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’08 budget devotes record $183 million to research
by ZACH VEILLEUX Rockefeller’s operating budget this fiscal year has increased by 4.7 percent over last year but remains balanced, anticipating a modest surplus of $400,000 by the time the books close in June 2008. “Despite the projected loss of some federal grant revenue this year, the budget ...
Faculty recruitment update
As we begin our next academic year I thought it would be useful to update the university community about where we are with our ongoing efforts to recruit new faculty. As you know, for the last two years we have used an open recruitment process, in which all candidates are evaluated by a single co...
Hospital to grant master's degrees
The Center for Clinical and Translational Science begins degree program in clinical and translational research by TALLEY HENNING BROWN In 2010, The Rockefeller University will include more than Ph.D.s among its alumni. As part of the plan established when Rockefeller received its first Clinical a...
Patricia Rosenwald and Peter Grauer join Board of Trustees
Patricia Rosenwald and Peter Grauer join Board of Trustees by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Patricia P. Rosenwald and Peter T. Grauer, familiar faces in New York philanthropy and business circles respectively, are the two newest faces of The Rockefeller University. Mrs. Rosenwald, alumna and former longti...
Message in a bottleneck
Software bugs revealed during upgrades this summer caused unusual interruptions in e-mail service by TALLEY HENNING BROWNThe two Sun Microsystem servers that process and deliver the university’s e-mail look and perform a lot like any other desktop computer: a plastic box, a few fans, a processor,...
Friday lectures under way
This year’s program, which began September 7, brings 30 speakers from some of the world’s top universities and institutions to Rockefeller for the university’s weekly lecture series. October 5  Allan C. Spradling director, department of embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington William ...
On the wing
Butterfly gardens planted this spring have led to sightings of several different species across the Rockefeller campus. Photos taken by Anne Nurse, wife of President Paul Nurse, show, clockwise from top left, eastern tiger swallowtail, monarch, cabbage white and black swallowtail butterflies in ...
Milestones
Awarded: C. David Allis, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Merck Award, for contributions to the field of chromatin biology. The award will be presented at the Experimental Biology 2008 meeting in April in San Diego, California. Nina V. Fedoroff (alumna), the 2006 Nation...
Viewing dye-packed vesicles causes them to explode
It’s a long-standing question: Can just the act of observing an experiment affect the results? According to a new study by Rockefeller University scientists, if the experiment uses a fluorescent dye called acridine orange, the answer is a resounding “yes.” Cells use a process called exocyto...
Sizing cells up: Researchers pinpoint when a cell is ready to reproduce
For more than 100 years, scientists have tried to figure out the cell size problem: How does a cell know when it is big enough to divide? In research conducted in budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), scientists at Rockefeller University have now identified the cellular event that marks the m...
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