Author: Audrey Goldfarb

  • For Your Consideration – Ones to Watch Vol. 2 Edition

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    By Jim Keller Last year around this time, I covered the Supporting Actor and Actress races in this column in order to save the Best Actor race for last, since it’s generally much more exciting. The trouble is the Supporting races really don’t begin to take shape until later in the season, making them difficult…

  • The University is Getting All the Ducks in a Row to Fight Mosquitoes

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    by Melody Li Although this summer in New York City has proven extremely rainy and stormy, Rockefeller University has declared drought for its fountains this year. A recent petition addressed to the University community (although the University staff did not receive the email) might shed light on the rationale behind the decision. Some parents and…

  • The Fourth of July

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    by Aileen Marshall This month we celebrate the Fourth of July. But do you know what we are really celebrating? It’s not just a day of picnics and fireworks. The holiday is also known as Independence Day. It marks the day the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, signifying America’s independence from the United…

  • Academic Governance: A Model

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    by Daniel Briskin An unfortunately high proportion of our elected officials are highly opinionated, but irrational people who let their guts drive their politics; many more of them are voters. With the same concerns in mind as the architects of the Electoral College, I don’t want this type of person making decisions for me. We…

  • New York State of Mind

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    This month Natural Selections interviews Marisa Cerio, Laboratory Administrator in the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology & Epigenetics. Country of origin: United States. 1. How long have you been living in New York? My whole life—thirty three years! 2. Where do you live? Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 3. Which is your favorite neighborhood? It’s not beautiful, but based…

  • Skulls and Specimens: The Mütter Museum is Weird and Worth It

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    by Claire Warriner A similar version of this article appeared in The Incubator In April, I found myself in Philadelphia as a guest at the wedding of two people I’d never met. In addition to stuffing myself with Crab Rangoon and avoiding eye contact with the groom’s mother, I visited the gruesomely fascinating Mütter Museum…

  • The Comic Strip

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    Contributed by Daniel Briskin “Understocked” reproduced from xkcd – a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language.  xkcd.com My biology grad student friends tell me that different types of alcohol don’t actually have different effects.  I trust their expertise, not because of the ‘biology’ part, but because of the ‘grad student’. July/August 2013  

  • CULTURE DESK — Book reviews: Inferno, by Dan Brown & The Inferno of Dante (translated by Robert Pinsky)

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    by Bernie Langs When I heard that best-selling author Dan Brown had written a book centering around a mystery involving Dante’s Inferno, I came up with a scheme to read the original Inferno section of Dante Alighieri’s famous poem, Commedia (which later became known as “The Divine Comedy”), and compare the two works for Natural…

  • Infographic: A World Map of Rockefeller University

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    by Alessia Deglincerti Ever wondered how international RU is? Take a look at the map below, the countries colored in black are all represented among the RU population (based on country of citizenship; students and employees with an academic appointment only, it does not include guests or visitors to the campus). The table provides the…

  • For Your Consideration – Ones to Watch Vol. 1 Edition

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    by Jim Keller First, an apology to the one or two of you who read this column regularly and who don’t mind that it’s virtually devoid of science, for my hiatus since May. But luckily, I’ve returned in time to begin the first of a four part Ones to Watch series. As was the case…