Category: Current Articles

  • April Cover

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  • Dear Readers

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      These are unprecedented times. Across the globe, communities, cities, and countries are taking measures to scale down the dynamic social interactions that defined our modern world. Social distancing, self-isolation, and quarantine have become imperative. Many research institutions in the United States have entered a shutdown, ceasing lab operations for all work except that which…

  • A Different Kind of Outbreak

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    Anna Amelianchik Before the novel coronavirus resulted in travel restrictions, event cancellations, and toilet paper shortages, The Rockefeller University community faced a different kind of outbreak: The Outbreak challenge. The Outbreak is a team-based six-week step and fitness challenge that syncs real-life steps and physical activity data recorded by a fitness tracker and translates them…

  • Natural Expressions

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    Music On Sunday, April 12th, Guadalupe Astorga of The Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Neurobiology was scheduled to play with her band SugaGold (previously featured in Natural Selections, A New Encounter on Stage: SugaGold by Alice Marino) at the New York Beer Company. Although this event will likely be cancelled, you can support her and SugaGold…

  • Culture Corner

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    Best of the Boston Music Scene, 1979-1981: The Neighborhoods Bernie Langs I lived in Boston from 1979 to 1981, spending time as an active participant in the local rock music scene as a musician and songwriter playing in a short-lived band. The time period is now considered a ”golden age” of local New England music…

  • Pets of Tri-I

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    Pooja Viswanathan For this issue, I interview Rudy, the dog who lives with Riccardo De Santis (Postdoc, Brivanlou lab, The Rockefeller University) and his wife, Dacia (Columbia University).  Pooja Viswanathan: How old are you? In human years? Rudy: I have 5 human years.  PV: Is there a story behind your name? R: My parents wanted…

  • Life on a Roll

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    “Carrelet” fishing in the Aiguillon Bay, France Elodie Pauwels https://elodiepphoto.wordpress.com/ You might be surprised by these strange little wooden shacks on stilts overhanging the ocean in some places on the French Atlantic coast, like in Esnandes in the Aiguillon Bay. These huts are called “carrelets,” named after the square nets used to fish (“carré” meaning…

  • March Cover

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  • Saint Patrick’s Day in New York City

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    Gretchen M. Michelfeld The New York City Saint Patrick’s Day Parade is one of the oldest, largest, and most famous Saint Patrick’s Day celebrations in the world. It began when a group of homesick Irish expats and military members stationed with the British Army in the colony of New York decided to march through lower…

  • New York Rhymes

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