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The next generation In September, twenty new scientist-hopefuls will fill the gap left by this year’s graduates. Of an initial pool of 590 applicants, 12.5 percent were accepted, a number whittled down over the winter months by a screening committee overseen by the Dean’s Office and including S...

For Rockefeller University’s newest class of scientists, the pomp and circumstance of June 21 was infused with a strong dose of high spirits. Rock­efeller’s 49th Convocation began with a Moroccan-inspired reception on June 20, followed the next day by a formal luncheon, gowning and a procession...

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN This year’s honorary doctorate recipients are from very disparate fields. One, an entrepreneur and politician, made his name with a technology that is now ubiquitous in the financial industry. The other, a scientist and author, made his leading the vanguard in the cause of...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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 ...

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...

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...