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Amandeep Singh
A.B., Cornell University Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Leptin’s Metabolic Effects presented by Jeffrey M. Friedman In 1900, Theodore Roosevelt published an article that put forth his view of all American men, writing, “He must not be a coward or a weakling, a bully, a shirk or a ...
Sriram
B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur High-precision Measurement of Bacterial Growth Rates: A Step toward Understanding of Deleterious Fitness Effects of High Mutation Rates presented by Stanislas Leibler Sriram, also known as Sri Ram, came to New York from Kanpur, India, where he did hi...
Pete Stavropoulos
B.S., State University of New York, Stony Brook Crystal Structure and Mechanism of Human Lysine-specific Demethylase-1 presented by Günter Blobel Pete had already a great deal of exposure to research when he joined Rockefeller’s  graduate program. His first experience in a laboratory was during ...
Megan Elizabeth van Overbeek
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; D.E.A., Université Pierre et Marie Curie The Apollo Nuclease Binds to TRF2 and Protects Telomeres in S Phase presented by Titia de Lange The third student to graduate from my lab this year and the speaker at today’s luncheon, Megan van Overbeek, joined ...
Lisa C. Zaba
B.S., Stanford University Dendritic Cells in Normal and Inflamed Human Skin James G. Krueger Lisa Zaba came to the laboratory almost at the end of medical school (at Weill Cornell Medical College) for what I thought was only a short research elective. Instead, the research she began intrigued her...
Julie Biyuan Zang
B.A., University of California, Berkeley Identification of Loss of Specific FMRP-RNA Interactions as a Cause of Fragile X Syndrome presented by Robert B. Darnell It is a pleasure to introduce Julie Zang to you, on behalf of myself and her thesis coadviser, Jennifer Darnell. After working with us ...
Rockefeller University to hold 50th commencement June 12
The Rockefeller University will award doctoral degrees to 26 students in its 50th graduating class at a commencement ceremony on Thursday, June 12. Three distinguished alumni will also receive honorary doctor of science degrees: Gerald M. Edelman, class of ’60, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in P...
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Convocation is June 12. This year’s 26 graduates commemorate 50 years of degree-granting excellence. Honorary degrees will go to Rockefeller alumni: Gerald M. Edelman, class of 1960, Nina V. Fedoroff, 1972, and Bertil Hille, 1967. The schedule of events: June 12: 2:30 p.m. Academic Processiona...
Credit crisis forces Rockefeller to refinance $114 million in bonds
Nearly one-third of the university’s bond portfolio — $114.75 million that the university borrowed from investors to pay for lab renovations and infrastructure improvements — has been refinanced after disruptions in the credit market beginning in mid-February caused interest rates on the bonds...
An update on our finances
Even for those of us who don’t closely follow Wall Street, it has been hard to miss the news of the past several months. What began as financial misfortune primarily afflicting homeowners with certain types of mortgages — and the companies that lend to them — has now spread and has come to aff...
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