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Caltech and JPL "Tools" Highlighted in New Exhibit

06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

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...

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Multi-Planet System is Chaotic, Dusty

04 Nov 2009 13:27:36 PST

Written 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

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Caltech Again Named "Best Buy" in Kiplinger's

03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

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...

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Researchers show efficacy of gene therapy in mouse models of Huntington's disease

30 Oct 2009 11:01:53 PDT

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.

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Caltech Scientists Solve Decade-Long Mystery of Nanopillar Formations

23 Oct 2009 15:38:46 PDT

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.

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Caltech Names New General Counsel

23 Oct 2009 01:00:00 PDT

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...

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California Institute of Technology news and blogs - November 08, 2009

08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit California Institute of Technology news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Professor Emeritus James Knowles Dies -- from Caltech Today
• Caltech Ranked Sixth-Best University in the World -- from Caltech Today
• Two Caltech Researchers Receive DARPA Young Faculty Awards -- from Caltech Today
• Members' Watson Lecture Reception in Pasadena, December 2, 6 - 7:30PM -- from Caltech Alumni Association Events
• Film Screening: The Philosopher Kings -- from Caltech Today
• TACIT Presents Rossum's Universal Robots -- from Caltech Today
• Tsien Hsue-Shen Dies -- from Caltech Today
• Qian Xuesan, father of Chinese missile program and of JPL, dies at 98 -- by Steve Hsu(noreply@blogger.com) from Information Processing
• Sustainability Speaker Series -- from Caltech Today
• Earnest C. Watson Lecture: "Where the Wind Comes From, on Earth and Other Planets" -- from Caltech Today

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Caltech scientists create robot surrogate for blind persons in testing visual prostheses

19 Oct 2009 13:08:24 PDT

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...

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MRO Spots a New Crater on Mars

24 Sep 2009 15:45:42 PDT

Written 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...

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09-09-16

16 Sep 2009 00:00:39 PDT

Written 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...

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Podcast: 09-08-26

26 Aug 2009 00:00:16 PDT

Written 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...

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Columbia Researchers Lead Race to Find Dark Matter

27 Jul 2009 13:36:47 PDT

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...

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JPL, Caltech, City of Los Angeles to Collaborate on Energy and Water Initiatives

20 Jul 2009 01:00:00 PDT

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...

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Stars Come Out at Astronomy...

10 Jun 2009 15:24:19 PDT

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, ...

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Vernon Smith at Caltech

30 May 2009 05:45:37 PDT

Written 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:...

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Laughing at the US

30 Apr 2009 22:10:14 PDT

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 ...

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

24 Mar 2009 11:03:59 PDT

Written 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

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Opinion: Quantum Hoops on Television

19 Mar 2009 01:00:00 PDT

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...

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New Titanium-Glass Composite for Medical Apps?

07 Jan 2009 11:05:51 PST

Written 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...

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Kepler's Year

30 Dec 2008 13:48:23 PST

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...

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Hollywood and Vine, California and Lake

16 Oct 2008 12:26:00 PDT

Written 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.

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Opinion: Strategies for the Energy Crisis

28 Sep 2008 19:53:00 PDT

Written 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...

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Phoenix and Parachute

27 May 2008 02:20:14 PDT

Written 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...

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Opportunity knocks, but you have to open the door

09 Dec 2007 13:07:39 PST

Written 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...

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Luck, ESP, and Magic

04 Nov 2005 00:00:00 PST

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 $...

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Faces of Science Exhibit

12 Oct 2005 01:00:00 PDT

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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