Author: Qiong Wang

  • Halloween in New York

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    By Aileen Marshall It’s that time of year again, goblins and ghouls abound, the real and the fictional. If you are too old to go trick or treating, what is there to do? Luckily, you live in New York, where there are always options for something to do. The most iconic New York Halloween celebration…

  • US Open Tennis Women’s Surprises

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    By Susan Russo The women’s final of the US Open Tennis tournament on Saturday, September 12th was almost anti-climactic. The exciting confrontation took place in the Arthur Ashe stadium in the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, Queens. Many of the spectators in packed stands had not followed the careers of the two Italian…

  • Twenty-four visits to Stockholm: a concise history of the Rockefeller Nobel Prizes

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    Part XII: Stanford Moore and William Stein, 1972 Prize in Chemistry By Joseph Luna “RNAse-free.” To most any molecular biologist working with RNA, these two seemingly unrelated words are as sweet sounding together as “passion-fruit.” This is because ribonucleases, those small hardy enzymes that chew up RNA, can be found everywhere, are more invasive than…

  • Culture Corner

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    J. M. W. Turner on film and Jan van Eyck in The Smithsonian Institution By Bernie Langs Lord Kenneth Clark, the eminent late art historian who often graces the pages of “Culture Corner”, felt that life’s meaning can best be found through the study of paintings, which later bled into his world historical view of…

  • Quotable Quote

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     “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.” Malala Yousafzai, youngest Nobel Peace Prize awardee

  • RU Ready for Halloween?

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    Dedicated to the memory of Moses Malone By George Barany George Barany is a Rockefeller alum (1977) currently on the faculty at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities. At a 1974 Halloween party at Rockefeller, he dressed up as Moses Malone, who was born in the same year, and who also “skipped college for the big…

  • Life on a Roll

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    A Taste of Zagreb By QIONG WANG I cut through Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, a rather low-key European capital city. I did not know what to expect prior to arrival. I only got to spend a couple hours near the city’s central railway station. Across from it stood a palace-like building with an open…

  • Only Seven Days Left! Two Must-See Exhibitions in NYC!

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    By Natalia Ketaren September 7 sees the end of two wonderful exhibitions in NYC. The first exhibition I saw and will speak of, was the highly publicized China: Through the Looking Glass housed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met). The second, equally enchanting and moving, was that of Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971…

  • Who was Lila Magie?

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    By Aileen Marshall Who was Lila Magie? During the summer months, I try to use the campus walkways to go between buildings, rather than the tunnels. Recently I was walking along the East Walkway, behind the Student’s Residence, near Bronk. I stopped when I noticed a sign I hadn’t seen before: “The Lila J. Magie…

  • Twenty-four visits to Stockholm: a concise history of the Rockefeller Nobel Prizes

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    Part XI: Gerald M. Edelman, 1972 Prize in Physiology or Medicine By Joseph Luna To be immune is to be exempt. In the late 19th century, a physician named Paul Ehrlich gave a death-defying example of such an exemption by giving mice sub-lethal quantities of the deadly toxin ricin. Over time, these mice developed a…

  • Kykuit, The Rockefeller Family Estate – For a Very Special Day Trip

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    By Susan Russo The 3,000-acre estate of four generations of the Rockefeller family is nestled in the lovely area of Pocantico Hills, New York. The name of the estate, Kykuit, means “lookout” in Dutch, an apt name, since the vistas over the Hudson River are magnificent. John D. Rockefeller had the six-story mansion built in…

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

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    By Jim Keller I usually wait until after the Telluride and Toronto International Film festivals to discuss the second of the three-part Ones to Watch series, but I’ll be in Hawaii honeymooning for half of September, so I moved it up. I admit I’m at a bit of a disadvantage without the critics’ feedback from…