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Members of Caltech's geological and planetary sciences division contributed to Pasadena Unified School District's Earth-science workshop for sixth-grade teachers at Marshall Fundamental School on November 30. Through a series of interactive puzzles, graduate student Michelle...

Earthquake researchers at Caltech plan to use cell phones to create a network for measuring earthquakes at locations all over Southern California. The measurements will be taken using motion-sensing devices called accelerometers, which are already installed in many cell phones. The...

Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser and cellist Natalie Haas will perform in Beckman Institute auditorium at 8 p.m. on Sunday, December 6. Fraser performs as a soloist, as well as with groups including the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Waterboys, the Chieftains, and as a featured soloist a...

To honor World Aids Day, Caltech is hosting a panel discussion with Pamela Bjorkman, the Max Delbruck Professor of Biology, and junior Grayson Chadwick from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, December 2, in Avery Library. As a sophomore in Bjorkman's biology class, Chadwick proposed an idea for a...

George Chandy, professor of physiology and biophysics at UC Irvine, will discuss the social aspects of health care for the 700 million people in India who live on about one dollar per day and have little or no access to medical care. Chandy would like to brainstorm with Caltech students abo...

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...

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...

At 2 p.m. on November 15 in Baxter Lecture Hall, bestselling author Barbara Ehrenreich will discuss her book Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America. Donation is $10 for nonmembers and $8 for members and non-Caltech students. Free to the Cal...

The Association of Marshall Scholars and Caltech's Provost's Office are presenting a symposium called "Energy and Other Sustainability Challenges" from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 14, in Ramo Auditorium. The event will feature keynote speaker Steven Koonin, the former Cal...

At 8 p.m. on Friday, November 13, the Caltech-Occidental Concert Band will perform a concert conducted by William Bing in Ramo Auditorium. The program for this concert will feature video of the band's Carnegie Hall concert and Angels in the Architecture, by Frank Ticheli. A free reception w...

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...

At 2 p.m. on November 14 in Beckman Auditorium, Shannon Boettcher, a Caltech postdoctoral scholar in chemistry, will introduce and guide a post-screening discussion of Curious--Powering the Planet, an Emmy-nominated program that features Caltech and JPL scientists.

The Graduate School of Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranked Caltech sixth in this year's Academic Ranking of World Universities. To compile the rankings, researchers evaluated over 1,000 schools worldwide. North American schools dominate the list, winning 59 of the top 1...

James K. Knowles, William J. Keenan Jr. Professor of Applied Mechanics, Emeritus, at Caltech, passed away November 1. He was 78 years old. Knowles made fundamental research contributions to the theory of nonlinear elasticity and the mathematical theories of materials and structures. His w...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected two researchers from Caltech to participate in its Young Faculty Award (YFA) program. Julia R. Greer (above, center), assistant professor of materials science, and Doris Tsao, assistant professor of biology, are amo...

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...

Under the direction of Brian Brophy, Theater Arts at Caltech (TACIT) will present a production of Rossum's Universal Robots (R.U.R.) at 8 p.m. on November 12, 13, and 14, and at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. on November 15 in Dabney Hall. R.U.R. is a science-fiction play originally written in the Czech language b...

Tsien Hsue-Shen, PhD '39, a Caltech alumnus and one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, died on October 31. He was 98. Tsien worked for the U.S. military on advanced rocket projects and had been commended by the U.S. Air Force for his contributions to its technological development...

Sossina Haile, a leading authority on solid-state fuel-cell technology, will give a talk on fuel-cell technology from noon to 1 p.m. on Monday, November 9, in 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall. Haile is a professor of materials science and chemical engineering at Caltech, and...

Tapio Schneider, professor of environmental science and engineering at Caltech, will present a Watson Lecture at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, November 11, in Beckman Auditorium. In a talk called "Where the Wind Comes From, on Earth and Other Planets," Schneider will explain how wind patterns on d...

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Researchers at 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. "Gene therapy in these models successfully attenuated the sy...

New York Times foreign editor Roger Cohen will give a talk entitled "TUMULT in IRAN: The Islamic Revolution at 30" at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 4, in Ramo Auditorium. This is the first segment in "A Series on Iran: Struggle of a Nation," presented by the Graduate Student Council and the...

During our "PAY MY BILLS" Sweepstakes, membership can pay even MORE...if you help spread the word. Through December 4th, we'll have a weekly drawing for a $1,000 in bill payments. To enter, recommend a new member who signs up during the Sweepstakes. Both you and the new member will have a chance t...

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research recently announced that it will award approximately $14.6 million in grants to 38 scientists and engineers, including two Caltech researchers, who submitted research proposals through the Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program....

Caltech will cut the ribbon on its cutting-edge "green" building, the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology, on October 30 at 9:45 a.m., in a ceremony open to the campus community. President Jean-Lou Chameau and Engineering and Applied Science Divis...

Caltech officially opened the doors of the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology at a ceremony on October 30. President Jean-Lou Chameau and Engineering and Applied Science Division Chair Ares Rosakis presented remarks, as did architect Frederi...

At a ceremony on October 15, David Baltimore, Caltech president emeritus, a Nobel laureate, and the Millikan Professor of Biology, presented the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy to alumnus and Caltech Board chairman emeritus Gordon Moore and his wife, Betty. (Betty Moore was awarded th...

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...

Thanks, in part, to its famed Graduate Aerospace Laboratories (GALCIT) and its historic ties to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech has attracted many students who at some point dreamed of riding a rocket into space. And thus far, 11 of them have actually become NASA astronauts. Lean m...

Victor Beck, a Caltech postdoctoral scholar in bioengineering, will introduce and guide a post-screening discussion of Hubble's Canvas at 2 p.m. on October 24 in Beckman Auditorium. This stunning, high-definition documentary offers a penetrating and spectacular view of the universe...

Caltech researchers led by assistant professor of geobiology Victoria Orphan have found that the members of a deep-sea symbiotic microbial community are able to fix nitrogen. The unexpected metabolic ability may help solve a lingering mystery about the world's nitrogen cycling budg...

Santa Clarita 1 Vanpool: current monthly fare: $80 morning departure: Santa Clarita MetroLink Station (22122 Commuter Way, Santa Clarita) at 6:40 a.m. evening departure: Caltech's Beckman Auditorium parking lot at 4:30 p.m. Santa Clarita 2 Valpool:current monthly fare: $60 morning de...

At 6:30 p.m. on October 18, Caltech/Pasadena Amnesty International Group 22 will meet on the second floor of Vroman's Bookstore (695 E. Colorado Boulevard) to discuss The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz, a novel about the uproarious lives of a family of Dominican immigrants...

The Caltech Women's Club invites all Caltech/JPL families to their annual Fall Family Potluck from 4 to 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 18, in Tournament Park. This event is an opportunity to meet other families in the community at a casual gathering. There will be crafts for the kids and enterta...

At 2 p.m. on Sunday, October 18, in Baxter Lecture Hall, Alison Gopnik, professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, will discuss her book The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life. Donation is $10 for nonmembers and $8 for members and non-Ca...

The Caltech seasonal flu shot clinic will be held on Tuesday October 20, in Dabney Hall from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Because supply of the vaccine is limited, the first two hours of the clinic will be reserved for those who are included in the Center for Disease Control (CDC) priority groups: individ...

Alliance Francaise and Caltech will present a special lecture by Yannick Mireur, the founder and editor-in-chief of the review American Policy, which includes articles by American decision makers and scholars. In a talk called "After Bush: Why America Will Not Change," Mireur will di...

Edward Stone, the David Morrisroe Professor of Physics at Caltech and former director of JPL, discussed the Thirty Meter Telescope in a lecture at Alumni College. Stone explained how if we collect and concentrate enough light from dim, distant bodies, we can observe them as they were nea...

Sakura Kone, director of Rebuild Green New Orleans, will give a talk called "Right to Remain: New Orleans Residents Combat Attempts to Price Them Out of the City" at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, October 12, in Beckman Institute auditorium.

If science piques your curiosity, Caltech is the place to be. The Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series provides an opportunity for all members of the community to increase their knowledge and understanding of the hottest topics in science today. This year's series will kick off at 8 p.m. on Wednes...

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Caltech's Office of Technology Transfer is collaborating with Intellectual Ventures to sponsor a competition "to recognize and inspire Caltech's budding innovators and inventors." First prize is $35,000, second prize is $10,000, and third prize is $5,000. The awards will go to Calte...

The Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching is awarded annually to a Caltech professor "who demonstrates, in the broadest sense, unusual ability, creativity, and innovation in undergraduate and graduate classroom or laboratory teaching." Nominations for the 200910 Feyn...

The newly constructed Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology (IST) has opened its doors to Caltech students, researchers, and professors. For a tour of the center, watch Glass with Class, a slideshow featuring photography accompanied by insights...

Singer/songwriter David Mallett will perform in Beckman Institute auditorium at 8 p.m. on October 10. For over 40 years, Mallett has performed in town halls and folk clubs across America and Europe. His songs have been recorded by more than 150 artists, including Pete Seeger, Alison Krauss...

All members of the Caltech community are invited to join Engineers for a Sustainable World as they kick off the new school year at an event from 3 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, October 10, in Dabney Gardens. Come and learn about the activities the group has planned, socialize with other like-minded pe...

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...

For over 25 years, the Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats have with precision and grace interpreted the centuries-old form of Chinese acrobatics. At 8 p.m. on Wednesday, October 9, they will come to Beckman Auditorium to kick off this year's Performing Arts Series at Caltech. The ensemble will pe...

Caltech alum David MacKay, PhD '92, has been appointed chief scientific advisor for the United Kingdom's Department of Energy and Climate Change. MacKay is currently a professor of natural philosophy in the physics department at Cambridge University and is author of the influential b...

Caltech alumni Berni Alder, PhD '52, and James Gunn, PhD '66, have been chosen to receive the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor. They are among nine scientists and engineers selected this year to receive the award, which President Barack Obama will presen...

Jeff Schweitzer, an international authority on bridging science, conservation, development, and ethics, will present a talk called "Beyond Cosmic Dice: Moral Life in a Random World" at 2 p.m. on Sunday, September 27, in Baxter Lecture Hall. Donation is $10 for nonmembers, and $8 for memb...

Theater Arts at Caltech (TACIT) will present a production of Rossum's Universal Robots, by Karel Capek, from November 1215. Auditions for the play will be held in Ramo Auditorium on Sunday, September 27, from 2:30 to 5 p.m. and on Monday, September 28, from 7 to 11 p.m. Callbacks will be on Tuesd...

Caltech grad student Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux has been awarded Mexico's most prestigious youth award, the Premio Nacional de Juventud (National Youth Prize) in Academic Activities for 2008. Pedro, a seventh-year graduate student in high energy physics, is working with Professor Har...

Caltech/Pasadena Amnesty International Group 22 holds monthly meetings to discuss current activities and plans. This month's session will take place from 7:30 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, September 24, in the Caltech Y lounge. All are welcome, and refreshments will be provided. For information...

Two distinguished aerospace leaders are the recipients of the 25th annual International von Krmn Wings Award. Receiving the honor this year are Abdul Kalam, the 11th president of India and distinguished professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, and Yannick d'Escatha, chairma...

Scientists led by Nobel Laureate Robert Grubbs, the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at Caltech, have made molecular "daisy chains" containing threaded rings that can be pulled taut or slackened by chemical stimuli. The polymers signify a step toward making materia...

The Caltech Y is gearing up for its second annual Golf Tournament and Auction to fund its volunteer-service, leadership, and advocacy programs. Registration is now open for the October 9 event. With support from friends, community members, and business leaders, this event at Brookside...

Slide into Caltech's 30th SURF summer with a picture gallery that showcases students across campus working on their Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship projects. Whether they're studying the effects of subliminal media messages on our thinking, investigating the role of dark...

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...

Over 260 of the country's brightest undergraduate students met at UCLA last week for the third annual Amgen Scholars U.S. Symposium. The three-day event brought together participants in the Amgen Scholars Program, a $27.5 million initiative that gives undergraduates the opportunity fo...

Three Caltech faculty members have been named among the most recent winners of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The honor was announced yesterday by the White House. The three are John O. Dabiri, an expert in biological propulsion wh...

Caltech students are keeping busy this summer with research, internships, and employment on campus and around the world. A handful of them are sharing their experiences through blogs posted on the Caltech Admissions website. Dannah Almasco, '10, describes her experiences in Houston,...

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...

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...

It isn't often that four professors from a single institution are invited to one conference, let alone four from a single division. So Caltech may have achieved some kind of special status with oddsmakers by having four faculty from Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy invited to lecture...

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...

This spring, the Caltech Italian Club is offering Italian-language classes for Caltech community members and the public. A 14-class series, offered at two levels, will start the week of April 13 and finish at the end of May. If you are interested in taking the course, please complete the su...

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...

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...

The Caltech Chinese Association (Caltech C) is hosting its annual Chinese Spring Festival Celebration Party on Saturday, March 3, in Baxter Lecture Hall. Authentic, partially homemade Chinese food will be served at 6 to 8 p.m. ($5 for admission), and at 8 to 10 p.m., there will be a free Chines...

Caltech will host the 25th annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting at 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on February 19 and 20, in 151 Sloan. Information on the program, including the schedule, speakers, and topics, can be found at www.math.caltech.edu/events/wsmp07.html. For graduate students, admi...

The Caltech Y is selling discounted tickets to the Pasadena Symphony's "Transfigured Night" concert at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 24, at the Pasadena Civic Center. The program will include works by Brahms, Haydn, and Schoenberg. The cost is $12 for students and $20 for faculty and staff (cash...

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...

This week Minority Student Education, the Caltech Y, and the Center for the Arts of the African Diaspora are sponsoring three events in honor of Black History Month: a noontime African American Cultural Celebration on Tuesday, a luncheon and lecture on Wednesday, and an art exhibition...

At 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. on January 20, the Caltech Ballroom Dance Club will present the fourth annual Dance of the Roses ballroom dance competition in Brown Gymnasium. The event is open to all collegiate and noncollegiate amateur-level competitors. Admission for spectators is free for Caltech/J...

All interested members of the campus community are invited to attend a campus community meeting at noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, January 17, in Ramo Auditorium. The topic of discussion will be the removal of Moore's Stone Volute and the creation of a new outdoor artwork to take its place. The Sch...

Caltech basketball coach Roy Dow appeared live on the national ESPN2 (channel 43 in Pasadena) sports program "Cold Pizza" at 8:30 a.m. today to discuss how the team ended its long drought when they defeated NCAA Division III rival Bard College, 81-52, on Saturday. This was the first win for t...

Members of the Caltech/JPL community are invited to attend a gathering in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Max Delbruck, the creator of molecular biology. His influence on biology, especially at Caltech, continues to the present day in the vigorous and growing inter...

In the spirit of stewardship--both of memories and resources--we invite you to view our first annual online New Year's message at http://president.caltech.edu/newyear. We are dedicating resources traditionally allocated to holiday cards to the math and science tutoring program for...

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 study by GALCIT researchers, published in the September 22 issue of the journal Science, has revealed important findings about the nature of ruptures and sliding behavior, which could impact how we respond to earthquakes and other disasters. For the first time, the experimental v...

Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Golden's new book, The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates (Random House), describes the many ways in which legacy admissions policies allow t...

The Pasadena Star-News recently featured a story about the High School Teacher Institute, part of the Caltech Precollege Science Initiative (CAPSI). Teachers were the students in this month-long program designed to demonstrate a new way of teaching science to high schoolers, who oft...

Over 325 exceptional undergraduates from around the world conducted scientific research projects as part of the California Institute of Technology's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships, or SURF, program. Now in its 28th year, the Caltech SURF program offers undergraduates...

It takes a pretty good arm to throw an orange from Fleming Court to Ricketts Court, and an even better arm to throw from Dabney Court to Ricketts Court. But it takes a great orange cannon to propel an orange from Ricketts Court to Pasadena City College (PCC).

Twenty-two acres of orange groves were partially cleared to accommodate the first buildings on the current location of the Caltech campus, and in 1916, the Institue's architectural significance was assured when the preeminent architect Bertram Goodhue developed a master plan for t...

The National Science Foundation today awarded $11.97 million to the California Institute of Technology for computer software to analyze neutron-scattering experiments. This work could show how to design new materials for a huge variety of applications in transportation, construct...

Members of the Caltech community are invited to bring their families to enjoy an evening of ice skating on Saturday, June 24, from 6 to 7:45 p.m. Admission and hot chocolate will be free of charge. The only costs are $1 for skate rentals and $.50 for lockers. The event will take place at the Pasaden...

Two undergraduate and two graduate students will receive vocal scholarships from the Caltech Opera Club. In this recital, the winners of the second annual competition will perform operatic, classical, or Broadway pieces. All Caltech and JPL community members, friends, and families a...

Jack DuVall, president and founding director of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, will give a presentation entitled "The Right of Resistance: The Legitimacy of Civic Force and Its Support," at the California Institute of Technology on Thursday, May 11, at 8 p.m. in the Be...

Join us on November 19 as we welcome new graduate students to Caltech with a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Reservations (by November 16, please): Kelly Jung, 395-6852 or kelly@alumni.caltech.edu. Include the number of guests who will attend. Families are welcome. At 2 p.m., in Alumni Hous...

Caltech graduate student in chemistry John Keith has added his own score to the film to create a fantastic film experience for the Caltech audience. At 8 pm on November 16, in Beckman Institute auditorium.

Presented by Holly Hight from Bread for the World and the ONE Campaign, and Paul Cook, graduate student in physics, Caltech. At noon on November 14, in Center for Student Services, second floor common area.

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...

Assistant Professor of Planetary Science Oded Aharonson has been selected by NASA to join the Mars Exploration Rover Participating Scientist Program. Aharonson, one of eight investigators chosen from 35 applicants, will use the rovers to look at Martian dirt and rocks to see if liquid...

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...

Dr. H. David Politzer, professor of theoretical physics at Caltech, is honored at a press conference after being named a 2004 Nobel Laureate in physics. Caltech's President David Baltimore, Provost Paul Jennings, and McCone Professor of High Energy Physics Mark Wise discuss Politzer's...