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Two Rockefeller faculty become new HHMI investigators
Two Rockefeller faculty members, Paul D. Bieniasz and Leslie B. Vosshall, are among 56 biomedical scientists nationwide chosen to become Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators this year. The new appointments bring the total number of HHMI investigators at the university to 14. HHMI investi...
Scientists image a single HIV particle being born
A mapmaker and a mathematician may seem like an unlikely duo, but together they worked out a way to measure longitude — and kept millions of sailors from getting lost at sea. Now, another unlikely duo, a virologist and a biophysicist at Rockefeller University, is making history of its own. By usi...
World Science Festival begins May 28
The first annual World Science Festival, an unprecedented celebration of scientific discovery sponsored in part by Rockefeller University and featuring more than a dozen Nobel laureates along with researchers, technologists, educators, policy makers, artists and performers, will begin May 28 in N...
DNA vaccines get a boost from dendritic cells
The concept sounds ideal: vaccines made of DNA that could be taken in by other cells and give instructions for how to fight off different diseases. The reality, however, has fallen short. Although DNA vaccines have been around for about 15 years and shown lots of promise for HIV, SARS and influen...
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...
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