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First evidence of native dendritic cells in brain
In a finding that has the potential to change the way researchers think about the brain, scientists at Rockefeller University have found dendritic cells where they’ve never been seen before: among this organ’s neurons and connective cells. The immunity-directing dendritic cell had previously bee...
Announcements
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...
New theory suggests how hepatitis C may cause rare immune disease
Of the hepatitis alphabet, the C variant may be the nastiest. In 1990, researchers observed that most patients with hepatitis C also develop a rare autoimmune disease called mixed cryoglobulinemia, a condition that frequently leads to cancer, arthritis or both. Now, researchers at Rockefeller Uni...
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...
Campus power failure likely caused by crane activity
by ZACH VEILLEUX An electrical failure that caused power outages in seven labs and dozens of offices in parts of Flexner Hall, Nurses Residence and The Rockefeller University Hospital on March 29 was likely prompted by the weight of a construction crane on 50-year-old conduit that had recently b...
A millennium of service
A dinner in Weiss honors 2007 retirements and anniversaries. 2007 was a milestone year for many at Rockefeller University. Twenty employees celebrated anniversaries and 16 people retired. The honorees of this year’s banquet, held in the Weiss Café on April 17, represent nearly 1,200 years of serv...
Scientists get down to business
New Science and Economics Program connects students with finance, law and politics by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Geoffrey Smith isn’t a scientist; he’s a businessman. But Rockefeller’s newest graduate instructor believes that successful scientists need basic training in economics and law just as muc...
Andreas Dracopoulos elected to Board of Trustees
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Andreas Dracopoulos, a director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, is the newest addition to The Rockefeller University Board of Trustees. A longtime supporter of the university’s Women & Science program and other initiatives, Mr. Dracopoulos was elected to the Board on M...
Pearl Meister Greengard Prize honors pioneers of embryonic stem cell research
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Three pioneers of embryonic stem cell research — an embryologist, a molecular geneticist and a developmental biologist — are the recipients of the 2007 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, the university’s award for notable women in science. The award, presented in a ceremony...
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