Category: Campus Life

  • Ten Years of Natural Selections

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    By Daniel Briskin The first issue of Natural Selections was published in February of 2004. In these past ten years, much has happened, on campus and off. For all that has happened, however, much has stayed the same, including the humor. This year we are republishing the best and most timeless pieces from the corresponding…

  • Midday Melodies

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    By Derek Simon What makes great art? This is a question that thinkers have been pondering ever since civilization’s infancy and I dare not attempt to answer it in less than a page. Instead, I’ll posit what makes a great artist by using, in my opinion, the classical music world’s finest champion: Ludwig van Beethoven.…

  • Ten Years of Natural Selections

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    By Daniel Briskin This month’s issue marks the tenth anniversary of Natural Selections; issue one was published in February of 2004. In these past ten years, much has happened, on-campus and off. For all that has happened, however, much has stayed the same, including the humor. This year we are republishing the best and most…

  • Midday Melodies

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    By Derek Simon A friend of mine, who despises classical music, once sniped to me that “the background of movies” is the only fit place for “that kind of music.” Ironically, she hit upon a truth about music, but not in the way that she initially intended. It is true that you often hear classical-esque…

  • New York State of Mind

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    Olof Dallner, Post-doctoral Associate in the Friedman Lab by May Dobosiewicz From: Stockholm, Sweden Been in New York: 4 years Lives in: Upper East Side What was the first thing you did when you moved here? Went to IKEA. I thought, this is kind of sad—first day and I go to a Swedish store. But then…

  • Classic Classifieds

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    The classifieds are a great place to borrow, buy, sell, and make announcements. Additionally, they can be a means to infuse humor into the doldrums of campus life. In this column, with the permission of the author, we publish classifieds we have found to be espe- cially entertaining. If you think a classified is worthy…

  • Midday Melodies

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    By Derek Simon To say that New York is a musically rich city is the equivalent of saying it is a very large city: technically true but completely missing the point. Conveniently, Rockefeller happens to be located in this cultural hub, and as such we all have the opportunity to go listen to this impressive…

  • A Joan Mitchell Painting in The Rockefeller University Collection

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    By Bernie Langs I hold the opinion that Abstract Expressionism was the last great movement in the history of painting. This school, or style, emerged in America (and centered in New York) after World War II, and its many master artists would include the likes of Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko,…

  • WISeR (Women In Science at Rockefeller): A New Initiative

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    By Asma Hatoum, Mariko Kobayashi, and Alessia Deglincerti This summer, a small group of postdocs came together to launch a new initiative called wiser (Women In Science at Rockefeller) to begin to tackle a persistent problem: the underrepresentation of female leaders in academic and non-academic sectors of science. While women hold 60% of all bachelor’s…

  • Happy Halloween!

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    By Aileen Marshall Halloween is coming up at the end of this month on October 31st. It has become a very big holiday in this country, for children as well as adults, and it is growing in other countries. How did Halloween get started? The holiday we know today is actually a combination of a…

  • New York State of Mind

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    This Month Natural Selections interviews Carly Gelfond, Assistant Director of Development. Country of origin: United States. 1. How long have you been living in the New York area? I’ve been living here for seven years, since I graduated from college in central New York State. I’m originally from New Jersey. 2. Where do you live?…

  • Markus Library Reopens with new Study Areas and New Staff Member

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    By John Borghi To walk into the Rita and Frits Markus Library today is to enter both an elegant space for members of the Rockefeller community to research and study and an establishment ready to meet the information needs of a twenty-first century research institution. After passing by the security desk in Founder’s Hall, visitors…