Announcements

Feeding holiday hunger. In conjunction with the student-initiated holiday food collection drive, which ran from December 1 to 18, Restaurant Associates has provided several turkeys and traditional holiday side dishes to City Harvest for its holiday dinners served to the homeless and hungry at soup kitchens across the five boroughs. City Harvest personnel will pick up the birds and fixings next week. For information on how to donate food or volunteer with City Harvest, visit www.cityharvest.org.

Town hall meeting is February 3. President Paul Nurse is hosting a town hall meeting in Caspary Auditorium on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 2:30 p.m. He will discuss university finances and other topics. All Rockefeller staff, students, postdocs and faculty are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Holiday Lectures are December 28. This year marks the 50th anniversary of The Rockefeller University Holiday Lectures on Science for High School Students, begun in 1959 by Alfred E. Mirsky, a biochemist and university librarian. About 400 students from schools around the city attend the lectures each year. This year’s lectures will be given by Associate Professor F. Nina Papavasiliou. The subject of the lectures is “Battle of the Mutants: Using Genetics as a Weapon to Fight Disease.” Tickets are required. For more information, call Gloria Phipps at (212) 327-8967.

Home for the holidays. The university will be closed from Friday, December 25 through Sunday, January 3 for the winter holidays. Happy new year.

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