Sarah Van Driesche
Sarah Van Driesche Presented by Robert B. Darnell on behalf of himself and Jennifer C. Darnell B.A., Wellesley College Mechanism of Translational Control by the Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein and Creation of the FMRP cTAG Mouse Sarah Van Driesche came to The Rockefeller Un...
Amy Wells Quinkert
Amy Wells Quinkert Presented by Bruce S. McEwen on behalf of Donald W. Pfaff B.S., Rhodes College Deep Brain Stimulation to Increase Generalized Arousal in Intact Mice and a Mouse Model of Traumatic Brain Injury Don Pfaff had an obligation that prevents him from being here. As a...
Laura Winzenread
Laura Winzenread Presented by Leslie B. Vosshall on behalf of Cori Bargmann B.S., University of Kansas An Analysis of Synaptotagmins in Caenorhabditis elegans Cori Bargmann was unable to be here today and I am pleased to present Laura Winzenread on her behalf. To me, Laura ...
Rockefeller president joins U.S. university leaders in Israel to explore collaborative opportunities
A delegation of presidents and chancellors from top U.S. universities, including Rockefeller’s Marc Tessier-Lavigne, travel to Israel this week to explore opportunities for bilateral academic partnerships and collaboration. The visit has been arranged by Project Interchange, a non-profit education...
17 students receive Ph.D.s at Rockefeller's 55th Convocation
The Rockefeller University awarded doctoral degrees to 17 students at its convocation ceremony yesterday. Additionally, two Nobel winning scientists and members of the Rockefeller faculty, Günter Blobel and Paul Greengard, received honorary degrees along with James H. Simons, a mathematician, inv...
Rockefeller hosts British Prime Minister David Cameron
British Prime Minister David Cameron led a life sciences roundtable, featuring pharmaceutical and biotech industry leaders, at The Rockefeller University this week, part an effort by the British government to acknowledge the value and investment that U.S. companies bring to the UK. The group discuss...
Nobel laureate Christian de Duve dies at 95
Christian de Duve, Andrew W. Mellon Professor emeritus at The Rockefeller University and one of the founding fathers of the modern field of cell biology, died Saturday, May 4, at the age of 95. He chose to die by an act of euthanasia, surrounded by all four of his children. de Duve was a cell bio...
Announcements
Bring your child to work. In celebration of national Take Your Child to Work Day, Human Resources will host activities for 8- to 12-year-olds from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on April 25. Children must be registered by April 19 and must be accompanied by an adult to attend. Space is limited. For more informat...
Welch Hall reopens as library and student center
By Zach Veilleux After nearly five years of construction, the final piece of the north campus modernization process is now complete and opens to the campus this month. The Welch Hall refurbishment, which began in January 2011, has finished on time and on budget and will link the north and south par...
Frozen in time: Flexner’s historic lab re-opens with early inventions on display
by LESLIE CHURCH You don’t always know you’re making history when it’s happening. But it’s a good idea to hang on to all the evidence, just in case. That’s exactly what Merrill W. Chase did when he began collecting instruments invented at Rockefeller throughout the twentieth century. And ...