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The Rockefeller University

Research institute in New York City founded in 1901

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API endpoint URL	https://rushib.rockefeller.edu/idp/shibboleth protocol: Shibboleth
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education	doctoral university: higher research activity exclusively graduate exclusively graduate/professional institution research doctoral: single program - other
category for alumni of educational institution	Category:Rockefeller University alumni
category for employees of the organization	Category:Rockefeller University faculty
category of associated people	Category:Rockefeller University people
chairperson	Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Commons category	Rockefeller University
coordinate location	40.7625, -73.9556
count of students	200 73 applies to part: full-time equivalent; point in time: 1 September 2021
country	United States
described at URL	https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Rockefeller_University
employees	1,466 point in time: September 2020
endowment	2,316,968,032 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2020 2,608,216,257 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2022 2,816,369,695 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2021
grants	Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
headquarters location	New York City
image	Rockefeller University.JPG media legend: Founder's Hall
inception	1901
industry	higher education
instance of	private university private not-for-profit educational institution biological research institute
language used	American English
located in the administrative territorial entity	Manhattan
member of	Digital Library Federation New York Genome Center Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition Council on Governmental Relations
motto text	Scientia pro bono humani generis (la)
official name	Rockefeller University
official website	https://rockefeller.edu language of work or name: English
participant in	OA Switchboard point in time: February 2023
place name sign	Rockefeller University fence and sign along York Avenue, NYC (cropped).jpg
position held by head of the organization	President of Rockefeller University
postal code	10065-6399
ranking	35 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2019 30 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2018 36 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2017 37 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2016 33 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2015 33 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2014 34 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2013 32 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2012 34 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2010 33 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2011 32 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2008 28 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2003 29 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2004 30 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2005 30 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2006 30 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2007 43 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2020 42 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2021 44 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2022 39 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2023 29 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2024 29 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2025
social media followers	13,324 point in time: 4 January 2021; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 27024872 11,780 point in time: 23 April 2020; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 27024872 15,282 point in time: 1 March 2022; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 27024872 17,089 point in time: 5 February 2023; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 27024872
street address	1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065-6399
topic's main category	Category:Rockefeller University
total assets	3,876,923,769 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2020

Identifiers in other databases

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ARWU university ID	Rockefeller-University
autonomous system number	98
BHL creator ID	29687 subject named as: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research 7769 7768
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID	12340457v
CiNii Research ID	1140000791693645440
Crunchbase organization ID	the-rockefeller-university
domain name	rockefeller.edu
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Facebook username	rockefelleruniversity
FAST ID	516839
Freebase ID	/m/02vsgg
GeoNames ID	5134181
GND ID	25785-0 start time: 1901; end time: 27 June 1958; subject named as: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research 25786-2 start time: 1958; end time: 1965; subject named as: Rockefeller Institute 25787-4 start time: 1965; subject named as: Rockefeller University
Google Maps Customer ID	1307319710569868874
GRID ID	grid.134907.8
Harper's tag	rockefeller-institute-for-medical-research
Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID	3479
IdRef ID	032359934
InfluenceWatch ID	non-profit/rockefeller-university
Instagram username	rockefelleruniv
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ID	195049
ISNI	0000000110886368 0000000121661519
J9U entity ID	987007526374905171 subject named as: Rockefeller University
Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID	25786-2 25787-4
KISTI ID	K000208021
Legal Entity Identifier	549300XNE8UC1H4PND93
Libraries Australia ID	35458059
Library of Congress Authorities ID	n50066114 subject named as: Rockefeller University
LittleSis organization ID	36045
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Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)	83399316
NACSIS-CAT author ID	DA03948999
NE.se ID	rockefeller-university
NL CR AUT ID	nlk20030141646 subject named as: Rockefeller University nlk20030141644 subject named as: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research nlk20030141645 subject named as: Rockefeller Institute
NLAI ID	1600937 subject named as: دانشگاه راکفلر (نیویورک); subject named as: Rockefeller University
Open Funder Registry funder ID	100012007
OpenStreetMap way ID	108158013
PermID	4296485220
Pontificia Università della Santa Croce ID	136851
Ringgold ID	5929
ROR ID	0420db125
SCImago Institutions Rankings ID	15030
SEVIS school ID	6432
SNARC ID	Q47082
Structurae structure ID	10001339
Threads username	rockefelleruniv
Times Higher Education World University ID	rockefeller-university
U-Multirank university ID	the-rockefeller-university
VIAF cluster ID	130006080
Wellcome Collection concept ID	g2m6kp37
X (Twitter) username	rockefelleruniv start time: 27 March 2009; point in time: 23 April 2020; number of subscribers: 11,780; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 27024872
‎Scilit organization ID	1954
‎Yale LUX ID	group/ad1cfa94-ac4b-4136-aad2-d0add1e2ec63