Honorary degrees go to three Rockefeller alumni
Fedoroff, Hille and Edelman are honored with the university's highest accolade by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Alongside the 26 students who marched in cap and gown to receive their diplomas and graduate hoods on June 12, three Rockefeller alumni returned to the stage where years ago they defended their ow...
Rudy Bellani receives this year's David Rockefeller Fellowship
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN When Rudy Bellani filled out only one application for graduate school — to Rockefeller University — his advisers told him he was crazy. “Hundreds of applicants vying for some 20 spots, and me with no backup plan,” says Mr. Bellani. “But my advisers were Rockefeller ...
Gadsby and Muir receive fourth annual teaching awards
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN The faculty of The Rockefeller University have presided over the hypotheses, experiments and thesis defenses of nearly 1,000 students since the beginning of the graduate program in 1955. Before the Convocation ceremony on June 12, two of these mentors were recognized for thei...
Omar Ahmad
Following tradition, faculty mentors gave congratulatory tributes to this year’s graduates. Printed here are the transcripts of those speeches, as they were read on June 12. D.C.S., Marianopolis College; M.D., C.M., McGill University Noises off: Two (Pairs of) Views of the Active Hair Bundle prese...
Kenta Asahina
B.S., The University of Tokyo Receptors, Neurons and Circuits Supporting Odor Detection presented by Sidney Strickland (on behalf of Leslie B. Vosshall) In the summer of 2002, Kenta Asahina left The University of Tokyo and his family behind and moved to New York to pursue Ph.D. training abroad. Alt...
Helen S. Bateup
B.S., The Pennsylvania State University The Differential Involvement of Striatonigral and Striatopallidal Neurons in Psychostimulant and Antipsychotic Responses: A Dual Role for DARPP-32 presented by Sidney Strickland (on behalf of Paul Greengard) Among millions of people who are addicted to differ...
Jeffrey A. DeGrasse
B.S., The George Washington University Proteomic, Bioinformatic and Functional Characterization of the Nuclear Pore Complex of the African Trypanosome presented by Brian T. Chait Sometimes one can only wonder at the events that ultimately bring a young person into your lab to do research. Jeff DeGr...
Ilana J. DeLuca
B.S., Yale University The Hu Syndrome: At the Intersection of Cancer and Autoimmunity presented by Robert B. Darnell It is a pleasure to introduce Ilana DeLuca to you. Ilana spent four years working in the laboratory as one of the most focused, albeit relaxed, students I have ever seen. She came to...
Jill Donigian
B.A., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey TIN2 Assists TRF2 in Suppressing the ATM-dependent DNA Damage Response at Telomeres presented by Titia de Lange When Jill Donigian joined my lab, she already had extensive experience in biomedical research. Jill hails from New Jersey, where she went...
Yair Dorsett
B.A., The Colorado College A Role for AID and microRNA-155 in c-myc to IgH DNA Translocations presented by Michel C. Nussenzweig I have had the pleasure of knowing Yair Dorsett for 20 years. I first met him at a dinner party at his parents’ home in Boston. At the time, his father, Dale, was a pos...