She graduated from Union College in Schenectady , N.Y . Her father , an obstetrician and gynecologist , has his own practice in West Islip , N.Y. , and in Holbrook , N.Y . The bridegroom , 29 , is a postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and cell biology at Rockefeller University in New York , where he is working to find chemical inhibitors of cancer-related pathways .