Category: Countries and People

  • 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?…

  • An American in Athens

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    By Christina Pyrgaki Since the news of the financial crisis in Europe reached the us, whenever I meet someone for the first time, I have to emotionally prepare for the inevitable discussion that usually follows my answer to the question “Where is your accent from?” You see, I am Greek, and since it so happened…

  • New York State of Mind

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    This month Natural Selections interviews Jim Keller, Grants Management Specialist in the Department of Sponsored Research & Program Development. Country of origin: United States. 1. How long have you been living in New York? I moved here from Buffalo, NY nine days before 9/11—September 2, 2001. 2. Where do you live? Crown Heights, Brooklyn, but…

  • New York State of Mind

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    This month Natural Selections interviews Marisa Cerio, Laboratory Administrator in the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology & Epigenetics. Country of origin: United States. 1. How long have you been living in New York? My whole life—thirty three years! 2. Where do you live? Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 3. Which is your favorite neighborhood? It’s not beautiful, but based…

  • Infographic: A World Map of Rockefeller University

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    by Alessia Deglincerti Ever wondered how international RU is? Take a look at the map below, the countries colored in black are all represented among the RU population (based on country of citizenship; students and employees with an academic appointment only, it does not include guests or visitors to the campus). The table provides the…

  • An RU Graduate Looks Back

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    by Mayla Hsu What was it like to start graduate school at RU during the Kennedy administration? I had a glimpse of the past when I spoke to Nicholas H. Acheson, RU Class of 1969, who is now an Emeritus Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at McGill University. In a wide-ranging conversation, Acheson, a tall,…

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    This month Natural Selections interviews Sara Schaafsma, a postdoctoral associate in the Laboratory of Neuroscience and Behavior.  Country of origin: The Netherlands.

  • Marx Was a Neuroscientist, Part 4: Dance Dance (Cognitive) Revolution

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    by Benjamin Campbell These petrified relations must be forced to dance by singing their own tune to them! Karl Marx In November, The Atlantic published an interview with Noam Chomsky on the state of contemporary cognitive science and “Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong.” Chomsky, a central figure in the “cognitive revolution”, lamented what appeared to…

  • Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Marxian Neuroeconomics

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    by Benjamin Campbell “Either the Devil has come amongst us having great power, or there is a causal explanation for a disease common to economics, science and art.” Christopher Caudwell, Studies in a Dying Culture

  • Halloween: A Celebration of Mortality

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    by Christina Pyrgaki I love Halloween, more so than any other holiday, and this is rather curious since Halloween is not celebrated in Greece, my home country. It was in 1993 when Tim Burton released The Nightmare Before Christmas that I first heard about Halloween and I fell in love with it! I have always…