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Accessory protein determines whether pheromones are detected

heromones are like the molecules you taste as you chomp on a greasy french fry: big and fatty. In research to be published in the October 17 advance online issue of Nature, Rockefeller University researchers reveal an unanticipated role for a new CD36-like protein to help cells detect these invis...

Newly solved structure reveal how cells resist oxygen damage

The sun’s rays give life, but also take it away. Singlet oxygen, a byproduct of the photosynthetic process by which certain cells convert sunlight into energy, is a highly toxic and reactive substance that tears cells apart. Now, in a study that took more than five years to complete, Rockefeller ...

Jeffrey Ravetch elected to Institute of Medicine

Jeffrey V. Ravetch, head of Rockefeller University’s Leonard Wagner Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine. Ravetch is one of 65 new members and four foreign associates whose election was announced today at the institute’s annual meeting at...

Announcements

Music room has new piano. Minor renovations made to the music room over the summer include the purchase of a new Kawai K6 upright piano, which replaces the damaged Steinway model previously available there. A Dampp-Chaser climate-control system has also been installed. The music room is accessibl...

’08 budget devotes record $183 million to research

by ZACH VEILLEUX Rockefeller’s operating budget this fiscal year has increased by 4.7 percent over last year but remains balanced, anticipating a modest surplus of $400,000 by the time the books close in June 2008. “Despite the projected loss of some federal grant revenue this year, the budget ...

Faculty recruitment update

As we begin our next academic year I thought it would be useful to update the university community about where we are with our ongoing efforts to recruit new faculty. As you know, for the last two years we have used an open recruitment process, in which all candidates are evaluated by a single co...

Hospital to grant master's degrees

The Center for Clinical and Translational Science begins degree program in clinical and translational research by TALLEY HENNING BROWN In 2010, The Rockefeller University will include more than Ph.D.s among its alumni. As part of the plan established when Rockefeller received its first Clinical a...

Patricia Rosenwald and Peter Grauer join Board of Trustees

Patricia Rosenwald and Peter Grauer join Board of Trustees by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Patricia P. Rosenwald and Peter T. Grauer, familiar faces in New York philanthropy and business circles respectively, are the two newest faces of The Rockefeller University. Mrs. Rosenwald, alumna and former longti...

Message in a bottleneck

Software bugs revealed during upgrades this summer caused unusual interruptions in e-mail service by TALLEY HENNING BROWNThe two Sun Microsystem servers that process and deliver the university’s e-mail look and perform a lot like any other desktop computer: a plastic box, a few fans, a processor,...

Friday lectures under way

This year’s program, which began September 7, brings 30 speakers from some of the world’s top universities and institutions to Rockefeller for the university’s weekly lecture series. October 5  Allan C. Spradling director, department of embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington William ...