Richard P. Lifton named 11th president of The Rockefeller University
Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 16:00
in Mathematics & Economics
The Rockefeller University today announced that its Board of Trustees has elected Richard P. Lifton to be the 11th president of the university, effective September 1, 2016. Lifton, 62, Sterling Professor of Genetics and chair of the Department of Genetics at Yale University, will succeed Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who is leaving Rockefeller to become Stanford University’s next president. More »