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Why visiting scholars?

One of the strategic aims identified in the plan for the university is to foster interactions among scientists at all levels. Over the past few years we have introduced a number of vehicles to encourage greater intellectual exchange. These include the Monday Lecture Series, now entering its third...
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Princeton physicist joins Rockefeller as part-time visiting professor

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN There’s more than one way to visit. While Peter Goodfellow and Philip Campbell will each spend a few weeks here as visiting scholars, William Bialek has committed to a longer-term stay as a part-time visiting professor. A theoretical physicist and professor at Princeton U...
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Milestones

Awarded: Sean Brady, a 2007 Beckman Young Investigator Award, for his work in the discovery and study of naturally occurring small molecules and their therapeutic potential. The award, which comes with a grant of approximately $300,000, was established in 1991 by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foun...
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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 accessibl...
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’08 budget devotes record $183 million to research

by ZACH VEILLEUX Rockefeller’s operating budget this fiscal year has increased by 4.7 percent over last year but remains balanced, anticipating a modest surplus of $400,000 by the time the books close in June 2008. “Despite the projected loss of some federal grant revenue this year, the budget ...
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Faculty recruitment update

As we begin our next academic year I thought it would be useful to update the university community about where we are with our ongoing efforts to recruit new faculty. As you know, for the last two years we have used an open recruitment process, in which all candidates are evaluated by a single co...
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Hospital to grant master's degrees

The Center for Clinical and Translational Science begins degree program in clinical and translational research by TALLEY HENNING BROWN In 2010, The Rockefeller University will include more than Ph.D.s among its alumni. As part of the plan established when Rockefeller received its first Clinical a...
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Patricia Rosenwald and Peter Grauer join Board of Trustees

Patricia Rosenwald and Peter Grauer join Board of Trustees by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Patricia P. Rosenwald and Peter T. Grauer, familiar faces in New York philanthropy and business circles respectively, are the two newest faces of The Rockefeller University. Mrs. Rosenwald, alumna and former longti...
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Message in a bottleneck

Software bugs revealed during upgrades this summer caused unusual interruptions in e-mail service by TALLEY HENNING BROWNThe two Sun Microsystem servers that process and deliver the university’s e-mail look and perform a lot like any other desktop computer: a plastic box, a few fans, a processor,...
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Friday lectures under way

This year’s program, which began September 7, brings 30 speakers from some of the world’s top universities and institutions to Rockefeller for the university’s weekly lecture series. October 5  Allan C. Spradling director, department of embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington William ...
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