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Fundraising campaign passes $400 million mark
by ZACH VEILLEUX After a record-setting year ending in June 2006, new gifts recorded in the past few months have pushed Rockefeller’s seven-year Campaign for Collaborative Science closer to its goal of bringing in $500 million to pay for initiatives outlined in the strategic plan. At present, $41...
Five new trustees elected to Board
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN The Rockefeller Board of Trustees elected five new members in 2006, increasing the total number of trustees and trustees emeriti to 54. The new constituents include one lawyer, two chartered financial analysts, a private equity professional and — slightly unusual for Rocke...
Funding our laboratories
The Rockefeller University is unusual — in fact almost unique amongst U.S. universities — in providing ongoing significant direct support to individual laboratories as part of its routine annual operating budget. Much of this direct support is quantified by the application of a formula. Over the...
Mike Rossner takes the helm at The Rockefeller University Press
Managing editor of the JCB assumes responsibility for the university’s scientific publishing unit by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Mike Rossner, who has served as managing editor of the Journal of Cell Biology since 1997, was promoted to executive director of The Rockefeller University Press, effective De...
Paul Nurse co-hosts new PBS show with Charlie Rose
The 'Charlie Rose Science Series' brings current research, and researchers, into the public eye by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Paul Nurse is taking his views on science and society, well known in the Rockefeller community, to a wider forum: a new public television series. Dr. Nurse is co-host, with Emmy...
McKinney to head new lab at EPFL
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN John McKinney, associate professor and head of Rockefeller’s Laboratory of Infection Biology, has accepted a new appointment at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland, as a professor in the recently established Global Health Institute withi...
Milestones
Awarded: Science Outreach students Theodore Drivas (2006, Gadsby Lab, mentor Attila Gulyas Kovacs) and Christopher Loo (2005–06, Chua Lab, mentors Rafael Catala-Rodriguez and Nam-Hai Chua), semifinalists in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search. Jeffrey M. Friedman, the Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko...
Humans, flies smell alike, neurobiologists find
The nose knows – whether it’s on a fruit fly or a human. And while it would seem that how a fruit fly judges odors should differ from how a human smells, new research from Rockefeller University finds that at the neurobiological level, the two organisms have more in common than one might expect....
Viral protein is an effective preventative against infection
For parents, eight million cases of acute middle-ear infections every year add up to a lot of sleepless nights and trips to the pediatrician. But new research from a collaboration between Rockefeller University and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital could change all that. Research in mice sugg...
Chemical cues turn embryonic stem cells into cerebellar neurons
Embryonic stem cells have shown a great deal of promise for alleviating heart disease and regenerating organs. But for some of the conditions for which people hold out the most hope — Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, for example — there’s been little evidence to date that stem cells can work. ...
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