replication, molecular genetics and gene expression, interactions with host cells, immunology, pathogenesis, viral vaccines, antiviral therapy and resistance and viral vectors. The awards are presented by the president each year during the Convocation luncheon. (Dr. Rice was traveling and was not available to receive the award in person.)