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Strategic Planning |
 After a series of weekly meetings held throughout the fall and winter, the university’s strategic planning committee, chaired by President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, has identified several themes that will likely become central elements of the plan’s first draft. The final plan is to be presented to the Board of Trustees in June. Faculty recruitment to benefit from $10 million gift
While efforts to refine the faculty recruitment process continue to be developed by the strategic planning committee, the search for the best and brightest new lab heads continues. A new gift to support faculty recruitment, received from the Robertson Foundation in November, will support that search by funding the establishment of up to eight new tenure track investigators over five years.
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Finance |
 A new $15 million gift — among the largest donation to the university
since the closure of the Campaign for Collaborative Science last June —
will help fund research into digestive disorders, including metabolic
diseases, cancers and infections. Read full story »
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campus news |
 Three outdoor playgrounds used by the Child and Family Center’s 122
children are slated to be updated and slightly expanded over the coming
months. Read full story »
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Obituary |
 Norton D. Zinder, a geneticist and microbiologist whose research on the
genetics of bacteria and on the properties of bacteriophages — viruses
that infect bacteria — provided seminal information on the mechanisms of
heredity, died February 3 after a long illness. He was 83. Read full story »
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NEW TRUSTEES |
The university’s Board elected two new trustees at its fall meeting on
November 16: Dinakar Singh and Susan Lyne. The board now numbers 42. Read full story »
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Promotions, Awards and Personnel News |
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Obituary |
Dennis Ryan, 63, a security guard who worked mostly day and evening shifts, died January 29. Read full story »
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Bring your child to work. In celebration of national “Take Your Child to Work Day,” Human Resources is hosting activities from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, April 26. Children between the ages of 8 and 12 who are accompanied by an adult are welcome. The registration deadline is Friday, April 13. For information or to register, contact HR at x8300 or hr@rockefeller.edu.
Convocation is June 14. 41 students will receive Ph.Ds at this year’s Convocation. In addition honorary degrees will be awarded to James E. Darnell Jr., Vincent Astor Professor Emeritus and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology at Rockefeller, and Joan Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Yale School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. The processional will be at 2:20 p.m.; the ceremony is at 2:30 p.m. in Caspary Auditorium. The campus reception will be on the Peggy Rockefeller Plaza following the ceremony. For more information, please contact Arianne Dowdell at x8073 or adowdell@rockefeller.edu.
A Scientific Symposium in Memory of Ralph M. Steinman will be held on May 14 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Caspary Auditorium. Current and former members of the Steinman lab will discuss Dr. Steinman’s research. The program will be divided into four sessions:
The Journal of Experimental Medicine and Early Days
Chair: Michel Nussenzweig
Dendritic Cell Development
Chair: Kayo Inaba
Dendritic Cell Physiology
Chair: Ira Mellman
Into the Clinic
Chairs: Jacques Banchereau and Sarah Schlesinger
Additional details can be found at rockefeller.edu/
steinmansymposium.
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