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Elaine Fuchs receives National Medal of Science
Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and head of the Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at Rockefeller University, has been named a recipient of the National Medal of Science, the White House announced today. The medal is the nation’s highest scientific honor. Fuchs,...
Tenure awarded to RNA researcher Thomas Tuschl
Thomas Tuschl, a Rockefeller University biochemist interested in the mechanisms by which RNA can regulate genes, has been awarded tenure and promoted to professor. The university’s board of trustees approved the appointment earlier this year. “Rockefeller is known for its bold and innovative re...
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Coming soon, to The David Rockefeller Graduate Program Plans for Convocation kept many offices busy this spring, but behind the scenes, another group was already planning for the fall. Rockefeller’s application screening committee pored over 675 applications of potential new students, eventually ...
Convocation 2009
2009 is a landmark year for science. The 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, father of evolutionary biology, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his classic text On the Origin of Species, this year is being marked with tributes across the world. It is also a milestone ye...
Cech and Greenberg presented with honorary degrees
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Generations of new scientists have been affected by the work of Thomas R. Cech and Maurice R. Greenberg. Dr. Cech, former president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a dedicated teacher for over 30 years, has long been an advocate for the advancement of young scie...
Fifth annual teaching awards honor Hudspeth and Nottebohm
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Those who can, teach. From left, Fernando Nottebohm, Paul Nurse and A. James Hudspeth at the Convocation Luncheon. While more than 1,000 students have braved the rigors of scientific pursuit to earn Rockefeller University doctorates, the faculty who mentored them have brav...
Sarah Wacker named 2009 David Rockefeller Fellow
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN When it came time to choose a graduate school, Sarah Wacker’s method looked a little like a game of darts. Certain that she wanted to continue her study of proteins in a lively urban environment, she applied to what she considered the best school in every major city across...
Convocation 2009
Following tradition, faculty mentors gave congratulatory tributes to this year’s graduates. Printed here are the transcripts of those speeches, as they were read on June 11. Three members of the class of 2009 — Taulant Bacaj, Sarah Garrett Injac and Satoshi Yoshimura — were unable to attend th...
Sourabh Banerjee
B.Sc., St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology Studies of G Protein Coupled Receptors Incorporated into a Novel, Nanoscale, Membrane-mimetic System presented by Thomas P. Sakmar Sourabh Banerjee joined my laboratory in 2004 as a graduate student in the Tri...
Cameron D. Bess
B.S., University of California, Santa Cruz Analysis of Cellular Factors Involved in Adeno-associated Virus Type 2 Entry presented by Sanford M. Simon As an undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied yeast genetics, Cameron Bess was the first in his family to atten...
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