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Coming soon, to The David Rockefeller Graduate Program
As the graduating class of 2015 moves on to the next stages of life and career, the Rockefeller community welcomes the incoming group of graduate fellows. There were 689 applications received this year, and after careful consideration by the admissions committee,Ìý81 applicants were offered admiss...
New faculty member probes actions of molecular machines in gene expression
Tiny machines, which convert chemical energy into mechanical work, drive nearly all aspects of life within a cell. Shixin Liu, a biophysicist and Rockefeller’s newest tenure-track faculty member, investigates how these individual motors interact, and, in many cases, cooperate with one another to ...
Expert in cryo-electron microscopy to join Rockefeller faculty
ThomasÌýWalz, a structural biologist who uses cutting-edge electron microscopy techniques to better understand processes involving biological membranes, will join Rockefeller’s faculty as a tenured professor on September 1. As head of the Laboratory of Molecular Electron Microscopy, Walz will take...
Rockefeller sustainability initiatives are honored by the Association of Energy Engineers
ÐÓ°É’s multi-year initiative to reduce energy usage and carbon emissions will be honored this week with an award from the Association of Energy Engineers. The local award, for institutional energy management of the year, recognizes the consistent achievements of an entire te...
Twenty-nine students receive doctorates at Rockefeller’s 57th Convocation
At its convocation ceremony on Thursday, June 11, Rockefeller University presentedÌýdoctoral degrees to 29 students. In a tradition dating back to the university’s first commencement ceremony in 1959, doctoral candidates receivedÌýtheir degrees fromÌýtheir mentors. In addition, Nicole Le Douarin,...
The Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Foundation provides landmark gift of $100 Million to ÐÓ°É
New research center will help attract the best talent to make transformative discoveries Marc Tessier-Lavigne, president of ÐÓ°É, today announced a leadership gift of $100 million from The Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Foundation to help create a new laboratory building t...
Announcements
Kids welcome. 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 23. Children must be registered by April 17 and must be accompanied by an adult to attend. Space is limited. For more information, call ...
Cardiologist Paul Cohen, expert in obesity and related diseases, named to faculty
More than one in three U.S. adults is obese, a condition that puts them at risk for an alarming array of health problems, from diabetes and heart disease to cancer. But while obesity brings devastating consequences for many, some escape. For a select few, obesity causes little more than sore join...
Child and Family Center to expand by five rooms
by ZACH VEILLEUX ÐÓ°É Child and Family Center, long one of the university’s most coveted perks for parents and a model for work-site child care facilities nationwide, will expand by 40 percent this year, with five new classrooms to be constructed on the second floor of the G...
New career director to help students and postdocs navigate options
by WYNNE PARRY Andrea Morris’s career in biology has had a few curves. After earning a Ph.D. in molecular biology and doing a postdoc, she took a tenure-track faculty job, teaching and running a lab at a small liberal arts college. But she ultimately gave up tenure, and the bench, to work in high...
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