Author: Sarah Baker

  • Culture Corner

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    Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Beggars Banquet by The Rolling Stones Bernie Langs In December of 1968 The Rolling Stones released Beggars Banquet just months before they would be introduced as “the greatest rock and roll band in the world.” The record, which features tunes by the songwriting team of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards…

  • Pets of Tri-I

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    Pooja Viswanathan In this issue, Natural Selections interviews Muffin and Velvet, the cats who live with Sarah Mereby (Fuchs Lab, The Rockefeller University) and Eddie Spencer. I wasn’t able to meet these lovely creatures but Sarah graciously transmitted my questions to them and their answers to me. Please write me at pviswanath@mail.rockefeller.edu if you have…

  • Life on a Roll – Aurora over Snaefellsnes

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    Megan Elizabeth Kelley (Twitter @MeganEKelley) Photos by Megan Elizabeth Kelley. On the Northern coast of the Snaefellsnes peninsula in Iceland, there is a horse farm nestled between the water and the mountains where I stayed for a few nights. As is typical for winter in Iceland, the wind howled, rain alternated with snow, and clouds…

  • March Cover

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  • Rockefeller’s Campus Gets an Upgrade

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    Sarah Baker The Natural Selections Editorial Board in front of the new President’s Office and Dean’s Office building. Excitement abounds at The Rockefeller University as we prepare for the grand opening of the new $500 million Stavros Niarchos Foundation—David Rockefeller River Campus, a four-year construction project to add two acres and a new research building…

  • Culture Corner

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    Bernie Langs Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Stephen Kurkjian discusses the Gardner Museum Theft and the Podcast “Last Seen” Stephen Kurkjian (photo courtesy of Mr. Kurkjian) Courtyard of the Gardner Museum in Boston (photo: Bernie Langs) “The Storm on the Sea of Galilee” by Rembrandt, stolen in 1990 from the Gardner Museum (photo: Wikipedia) At 1:24 a.m.…

  • Pets of Tri-I

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    Pooja Viswanathan In the third run of this series, I interview Mocha, the rabbit who lives with Natalie Omattage (Chen Lab, The Rockefeller University). I meet this fluffy one often, as Natalie and I share an apartment. If you would like your pet(s) featured in this series, please contact me at pviswanath@mail.rockefeller.edu. Pooja Viswanathan: Mocha,…

  • Life on a Roll

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    Elodie Pauwels Jacques Cœur Palace https://elodiepphoto.wordpress.com/ Bourges is located in the middle of France, where Jacques Cœur was born at the end of the fourteenth century. Among other duties, he was a merchant in charge of trading goods between his country and the Levant under King Charles VII. Although he never lived there, Cœur ordered…

  • Natural Expressions

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    Music On Friday, March 1, James Browning, a postdoctoral research associate in the Krueger Laboratory, will be performing at an indie rock show under the stage name Blackwing at Gussy’s Bar in Astoria, Queens (20-14 29th Street).  Blackwing will be opening for the Spanish Power Pop group, Compañía de Sueños Ilimitada. Doors are at 7 p.m.…

  • February Cover

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