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ants heat
Ant colonies behave like neural networks when making decisions 
Colonies decide to flee rising temperatures in much the same way that neural computations give rise to decisions.

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Nicola Khuri, theoretical physicist and scientific-community builder, has died
Nicola N. Khuri, a theoretical physicist known for using math to describe and predict what happens when elementary particles collide in giant accelerators, died on August 4 at age 89.
Jiankun Lyu
New faculty member unlocks vast chemical spaces for drug discovery
Jiankun Lyu will join Rockefeller as an assistant professor on January 1, 2023.
lamia wahba
New faculty member plumbs the depths of fast-track evolution 
Lamia Wahba will join Rockefeller as an assistant professor on January 1, 2023.
A side view of the small intestine.
How the intestine replaces and repairs itself
A new study suggests that stem cells are able to integrate cues from their surroundings and coordinate their behavior across tissue through networks of vasculature in their close vicinity.

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Featured campus news

A venerable tree ends its tenure
After gracing the university’s north-south pathway for decades, a London plane tree was cut down due to interior decay and the resulting safety risk. Removal of the deciduous giant required a team ...
New portrait of five trailblazing women scientists from Rockefeller’s past is unveiled
With a new portrait by artist Brenda Zlamany, installed over the fireplace in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Reception Hall, the likenesses of scientists Marie Daly, Rebecca Lancefield, Louise Pearce...
40 young scientists receive Ph.D.s at Rockefeller’s 64th convocation
With this week’s ceremony, the first in-person convocation since the start of the pandemic, Rockefeller has granted doctor of philosophy degrees in bioscience to 1,395 students. In addition, Anthon...

Latest awards & honors

Tomasz Ahrends and Kevin Gonzales receive Tri-Institutional Breakout Awards
June 2, 2022
Leslie B. Vosshall named a member of the American Philosophical Society
June 1, 2022

Rockefeller in the news

Nature
Hybrid brains: the ethics of transplanting human neurons into animals
August 3, 2022
The Atlantic
Could genetics be the key to never getting the coronavirus?
July 25, 2022
Quanta Magazine
Embryo cells set patterns for growth by pushing and pulling
July 12, 2022
Time
What to know about the newest, most contagious Omicron subvariants
June 15, 2022

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