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Milestones
Awarded: Jürg Ott, the Medal of Honor of the German Society for Human Genetics. The medal, given in recognition of scientific achievements and significant contributions to the field of human genetics made by individual geneticists, is the society’s highest honor. Torsten N. Wiesel, the 2005 Nat...
Announcements
Reset your password. As part of new Information Technology security measures, all members of the Rockefeller community are required to change the password that logs them into e-mail, Oracle Calendar, VPN and other IT services. The rules for the new password, devised to stay ahead of advanced hack...
CRC to be a LEED-certified ‘green’ building
by ZACH VEILLEUX The Collaborative Research Center, which will incorporate numerous environmentally friendly features in both its design and construction, will — if all goes as planned — be certified as a high-performance “green” building by the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in...
Expanding scientific support
High-quality scientific research requires both sophisticated equipment and highly skilled individuals to operate that equipment. Over the past several years, the university has invested in a number of core resource centers that house much of our most expensive machinery as well as the highly trai...
Stanford veterinarian named new LARC director
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Ravi Tolwani, a veterinarian who spent over a dozen years in Stanford University’s animal research facility, has been hired to take over the directorship of the Laboratory Animal Research Center upon the retirement of current director Fred Quimby this summer. Dr. Tolwani j...
Awareness projects to launch on York Avenue, FDR
by ZACH VEILLEUX In a city where high-wattage billboards scream out from Times Square and even local delis tend to plaster their façades with signs, Rockefeller University maintains a surprisingly low profile. Nestled behind an iron gate and thick foliage on the west and cut off from the busy Fra...
Rockefeller welcomes winged visitors
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN A corner of campus that has for several years served as a staging area for construction work has been relandscaped — with an eye toward butterflies. Plant Opera­tions, which oversees the university’s landscaping, began the process this spring of transforming the land adj...
Virologist Jim Murphy dies at 85
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN The scion of a long line of scientists, James Slater Murphy’s life was infused with the spirit of scientific inquiry from his earliest days. The fervor for and dedication to pure research that he evinced in his later life were a hallmark of his association with Rockefeller...
Lewis Thomas Prize awarded to Richard Dawkins
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN The committee that nominates and selects recipients of the Lewis Thomas Prize does not have an easy job; few people eloquently straddle the fields of science and literature. But there was little debate over Richard Dawkins, British ethologist and popular science writer, wh...
Milestones
Awarded: Sung Hee Ahn-Upton, a Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award from the Basic Sciences Division of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The award honors the late Harold M. Weintraub, who identified genes responsible for cell differentiation. C. David Allis, a Gairdner Foundation Int...
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