Skip to main content

Rockefeller University

News & Highlights > News
Campus News

Announcements

New support group available. The Employee Assistance Program Consortium is offering a support group this spring for parents of infants and toddlers. The group will meet on consecutive Mondays beginning April 2; all sessions will meet from 12 to 1 p.m. at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. EAPC couns...
Campus News

Fundraising campaign passes $400 million mark

by ZACH VEILLEUX After a record-setting year ending in June 2006, new gifts recorded in the past few months have pushed Rockefeller’s seven-year Campaign for Collaborative Science closer to its goal of bringing in $500 million to pay for initiatives outlined in the strategic plan. At present, $41...
Campus News

Five new trustees elected to Board

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN The Rockefeller Board of Trustees elected five new members in 2006, increasing the total number of trustees and trustees emeriti to 54. The new constituents include one lawyer, two chartered financial analysts, a private equity professional and — slightly unusual for Rocke...
Campus News

Funding our laboratories

The Rockefeller University is unusual — in fact almost unique amongst U.S. universities — in providing ongoing significant direct support to individual laboratories as part of its routine annual operating budget. Much of this direct support is quantified by the application of a formula. Over the...
Campus News

Mike Rossner takes the helm at The Rockefeller University Press

Managing editor of the JCB assumes responsibility for the university’s scientific publishing unit by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Mike Rossner, who has served as managing editor of the Journal of Cell Biology since 1997, was promoted to executive director of The Rockefeller University Press, effective De...
Campus News

Paul Nurse co-hosts new PBS show with Charlie Rose

The 'Charlie Rose Science Series' brings current research, and researchers, into the public eye by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Paul Nurse is taking his views on science and society, well known in the Rockefeller community, to a wider forum: a new public television series. Dr. Nurse is co-host, with Emmy...
Campus News

McKinney to head new lab at EPFL

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN John McKinney, associate professor and head of Rockefeller’s Laboratory of Infection Biology, has accepted a new appointment at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland, as a professor in the recently established Global Health Institute withi...
Campus News

Milestones

Awarded: Science Outreach students Theodore Drivas (2006, Gadsby Lab, mentor Attila Gulyas Kovacs) and Christopher Loo (2005–06, Chua Lab, mentors Rafael Catala-Rodriguez and Nam-Hai Chua), semifinalists in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search. Jeffrey M. Friedman, the Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko...
Science News

Humans, flies smell alike, neurobiologists find

The nose knows – whether it’s on a fruit fly or a human. And while it would seem that how a fruit fly judges odors should differ from how a human smells, new research from Rockefeller University finds that at the neurobiological level, the two organisms have more in common than one might expect....
Science News

Viral protein is an effective preventative against infection

For parents, eight million cases of acute middle-ear infections every year add up to a lot of sleepless nights and trips to the pediatrician. But new research from a collaboration between Rockefeller University and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital could change all that. Research in mice sugg...
View
Previous
Next
View
Previous
Next