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Rockefeller gets ever greener

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Longer grass and newer light bulbs may not do much to lower gas prices, but taken together, the university’s green initiatives have helped double the amount of trash that gets recycled and may slash energy usage by three to five percent, Plant Operations personnel report. ...
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Friday Lecture Series begins

This year’s series kicked off last week and includes speakers from some of the world’s most prestigious universities and institutions. (Dates are subject to change. For a current schedule of speakers, go to featuredevents.rockefeller.edu.) October 3 Brian Kobilka, M.D. professor of molecular ...
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Still life with scientist

A nearly nine-foot-wide painting of Rockefeller president Paul Nurse, by acclaimed British artist Jason Brooks, has been made part of the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London. Mr. Brooks achieved a high level of precision by using acrylic paints and an airbrush, working...
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Milestones

Awarded: Laura Banaszynski, a 2009 Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry, from the American Chemical Society. Matthew Evans, Valerie Horsley, Andreas Keller and Tom W. Muir, finalists in the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists competition. Dr. Evans, a postdoc in Ch...
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Neuron in zebrafish may reveal clues to the wiring of the human ear

Developing neurons tend to play the field, making more connections than they will ever need. Then the weakest are cut. But Rockefeller University scientists now show that neurons in young zebrafish — vertebrates, like humans — behave differently: They immediately find a cluster of specialized ce...
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Paris Piano Trio opens 51st Peggy Rockefeller Concert Series

The Rockefeller University begins its 51st season of the Peggy Rockefeller Concerts this evening with the Paris Piano Trio. Seven additional concerts are scheduled between now and May 2009. Through the Peggy Rockefeller Concerts program, a subscription series, the university has played host to so...
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Variations in key genes increases Caucasians' risk of heroin addiction

Sometimes, small changes do add up. In the case of addictive diseases, tiny variations in a few genes can increase or decrease the likelihood of some people developing a dependency on heroin. Now, by examining a select group of genetic variants in more than 400 former severe heroin addicts, Rocke...
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A blood marker may indicate Alzheimer's risk

A simple blood test capable of predicting if a person might develop Alzheimer’s disease is within sight, and could eventually be used to help scientists reverse onset of the disease in those most at risk. According to new research by Rockefeller University scientists and their colleagues at Colum...
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New Rockefeller faculty member studies cancer metastasis

Sohail Tavazoie, a physician-scientist whose research focuses on the molecular basis of cancer metastasis, has been named assistant professor and will join The Rockefeller University as head of the Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology in January 2009. Tavazoie, who received his Ph.D. from Harvard...
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Abuse of painkillers can predispose adolescents to lifelong addiction

No child aspires to a lifetime of addiction. But their brains might. In new research to appear online in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology today, Rockefeller University researchers reveal that adolescent brains exposed to the painkiller OxyContin can sustain lifelong and permanent changes in th...
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