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Convocation is June 12. This year’s 26 graduates commemorate 50 years of degree-granting excellence. Honorary degrees will go to Rockefeller alumni: Gerald M. Edelman, class of 1960, Nina V. Fedoroff, 1972, and Bertil Hille, 1967. The schedule of events: June 12: 2:30 p.m. Academic Processiona...
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Credit crisis forces Rockefeller to refinance $114 million in bonds

Nearly one-third of the university’s bond portfolio — $114.75 million that the university borrowed from investors to pay for lab renovations and infrastructure improvements — has been refinanced after disruptions in the credit market beginning in mid-February caused interest rates on the bonds...
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An update on our finances

Even for those of us who don’t closely follow Wall Street, it has been hard to miss the news of the past several months. What began as financial misfortune primarily afflicting homeowners with certain types of mortgages — and the companies that lend to them — has now spread and has come to aff...
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Campus power failure likely caused by crane activity

by ZACH VEILLEUX An electrical failure that caused power outages in seven labs and dozens of offices in parts of Flexner Hall, Nurses Residence and The Rockefeller University Hospital on March 29 was likely prompted by the weight of a construction crane on 50-year-old conduit that had recently b...
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A millennium of service

A dinner in Weiss honors 2007 retirements and anniversaries. 2007 was a milestone year for many at Rockefeller University. Twenty employees celebrated anniversaries and 16 people retired. The honorees of this year’s banquet, held in the Weiss Café on April 17, represent nearly 1,200 years of serv...
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Scientists get down to business

New Science and Economics Program connects students with finance, law and politics by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Geoffrey Smith isn’t a scientist; he’s a businessman. But Rockefeller’s newest graduate instructor believes that successful scientists need basic training in economics and law just as muc...
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Andreas Dracopoulos elected to Board of Trustees

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Andreas Dracopoulos, a director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, is the newest addition to The Rockefeller University Board of Trustees. A longtime supporter of the university’s Women & Science program and other initiatives, Mr. Dracopoulos was elected to the Board on M...
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Pearl Meister Greengard Prize honors pioneers of embryonic stem cell research

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Three pioneers of embryonic stem cell research — an embryologist, a molecular geneticist and a developmental biologist — are the recipients of the 2007 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, the university’s award for notable women in science. The award, presented in a ceremony...
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Written on the wall

Graffiti artist Coco 144 reveals his newest work in Bronk Electrician Robert Gualtieri’s most important contribution to the recently completed renovation of Bronk’s first floor isn’t in the walls, it’s on them. On Friday, April 4, Mr. Gualtieri, a 20-year employee in Plant Operations, rev...
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Milestones

Awarded: Donald Pfaff, an honorary degree from Pace University. The degree will be presented to Dr. Pfaff, head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior, on May 18. Named: Seth Darst, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a society of scientists and engineers that is dedicated to th...
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