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Center for Clinical and Translational Science funds eight new pilot studies

The Rockefeller University Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) has announced the recipients of its 2008 Pilot Project grants. Eight Rockefeller researchers will each receive $25,000 from the center to fund early studies in translational science that, if successful, might lead to ...
Awards and Honors

Three biophysicists receive Burroughs Wellcome career awards

Three Rockefeller University scientists are among the 2008 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI): Dirk Albrecht, postdoctoral associate in Cori Bargmann’s Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, Maria Neimark Geffen, fellow at the Center for Studies in Physi...
Science News

Most carriers of Fanconi anemia genes are not at a higher risk of cancer

For almost 50 years, Fanconi anemia has been associated with leukemia. Not just among those who have the genetic disorder but among their family members, whose genes, they were told, made them highly susceptible to a variety of malignancies. But a new study to examine links between 13 specific Fa...
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Announcements

Holiday party is December 20. Highlights this year include Italian food and traditional Italian music performed by Richard Stillman on the 17th floor of Weiss Research Building, French food in Café East and Spanish tapas and music by Spanish guitarist Shan Kenner in Café South. Evolut...
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Concepts emerge for planned Welch Hall renovation

by ZACH VEILLEUX In the university’s early years, it was a grand space where scientists gathered for meals, study and discussion. More recently it has served as storage for archived journal volumes and office space for the library’s staff. But if new plans — under development since last year ...
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Grants office expands its mission under new director

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN In the hypercompetitive, high-stakes world of scientific research grants, Rockefeller’s faculty has a new leg up. This fall, Gila Budescu, most recently from Northwestern University, has joined the university as director of the Office of Sponsored Research and Program Deve...
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City to study making York Avenue one-way

December 7, 2007 by ZACH VEILLEUX The New York City Department of Transportation is studying a series of proposals, introduced by three of Rockefeller University’s neighboring institutions, to revamp traffic patterns along York Avenue. If any of the proposals is ultimately implemented, it could m...
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Old spaces give way to new laboratories

As demolition work on the north campus kicks into full gear, several relocated laboratories are settling into newly renovated digs further south. Plant Operations personnel, in conjunction with Planning and Construction, spent months refitting several spaces with new fixtures to accommodate speci...
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Calling all personnel

Rockefeller University expands its electronic alert notification system to include all members of the campus community by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Send Word Now, an emergency alert system first implemented in 2005 to quickly communicate with “first responders” on campus during a disaster, has been ...
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Life Trustee Brooke Astor dies at 105

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Brooke Russell Astor was known as a great conversationalist, but her philosophy regarding her life’s work was something she described succinctly: “Power is the ability to do good things for others.” The beloved grande dame of New York philanthropy circles and a trustee ...
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