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Milestones
Awarded: Laura Banaszynski, a 2009 Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry, from the American Chemical Society. Matthew Evans, Valerie Horsley, Andreas Keller and Tom W. Muir, finalists in the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists competition. Dr. Evans, a postdoc in Ch...
Paris Piano Trio opens 51st Peggy Rockefeller Concert Series
The Rockefeller University begins its 51st season of the Peggy Rockefeller Concerts this evening with the Paris Piano Trio. Seven additional concerts are scheduled between now and May 2009. Through the Peggy Rockefeller Concerts program, a subscription series, the university has played host to so...
New Rockefeller faculty member studies cancer metastasis
Sohail Tavazoie, a physician-scientist whose research focuses on the molecular basis of cancer metastasis, has been named assistant professor and will join The Rockefeller University as head of the Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology in January 2009. Tavazoie, who received his Ph.D. from Harvard...
Rockefeller Archive center becomes an independent organization
After 34 years as part of the university, The Rockefeller Archive Center, which catalogs and stores the university’s administrative and scientific records and also handles archival material from several other organizations and from the Rockefeller family, has become an independent organization. E...
New fundraising goal set at $750 million
by ZACH VEILLEUX With $490 million raised toward its original $500 million campaign goal, the university’s Board of Trustees has decided to be 50 percent more ambitious. On June 4, they voted to add $250 million and two years to the Campaign for Collaborative Science, the fundraising initiative t...
Archive center goes its own way
by ZACH VEILLEUX After 34 years as part of the university, The Rockefeller Archive Center, which catalogs and stores the university’s administrative and scientific records and also handles archival material from several other organizations and from the Rockefeller family, has become an independen...
Clinical immunologist to join Rockefeller University
by THANIA BENIOS In September, pediatrician and immunologist Jean-Laurent Casanova will join the Rockefeller University faculty as professor of medicine and head of the Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases. The appointment of Dr. Casanova, who comes to Rockefeller from Hospital Nec...
Tarun Kapoor and Mike Rout receive tenure promotions
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN The Rockefeller University will begin its fall semester with two newly tenured faculty members. The university’s Board of Trustees has approved promotions for Tarun Kapoor, head of the Laboratory of Chemistry and Cell Biology, and Michael P. Rout, head of the Laboratory of...
Milestones
Awarded: Laura A. Banaszynski, the Angelo Family Fellowship of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. Dr. Banaszynski, postdoc in C. David Allis’s Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics, is investigating how histone modifications regulate gene expression and maintain genome stabili...
Clinical immunologist to join Rockefeller University
Jean-Laurent Casanova, a distinguished pediatrician and immunologist, will join the faculty at The Rockefeller University as professor of medicine and head of the Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases in September 2008. Casanova, who comes from Hospital Necker for Sick Children in P...
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