Welcome (back) to campus! We hope you all had an amazing summer.

We are excited to announce our first event of the school year – RIGS international movie night, happening next Thursday! We will be screening The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by popular demand. Please join us for fun, food, friendship, and film! As always, if you have any recommendations for future movies, please let us know!

Date: Thursday, September 26th, 2024

Time: 

Dinner and hang out: 6-7 pm (CRC basement, the area outside Carson)

Movie screening 7 – 10 pm (Carson Family Auditorium)

Best,

RIGS board

Dear RIGS members,

We would like to invite you to celebrate the summer with us at a picnic on Sunday, August 11th at 2 pm in Central Park! Bring whatever food and drink you'd like to share with your fellow RIGS members and meet us at the Frisbee Hill (map). Children and partners are all welcome!

Please fill out this Google sheet if you will be attending and list the items you think you'll bring. This way we can coordinate to have enough food and drink for everyone! There will be a group leaving Rockefeller at 1:30 pm that Sunday. We hope to see you there!

Best,
RIGS

Dear RIGS members, 

Join us for a two-hour crash course on negotiation skills, with a special focus for graduate students and post-docs. 

The workshop will take place on July 9, 10:00 AM, at Carson Auditorium. Spots are limited so please use this link to register.

Light breakfast will be at 9:30.  

We will cover the basics of why you should negotiate (it pays off!) and the best ways to do it. We will also have a conversation about international norms and what it's like to be an international scholar in the US! 

The negotiation skills could be applied to a broad set of situations, to help scientists negotiate things like:

• A contract

• Buying lab equipment 

• Lab space allocation 

• Equipment use and lab cleanliness

• Starting a collaboration with another scientist

• Co-authorship order on a paper

Dr. Solène Delecourt (Faculty Profile), an Assistant Professor at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, will lead the workshop. She holds a PhD from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and received a master’s degree in Economics and Public Policy from Sciences Po Paris and École Polytechnique.

Driven by a genuine love for teaching negotiations to diverse audiences, including MBA students, executives, startup founders, and scientists, she won the Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2024, her school's highest honor for teaching.

Her research has appeared in academic journals such as Nature, Management Science, and the Strategic Management Journal, and has been featured in newspapers like the Wall Street Journal. It has received funding from various sources, including the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Currently, she is an editorial board member of the journal Organization Science. Her work has won multiple awards, most recently the 2024 Wharton People Analytics Competition. In 2024, she was named one of the Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors by Poets & Quants. 

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop!

Best, 

RIGS team 

Hi RIGS! 

Mark your calendars!

We will be having our May general meeting on Tuesday May 7th from 5-6pm in CRC 206. 

Please come to hear about how the last few social events went, what events are on the horizon, and what board positions will be open to apply to!! This is also the time when you tell us your concerns or ideas.

It promises to be a lively discussion and we hope to see you there! Pizza and beers/beverages provided.

Best wishes,

RIGS board

Dear RIGS members,

We are very excited to invite you to our very first movie night on April 10th at 7 pm in Carson Auditorium!

Due to popular demand, we will be watching 🎉 Anatomy of a Fall 🎉. Food will be served from 6-7 pm in the blue carpet area outside Carson, so please feel free to come early, grab a bite, and hang out with other RIGS members before the movie starts.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Best,

RIGS

Dear RIGS members,

We will have a General Meeting on Tuesday, February 20th at 4 pm in CRC 206. Please check out the flyer here.

On this general meeting, we’ll be talking about taxes, beginning an international movie night, and other important updates to ongoing workshops and projects that the board is planning. Pizza and beer will be served!

We hope to see you all there!

The RIGS Board

Dear RU Community,

Happy New Year and welcome back to campus!

The official holidays might be over but the winter spirit continues! Rockefeller International Group of Scholars (RIGS) would like to invite you to our winter party, happening on January 18, 5-8pm, at Faculty Club. Please check out the flyer here.

Come join us for multicultural food, drinks, and games, and stand a chance to win an Amazon gift card for your participation! We will be providing pizza, Chinese, and Greek food. If you have food, drinks, or games that you would like to share, bring them along and share your culture with us. Partners and kids are welcome!

Please RSVP here.

We hope to see you there!

RIGS board

Dear RIGS members,

We hope that you are taking care of yourselves and one another in these difficult times.

The RIGS will have our General Meeting on Thursday, November 2nd at 5 PM in CRC 206. We hope that you will be able to attend. There will also be a happy hour in Faculty Club afterward from 6-7 PM with Pizza and beer/wine/soft drinks.

The agenda for the meeting will include:

• Introductions

• Finding new ways to reach people on campus

• Mental health resources

• Holiday celebration ideas

• Preferred communication methods (slack/email/whatsapp)

• Science communication foundation course for 2024

• First RIGS group members’ photo!

We hope to see you there!
Best wishes,
RIGS Board

Check out the flyer of the event here!

Dr. Hiro Funabiki is a professor originally from Japan, and his lab studies the molecular signatures and mechanisms of chromosome identity and inheritance. During this conversation co-hosted by BIOME and RIGS, Dr. Funabiki will be talking about being an international scholar and navigating mentor/mentee relationships.

Please fill out the RSVP form if you are interested in attending the conversation. We look forward to seeing you there!

First and foremost, a warm welcome to all the new graduate students joining the Rockefeller community!

During the orientation, the RIGS board members will introduce our group, our mission, and our upcoming events.

During our first general meeting, we will introduce the organization, our goals for the upcoming year, as well as the projects we have begun to work on. We will also open up the floor for members to discuss any concerns or ideas they may have for supporting our international community. If you are unable to attend in person, there is an option to join via Zoom. We hope to see you there!

Room Reservation: CRC 206

OR

Join Zoom Meeting

https://rocku.zoom.us/j/96278690080?pwd=SmllYWZLdFJkNlN0WHV2aHlJTzRjZz09

Meeting ID: 962 7869 0080

Passcode: 828175

Please RSVP for RockEdu BIOME's inaugural Multicultural Potluck lunch in the Great Hall/Welch Hall! This event is OPEN TO ALL, and a wonderful opportunity to showcase a little slice of home (pun intended!) via cuisine! 

If you would like to bring a dish or a drink, please let us know. We would love to have your country and/or culture represented with delicious food! Hope to see you there!

RSVP