Financial Crisis Update
I am writing to the university community to give you an update on how the worldwide economic situation is affecting Rockefeller. As you know, the global financial situation remains serious and the markets continue to be unstable. I last wrote to you in December, and I presented some information and ...
Visual neuroscientist named to Rockefeller’s faculty
Winrich Freiwald uses imaging techniques to study visual processing by ZACH VEILLEUX With every glance, the human eye collects the equivalent of several hundred megapixels of data and passes it to the brain for processing. Understanding what happens next — how our brains organize this piecemeal i...
Genetic epidemiologist named visiting professor
by ZACH VEILLEUX Laurent Abel, a geneticist interested in infectious diseases, has been appointed a visiting professor and member of Jean-Laurent Casanova’s Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Disease. Though he will continue to be based in France — his existing laboratory is at the Neck...
IT unveils new mail-processing software
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN There was a time, not so long ago, when people got their e-mail at their desks, on their computers. Before the influence of Blackberries and iPhones, e-mail messaging was a reasonably simple affair, with a couple of servers and some simple software running the whole operation...
Laureates on Exhibit
Last fall, Caspary Hall was witness to a unique gathering. Ten of Rockefeller University’s current faculty members who are winners of the Albert Lasker Medical Research Award and/or the Nobel Prize came together to view the new exhibit in the lobby of Caspary Auditorium that gives a historical tim...
Genetic epidemiologist named visiting professor
Laurent Abel, a geneticist interested in infectious diseases, has been appointed a visiting professor and member ofJean-Laurent Casanova’s Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Disease. Though he will continue to be based in France — his existing laboratory is at the Necker School of Medic...
Visual neuroscientist named to Rockefeller's faculty
With every glance, the human eye collects the equivalent of several hundred megapixels of data and passes it to the brain for processing. Understanding what happens next — how our brains organize this piecemeal information to let us perceive entire objects — is the life’s work of Rockefeller...
Announcements
Flu shots are available. Occupational Health Services is administering flu shots free of charge to all interested members of campus, including employees of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Population Council who work on the Rockefeller campus. Shots are...
World financial crisis impacts university budget
Turmoil in the world’s financial markets and a contraction of the national and local economies have begun to affect the university’s finances. In response, Rockefeller University’s administrators and trustees have initiated a review of the economic assumptions and models that drive the budget-...
University funds temporarily frozen during banking crisis
As distress in the markets that buy and sell credit reached its crescendo in late September, the university’s finance office received some sudden news: On September 26, a short-term investment fund in which the university held some $45 million in operating capital would be frozen. The affected acc...