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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...
Written on the wall
Graffiti artist Coco 144 reveals his newest work in Bronk Electrician Robert Gualtieri’s most important contribution to the recently completed renovation of Bronk’s first floor isn’t in the walls, it’s on them. On Friday, April 4, Mr. Gualtieri, a 20-year employee in Plant Operations, rev...
Milestones
Awarded: Donald Pfaff, an honorary degree from Pace University. The degree will be presented to Dr. Pfaff, head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior, on May 18. Named: Seth Darst, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a society of scientists and engineers that is dedicated to th...
Seth Darst joins National Academy of Sciences
Seth Darst, whose research explores the mechanisms by which RNA is transcribed from DNA, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States. Darst will be inducted into the Academy next April during its annual meet...
Jeffrey Ravetch elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Jeffrey V. Ravetch, an immunologist who studies how cells respond to specific antibodies, has been elected to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an independent policy research center that undertakes studies of complex and emerging problems. The academy announced the election this week; Ra...
New policy at Rockefeller University Press allows authors to retain copyright to their published work
Citing the growing demand from the public and the scientific community for access to research data, The Rockefeller University Press has revised its copyright policy to allow authors to retain the rights to work published in its three journals. The policy, which became effective May 1, applies to...
Newly refined antibody therapy may be potent treatment for autoimmune diseases
An old, fickle therapy for a variety of autoimmune diseases is getting a makeover, thanks to a decade-long investigation by Rockefeller University researchers. The original treatment, called intravenous immunoglobulin or IVIG, is an amalgam of specific antibodies made from the pooled blood plasma...
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