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Faculty and Students Club turns 50

Originally suggested in the mid-1950s by Life Trustee David Rockefeller and President Detlev W. Bronk, the Faculty and Students Club opened in 1958 to encourage social interaction and scientific collaboration among the faculty, postdocs, students and staff of Rockefeller University. The Faculty a...
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Madhav Dhodapkar to move to Yale

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Madhav Dhodapkar, head of Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy, has accepted a new appointment as professor of medicine and chief of hematology at Yale University School of Medicine and director of hematologic malignancies and stem cell...
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President Emeritus Frederick Seitz dies at 96

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN “Over a long time, things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.” As president of The Rockefeller University, Frederick Seitz helped lay the foundation for entirely new avenues of inquiry at Rockefeller and forged la...
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Biochemist Shigeru Sassa dies at 72

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN For more than three decades, Shigeru Sassa served as not only a faculty member, but one of Rockefeller University’s most dedicated ambassadors. Having come to the United States and Rockefeller University in 1968 after beginning his scientific career in Japan, Dr. Sassa was...
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Jonathan Winson, founder of dream analysis, dies at 84

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN “Dreams were never designed to be remembered, but they are keys to who we are.” Widely considered the founder of modern dream analysis, Jonathan Winson, who wrote these words in 1985, bridged the fields of psychoanalysis and neurobiology by elucidating the biological unde...
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Speakers named for Evolution Symposium

“From RNA to Humans: A Symposium on Evolution” will be held May 1 and 2 on the Rockefeller University campus. Experts from institutions across the world will speak on subjects from the RNA world hypothesis to the development of eukaryotes to the evolution of humans. The speakers are:May 1 Sessi...
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Milestones

Awarded: C. David Allis, the 2008 ASBMB-Merck Award, from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The award, which includes $5,000, recognizes outstanding contributions to research in biochemistry and molecular biology. Dr. Allis, head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology a...
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Brains are hardwired to act according to the Golden Rule

Wesley Autrey, a black construction worker, a Navy veteran and 55-year-old father of two, didn’t know the young man standing beside him. But when he had a seizure on the subway platform and toppled onto the tracks, Autrey jumped down after him and shielded him with his body as a train bore down o...
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Chemical in bug spray works by masking human odors

Fifty years have passed since the United States Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Army invented DEET to protect soldiers from disease-transmitting insects (and, in the process, made camping trips and barbecues more pleasant for the rest of us civilians). But despite decades of research, scie...
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Neuroscientist Gerald Fischbach named visiting professor

A neuroscientist who spent his scientific career studying how connections between brain cells form — and who currently helps form connections between researchers studying autism — has been appointed a visiting professor at Rockefeller University. Fischbach, the second visiting professor to be na...
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