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The Global Corporate Challenge at Rockefeller: 100 days around the world
by听Alexandra MacWade, assistant editor This spring, several hundred Rockefeller faculty and staff members will embark on a competitive, virtual walking tour of the world. The group, which will be divided into teams and motivated to find the longest walking routes across campus and around the cit...
Richard P. Lifton named 11th president of 蝌蚪传媒
蝌蚪传媒 today announced that its Board of Trustees has elected Richard P. Lifton to be the 11th president of the university, effective September 1, 2016. Lifton, 62, Sterling Professor of Genetics and chair of the department of genetics at Yale University, will succeed Marc Tes...
Work begins to redesign Rockefeller鈥檚 website
by听Alexandra MacWade, assistant editor and Zach Veilleux, director of publications & editor-in-chief The last time Rockefeller鈥檚 website was rebuilt, mobile phones had hinges and Netflix sent movies only on disks. Broadband was still a novelty and Myspace was on the rise. That was in 2004, an...
Awards, arrivals, and promotions
Congratulations to our latest award winners: Paul Cohen has won a Young Investigator Award together with two of his collaborators. The prize is given by the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization to recognize projects under the theme of 鈥渃omplex mechanisms in living organisms...
New tools from IT aim to help users track device inventory and plan updates
by听Alexandra MacWade, assistant editor Information Technology has unveiled two new tools鈥攁n inventory dashboard and a support matrix鈥攖o help users plan operating system upgrades and keep track of their computers and mobile devices. The tools are part of a larger initiative designed to help R...
Drug discovery institute seeks proposals for innovative antibody projects
by听Julie Grisham, freelance writer The Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute (Tri-I TDI) has reached a new milestone in its effort to advance the development of new drugs based on basic science discoveries made at Rockefeller and its two neighboring institutions, Weill Cornell M...
Global ranking places Rockefeller ahead of 1,300 universities in two key measures of scientific impact
by听Alexandra MacWade, assistant editor A comparison of more than 1,300 universities worldwide has found that Rockefeller University ranks first place in two key categories that measure the impact of its research and the transfer of knowledge to the private sector. The results, which were release...
Evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll wins Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science
by听Alexandra MacWade, assistant editor 鈥淗ow many true books about science include a coded message from occupied Hungary, written in invisible starch solution on the inside of a record album to be revealed by exposure to iodine?鈥� Jesse Ausubel, who chairs the selection committee for Rockefel...
Awards, arrivals, and promotions
Congratulations to our latest award winners: Cori Bargmann has won the 2016 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience, an award given by the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT to recognize outstanding advances in the field. She is being honored for her work on the genetic and neural mech...
Rockefeller scientists in the news
by听Katherine Fenz, media relations manager Mutant mosquitoes Earlier this month, PBS Newshour featured Leslie Vosshall in a segment on the use of mutant mosquitoes to fight Zika and dengue fever. 鈥淢osquitoes鈥攅specially the mosquitoes that are spreading Zika, dengue, and chikungunya...
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