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Pellegrino awarded 2007 David Rockefeller Fellowship

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN For Maurizio Pellegrino, appreciation of the sciences has always come hand-in-hand with appreciation of the arts, and he developed his passion for both in high school. “I had the kind of teacher you could listen to for hours; there was a constant sparkle in her eyes when s...
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University's David Rockefeller Award goes to Ted Terry

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Among the accolades for scholar-scientists, this year’s Convocation honored a man with a quieter but no less significant role — a volunteer. Frederick A. (“Ted”) Terry Jr., longtime trustee and chair of Rockefeller University’s Committee on Trust and Estate Gift Pl...
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Teaching awards honor de Lange and McKinney

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Among the sonorous festivities celebrating Rockefeller’s 28 newest alumni, the university honored two professors for their contributions to scientific education. At the Convocation Luncheon on June 20, President Paul Nurse bestowed the third annual Rockefeller University D...
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Convocation 2007

Following tradition, faculty mentors gave tributes to this year’s crop of graduates. Printed here are the transcripts of those speeches, as they were read on June 21.
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Mary C. Abraham

B.A., M.Sci., University of Cambridge A New Type of Programmed Cell Death in C. elegans presented by Shai Shaham I have been remarkably lucky to have strong capable scientists pass through my lab. Mary Abraham is certainly a reflection of this luck. Mary was the second student to officially join ...
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Sung Hee Ahn-Upton

B.A., Oberlin College Regulation of Histone Covalent Modifications during Yeast Apoptosis presented by C. David Allis It is my great pleasure to introduce Sung Hee Ahn-Upton, my first Rockefeller graduate student. Sung, as she is called, was always ahead of me. When we first met at the University...
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Alexandra M. Deaconescu

B.E., The Cooper Union Structural Studies of the MFD ATPase — Coupling Transcription and DNA Repair in Bacteria with a dsDNA-tracking Motor presented by Sidney Strickland (on behalf of Seth A. Darst) Alex joined my laboratory as a graduate student in the summer of 2002. She grew up in Romania but...
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Claire Elizabeth Dunne Fraser

A.B., Princeton University KH Domains on Brain Polyribosomes: FMRP and Nova in Translational Regulation presented by Robert B. Darnell (on behalf of himself and Jennifer Darnell) Claire Dunne Fraser came to our laboratory from Princeton University with an outstanding record of 3.7 grade point ave...
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Andrés C. Gottfried

B.S., National Autonomous University of Mexico The Role of Microglia in the Effects of Steroid Hormones on Brain Inflammation presented by Bruce S. McEwen (on behalf of himself and Karen Bulloch) Andrés Blackmore Gottfried graduated from the National University of Mexico and came to Rockefeller U...
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Dirk Friedrich Hockemeyer

Diploma, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen The Role of POT1 in the Protection and Maintenance of Telomeres presented by Titia de Lange Half a century ago, highly talented young Americans with an interest in biomedical research would go to Europe to get training. In the 1960s this trend comple...
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