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Rockefeller hosts 2008 IQ2 debates
Intelligence Squared U.S., an organization dedicated to expanding and enlivening public discourse through debate, will hold several debates in Caspary Auditorium this year. The events, geared toward a public audience and broadcast via NPR, feature panels of experts arguing questions of current cu...
For 50 New York City teens, a summer of science
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Generally, by the time Rockefeller University gets its hands on burgeoning scientists, they’ve already picked up the basics: cells, genes, maybe a couple of grueling months of organic chemistry. That’s not nearly early enough, say several university faculty members, as we...
Rockefeller gets ever greener
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Longer grass and newer light bulbs may not do much to lower gas prices, but taken together, the university’s green initiatives have helped double the amount of trash that gets recycled and may slash energy usage by three to five percent, Plant Operations personnel report. ...
Friday Lecture Series begins
This year’s series kicked off last week and includes speakers from some of the world’s most prestigious universities and institutions. (Dates are subject to change. For a current schedule of speakers, go to featuredevents.rockefeller.edu.) October 3 Brian Kobilka, M.D. professor of molecular ...
Still life with scientist
A nearly nine-foot-wide painting of Rockefeller president Paul Nurse, by acclaimed British artist Jason Brooks, has been made part of the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London. Mr. Brooks achieved a high level of precision by using acrylic paints and an airbrush, working...
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...
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