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From 4 to 5 p.m. on Friday, November 20, Caltech is hosting a workshop called "What Is Research All About?" This event is an opportunity to interact with Caltech scientists and learn about the process of creating new knowledge through discovery. Caltech postdoctoral scholars Aidyl Gonzal...

A California Institute of Technology graduate student has been re-sentenced to federal prison for helping firebomb dozens of SUVs in an environmental protest in the San Gabriel Valley.

On November 14, the Associated Students of the California Institute of Technology (ASCIT) hosted a concert on campus featuring the alternative rock band Third Eye Blind. The concert took place outdoors just south of Winnett Student Center, where the band performed songs from their thr...

At noon on November 20 in the second-floor common area of the Center for Student Services, the Caltech C will honor the life and work of Tsien Hsue-Shen, PhD '39, a Caltech alumnus and one of the founders of JPL, with special remembrance presentation by Professor Emeritus Theodore Wu. Lunc...

The Caltech Glee Clubs will perform a concert at Westminster Presbyterian Church (1757 North Lake Avenue, Pasadena) at 8 p.m. on Friday, November 20, and Saturday, November 21. The program has not yet been announced.

Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry and professor of physics at Caltech, has been named an envoy in the new U.S. Science Envoy Program, created to foster science and technology collaborations between the United States and nations throughout the Middle...

Caltech and the Dow Chemical Company have announced a new solar-research collaboration aimed at developing the use of semiconductor materials that are less expensive and more abundant than those used in many of today's solar cells. The collaboration will be a four-year, $4.2 million ef...

Exquisitely detailed drawings of the Hale Telescope at Caltech's Palomar Observatory and a JPL model of the Mars Pathfinder rover Soujourner are among the works on display in "Tools," a new exhibit at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design showcasing a diverse range of objects from th...

By Nancy Atkinson NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured this infrared image of a giant halo of very fine dust around the young star HR 8799. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Ariz. © nancy for Universe Today, 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us

For the fourth year in a row, Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine has ranked Caltech as the best value among private universities in the United States. According to an article in the December issue, "Caltech students enjoy the ultimate in academic nurturing: a student-faculty ratio...

By Steve Hsu(noreply@blogger.com) These observations are consistent with my own experience. Growing up in Iowa, I remember many academically talented students from my high school (often children of professors) simply attending the local state university by default. These days, those same kids would be angling for admi...

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have shown that a highly specific intrabody (an antibody fragment that works against a target inside a cell) is capable of stalling the development of Huntington's disease in a variety of mouse models.

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have uncovered the physical mechanism by which arrays of nanoscale (billionths-of-a-meter) pillars can be grown on polymer films with very high precision, in potentially limitless patterns.

Caltech has named Victoria D. Stratman as the Institute's General Counsel. Stratman will succeed Harry Yohalem, who announced his retirement earlier this year. Pending the formal approval of the Board of Trustees, she will start her new duties on December 1. Stratman was selected followi...

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the "visual" experience of a blind person who has been implanted with a visual prosthesis, such as an artificial retina. An artificial retina consists of a si...

On Sunday, October 4, City Councilman Terry Tornek will lead a walk through District 7 of Pasadena. All members of the community are invited to join the group, which will meet at 5 p.m. at the Assistant League's Craft Fair Gift Shop. The walk will begin at 5:15 p.m. and will highlight scenic Arden R...

By Tom Details and scientific interpretation of these new impact craters and their use to examine subsurface ice at northern mid-latitudes on Mars are captured in a paper published this week in Science by Shane Byrne and 17 colleagues on teams operating the Contect Camera, High Resolution Im...

By webmaster References ^ Cannon, Debby. “The Impact of the Hospitality & Tourism Industry on Atlanta.” (Atlanta: J. Mack Robinson College of Business.) Retrieved September 14, 2009.^ Read the Dragon*Con Pocket Program . (PDF) Recent Caltech lectures now on DVD For those of you who don’t live in Cali...

Chemists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and The Scripps Research Institute (SRI) have developed an innovative technique to create cheap but highly stable chemicals that have the potential to take the place of the antibodies used in many standard medical diagnos...

By webmaster the Fall/Winter Season of Caltech Lectures Mark your calendar! The Skeptics Society is pleased to announce its Fall/Winter season of the Skeptics Distinguished Lecture Series at Caltech. This continues the seventeen-year-long series, presenting over 200 lectures by some of the mos...

In the latest U.S. News & World Report America's Best Colleges survey, Caltech ranks number four as one of the nation's best universities. Caltech also maintained its number four ranking as one of the top undergraduate engineering programs in the country. Highlights in this year's sur...

PhysOrg.com) -- Inside a mountain range in central Italy, Columbia researchers are trying to solve one of the most pressing questions in modern physics: What is dark matter? The riddle has obsessed astronomers and physicists since the 1930s, when Caltech professor Fritz Zwicky first p...

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a first-of-its-kind partnership between the City of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP), JPL, and Caltech to establish Los Angeles as "a powerhouse for demonstrated energy and water innovation." This part...

 DC Credit: (top left) University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy; (top right): A. Dupree (CfA)/NASA/ESA; (bottom) NASA/JPL-Caltech/SV Ramírez (NExSci/Caltech)/SST/IRAC/MIPS/IRS By Yudhijit Bhattacharjee PASADENA, CALIFORNIA--Stars have been the, well, ...

 CA Three seniors from the California Institute of Technology have received Fulbright Fellowships to pursue graduate work abroad, Caltech announced. Alex Hudson is beginning a one-year program in theoretical chemistry at the University of Oxford; ...

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By Steve Hsu(noreply@blogger.com) I've been fascinated by economist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_L._Smith">Vernon Smith</a> since participating in paid economics experiments as a student at Caltech. Smith was the pioneer in this type of research. From the 2002 Nobel <a href="http:...

By Tom Stuck Rover The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is stuck in the soft soil near “Home Plate” — this is not good obviously but it’s worse than that.  Not only is the rover stuck there is a possibility it is “high centered” on a mound of rocks under its belly.  To add insult to injury, a left [...]

At Caltech in Pasadena tonight through Sunday, the Capitol Steps will perform 30 songs and skits, including "Joe Biden" belting out rock, "Vladimir Putin" warbling a show tune and the "Supreme Court" digging disco. Newport said that Pasadena is one of ...

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has selected two Caltech students as recipients of 200910 Hertz Fellowships. Chosen from a pool of 543 applicants, Amit Lakhanpal, a graduate student in biology, and Po-Ling Loh, a senior in applied mathematics, are among 10 fellowships awarded thi...

Caltech will once again award the Thomas W. Schmitt Annual Staff Prize to a Caltech staff member at this year's Service Award Ceremony on June 2. The prize was established to recognize staff members whose contributions to the Institute embody the values and spirit that enable Caltech to be...

By daveshields Prof. diPrima was the first person I met who was also a member of NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS), then and now the world’s foremost school of applied mathematics. o - o - o Professor Herbert “Herb” Keller - May His Memory Be a Blessing. o - o - o - o

The Beavers may not be competing in the ongoing NCAA March Madness tournament, but you can still catch them on TV. Quantum Hoops, the documentary about the Caltech men's basketball team, will be broadcast on KCET on Saturday, April 4, at 10 p.m., an again on Sunday, April 5, at 3:30 p.m. Since its...

By Tom Spitzer and Hubble team up to view the galactic collision that is NGC 6240. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI-ESA This image was created from combined data from the infrared array camera of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope at 3.6 and 8.0 microns (red) and visible light from NASA’s Hubble Spac...

By Michael A paper describing these breakthrough metallic-glass alloys is now online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Early Edition in advance of an upcoming print publication. Earlier this year, the same Caltech group had published a paper in the journal Nature, des...

The Pleiades star cluster, captured here in infrared by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Click on image to view slideshow. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Stauffer (SSC/Caltech). IYA2009 In the UK, the Society for Popular Astronomy, Royal Astronomical Society and Science and Technology Faci...

By Michael We were able to follow the whole process," adds Scott Fraser, the Anna L. Rosen Professor of Biology, director of the Beckman Institute's Biological Imaging Center, and a paper coauthor. "We were able to label and watch the cells doing the motion, and the events that guide the motion."

Caltech scientists have built an electron microscope that, like a video camera, can film events over short periods of time to provide a glimpse into various mechanisms happening at the nano scale. Press release: Caltech 4D Microscope Revolutionizes the Way We Look at the Nano World ...

By Sean So to all those grad students hanging around in the lounge, trying to say clever things to impress the visiting speaker — it could be worse! You could be hanging around soda shops, hoping to be discovered by wandering tenured professors.

By Tom This painterly portrait of a star-forming cloud, called NGC 346, is a combination of multiwavelength light from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope (infrared), the European Southern Observatory’s New Technology Telescope (visible), and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton space t...

By clementlawyer After nearly 30 years at Caltech as a professor of theoretical physics and, eventually, provost, Steven Koonin took a leave of absence in 2004 to become BP's chief scientist. After a year of study, he recommended a strategy for the company that has included investments in unconventional...

At this year's Staff Service and Award Ceremony, Caltech honored over 200 staff members for service ranging from 10 to 40 years, and President Chameau announced Teesa Chmielewski and Dana Roth as the winners of the 2008 Thomas W. Schmitt Annual Staff Prize. The award recognizes staff memb...

By Tom NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, is the prime contractor for the project and buil...

By daveshields Some knocks are so loud there is no question you will open the door and take advantage of them . For example, as I was nearing the end of my senior year in high school, I knew I would attend either the University of New Mexico or Caltech, and that I would only be going to Caltech if they provided som...

Scientists from the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, Los Angeles, reported the development in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. The latest development, Reynolds said, shows development progressing from research into something manufactu...

Caltech's first woman to win a Marshall Scholarship, Emma Schmidgall is making a little history, but it's a place where she feels right at home. "I've been to Cambridge before," she says. "It's like something out of 'Harry Potter.'" Schmidgall's Cambridge connection began last year, when...

A new $4.4-million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow researchers at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley, to develop techniques to turn brain cells on and off in animals as they go about their daily activities, allowing...

the 1st sandman writes "SC2005 published some results of several challenges including bandwidth utilization. The winner (a Caltech led team of several institutes) was measured at 130 Gbps. On their site you can find some more information on their measurements...

Dr. Richard Wiseman, head of the psychology lab at the University of Hertfordshire, will give a Skeptics Society lecture entitled "Luck, ESP, and Magic: How Science Tests the Unusual." This specially scheduled talk will take place at 7 p.m. on November 9, in Baxter Lecture Hall. Donation is $...

You are invited to attend a short presentation by a United Way representative and the directors of the Caltech Y, Caltech Children's Center, and Child Educational Center at JPL, who will describe their organizations and tell how they assist the community. Caltech will match, dollar for...

Faces of Science: Photographs by Mariana Cook will be on exhibit at the Caltech Bookstore from October 19 through November 23. In her book, renowned photographer Mariana Cook turned her camera on some of the greatest men and women of the scientific community to take an intimate look at the...