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Obituary |
Ralph Steinman, an immunologist who spent his entire career at Rockefeller and died just days before the Nobel Prize committee announced his name, passed away on September 30 after a four-and-a-half year battle with pancreatic cancer. Dr. Steinman, who discovered dendritic cells with Rockefeller immunologist Zanvil Cohn in 1972, spawned an entire branch of immunology devoted to understanding how the immune system is coordinated and how it learns to recognize infectious microorganisms and tumor cells. His recent work led to the development of an experimental human vaccine for HIV which began clinical testing last year. Read full story »
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Finance |
 The Rockefeller University Campaign for Collaborative Science, the fundraising effort launched to raise support for the initiatives of the strategic plan developed at the beginning of Paul Nurse’s presidential tenure, concluded in June having raised $628 million in new gifts and grants — far surpassing the $500 million goal set in 2003. Read full story »
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Finance |
University’s $325 million operating budget closes with $1 million to spare
 Strong fundraising, access to federal stimulus funds and
better-than-expected royalty income led the university to close the 2011
fiscal year with a $1.1 million surplus, but the approved 2012 budget
is in a deficit position, according to Jim Lapple, vice president for
finance. Read full story »
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CAMPUS NEWS |
The Rockefeller University, with 10 of the country’s leading medical and research institutions, has joined the New York Genome Center (NYGC), which will become one of the largest genomic facilities in North America. The consortium establishes an unprecedented, large-scale collaborative venture in genomic medicine. Read full story »
 Although the removal of concealed asbestos caused some delays last spring, the reconstruction of Flexner and Welch Halls is still on schedule, with work on both projects expected to be complete by the end of fall 2012.
Hundreds of pedestrians enter campus via the 66th Street gate each day. So do more than 200 cars, several dozen delivery vehicles and a steady stream of bicycles. It’s a lot of traffic for a ten-foot wide driveway and two narrow sidewalks. |
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CAMPUS NEWS |
New York is a walking city, especially here on the far East Side, two-thirds of a mile from the subway. Count all those steps — getting to work, to lunch, to the market — and the distance can really add up.
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 The university’s newly refurbished Glasswashing Services center cleans, dries and sterilizes around 4,000 pieces of laboratory glassware from 52 labs each week. Watch this video to meet the workers and see how it’s done. Read full story »
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promotions, awards and personnel news |
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Holiday party is December 8. After a two-year hiatus, the universitywide holiday celebration is back. All are invited to Weiss Café from 3:30 to 5 p.m. for food and beverages.
Happy anniversary. At an afternoon reception on October 27, the university celebrated employment anniversaries for 147 members of the community who had reached 10 years of service in 2009, 2010 or 2011. For a list of the names of the 10-year honorees, visit http://benchmarks.rockefeller.edu/anniversary.php.
Employees who have reached longer milestones will be recognized in the spring.
Bags for sale. Rockefeller reusable shopping bags are available for $3.25 each from the Weiss and CRC coffee carts. The sturdy, lightweight
nylon bags are the size of a plastic grocery bag and fold into an
attached pouch for storage. Carry one on your errands to help reduce waste.
Holiday Lectures are December 27. This year’s Rockefeller University Holiday Lectures on Science
for High School Students, begun in 1959 by Alfred E. Mirsky, a
biochemist and university librarian, will feature Sarah Schlesinger
and Marina Caskey from Ralph Steinman’s lab. About 400 students from schools around the city attend the lectures each year. This year’s lectures are entitled “Not Just Another Macrophage: How Ralph Steinman’s Controversial Discovery
of the Dendritic Cell Slowly Transformed Immunology.” Tickets are
required. For more information, call Gloria Phipps at x8967. http://www.rockefeller.edu/holidaylecture/2011.
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