Author: Sarah Baker

  • Time is of the Essence: Limited Engagements Closing Soon

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    Melissa Jarmel As the new year approaches, I wanted to draw your attention to three limited engagement plays that hit Broadway this fall and are set to close in January: The Lifespan of a Fact, Waverly Gallery, and American Son. The most lighthearted among the three is The Lifespan of a Fact. This play features…

  • Natural Expressions

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    Music Brian Dougherty of The Rockefeller University’s President’s Office will be singing with the Musica Sacra Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. His performance of Handel’s Messiah will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 19, and tickets can be purchased online. On Thursday, December 20, Collette Ryder of the Office of Sponsored Program Administration at…

  • Editorial Note

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    This month, the Natural Selections Editorial Board bids farewell to Jim Keller. We would like to thank him for his interminable dedication to Natural Selections over the past seven years. Jim first joined Natural Selections as a contributor and copy editor in October 2011, and he became Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor in July 2013. Jim’s…

  • For Your Consideration – Ones to Watch, Vol. 3 Edition

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    Jim Keller With Thanksgiving all a faded memory, it’s time to close out the Ones to Watch series with the Best Supporting Actor and Actress races. The nominees for both races can be unpredictable but last year was the second year in a row where the Best Supporting Actor winner was essentially decided early on…

  • When the Moon Hits Your Eye…

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    Aileen Marshall Quick, what is the most ubiquitous food you can think of? One that almost everyone around the world knows and loves, even if they have their own style? What is your go-to food to get when you want something quick and satisfying? I think pizza fits that bill. If you live here in…

  • Pets of Tri-I – Watson Gonzales

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    Pooja Viswanathan This is a series to introduce the Tri-I community to the wildlife amongst us. In this issue, Natural Selections’ Pooja Viswanathan interviews Watson Gonzales (follow on Instagram @_watson_dog_), the terrier mix who lives with Kevin Gonzales (postdoc, Fuchs Lab). Pooja Viswanathan: How long have you lived in New York City? Watson Gonzales: I…

  • Science (Policy) for the Benefit of Humanity

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    Sarah Ackerman Science policy is a broad subject, which is vitally important to all scientists and members of society. It encompasses many topics ranging from NIH grant funding, to restrictions on new technologies, such as CRISPR or stem cells, to how data and science should be used when making policies about health care or the…

  • Life on a Roll

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    Elodie Pauwels https://elodiepphoto.wordpress.com/ Many comparisons can be made between a single day and a full year. Both are the result of the rotation of the Earth, on its axis or around the sun. This sunset—these three pictures taken within 15 minutes of each other—offered blazing colors, as it often does at the end of the…

  • November Cover

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  • Word of the Month

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    Dakota Blackman trust (n): a firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something I have been thinking a lot about the word “trust” recently. Its dictionary definition reads as follows: “a firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.” The nominal form of the word…