Author: Nicolas Renier

  • RU Familiar with RU?

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    by George Barany and Marjorie Russel

  • Crisis in Congress

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    by Jason Rothauser This is what a government in crisis looks like. Last month, on October 1, the federal government entered its first shutdown since 1996, when an impasse between President Clinton and congressional Republicans led to the government’s doors being shuttered for almost two weeks. Our most recent shutdown beat that record, coming to an…

  • Life Back on a Roll

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    By Nicolas Renier I recently got myself an old and clunky film camera, but couldn’t completely get rid of the feeling that my frequent visits to Williamsburg had taken their toll, and my commitment to hipster culture had gone too far. There’s apparently not a strong rationale to keep shooting with film today, unless you…

  • Highly Cited Paper Does Not Actually Exist

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    By John Borghi Sending ripples through a scientific community still reeling from news that an artisanal science laboratory in Brooklyn, NY has documented the existence of phlogiston, a highly cited paper concerning the discovery of the alleged chemical compound known as bolonium has been proven to not actually exist.

  • Midday Melodies

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    By Derek Simon To say that New York is a musically rich city is the equivalent of saying it is a very large city: technically true but completely missing the point. Conveniently, Rockefeller happens to be located in this cultural hub, and as such we all have the opportunity to go listen to this impressive…

  • New York State of Mind

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    This Month Natural Selections interviews Phil Kidd, Graduate Student in the Siggia and Young laboratories. By May Dobosiewicz From: All over the USA Been here: Almost four years Lives in: Upper East Side

  • A Joan Mitchell Painting in The Rockefeller University Collection

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    By Bernie Langs I hold the opinion that Abstract Expressionism was the last great movement in the history of painting. This school, or style, emerged in America (and centered in New York) after World War II, and its many master artists would include the likes of Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko,…

  • 1st Avenue

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  • Memorable Music at the Cloisters

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    By Susan Russo In Fort Tryon Park, overlooking the Hudson River in uptown Manhattan, through December 8th, an extraordinary sound installation is being presented at the Cloisters, a branch of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, which houses rare and beautiful medieval treasures. Recorded by the Canadian-born artist Janet Cardiff, The Salisbury Cathedral Choir in…

  • Crossword of the Month

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    By George Barany and Friends Fall Classic 2013  

  • WISeR (Women In Science at Rockefeller): A New Initiative

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    By Asma Hatoum, Mariko Kobayashi, and Alessia Deglincerti This summer, a small group of postdocs came together to launch a new initiative called wiser (Women In Science at Rockefeller) to begin to tackle a persistent problem: the underrepresentation of female leaders in academic and non-academic sectors of science. While women hold 60% of all bachelor’s…

  • De Gustibus: The Bird’s the Word

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    By Mark Rinaldi If you’ve never had occasion to enjoy the marvel that is Japanese yakitori, I’ll break it down for you: wooden sticks are stuck through bits of chicken, and then those bits are grilled over coals. Simple, right? Not so fast–there’s a bit more to authentic yakitori. The grilling medium absolutely must be…