Steven C. Rockefeller Jr. served as a member of the Board of Directors at Grameen Foundation for seven years. He also served on the Foundation's Development Committee, where he focused on technical support, fund raising, micro-credit programs and public health service. Rockefeller received a Fulbright Award in 2005 in recognition of his dedicated service to poverty alleviation and longstanding support of micro-credit programs. Rockefeller received a bachelor's degree from Fairfield University in 1985 and his master's degree in public and private management from the Yale School of Management in 1990. Rockefeller and his wife, Kimberly, live in Pleasantville, New York, with their three children,
Rockefeller University on York Avenue. Richard P. Lifton—previously the executive director of the Center for Human Genetics and Genomics at Yale University—became the university's eleventh president on September 1, 2016. The Rockefeller University Press publishes the "Journal of Experimental Medicine", the "Journal of Cell Biology", and "The Journal of General Physiology". The Rockefeller University was founded in June 1901 as The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research—often called simply The Rockefeller Institute—by John D. Rockefeller, who had founded the University of Chicago in 1889, upon advice by his adviser Frederick T. Gates and action taken in March 1901 by his son, John D.