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University owned building on 60th Street sells for $24 million
by ZACH VEILLEUX A four-story warehouse purchased by the university in 2003, which at one point was slated to be converted to faculty and postdoc housing, has been sold to a Long Island-based real estate developer. The sale was approved by the university’s Board in the spring and closed May 18. ...
Turnstile installed at 64th Street
by ZACH VEILLEUX A new full-height turnstile at Rockefeller’s 64th Street pedestrian entrance, installed August 3, has allowed the university to restore 24/7 access to the south campus from York Avenue. As a result, the existing entrance gate, which had been locked on nights and weekends since la...
New hospital initiatives aim to engage minorities in science
by JOSEPH BONNER Women and minorities continue to be underrepresented in the science and technology workforce, and new initiatives at Rockefeller University are working to change that. Led by Bernice B. Rumala, community engagement specialist in the Center for Clinical and Translational Science (...
Pearl Meister Greengard Prize to be awarded to McGill memory researcher
In the early 1950s, Brenda Milner was making a name for herself among researchers in the memory field, studying memory defects in epileptic patients who had undergone surgery on the brain’s frontal lobe. By 1955, Dr. Milner’s work attracted the attention of a Connecticut neurosurgeon, William Sc...
Stanley Fowler
A security guard since November 2009, Stanley Fowler mostly worked the evening and overnight shifts. He died in August at the age of 58. Originally from England, Mr. Fowler moved to the U.S. in 2002 and had worked as a guard at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, where he lived, before joining Rockefell...
Milestones
Awarded: Cori Bargmann, the 11th Perl-University of North Carolina Neuroscience Prize. The award, which Dr. Bargmann shares with Catherine Dulac of Harvard, is worth $10,000 and is awarded this year for the discovery of chemosensory circuits that regulate social behaviors. Dr. Bargmann, Torsten N...
In the News
“Peter Holt, a researcher at Rockefeller University in New York, said that overweight patients who have the common ‘stomach stapling’ operations are likely to have large concentrations of alcohol in the blood even if they drink little, which take a long time to wear off. As a result, Dr. Holt ...
In the News
“Dr. Greengard, 85, is still making breakthroughs. In an offshoot of his award-winning research, the director of the Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research recently discovered a new pathway for potentially treating the disease. He identified a protein in mice that stimulates the production of b...
In the News
“Consider the investigation of Mike Rossner, executive director of the Rockefeller University Press. In 2002, while trying to format a scientific image in Photoshop that was going to appear in one of the journals, Rossner noticed that the background of the image contained different intensities of...
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"‘The problems are here and now,’ said Joel Cohen, head of the laboratory of populations at New York's Rockefeller University. ‘People forget there are a billion chronically hungry people; every day those people wake up and they’re hungry all day, and they go to sleep hungry.’”
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