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Photo of the Day: Young Engineers Put Design into Practice

02 Jul 2009 01:00:00 PDT

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...

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Kent and Joyce Kresa Endow Professorial Chair

01 Jul 2009 01:00:00 PDT

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...

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Caltech, PCC’s Biotech Bridge

29 Jun 2009 01:00:00 PDT

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...

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Baby Crater on Mars

20 Jun 2009 13:08:33 PDT

Written 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

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

15 Jun 2009 13:15:07 PDT

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 ...

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Caltech Undergrads Propose Plan for Reducing Campus Energy Usage

11 Jun 2009 01:00:00 PDT

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...

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California Institute of Technology news and blogs - July 03, 2009

03 Jul 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.

• Athenaeum Complimentary Membership -- from Caltech Today
• Spirit Update -- by Tom from Tom's Astronomy Blog
• Caltech at the Large Hadron Collider: On the Verge of Discovery at the High-Energy Frontier -- from Caltech Today
• Caltech Hosts Pacific Rim University Presidents -- from Caltech Today
• Nematode Foreplay Caught on Camera -- from Caltech Today
• Monthly South Bay (LA) Lunch, July 9, 11:45AM - 1:15PM -- from Caltech Alumni Association Events
• YESS Catapult Design Competition -- from Caltech Today
• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows -- from Caltech Today
• Amateur Radio Club Field Day -- from Caltech Today
• Star Trek @ your library -- from Abilene Reporter-News

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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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University rankings: research and faculty quality

06 Jun 2009 14:40:19 PDT

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. ...

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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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Sixth Anniversary For Galaxy-Exploring Mission

28 Apr 2009 12:55:32 PDT

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 ...

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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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Spitzer and NGC 6240

17 Mar 2009 14:20:45 PDT

Written 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...

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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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A Look Into Mass Cell Movement During Early Embryogenesis

12 Dec 2008 11:40:59 PST

Written 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."

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Nanomovies Reveal Events at Tiny Scales

25 Nov 2008 09:37:20 PST

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 ...

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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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Caltech Student Wins Marshall Scholarship

22 Dec 2006 00:00:00 PST

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...

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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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