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By rss@youtube.com (namlhots) Tom goes to nerd out in Pasadena, CA. Links of Interest: Mt Wilson Observatory http://www.mtwilson.edu/ and the Jet Propulsion Lab Mars Rover Page: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html and many thanks to Dave, Lynn, and Scott for a fantastic slumber party. A special nerdfighte...

 CA Building a replacement rink has long been a passion for retired Caltech professor and avid skater Fred Culick, an owner and president of the Pasadena Ice Skating Center. Since 1999, Culick said, he's been trying to work with the city on a ...

 CA and Caltech received a Diamond Award for its annual themed rideshare events and for increasing its vanpools from three to 10. Other Pasadena employers who received Honorable Mention awards for successful ridesharing efforts include Paseo Colorado ...

 CA As other Sierra Canyon seniors head to Caltech and Yale, among other schools, Abrams said he had no regrets. Although he graduated, he needs one more class this summer to complete his college credits and hopes to lift his 3.6 grade-point average high ...

 CA by Staff Writers Angelle Tanner, a post-doctoral scholar at JPL and Caltech, studies planets in distant solar systems, called extrasolar planets. The golden prize in this field is to find a planet similar to Earth - the only planet we know that harbors ...

North County Times - Californian, CA Diamond, who spent last summer taking an astrobiology class at Harvard ---- he got an A ---- will attend Caltech in the fall and major in physics; he has plans to become a university professor. "Be daring," salutatorian Dominique Salazar urged her ...

 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 ...

The Money Times  CA Renowned physicist, recently appointed US Secretary of Energy, and Nobel Laureate Steven Chu will be the featured speaker at the California Institute of Technology's (Caltech's) 115th annual commencement ceremony today. Chu is a distinguished scientist ...

 CA Based in large part on this work, Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling of Caltech proposed the idea of a molecular clock, arguing that such changes in proteins -- and hence in the genes that serve as their blueprints -- occur at a fairly constant rate. ...

The Money Times  CA Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech PASADENA, Calif. -- Astronomers have at last uncovered newborn stars at the frenzied center of our Milky Way galaxy. The discovery was made using the infrared vision of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. ...

 CA First we have the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, the famous space lab operated by Caltech for NASA. This duality puts its employees into an odd limbo between the academic freedom traditionally known to university workers and the ...

 CA The laboratory, operated on behalf of the government by Caltech, is the epicenter of man's exploration of space. This is where Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's famous promise is renewed week in and week out: "We came in peace for all mankind. ...

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 CA His eighth book tells how Caltech, during World War II, was the source of hundreds of thousands of rockets and also had connections with the atomic bomb. Thousands of skilled men and women from around the San Gabriel Valley contributed labor for ...

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 CA The venues are located throughout the southland and include Caltech, the AAF Rose Bowl Aquatic Center, the Rose Bowl, the Glendale Sports Complex, Cal State Los Angeles, LA Valley College and more. The athletes will compete in 5-year age divisions for ...

 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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 CA Altadena Nursery School was formed in 1950 by a small group of Caltech parents as a baby-sitting co-op. It grew into a nursery school that operates daily for up to 50 children from the ages of two to five. Parents and staff say Hedlund is Altadena ...

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 CA From my era there, it's memories of a time when Muir not only took state track championships and had the baddest drum corps on Earth - it sent grads straight to Caltech, and graduated greats from California Attorney General John Van de Kamp to David ...

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 CA JPL is a partner with the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena in the Palomar Observatory. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. More information about exoplanets and NASA's planet-finding program is at http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov . ...

 CA KABC) -- California Institute of Technology has a reputation for pranks and practical jokes, which are usually aimed at other colleges and universities. However, on Wednesday, all the mischief was on their Pasadena campus. Caltech is one of the ...

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 CA By Janette Williams, Staff Writer Caltech student Pradeep Ramesh repels down a parking garage during Caltech Ditch Day Wednesday. (Walt Mancini / Staff Photographer) PASADENA - Brain-bending at Caltech doesn't usually involve devising formulas for ...

 CA PASADENA - Ralph Winter, a Pasadena evangelical preacher who was named one of the 25 most influential evangelists nationwide by Time Magazine has died. Winter, a Caltech graduate, did missionary work in Guatemala, and in 1976 founded the US Center for ...

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 CA The Fine Arts Club of Pasadena presents its Visual Arts Awards to Bryce Carter Butcher and Augusto Mana Piccio at its annual dinner. 6 pm The Athenaeum, Caltech campus, Pasadena. $50. (626) 584-1175. The College Women's Club Scholarship Foundation will ...

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 CA Zewail is a professor of chemistry and physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and director of the school's recently established Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

 CA Winter was born in South Pasadena in December 1924, the middle son of Hugo H. Winter, a prominent freeway designer with the Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering, and his wife, Hazel. He earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at Caltech before ...

 CA NIH is a huge enterprise, and I think Francis has very good experience with getting the best out of a huge enterprise from what he did in the genome project," said David Baltimore, a biology professor at Caltech who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in ...

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 CA Pasadena-based FastSoft, the Caltech spinout developing Internet acceleration devices, disclosed earlier this week that it has rolled out a new product. The firm said its new E Series EX accelerator now supports 10Gbps throughput, and accelerates TCP ...

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 CA that has completed numerous academic and cultural commissions including the new Erburu Gallery at The Huntington, The Williamson Gallery at the Art Center College of Design and the Annenberg Information Science and Technology Center at Caltech. ...

 CA by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. Science operations and data processing will take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

 CA 8 pm, also Saturday at 8 pm and Sunday at 7 pm Gates Annex Patio, Caltech campus. $18; seniors and students, $9; youth, $5. (626) 395-3295 or www.events.caltech.edu. The 14th annual Los Angeles Public Library Awards Dinner hosted by the Library ...

 CA NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, manages the Spitzer mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, DC Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver, ...

 CA To present this plan to the regents, Pasadena assembled a committee of its most prominent citizens. It included Dr. Robert Millikan of Caltech, Dr. George Ellery Hale of Mt. Wilson, financiers, bank presidents, city officials, educators, ...

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 CA By Dan Abendschein, Staff Writer Swaminathan Krishnan, civil engineering and geophysics assistant professor at Caltech, talks about research in quantifing the probability of tall building collapse in an earthquake at Caltech. (SGVN/Staff Photo by Sarah ...

 CA The NASA Herschel Science Center, part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, supports the United States astronomical community. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. More information is online at ...

 CA JPL manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

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 CA That EFRC will be headed by Harry Atwater, the Howard Hughes Professor and professor of applied physics and materials science. It is essential and very appropriate for a place like Caltech to serve as an intellectual center for fundamental scientific ...

 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 ...

 CA Alice Huang, Caltech virologist and president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, discussed swine flu's close cousin bird flu in a wide-ranging interview in a 2007 article in Caltech News. Although the two strains of the ...

 CA By MW News Service The Capitol Step, a troupe of former Congressional staffers, will perform 8 pm, Friday, May 1 at Beckman Auditorium. The group monitors events and personalities on Capitol Hill, in the Oval Office, and in other centers of power and ...

 CA PASADENA - The California Institute of Technology has named Peter deCourcy Hero as its new vice president for development and alumni relations. Hero, former senior advisor to the CEO and board of directors of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation in ...

 CA “We are excited that Secretary Chu will speak to our graduating class this year,” says Caltech President Jean-Lou Chameau. “As an eminent scientist leading the national debate on energy policy, he reflects our commitment to game-changing energy science ...

 CA Symphony Orchestra will present the Concerto Winners Concert, directed by Allen Robert Gross, at 7:30 pm May 2 at Occidental College, 1600 Campus Road, Eagle Rock, and again on May 3 at Caltech, 1200 E. California Blvd., in Pasadena. ...

 CA District 7 is probably best known for its institutions including PCC and Caltech. Tornek almost pulled out a victory in the crowded field of five in the March 10 election. The former Pasadena Planning Commissioner picked up 899 votes, 47.2 percent of ...

 CA The Athenaeum, Kaufmann’s jewel of the Caltech campus, will also be open for visits. Guests will drive themselves to the six featured privately owned historic properties where docent-guided tours will be ongoing between 9 am to 4 pm, rain or shine. ...

 CA - Feb 1, 2007 For biofuels to make a major dent in the global transportation fuel supply, BP chief scientist and former Caltech provost Steve Koonin has called for a new ...

 CA - PASADENA - The Caltech Y will present a Global Warming Discussion at 8tonight at the Beckman Institute Auditorium on the campus of Caltech, ...

 CA - PASADENA -- The Caltech Y presents a discussion challenging theories about global warming Wednesday night at 8 at the Beckman Institute Auditorium on the ...

 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.".