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Researchers at Caltech and MIT have used climate simulations from many modeling centers to show that the heavier rainstorms expected as a result of global warming will not be uniformly spread around the world, and that their intensitythe amount of rain produced in themwill go up by 5 to 6...

PhysOrg.com) -- Heavier rainstorms lie in our future. That's the clear conclusion of a new MIT and Caltech study on the impact that global climate change will have on precipitation patterns.

Scientists have devised a new use for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO): probing the quantum behavior of matter at macroscopic scales. LIGO, which is funded by the National Science Foundation and was designed and is operated by Caltech and MIT, was desig...

Join us for the seventh in a series of joint Caltech/MIT alumni career events. The seminar will cover topics such as what admissions committees are looking for in an MBA application, what makes a good essay or recommendation letter, and how to differentiate yourself in the application pr...

 TX From traveling through space at warp speeds to beaming across the continent, noted scientists from Caltech to MIT explore the realms of what was once considered improbable and show how it just might be possible. “All I Really Need to Know I Learned by ...

 Hong Kong After obtaining his degree in Electrical Engineering and Physics at MIT and his phd at Caltech, Sarpeshkar joined the technical staff at Bell Labs, Biological Computation department within its physics division. Since 1999, he has served in mit's ...

 CO Without it, students aren't on track for 12th grade calculus, a required (or unstated admission requirement) class for many top-flight schools, including MIT, Caltech, Claremont's Harvey Mudd, not to mention the engineering school at CU-Boulder and the ...

 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. ...

 NY Saudi Arabia, for example, has embarked upon a vast multi-billion education agenda, building with it what is billed to be the region's best technical university with talent poached from the likes of UC Berkeley, MIT and Caltech, King Abdulla University ...

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Join local Caltech alumni and friends as well as MIT and Columbia grads living in the city for an evening of food, drinks and fun. Don't miss this opportunity to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones.

 WA Koonin's research interests have included theoretical and computational physics, as well as global environmental science. He did his undergraduate work at Caltech and has a doctorate from MIT. Harris was managing partner of Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis ...

 TN Koonin's research interests have included theoretical and computational physics, as well as global environmental science. He did his undergraduate work at Caltech and has a PhD from MIT. -- Scott Blake Harris was Managing Partner of Harris, ...

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 Canada “I talked to a bunch of futurists at MIT and Caltech about what would happen if the world blew up. What happens to the ozone layer. What happens to the patina of the earth?” McG and his colleagues even investigated the aftermath of Russia's Chernobyl ...

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The Caltech/MIT Enterprise forum is a joint venture of Caltech's Industrial Relations Center, the Caltech Alumni Association and the MIT Alumni Association. The mission of the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum is to encourage the growth and success of technology-based entrepreneurial...

Join Caltech and MIT alumni for a networking skills seminar. This is the sixth event in a Caltech/MIT career events series. The evening's presenter, David J. Ryan, will focus on simple and practical approaches to developing networking skills.

Meet up for a happy hour with other young alumni from Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, MIT, Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, U. Chicago, U. Penn, Yale and of course - Caltech.

 NY Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and Caltech were the top five universities, while Duke, Michigan, Toronto, Waterloo, and Rochester rounded out the top 10. The Putnam exam is the premier undergraduate mathematics competition in North America. ...

By daveshields To: Susan Hockfield, President of MIT; Richard Stanley, Professor of Mathematics at MIT; Ted T’so, MIT graduate Susan, Richard, I am one of the twenty-five “mathematical children” of Jack Scwartz. My most eminent brother is your late colleague, Professor Gian-Carlo Rota.

By daveshields Search/harvard sucks & MIT/ S#3 2007/05/23 Yum, yum … I’m becoming an authority on aramaic and the Kaddish prayer, yet my son is the family member in rabbinical school. I may even be more of an authority now than any of his professors.

Caltech and MIT are hosting an American Red Cross blood drive as part of a competition with MIT. The school with the most blood donated will win the Blood Battle trophy and bragging rightsat least until the next competition. Caltech students, faculty, staff, alumni, and supporters are enc...

The Caltech/MIT Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) seeks two highly motivated, skilled and experienced mechanical engineers to join its Livingston, Louisiana observatory team. ...

The co-director of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project offers important questions that reporters should ask every local election official before the next vote.

 D.C. - The list of thirteen presenting teams at iGEM, up from five last year, included research university heavyweights such as MIT, CalTech, Princeton, ETH Zurich ...