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scouts ago

Jeffrey Epstein was on the board of trustees. Also note that his brother was on the board of trustees of Cooper Union, an elite college in NYC.

Epstein, Kandel and Kissinger Join Rockefeller University Board of Trustees November 22, 1995 The board of trustees of Rockefeller University has elected investor Jeffrey E. Epstein, neurobiologist Eric R. Kandel, M.D., and Nancy M. Kissinger, M.A., as new members.

“The experience and wisdom that Mr. Epstein, Dr. Kandel and Mrs. Kissinger bring to The Rockefeller University board of trustees is most welcome and will improve our mission to support and strengthen the biomedical research and education activities of our faculty and students,” says Richard M. Furlaud, chairman of the board.

Each of the new members will serve three-year terms. Epstein is a member of the advisory board of the university’s Center for Studies of Physics and Biology. Kissinger has served as a member of the university’s council since 1991.

“The trustees are dedicated members of The Rockefeller University community and we look forward to their contributions to our pursuit of new knowledge and understanding of the biological and physical aspects of health and disease,” says Torsten Wiesel, M.D., president of the university.

Epstein

President of J. Epstein & Co., a private holding company, Epstein is the director of the Wexner Foundation and of the Wexner Heritage Foundation. Epstein also is the president of the New Albany Property Company in New Albany, Ohio. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Charles Darwin Society of the New York Academy of Science.

Epstein studied physics at Cooper Union in New York and then joined Bear Stearns, becoming a limited partner until 1981.

Kandel

Kandel, University Professor in the Columbia University Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and a senior investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, studies the molecular basis of memory and learning. He received the National Medical of Science, the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award and many other honors.

Kandel received a bachelor of arts degree in 1952 from Harvard College and a medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine (NYU) in 1956. He completed a residency in psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School, later joining the center as a junior faculty member. He returned to NYU in 1965 as an associate professor, becoming professor and head of the Division of Neurobiology and Behavior in 1968. Kandel moved to the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia in 1974 where he founded the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, which he directed until 1983 when he became University Professor.

Kissinger

Kissinger is a member of the board of overseers of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State University of New York, Albany. She is a trustee of the MacKay-Shields MainStay Series Fund and Tax Free Bond Fund, of the Animal Medical Center and of The Masters School. She also is a member of the advisory committee of the Alan and Tudy McLaine East European Leadership Program at International House.

A graduate of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., Kissinger earned a master of arts in history from the University of California at Berkeley and has completed course requirements for a doctoral degree.

From 1964 to 1971, Kissinger worked as a research assistant for foreign affairs to the late New York Governor and Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller. From 1972 to 1975, she directed international studies for the Commission on Critical Choices for Americans. She is married to the former Secretary of State, Henry A. Kissinger.

https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/4678-epstein-kandel-and-kissinger-join-rockefeller-university-board-of-trustees/

NOMOCHOMO ago

Dude this is a crazy find. I think it deserves it's own post.

scouts ago

Also, given all the Israel connections to this Jeffrey Epstein/Rockefeller University/Kissinger stuff, note that an Israeli university is being opened just a few hundred feet across the river/bridge from Rockefeller University:

Israel’s Start-Up Island Taking Shape New Roosevelt Island campus, partnership of Technion and Cornell University, will increase Israelis’ footprint here. https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/israels-start-up-island-taking-shape/