Author: Pooja Viswanathan

  • Musings on a Ph.D.

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    Sarah Baker A few weeks ago, I earned the opportunity to defend my thesis, the terminal task in receiving my Ph.D. While everyone’s path is different, the journey for me has been a rollercoaster of both academic and emotional development, and I’d like to reflect on what the process has taught me. It’s okay to…

  • Pets of Tri-I: Working from Home with Pets

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    Gretchen M. Michelfeld With some adorable exceptions, most of us do not bring our pets to work. We were used to coming home at the end of a long day to a cat clamoring to be fed or a dog dancing ecstatically at our return. The sudden change in work culture throughout the Tri-Institutional community…

  • Why COVID-19 Is Causing You to Eat Your Feelings

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    Anna Amelianchik In the past few weeks, as the world has been struggling to curtail the coronavirus pandemic, social distancing requirements and the fear and anxiety brought on by the disease has changed our relationship with food. Shortly after Governor Cuomo issued a stay-at-home order for New York State, New Yorkers crowded grocery stores to…

  • Culture Corner

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    A War of the Worlds for the Age of Pandemic Bernie Langs Spoilers below! There have been two excellent film adaptations of the ahead of its time 1898 science fiction novel by H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds. Gene Barry starred in the 1953 movie that would find repeated airtime in the late 1960s…

  • What Happened in 1918?

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    Aileen Marshall Not many of us around the Tri-Institutional community have experienced a pandemic situation like COVID-19. News pundits and politicians are saying this is “unprecedented.” But is it? The word “pandemic” reminded me of references to the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918. Though that event was caused by an influenza virus, from a different…

  • New York Rhymes

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    Dr. Konstantina Theofanopoulou I wrote this poem in February 2019. I couldn’t have imagined how the word “quarantine” would sound today. Poetry: Dr. Konstantina Theofanopoulou (Instagram: @newyork_rhymes) One line art: Mikaella Theofanopoulou (Instagram: @m_theta_art)

  • Life on a roll

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    Winter in Scotland Bernie Langs Traveling off-season in Scotland allows for quieter access to tourist sites, such as castles and palaces, that are usually crowded and overrun in spring and summer (although some shutter for winter months but allow for strolls on their grounds). In December 2019, my wife and I lucked out with unusually…

  • Natural Expressions

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    Digital Nick Didkovsky, Bioinformatics Group Supervisor in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Rockefeller, announces record releases and video premieres from his bands Doctor Nerve and Vomit Fist: Doctor Nerve is an eight-piece instrumental band and just released what may be their heaviest and most hard-hitting record yet, LOUD (available on CD, digital download, and…

  • Mother’s Day

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    Tracy Adams Every year on the second Sunday in May, mothers all over the United States are celebrated. They are recognized for their unwavering love, support, and commitment to parenthood. Although a national, not a federal holiday, Mother’s Day ranks amongst the top ten most celebrated events of the year. Without a doubt, motherhood is…

  • What Have We Inherited

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    Melissa Jarmel While the fate of many Broadway shows remains to be determined, some have already announced closures. One show, The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez, was set to close on March 15th anyway, but the cast unwittingly took their last bow just a few days before, as the entirety of Broadway closed their doors on…