Category: Campus Life

  • A Special Obituary: Günter Blobel

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      Joseph Luna Editor’s note: This article was originally published as Twenty-four visits to Stockholm: a concise history of the Rockefeller Nobel Prizes by Joseph Luna in June 2016.   Günter Blobel (May 21, 1936 – February 18, 2018) Let’s start with a fantastical scene: picture a band of Neolithic humans in a hot air…

  • This month Natural Selections interviews Jazz Weisman of the Scientific Computing Users Group

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    Juliette Wipf Picture: Jason Banfelder, Director of the RU High Performance Computing Systems, talking about the most commonly used computing tools at the inaugural meeting of the SciComp group. On April 12, Scientific Computing Users Group (SciComp) of The Rockefeller University’s (RU) held its inaugural meeting in CRC 406. The founders of the group, Jason…

  • The New Second Avenue Line. Is the Q the A to your Q?

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    Johannes Buheitel First, there were horse-drawn wagons. Then, during the industrial revolution, the steam engine took over and ultimately helped to win the West. But all of these achievements seem to pale in comparison to what the venerable Metropolitan Transport Authority, MTA for short, has unveiled on New Year’s Day: The new Q train extension,…

  • Postdoc Retreat 2016

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    Juliette Wipf This year’s Rockefeller Postdoctoral Association (PDA) Retreat was held from September 21 to 22 at the Interlaken Inn in Lakeville, CT. The Interlaken Inn is a charming country resort with great facilities and over 130 Rockefeller postdocs came to enjoy this getaway. Many supported the event with presentations, ranging in scope from social…

  • Interview with Sohail Tavazoie

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      Senior Attending Physician Leon Hess Associate Professor Elizabeth and Vincent Meyer Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology Interview by Fernando Bejarano Imagine that you are just out of graduate school and about to embark on a biomedical science post doc in a world-renowned research institute. You have your Ph.D., you feel self-assured, confident, and certain…

  • Twenty-four visits to Stockholm: A Concise History of the Rockefeller Nobel Prizes

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    Part XX: Paul Greengard, 2000 Prize in Physiology or Medicine Joseph Luna Of the 37.2 trillion cells in the human body (excluding microbes), there are about 100 billion, or about 0.2%, that are a breed apart. These supercharged cells are indeed just that, charged to carry electrical signals to communicate with one another. They are…

  • Dear NYC, I Love You: Why I Decided to Run the New York City Marathon

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    By Nan Pang July 23, 2012—that’s the oldest record that I can find in the running app on my phone. Distance: just under two miles. Back then, I could probably never have imagined that I would be running the 26.2 miles of the New York City Marathon three years later. Running was never my strongest…

  • New York State of Mind

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    Features, Isaiah Curry from The Laboratory Safety and Environmental Health department By Melvin White How long have you been living in the New York area? All my life. 63 years “young.” Where do you currently live? Yonkers, New York. But most people say Rockefeller University, ha! “1 tostado Plaza!” Which is your favorite neighborhood? I’ve…

  • 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…

  • 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…