Announcements

Music room has new piano. Minor renovations made to the music room over the summer include the purchase of a new Kawai K6 upright piano, which replaces the damaged Steinway model previously available there. A Dampp-Chaser climate-control system has also been installed. The music room is accessible with a specially coded Rockefeller ID card, and the room can be reserved at www.rockefeller.edu/calendar. For more information, contact Kacey Koeppel, 212-327-8971 or koeppek@rockefeller.edu.

2007 golf outing raises $3,000. The 5th annual event, on September 5 at Split Rock Golf Course in the Bronx, raised a record amount of money for the Child and Family Center. Winners of the men’s tournament were: Alex Kogan, associate vice president for physical facilities and housing, in third place; Joe O’Connor, of Turner Construction, in second place; and Aquiles Sosa, custodial assistant supervisor, in first place. In the women’s game, Aleksandra Mihailovic, research assistant in the Tuschl laboratory, won second place; Amy Wilkerson, associate vice president of research support, placed first. Money raised will go toward CFC supplies and playground equipment.

Fall Insight Lectures begin. This year’s Insight Lectures — which feature talks on science, policy and the humanities — began October 2. The fall lineup includes:

October 2
What We Can Learn from Exploring the Computational Universe. Stephen Wolfram, chief executive officer, Wolfram Research

October 22
The Sociology and Science of Drug Discovery. Peter N. Goodfellow, former senior vice president of discovery research, GlaxoSmithKline

November 6
Sciences of Human Enhancement. Philip Campbell, editor in chief, Nature

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