Talk:Rockefeller University

Max Theiler

Is there a reason that Max Theiler is not included in the list of Nobel Laureates? He was the director of the Virus Laboratory at the Rockefeller Institute from 1930-1964. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951. Thesofine (talk) 24 June 2018 —Preceding undated comment added 08:34, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

if there is no objection, I will add Max Theiler's name to the list then.--thesofine (talk) 07:36, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Max Theiler worked for the Rockefeller Foundation, not the institute. The confusion comes from the fact that the Rockefeller Foundation New York Virus Laboratories were housed at the institute. RockyJennifer (talk) 15:41, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Comments

A tiny University wins a Nobel Prize every other year or so. Surely the top most University globally in biosciences and only Caltech in the quality of its faculty comes some what close to this unique institution globally. Rockefeller and Caltech are a class apart from all global Universities. The genuine number of Nobel Prizes received by the Rockefeller University (earlier Rockefeller institute) are 20 (including Max Theiler) while Caltech larger in size has 19: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/nobel-laureates-and-research-affiliations/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:A180:F700:C534:1AAD:AAC9:F435 (talk) 22:27, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

The statement that JDR was "uninterested" in his creation is untrue, and in fact is patently contradicted by the very source referenced ("Titan"). What is true is the first part of the sentence -- he only visited once. "[H]e was engrossed in RIMR. [...] Doc Rockefeller's son took more pride in the RIMR than in any of his creations other than Standard Oil." Think I'll go delete he "uninterested" part. thundt (talk) 15:57, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

A tiny place full of brilliant minds undoubtedly the best in the biological sciences on this planet. Though extremely small in personal and size it has more Nobel Prizes than any institute on this planet in relation to the size of its faculty. Cal-tech is one institute which can be compared to Rockefeller. Rockefeller University is probably the best institution in biological sciences on our planet. When one does not get a tenure in this institute they often move to MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley, etc. Note for Nobel Prizes genuine data go to http://www.nobelprize.org/. The University of California system has won the largest Nobel Prizes, while Rockefeller has the highest in proportion to people involved in research. I do agree it certainly is the top-most research institute on our planet for biomedcal sciences. Rockefeller has no undergruate program and has only a doctoral program. I heard that Rockefeller University was originally founded to research ways to reduce overpopulation. Is this true? Darrik2 20:40, 19 January 2007 (UTC) The precise status of this institute: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-a-weil/touch-wood_b_7612002.html

Rockefeller does not have any undergraduate programs. The first sentence on the wikipage is incorrect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.61.86.177 (talk) 04:28, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

edits

I removed big chunks of text tonight, including the long lists of faculty awards and faculty positions. Wikipedia is not a directory, so such information should be summarized when possible (e.g., "Rockefeller has had 23 Nobel prize winners, 167 genius grant winners, and x+3 members of the NAS."). Esrever ^(klaT) 05:32, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

The section on discoveries at Rockefeller is now tabular (rows initiated with dots). I liked it much, much better before. Now, sometimes there are three discoveries per line and sometimes one, and half of the most important discoveries are wedged together on a few lines at the bottom of the chart. Half of the discoveries are super vague / not quite English -- what does "enabled the field of tumor biology" mean? If I have time I will try to fix this, most likely by reverting to exactly how it was a few months ago. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.194.165 (talk) 07:34, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

The Rockefeller Institute ought to redirect to this Wikipedia article

Searches at Wikipedia for The Rockefeller Institute for Medical research, for The Rockeller Institute, and for Rockefeller Institute ought to redirect to this present article, "Rockefeller University". (I don't know how to set this up.)

A Wikipedia search for Rockefeller Institute redirects to the article "Rockefeller Institute of Government". Actually, the name of that is The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, founded in 1981.

In scholarship Rockefeller Institute generally means "The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research", the name of this present article's institution, founded in 1901, before its name was changed in 1965 to The Rockefeller University. It's been the globe's leading biomedical institution since the early 20th century, and biomedicine is more less what people across the globe commonly know as science. So the name is prominent in much scholarship on sciences, medicine, sociology, American history, and Western history.

And a Wikipedia search for The Rockefeller Institute—with the The added—also ought to redirect to this Wikipedia article, which ought to be titled "The Rockefeller University". The The is begun in uppercase in keeping with the institute's own convention. Although the The can be causally dropped even in scholarship, it is not to be formally dropped.

And although a Wikipedia search for Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research redirects, as it ought to, to this present article, a Wikipedia search for The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research fails to.

Kusername (talk) 11:06, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

The last one is the easiest most obvious, and that's been fixed. As far as Rockefeller Institute goes, it looks like it should be a disambiguation page since there is no clear primary topic. The Rockefeller Institute would obviously redirect to that page. Finally, as to the page name, a Google news search turns up lots of sources without the definite article - see here, here, here and here.

I've turned Rockefeller Institute into a disambiguation page. You can ask for Rockefeller University to be renamed at Wikipedia:Requested moves#Requesting controversial and potentially controversial moves. StAnselm (talk) 05:33, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

requested move|The Rockefeller University|

reason=This institution calls itself "The Rockefeller University" as can be seen on their web site www.rockefeller.edu. The Rockefeller University Story, books.google.com/books?id=aw4jkXALBPMC&pg=PA Institute to University, http://books.google.com/books?id=GzlrAAAAMAAJ RockyJ (talk) 16:33, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

In the redirect page https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=The_Rockefeller_University&redirect=no I see that the original justifcation for the current arrangement was given by an edit comment:

• (cur｜prev) 12:43, 25 July 2014 ‎  Place Clichy (talk｜contribs)‎ (52 bytes) (+52)‎ Place Clichy moved page The Rockefeller University to Rockefeller University over redirect: per WP:THEUNI. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=fr&q="Rockefeller+University"+-"The+Rockefeller+University" finds 62K+ academic publications not...

WP:THEUNI says "A definite article should be applied only if The is used in running text throughout university materials and if that usage has caught on elsewhere." The former is certainly true; the question is the latter.

Google Scholar searches in 2022 show:

* "The Rockefeller University" reports "About 488,000 results".

* "Rockefeller University" (while excluding "The Rockefeller University") reports "About 173,000 results".

* Even as of 2014, it was 235,000 results for The and 88,800 results sans.

However, I realized that many results with "The" are matching text including things like "The Rockefeller University Center for ___". A way to try to control for that is to search for something like

"of The Rockefeller University and"

versus

"of Rockefeller University and".

In that case it's "About 379" with "The" versus "About 439" sans "The".

However, this may be shifting. If one limits it to papers since 2018, one gets "About 49 results" for "The" versus "About 31 results" without it (and 126 versus 103 if you check 2010 onward) suggesting a possible shift.

Anecdotally, though, I believe that every time I've heard the university mentioned in casual speech, it was without "The". —Undomelin (talk) 19:37, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

@Undomelin: Wow, you rebounded on a 2014 aborted discussion. I agree with most of the comments above. However, let me add that looking up "The Rockefeller University", like you did, will return many hits where the is a casual article, and not necessarily considered part of the name. Similarly, looking up "of The Rockefeller University and" will also return uncapitalized "of the Rockefeller University and", where the is, again, not considered part of the name of the university itself. I therefore agree that evidence is extremely thin to indicate that common usage ould have caught on to systematically include the definite article as part of the university's name in running text. Anyway, User:RockyJ's initial comment did not even make this claim, simply referring to the institution's own vanity usage. Place Clichy (talk) 21:17, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Tomas Lindahl----2015 Nobel Prize Medicine

We should really add Tomas Lindahl to this list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.115.216.198 (talk) 00:59, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

I disagree. While he did postdoctoral work at Rockefeller, he didn't go to school there and he wasn't a principle investigator there. What do other people think? RockyJennifer (talk) 14:06, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

I think it makes sense to add former postdocs (in fact, someone has already added Ohsumi, from this year) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.194.165 (talk) 07:37, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

I didn't see that. I think we should take Ohsumi off. Is anyone going to go through all the past Nobel winners to see who did what postdoc work and where? The task would be enormous and, I would argue, unnecessary. The only exception is when the work done at that place contributed to the Nobel prize. RockyJennifer (talk) 15:57, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Most Nobel Prizes?

The sentence "It has the highest number of Nobel Prizes in relation to personnel involved in research in the world" is both unclear and uncited. If there is a statistic that backs this up, it should be stated clearly and cited. If not, this should be removed.Jazzlw (talk) 18:21, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

I agree with Jazzlw. Since many institutions can claim a single laureate, and there is no agreement as to how to apportion laureates to institutions, this cannot be verified. Harvard University, Columbia University, and University of Cambridge are just three institutions that have more laureates than Rockefeller. Even if one only counts laureates in fields that Rockefeller has laureates (Chemistry and in Physiology or Medicine), Rockefeller isn't the leader. RockyJennifer (talk) 16:00, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

The one think I was definitely struck by is that Rockefeller can claim almost all of them as faculty at the time of their award. That's pretty impressive given the tenuous connections many universities will go to to claim a Nobel Laureate as affiliated. (this can now be seen in the list on the Rockefeller article page)Jazzlw (talk) 05:35, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

It also might mean the ratio of Nobel Laureates associated to heads of labs? I would believe that given that it's almost 1:3, but there should really be some data to back up such a claim. Jazzlw (talk) 07:34, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

You're probably right about the claim being associated to the ratio. The problem with considering the ratio is that it is constantly changing, not just at Rockefeller, but everywhere. Any time a laureate goes somewhere else from Rockefeller, that place can also claim him (all men so far). Any time Rockefeller changes the number of lab heads, the ratio changes. (It is now up to 79, but just last August it was 75.) And, of course, if a laureate was to start his or her own institute with no one else working there, that ratio would be 1:1.

In regards to the original comment, I think the person making the claim had to have been thinking of only science awards. It's not a knock on Rockefeller to assume that a biomedical research institute is probably never going to have anyone on faculty who wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.

There is a very handy page here: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_university_affiliation but it is not clear where all the information is coming from. The official Nobel site only includes affiliation at the time of the award. Unfortunately, when one goes to the Nobel Prize site and looks up laureates by affiliation, not all of Rockefeller's laureates are under one tidy heading. Everyone under the following headings count: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, NJ; Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, NY; and Rockefeller University. RockyJennifer (talk) 14:53, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

I cut the claim out -- it really seems completely unsupportable. I replaced it with the claim that Rockefeller is very prestigious, which, as every biologist knows, it is -- what citation for this, though? I also fixed the faculty totals, which incorrectly included emeritus professors for numerator (award winners) and not for denominator (total number of faculty). Now emeritus are included in both totals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.194.165 (talk) 07:25, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Emeritus professors are still included for purposes of nobel prizes etc. and not in the total number of faculty. My edit of October 8th correcting this was apparently reverted a month afterwards. This is cheating. I switched it back. Also again eliminated the apparently unsupported claim that Rockefeller has "the most number of Nobel laureates per capita," whatever that means. Please provide a citation for this and clarify what is meant by it as, judging from the talk page, nobody seems to know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.194.165 (talk) 23:24, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Nobel Laureates as a table???

I'm thinking about changing the list of nobel laureates from the current bulleted list format, which looks like this:

• 2011 Ralph Steinman (Physiology or Medicine) (Faculty at time of award)
• 2003 Roderick MacKinnon (Chemistry) (Faculty at time of award)
• 2001 Paul Nurse (Physiology or Medicine) (President after award and current faculty)
• 2000 Paul Greengard (Physiology or Medicine) (Faculty at time of award)

To a table format, which would look like this:

Year	Nobel Laureate	Prize	Affiliation
2011	Ralph Steinman	(Physiology or Medicine)	(Faculty at time of award)
2003	Roderick MacKinnon	(Chemistry)	(Faculty at time of award)
2001	Paul Nurse	(Physiology or Medicine)	(President after award and current faculty)
2000	Paul Greengard	(Physiology or Medicine)	(Faculty at time of award)

My thought is that it might make reading the different parts of the list easier. It could also be a sortable table if we wanted.

What do people think? Opinions? Other ideas? RockyJennifer do you have any thoughts?

thanks! Jazzlw (talk) 07:30, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

I like that idea a lot, Jazzlw. It certainly makes it much easier to read. I can update the affiliation information over the next week or so (in terms of dates and the like).RockyJennifer (talk) 14:35, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Ok RockyJennifer thanks for the feedback!! I made the change, let me know what you think! Jazzlw (talk) 05:17, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 August 2017

64.134.99.170 (talk) 00:21, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

Undoubtedly, the Rockefeller University has received the highest number of Nobel Prizes in relation to the size of its faculty.

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 00:54, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

To be clear: Your lack of doubt about it isn't a reliable source that justifies saying so in the article. Largoplazo (talk) 02:00, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

Misplaced comments about Nobel prizes

I've moved to this section the random comments that one or more unregistered editors have been leaving about Nobel prizes at the top of this Talk page. I encourage our unregistered colleague(s) to (a) cite some reliable sources, (b) stop edit warring, and (c) stop repeating the same thing in Talk and in the article. ElKevbo (talk) 15:21, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

Indeed this place is a factory for generating Nobel Prizes. It is very tiny yet has won more Nobel Prizes than most large world's top universities. Only one of it kind very low-profile. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.182.31.129 (talk) 14:54, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

THE PLAIN TRUTH: The Rockefeller University has the highest percentage of Nobel Prizes awarded in relation to the size of its faculty. Also why go by fake and planted data. This is the genuine list of Nobel Prizes won by institutions. University of California tops this list. Its endowment is less than half of Harvard; http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/universities.html No institute compares with it globally in biological sciences. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.88.88.179 (talk • contribs) 19:49, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

There are an awful lot of people here (or are you all one person?) saying over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again that this is true. I'm sorry, but that's not how this gets decided. Neither is the use of CAPITAL LETTERS and boldface type. Find an independent and reliable source that says this and then cite it. Note that this is not the same as presenting a list of Nobel laureates and then drawing this conclusion from it on your own. That's synthesis, a form of original research, which Wikipedia doesn't allow. Largoplazo (talk) 16:34, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 April 2020

Change Thomas Sakmar to Thomas Sakmar so as to link to his Wikipedia entry. SthlmSyndrome (talk) 17:09, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

 Done WP:MINOR. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 17:39, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Update request for infobox

Hi, I’m Katie, and I’ve worked at Rockefeller University for about 5 years. I’ve noticed this article has some missing info I feel is relevant and standard on other higher institution pages. To start, I propose adding a few facts to the infobox:

Founder= John D. Rockefeller

Students= 232

Academic staff= 79

Campus size = 16 acres

I welcome any feedback to this request, and thank you in advance! Since I am employed by the university and here in an official capacity, I will only post on designated talk pages and avoid direct edits of the Rockefeller University article or related articles where a conflict of interest might exist. Please do not hesitate to leave me a message if you have questions or feedback. Thank you! KFenzRockefeller (talk) 18:07, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

 Done. GreaterPonce665 ^(TALK) 03:11, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

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Work on infectious diseases

User:GreaterPonce665, thanks for your help above. Next, I would like to propose adding a paragraph to the history section emphasizing Rockefeller's commitment to fighting infectious disease beginning with its founding and continuing through present-day efforts regarding SARS-CoV-2. Some of the content is duplicated in the existing Research section under Academics, but I intend to return with a subsequent request to improve this section as well. Facts to include:

• Rockefeller's founding was precipitated by John D. Rockefeller's loss of his first grandson to scarlet fever.
• Infectious diseases battled by Rockefeller scientists include: streptococcal infections, bacterial and viral meningitis, polio, syphilis, yellow fever, malaria, influenza, pneumonia, HIV, hepatitis C, and SARS-CoV-2.
• Rockefeller scientists were among those who identified the pathogen responsible for the 1918 influenza pandemic.
• Rockefeller's David Ho developed the combination antiretroviral therapy in the 1990s that proved effective in controlling HIV/AIDS.
• The recently developed cure for hepatitis C was made possible by work at Rockefeller to understand how the virus replicates.
• In 2020, Rockefeller's work on the COVID-19 pandemic includes research by Michel Nussenzweig, Paul Bieniasz, and Charles Rice to develop monoclonal antibodies, isolated from the blood of COVID-19 survivors, that have strongly neutralizing activity against SARS-CoV-2 in culture.

A paragraph incorporating these facts with sources could read:

An initial and ongoing focus of the institute, founded after the loss of John D. Rockefeller's first grandson to scarlet fever as a young child, is infectious disease. These include streptococcal infections, bacterial and viral meningitis, polio, syphilis, yellow fever, malaria, influenza, pneumonia, HIV/AIDS, and hepatitis C. In 1936, Rockefeller scientist Richard Shope identified the influenza virus that caused the pandemic of 1918, showing that people born before 1918 carried antibodies to still-existing influenza in swine. In the 1970s, university scientists developed vaccines against pneumococcal pneumonia and bacterial meningitis. Rockefeller's David Ho, during the 1990s, developed the combination antiretroviral therapy that has proved effective in controlling HIV/AIDS. More recently, Charles M. Rice devised a system to study the replication of the virus that causes hepatitis C, which allowed for the later development of a curative treatment for the infection. In 2020, Rockefeller's work on the COVID-19 pandemic included research by Michel C. Nussenzweig, Paul Bieniasz, and Charles Rice to develop monoclonal antibodies, isolated from the blood of COVID-19 survivors, that have strongly neutralizing activity against SARS-CoV-2 in culture.

References

I welcome any feedback to this request and thank you in advance! Since I am employed by the university and here in an official capacity, I will only post on designated talk pages and avoid direct edits of the Rockefeller University article or related articles where a conflict of interest might exist. Please do not hesitate to leave me a message if you have questions or feedback. Thank you! KFenzRockefeller (talk) 17:57, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, this reads a bit promotional. Also, I'm not comfortable including this in the history section; I don't think this belongs there. If some other editor wants to try, they should go for it. Thanks. GreaterPonce665 ^(TALK) 21:00, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

• I agree that the paragraph presents a very Rockefeller-centric view of scientific advances that overstates the centrality/novelty of many of these observations. Strictly adhering to secondary sources from independent writers, especially those attending to historical accuracy, would seem much more neutral. — soupvector (talk) 23:26, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

agree as well--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:42, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

@Katie: I've declined this as three uninvolved editors have now disagreed with the change. Please feel free to return with a proposal that addresses their concerns. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 03:32, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Graduate program and Nobel update

User:GreaterPonce665 and others, thanks for the valuable feedback. I appreciate your patience as I learn the ropes! Rather than reworking the paragraph on infectious diseases, perhaps a better place for me to start is adding basic information about the graduate program, which the current page lacks.

First, I'd like to purpose adding a section under Academics called Graduate program, such as the following:

Graduate program

Rockefeller University admitted its first graduate students in 1955. Today, approximately 250 graduate students are enrolled in the program, which offers doctoral degrees in in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, and biophysics. The university's organization on the basis of laboratories rather than a hierarchical departmental structure extends to the graduate program, where laboratory research is the primary focus and students can meet degree requirements by participating in any combination of courses. In partnership with neighboring Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medicine, Rockefeller participates in the Tri-Institutional MD–PhD Program as well as a Tri-Institutional chemical biology Ph.D. program.

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If you agree with adding this information, the Student body section can be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KFenzRockefeller (talk • contribs) 19:08, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

@Soupvector and Ozzie10aaaa: I believe the "request edit" template above means someone monitoring a queue will review this proposed addition at some point, but I thought I'd ask if you'd like to weigh in here since you did above. To clarify, the "Nobel Prize update" below has been reviewed but this "Graduate program" request remains. Thanks! KFenzRockefeller (talk) 17:16, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

I have  Done this one, clearing it from the Edit Request queue. The Nobel edit request, which should have been entered as a separate request, has been addressed already. — soupvector (talk) 17:35, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Nobel Prize update

I have one additional small request at this time: current faculty member Charles M. Rice was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine earlier this month. Can you please add him to the table of Nobel laureates? I see User:Minimumbias recently updated the total count; would you be willing to update the table as well? I welcome any feedback to these requests and thank you in advance! Since I am employed by the university and here in an official capacity, I will only post on designated talk pages and avoid direct edits of the Rockefeller University article or related articles where a conflict of interest might exist. Please do not hesitate to leave me a message if you have questions or feedback. Thank you! KFenzRockefeller (talk) 19:08, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

I'm happy to create an independent page for the Nobel laureates affiliated with Rockefeller University, so that the Nobel information in this page can be moved to that page with a lot more details. It'd be done on a later date, though, due to my time constraint. Most of the top 20 universities in "List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation" have their own pages now, and I'm still working on the rest. Minimumbias (talk) 05:20, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

User:Minimumbias, Thanks for your reply! I certainly have no problem with editors creating a separate list at some point, if that's what's being done for other universities as well. I'm more concerned about updating the existing text on this page, if you're available to fix in the meantime. Thanks again! KFenzRockefeller (talk) 14:42, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

OK, done. Minimumbias (talk) 18:09, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, User:Minimumbias! KFenzRockefeller (talk) 18:15, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

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Campus and student life update

User: Soupvector thanks for your help on my previous request. I’d now like to request some changes to improve the Student life section. I’d suggest removing the sentence about David J. Anderson as it doesn’t seem appropriate for this page or section. The current page does not include information about the campus or student life as is typical on other university pages, so I’d like to request changing the Student life header to “Campus and student life” and adding the two paragraphs below: — Preceding unsigned comment added by KFenzRockefeller (talk • contribs) 16:47, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

 Done Caius G. (talk) 13:39, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Campus and student life

Founder’s Hall was the first building on Rockefeller’s campus, built between 1903 and 1906 . It housed the nation's first major biomedical research laboratory and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974. Caspary Auditorium, a 40-foot-high, 90-foot round geodesic dome, was built in 1957 and hosts a variety of concert series and lectures. The completion of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation–David Rockefeller River Campus in 2019, built along the East River over FDR Drive, added two acres to Rockefeller’s footprint. Rockefeller’s campus houses a childcare center for researchers and other university employees.

Graduate students are offered subsidized housing on campus and receive an annual stipend. Student groups include People at Rockefeller Identifying as Sexual/Gender Minorities (PRISM), Women in Science at Rockefeller (WISeR), and the Science and Education Policy Association (SEPA). The student-run publication Natural Selections is produced monthly.

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I welcome any feedback to these requests and thank you in advance! Since I am employed by the university and here in an official capacity, I will only post on designated talk pages and avoid direct edits of the Rockefeller University article or related articles where a conflict of interest might exist. Please do not hesitate to leave me a message if you have questions or feedback. Thank you! KFenzRockefeller (talk) 16:47, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Update to Research section

User: Caius G. thank very much for your help on my previous request. I’d now like to request some changes to improve the Research section. I’m suggesting changing this header to “Contemporary research”, transforming the list into a narrative, and adding sources for each discovery. Some items currently listed here are more appropriate for the History section and I plan to submit an additional request to add them there at a later time. My proposed language to replace the current Research section is below:

Contemporary Research

Rockefeller ranks highly in the CWTS Leiden Ranking, an international ranking of research impact, and is classified among "R-2: Doctoral Universities – High Research Activity".

Current Rockefeller faculty have made significant contributions to recent breakthroughs in biomedical sciences. Michael W. Young was one of several scientists who located genes that regulate the sleep/wake cycle in 1984. In 1994, Jeffrey M. Friedman’s laboratory discovered leptin, a gene that influences appetite and weight. Charles David Allis helped identify the first enzyme that modifies histones in 1996, providing early evidence that the DNA packaging material plays a crucial role in turning genes on and off. In 1998, Roderick MacKinnon’s laboratory elucidated the structure and mechanism of a potassium channel, explaining how electrical signals are conveyed across cell membranes. Titia de Lange was part of a team who illuminated how telomeres protect chromosome ends in 1999, a discovery that also shed light on the role of genome instability in cancer. Robert B. Darnell led research that defined the molecular basis of fragile X syndrome, the second leading cause of mental retardation, in 2001. Vincent A. Fischetti was part of a group that developed a powerful agent that can target and wipe out anthrax bacteria in 2002. Charles M. Rice helped produce an infectious form of the hepatitis C virus in laboratory cultures of human cells in 2005, leading directly to three new classes of hepatitis C drugs. Elaine Fuchs helped define the stem cells that can initiate squamous cell carcinoma in 2011, and also characterized the signaling pathways that drive malignancy. In 2013, Leslie B. Vosshall’s laboratory identified a gene in mosquitoes that is responsible for their attraction to humans and their sensitivity to the insect repellent DEET. Ali Brivanlou’s laboratory developed a method to grow embryos outside the uterus for up to 13 days in 2016, allowing scientists to study the earliest events of human development.

In 2020, many Rockefeller scientists shifted the focus of their research in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Michel C. Nussenzweig pioneered a method to isolate and clone antibodies from people who successfully recovered from COVID-19, which are being used to design a treatment that prevents people from developing severe disease. Jean-Laurent Casanova identified genetic mutations that are responsible for a subset of unexpectedly severe cases of COVID-19.

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I welcome any feedback to these requests and thank you in advance! Since I am employed by the university and here in an official capacity, I will only post on designated talk pages and avoid direct edits of the Rockefeller University article or related articles where a conflict of interest might exist. Please do not hesitate to leave me a message if you have questions or feedback. Thank you! KFenzRockefeller (talk) 20:41, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

 Done with minor edits, including links to other pages and updated language (e.g. intellectual disability and gene regulation). The final paragraph updates were done to avoid the need for future updates regarding verb tense. Thanks, Heartmusic678 (talk) 13:34, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks so much,Heartmusic678! KFenzRockefeller (talk) 18:59, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Any time. Heartmusic678 (talk) 20:48, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

@Heartmusic678

I'm glad to see contemporary research given pride of place here, but I've noticed that as a result of this edit the historical research section (which is an important part of the article) has been cut entirely for more than a month. Can we reinstate it following the plan of @KFenzRockefeller to put in the history section? Suggest restoring this as soon as possible with minimal changes (the following is copy-pasted from the article prior to the March 7th edit):

===Research===

Faculty and researchers at Rockefeller have a history of research

breakthroughs including:

• First to culture the infectious agent associated with syphilis
• Showed that viruses can be oncogenic, and enabled the field of tumor biology
• Development of tissue culture techniques
• Discovery of the dendritic cell, the sentinel of the immune system
• Identification of a genetic defect associated with atherosclerosis, the leading cause of heart attacks in the U.S.
• Development of solid phase peptide synthesis
• Development of the practice of travel vaccination
• Pioneered the physiology and chemistry of vision
• Located genes regulating the sleep/wake cycle
• Identified the phenomenon of autoimmune disease
• Developed virology as an independent field
• Developed the first peptide antibiotic
• Obtained the first American isolation of influenzavirus A and first isolation of influenzavirus B
• Showed that genes are structurally composed of DNA, discovered blood groups, resolved that virus particles are protein crystals
• Resolved antibody structure, developed methadone treatment of heroin addiction, devised the AIDS "drug cocktail", and identified the appetite-regulating hormone leptin

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