Managing two Nobel stories at once

Source: Rockefeller University via YouTube

The public affairs office at Rockefeller University had a delicate job on Oct. 3 when it had to make two announcements — that one of its scientists had just won the Nobel Prize, and that he had died three days earlier. In this post on the Don't Get Caught blog, Denise Graveline talks to Rockefeller's Joe Bonner about preparations for the Nobels, and the morning of the announcement, when the university learned about the award and the death in that order.

October 17, 2011

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