News & HighlightsNews
Valets to solve parking crunch during campus construction
by TALLEY HENNING BROWNCommuters who use university parking will soon hand over their keys — to a valet. To make way for construction crews working on the north campus renovations and the Collaborative Research Center, the parking lots at the 66th Street gate, the Smith Hall Annex receiving area ...
Weiss Café thinks green
New china and biodegradable containers help café patrons lessen their impact on the environment by TALLEY HENNING BROWNThere’s about to be a slew of new choices in Weiss Café — not in the food itself, but in how it’s served. Restaurant Associates, which runs the university’s food service o...
A salute to dedication
Banquet honors those who retired or reached major milestones in 2006 The 10 individuals honored at the anniversary and retirement dinner on May 2 have collectively dedicated more than 300 years of service to The Rockefeller University. Add the people honored at the employee recognition reception ...
Frank Brink Jr.
When Frank Brink Jr. first began investigating how neurons work, he could not have known how significant a part he would play in mapping the unknown territory of the human brain. His research added considerably to our understanding of neuronal activity and his dedication as an educator provided c...
Leo Gordon
A Rockefeller University security guard for 17 years, Leo Gordon served under four presidents, joined in the celebrations of four Nobel Prize winners and attended the graduations of over 400 students. “A couple of his years here, he was chosen to carry the university flag in the Convocation proce...
Robert L. Schoenfeld
“A researcher may not think of asking a question of nature until there is a means of getting at the answer.” In speaking these words, Robert L. Schoenfeld implicitly described the kind of researcher he himself was: one with boundless curiosity about the natural world and the ingenuity necessary ...
Milestones
Awarded: Jürg Ott, the Medal of Honor of the German Society for Human Genetics. The medal, given in recognition of scientific achievements and significant contributions to the field of human genetics made by individual geneticists, is the society’s highest honor. Torsten N. Wiesel, the 2005 Nat...
Protein is linked to functional development of brain neurons
Rockefeller University investigators say that a molecule that helps transport cargo inside nerve cells may have another, critically important, role related to how developing neurons sprout the projections that relay electrical signals within the brain. In the June 6 issue of The EMBO Journal, re...
Dendritic cells are replenished from blood
Dendritic cells help direct the body’s immune response by presenting invading antigens to T cells so they know what to attack. But an ongoing debate exists about where dendritic cells originate and how they multiply, especially in the spleen and lymph system. Now, in a paper published in this mon...
Study of staph reveals how bacteria evolve resistance
Antibacterial resistance doesn’t happen overnight. But until recently nobody knew exactly how long it took — or how it happened at all. Now, by studying blood taken from a single patient over a period of months, Rockefeller University researchers have been able to trace how a common strain of ba...
View
View