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Jeffrey Friedman to receive Kovalenko Medal
The National Academy of Sciences announced today that Rockefeller University scientist Jeffrey M. Friedman will receive the National Academy of Sciences’ Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal — a medal and prize of $25,000 awarded every three years for important contributions to the medical sciences....
Lederberg receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
President Emeritus Joshua Lederberg is one of 10 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award, President George W. Bush announced today. Established by Executive Order 11085 in 1963, the Medal may be awarded by the president “to any person who has made an e...
Three Rockefeller scientists elected AAAS fellows
Three Rockefeller University scientists have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. The election of Arleen Auerbach, Cori Bargmann and Nathaniel Heintz was announced in the AAAS News and Notes section...
American Chemical Society to recognize breakthrough 1963 chemistry discovery
A discovery by a Rockefeller University chemist that enabled the rapid synthesis of peptides and proteins — and garnered a Nobel Prize in 1984 — will be honored Monday by the American Chemical Society. The presentation of the Citation for Chemical Breakthroughs will be part of a daylong scientif...
Mary Francis Lyons to receive Rockefeller's Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
The third annual Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, an international award to recognize the accomplishments of outstanding women scientists, will be presented to British geneticist Mary Frances Lyon on November 2. The prize, awarded by Rockefeller University, was established by Paul Greengard, Rockef...
Four Rockefeller scientists elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Four Rockefeller University scientists — Titia de Lange, Charles D. Gilbert, Michael E. O’Donnell and Jeffrey V. Ravetch — have been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the ...
Paul Nurse elected fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Rockefeller University President Paul Nurse has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an independent policy research center that undertakes studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy announced the election April 24. Founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bow...
McEwen to receive Pasarow Award
Rockefeller University’s Bruce McEwen, whose laboratory studies how the brain changes in response to stress and other experiences, will receive the 2005 Neuropsychiatry Research Award from the Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation. The announcement was made this week by the Pasarow Foundation i...
Rockefeller neurobiologist to receive Benjamin Franklin Medal
Rockefeller University’s Fernando Nottebohm will receive the 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia announced today. The medal recognizes Nottebohm’s discovery of neuronal replacement in the adult vertebrate brain and the elaboration of the mechanism...
Three Rockefeller scientists receive 2005 Mayor's awards
Three of Rockefeller’s scientists were honored today with 2005 New York City’s Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Science and Technology: Jan Breslow, Mitchell Feigenbaum and Leslie Vosshall. Jan Breslow is recognized with the Award in Biological and Medical Sciences for his pioneering work on ...
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