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11/07/2007

Combat Correspondent Kevin Sites to Speak at Caltech

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Kevin Sites, award-winning journalist and news correspondent for the Yahoo! Hot Zone, will discuss his journalistic memoir, In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars, and the accompanying documentary, A World of Conflict, at the California Institute of Technology on Wednesday, November 14, at 8 pm, in Ramo Auditorium.

11/06/2007

Caltech Scientists Discover Fashion: Transforming Students from Geek to Chic

Jacqueline Scahill

Cable television started making people over in shows like Fashion Emergency, MTV Made, What Not to Wear, and Beauty and the Geek--all showing young Americans the importance of looking professional and fashionable for a variety of occasions. If one visits the California Institute of Technology campus during recruiting season, it will be obvious that many students don't watch enough cable TV.

10/30/2007

Team to Compete in Project Enterprise Ideas Contest on PBS

Jacqueline Scahill

It all started last fall, in a classroom at Caltech. A team of students in Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering Ken Pickar's course, Product Design for the Developing World, decided to create wheelchairs for people in developing countries that could tackle the rugged terrain. With two bicycles and three creative brains contributing, the project took off.

10/25/2007

Alice on Trial, Redux

elisabeth nadin

When Alice revs her engine at the start of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge qualifying rounds on October 27, multitudes of cameras will be pointing at her. But she'll only care about the eight cameras that will be facing away.

10/22/2007

Caltech Celebrates All Things Olive at November Olive Harvest Festival

Deborah Williams-Hedges

It is one of the oldest known cultivated trees in the world--the olive tree--dating back at least 6,000 years. And throughout the ages, olives have had a ubiquitous presence in world cultures--as nutrition, as a medicinal and health elixir, and as a beauty aid. In today's times, olives will play a novel role as part of an environmental sustainability initiative at the California Institute of Technology.

10/19/2007

Oil Expert Discusses End of Fossil Fuel

elisabeth nadin

With the price of oil at a record high of nearly $90 a barrel comes a natural question: How much oil is left in the world?

10/16/2007

Caltech Public Lectures Address Fossil-Fuel Supplies

elisabeth nadin

In his inaugural address, Caltech president Jean-Lou Chameau stressed the importance of taking the lead in addressing energy production and consumption and the environmental issues related to them.

10/16/2007

Weston Havens Foundation Awards Multiple Grants to Caltech

Jacqueline Scahill

The Weston Havens Foundation has recently awarded $1.3 million in philanthropic gifts to the California Institute of Technology that will fund five separate research projects. Faculty working on these projects received $260,000 each to cover such wide-ranging topics as stem cell differentiation dynamics, the gastrointestinal connection to autism, and treating viral diseases.

08/20/2007

Thirty-Meter Telescope Project Receives $15 Million from Moore Foundation

Robert Tindol

The California Institute of Technology and the Regents of the University of California have each received $7.5 million in additional funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the development of the Thirty-Meter Telescope. The TMT is being developed by a U.S.-Canadian team with construction anticipated to begin in April 2009. The new grants augment the $64 million already planned for the design development phase of the TMT project, which included $35 million previously awarded to Caltech and UC by the Moore Foundation.

07/12/2007

Caltech's YESS Program Helps to Increase Diversity Among Young Science Students

Deborah Williams-Hedges

This summer 30 of the brightest high school students in the country are attending the California Institute of Technology's Young Engineering and Science Scholars (YESS) program. The program brings together some of the most talented students who have a passion for science and engineering and exposes them to scientific research and methodology.

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