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Papavasiliou and Stavropoulos receive “transformative” NIH grant
The National Institutes of Health will award Nina Papavasiliou, head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Biology at Rockefeller, a $2.1 million grant under its Transformative Research Projects program, an initiative designed designed to encourage high-risk, high impact research. The grant, which will...
Gaby Maimon named one of Popular Science’s "Brilliant Ten"
Gaby Maimon, one of Rockefeller’s newest faculty members, who studies the neural basis for decision-making in fruit flies, has been named one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant Ten.” The honor recognizes Maimon’s development of a technique to monitor electrical activity in individual neurons ...
In the News
“Across town at the Rockefeller University, the new science facility, by Mitchell/Giurgola Architects, exists for no other purpose than to bring people out of isolation. It’s an addendum, a voluptuous glass link, seven stories high, interposed between two preexisting laboratory buildings. You en...
In the News
“‘Over 2,700 marine scientists in over 80 nations made the first-ever census of marine life over the past decade,” said Jesse Ausubel, director of the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University, speaking recently at a packed Secret Science Club program at the Bell House near t...
Discussing Strategy
This fall will mark the launch of the formal process to develop the university’s next strategic plan, a document that will serve as the blueprint for our activities over the next seven to 10 years. Strategic planning is an essential function for an institution such as Rockefeller, and it will be ...
Alumna Vanessa Ruta named to university's faculty
by ZACH VEILLEUX Vanessa Ruta, a Rockefeller alumna who did her doctoral studies in Roderick Mac-Kinnon’s lab, graduating in 2005, has joined the university as assistant professor and will establish the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior. She moved from a postdoc at Columbia University on...
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...
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