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Rate Photo of the Day: Young Engineers Put Design into Practice

Original at Caltech Today external link    Thu, Jul 2

On July 1, high-school students in the Caltech Young Engineering and Science Scholars program, a three-week summer residential program, took part in a catapult design competition as part of a physics course. Small teams of students each designed, built, and presented a catapult to pro...

Rate Kent and Joyce Kresa Endow Professorial Chair

Original at Caltech Today external link    Wed, Jul 1

Kent Kresa, interim chairman of General Motors, and his wife have pledged $2 million to Caltech to endow the Joyce and Kent Kresa Professorship in Engineering and Applied Science. Kresa is chairman of the Caltech Board of Trustees. The Kresa gift is matched with an additional $1 million pr...

Rate Athenaeum Complimentary Membership

Original at Caltech Today external link    Wed, Jul 1

This summer, the Athenaeum is offering complimentary 30-day membership passes for current nonmembers who are Caltech, JPL, or Huntington Library employees eligible to join as members and interested in trying the experience. The passes will provide the opportunity to enjoy the Athen...

Rate Caltech, PCC’s Biotech Bridge

Original at Caltech Today external link    Mon, Jun 29

This fall, up to 10 Pasadena City College students will work with stem cells at Caltech, thanks to a $1.7 million grant and the leadership of a former Caltech postdoc. Others will follow in 2010 and 2011. Upon completing the program, they will be fully prepped to work on the frontiers of biomed...

Past Two Weeks

 

Rate Caltech Hosts Pacific Rim University Presidents

Original at Caltech Today external link    Fri, Jun 26

From June 28 to 30, Caltech is hosting the 13th Annual President's Meeting of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), a consortium of 42 leading research universities. The leaders of APRU member universities meet each year to reflect on issues relating to higher education a...

Rate Caltech at the Large Hadron Collider: On the Verge of Discovery at the High-Energy Frontier

Original at Caltech Today external link    Fri, Jun 26

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) isn't scheduled to restart for a few months, but Caltech professors Harvey Newman and Maria Spiropulu are now busy working with their high-energy physics team to discover mysterious Higgs particles, supersymmetry, gravitons, and other exotic forms o...

Rate Baby Crater on Mars

Original at Tom's Astronomy external link    Sat, Jun 20

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By Tom Oppy's view of a baby crater on Mars. Click for larger. Credit for image: Opportunity Rover, portion of Navcam mosaic (Sol 1825; PIA 1185). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Credit for image: Opportunity Rover, portion of Navcam mosaic (Sol 1825; PIA 1185). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Past Month

 

Rate Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows

Original at Caltech Today external link    Fri, Jun 19

650 undergraduates from around the world are conducting diverse scientific research projects at Caltech as part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) program. Now in its 32nd year, the Caltech SURF program offers undergraduates the opportunity to conduct indepen...

Rate Einstein Papers Project Releases Volume 12: The Berlin Years

Original at Caltech Today external link    Tue, Jun 16

The Einstein Papers Project, located at and supported by Caltech, is one of the most ambitious publishing ventures ever undertaken in the documentation of the history of science. The project involves sorting through over 70,000 documents and publishing The Collected Papers of Albert...

Rate Caltech scientists use high-pressure 'alchemy' to create ... - EurekAlert

Original at EurekAlert external link    Mon, Jun 15

PASADENA, Calif.—By squeezing a typical metal alloy at pressures hundreds of thousands of times greater than normal atmospheric pressure, scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a material that does not expand when ...

Rate Cooking up ideas

Original at Los Angeles Times external link    Sat, Jun 13

 CA Caltech has raked in oodles of Nobel Prizes. Its operation of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory has sent its renown beyond Earth. And its students have pulled off both brilliant research and inspired pranks. The long-ago dismantling of a Model T and the ...

Rate Doing Evil: On Google

Original at The Wayward Word Press external link    Fri, Jun 12

By daveshields I have yet to meet a Google employee who would have survived the freshman year at Caltech in the early 60’s. Less than 2/3 of my class graduated. The next class, ‘67, had an even higher attrition rate, so much so that Caltech dropped freshman grades.

Rate Caltech Undergrads Propose Plan for Reducing Campus Energy Usage

Original at Caltech Today external link    Thu, Jun 11

A group of Caltech undergrads has proposed an innovative plan to reduce energy consumption on campus. In what started as a term project to analyze a new technology for Professor Ken Pickar's Management of Technology course, the Caltech Behavior Energy Initiative discovered solutions...

Rate Stars Come Out at Astronomy...

Original at Science Now external link    Wed, Jun 10

 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, ...

Rate A sleeping giant

Original at Spaceflight Now external link    Wed, Jun 10

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 FL Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (Univ. of Wisconsin) Located near the Aquila rift in the Galactic plane at a distance of 23000 light-years, this cloud condensation has a mass 120 times that of the Sun contained within a volume smaller than the ...

Rate University rankings: research and faculty quality

Original at MIT Technology Review external link    Sat, Jun 6

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 MA Yes, that's right, Caltech researchers were 3 times as productive as their counterparts at MIT and Harvard, and 10 times as productive as those at Michigan ;-) Graham and Diamond's results establish that reputation is often a misleading indicator. ...

May of 2009

 

Rate Vernon Smith at Caltech

Original at infoproc (Blogspot) external link    Sat, May 30

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:...

Rate This and That

Original at Tom's Astronomy external link    Tue, May 19

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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 [...]

Rate Harry Gray Awarded for Lifetime of Basic Research in Chemistry and Advances in Solar Fuel

Original at Caltech Today external link    Mon, May 18

For decades of breakthroughs in bioinorganic and inorganic photochemistry powering his current work in renewable fuels, Harry Gray, the Beckman Professor of Chemistry and founding director of the Beckman Institute at Caltech, has been named the recipient of the 2009 Welch Award in C...

Rate Keystone Kops' bust highlight of night

Original at Pasadena Star-News external link    Mon, May 4

 CA Caltech and Pomona College have nominated Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) for the National CASE Award (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education). Since its founding in Los Angeles in 1958, ARCS has grown into 14 chapters ...

Rate Laughing at the US

Original at Pasadena Star-News external link    Thu, Apr 30

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 ...

Rate Caltech proves hospitable to filming

Original at Variety external link    Thu, Apr 30

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But Caltech's most prominent use as an onscreen venue began four years ago, when it became a central location for the CBS series "Numbers" — even though the Pasadena campus was not the first choice. "Numbers" was originally to be set in Boston, ...

Year 2009

 

Rate Sixth Anniversary For Galaxy-Exploring Mission

Original at RedOrbit external link    Tue, Apr 28

 TX Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Image 2: This image is a blend of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer's M33 image and another taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. M33, one of our closest galactic neighbors, is about 2.9 million light-years away in the ...

Rate Two Caltech Students Receive Hertz Fellowships

Original at Caltech Today external link    Thu, Apr 2

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...

Rate Nominations for the Thomas W. Schmitt Annual Staff Prize

Original at Caltech Today external link    Tue, Mar 31

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...

Rate A Mathematician’s Mathematicians: Professor Herb Keller, and his Notation for QED

Original at The Wayward Word Press external link    Tue, Mar 24

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

Rate Opinion: Quantum Hoops on Television

Original at Caltech Today external link    Thu, Mar 19

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...

Rate Spitzer and NGC 6240

Original at Tom's Astronomy external link    Tue, Mar 17

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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...

Rate The Harvard Initiatives for Open Access to the Scholarly Literature

Original at Caltech Today external link    Fri, Mar 6

At 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 26 in Beckman Laboratory, Room 24, Caltech Library Services will present a talk by Harvard's Stuart M. Shieber, professor of computer science, and director of the Office for Scholarly Communication. In a talk called "The Harvard Initiatives for Open Acce...

Rate Caltech Grad Students and Professor Participate in Local Public Middle School’s Science and Math Fair

Original at Caltech Today external link    Wed, Feb 25

Three graduate students and a professor from Caltech's Tectonics Observatory presented hands-on activities in Earth science at Sierra Madre Middle School's Science and Math Fair on February 18. About 70 of the school's sixth graders, along with their families, attended the event, at...

Rate New Titanium-Glass Composite for Medical Apps?

Original at Medgadget.com external link    Wed, Jan 7

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...

Rate Kepler's Year

Original at Seed Magazine external link    Tue, Dec 30

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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...

Rate A Look Into Mass Cell Movement During Early Embryogenesis

Original at Medgadget.com external link    Fri, Dec 12

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."

Rate Nanomovies Reveal Events at Tiny Scales

Original at Medgadget.com external link    Tue, Nov 25

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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 ...

Rate Hollywood and Vine, California and Lake

Original at Cosmic Variance external link    Thu, Oct 16

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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.

Rate NGC 346 - A Busy Place

Original at Tom's Astronomy external link    Wed, Oct 8

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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...

Rate Opinion: Strategies for the Energy Crisis

Original at Betterhumans external link    Sun, Sep 28

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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...

Rate Programming DNA Nanotubes for Nano Manufacturing

Original at Medgadget.com external link    Mon, Sep 8

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We are not the first to make DNA tubes with controlled circumferences. However, compared with previous approaches, our method is distinctively simple and modular," says Yin. The simplicity and modularity of their approach permits the description of the tube design using a simple graph...

Rate Winners of the 2008 Thomas W. Schmitt Annual Staff Prize

Original at Caltech Today external link    Wed, Jun 11

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...

Rate Phoenix and Parachute

Original at Tom's Astronomy external link    Tue, May 27

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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...

Year 2007

 

Rate Opportunity knocks, but you have to open the door

Original at The Wayward Word Press external link    Sun, Dec 9    2 related articles

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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...

Rate Caltech, UCLA Scientists Claim Circuit Breakthrough

Original at CIO Today external link    Fri, Jan 26

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...

Year 2006

 

Rate Caltech Student Wins Marshall Scholarship

Original at Caltech Today external link    Fri, Dec 22

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...

Rate Caltech pair press on with olive oil plan

Original at Whittier Daily News external link    Sat, Nov 25

PASADENA - Caltech undergraduate Dvin Adalian was feeling restless. With his friend Ricky Jones, he considered all manner of interesting distractions. In the end, inspiration lay just outside the door. Caltech is dotted with olive trees - trees, they noticed, with fruit just beginning t...

Rate Caltech, UC Berkeley to Investigate How Brain Activity Controls Complex Behavior

Original at PhysOrg.com external link    Mon, Oct 9

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...

Rate Scientists' experiments enliven Star-News

Original at Pasadena Star-News external link    Mon, Apr 3

 CA - Apr 3, 2006 Wilson Observatory and Caltech being nearby, it was natural for the Star ... sum of which may possibly give the experimenters a method of forecasting earthquakes.".

Year 2005

 

Rate Bandwidth Challenge Results

Original at Slashdot external link    Wed, Nov 23

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...

Rate Luck, ESP, and Magic

Original at Caltech Today external link    Fri, Nov 4

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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 $...

Rate Presentation by United Way and Caltech Organizations on Wednesday, November 9

Original at Caltech Today external link    Thu, Nov 3

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...

Rate Faces of Science Exhibit

Original at Caltech Today external link    Wed, Oct 12

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...

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