News & HighlightsNews
Principal Group to serve as new claims administrator
by ZACH VEILLEUX The Rockefeller University has chosen The Principal Financial Group, a 129-year-old financial services company headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, to take over the administration of its self-insured health plan, dental plan and flexible spending accounts. Principal has taken over ...
New head of security is former NYPD inspector
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN James Rogers has been on the payroll for almost a month, but he’s had an eye on the safety of Rockefeller University for years. A 22-year veteran of the New York Police Department, Mr. Rogers became Rockefeller’s new director of security on January 2, filling the position...
A new seminar series
One of the important things about being part of an academic community is the opportunity to attend lectures and seminars. Rockefeller has an impressive calendar, with some of the world’s most acclaimed scientists sharing their findings and opinions in a variety of fora each week. The university i...
Christian Münz to direct research institute in Zurich
Rockefeller immunologist to accept appointments at University of Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Christian Münz, head of the Laboratory of Viral Immunobiology, has been appointed the new director of the Institute of Experimental Immunology — a research veh...
$400,000 grant creates new fund for translational research at Rockefeller
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN With a $400,000 grant from the Achelis and Bodman Foundations, Rockefeller University’s Bridges to Better Medicine Forum has launched a new fund devoted to advancing translational research that is on the cusp of commercial viability. The Technology Innovation Fund will fin...
A storeroom, transformed
Child and Family Center’s newly opened art studio offers kids a place to be creative by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Art is a messy business, but the kids at the Child and Family Center have a new handle on it. The CFC’s art studio, created last fall in what used to be a storage room, gives kids in the ...
Following in family’s footsteps, Alicia Darnell wins national science prize
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN For Alicia Darnell, science fairs are serious business. After two summers spent in research laboratories, the high school senior took home more than just extra credit — Ms. Darnell is this year’s second-place winner in the national Siemens Competition in Math, Science...
Milestones
Awarded: Lu Bai, postdoc in Frederick Cross’s Laboratory of Yeast Molecular Genetics, and Erik Debler, postdoc in Günter Blobel’s Laboratory of Cell Biology, 2007 Damon Runyon Fellowships from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. The three-year award recognizes outstanding postdocs con...
Structural study of anthrax yields new antibiotic target
Researchers studying anthrax knew they were onto something when they discovered an opponent the bacterium couldn’t outwit. Probing a bit deeper, they discovered this was because the attacker was interacting with something anthrax requires to survive: a carbohydrate in its cell wall. Now, in a stu...
Protein that controls hair growth also keeps stem cells slumbering
Like fine china and crystal, which tend to be used sparingly, stem cells divide infrequently. It was thought they did so to protect themselves from unnecessary wear and tear. But now new research from Rockefeller University has unveiled the protein that puts the brakes on stem cell division and s...
View
View