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03/05/2007

Sally Ride Science Festival for Girls Returns to Caltech

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, is presenting the Sally Ride Science Festival, held in association with the California Institute of Technology on Saturday, March 24, on the Caltech campus. The popular science festival targets middle-school girls, grades five through eight. Parents, educators, and all others are encouraged to attend.

03/05/2007

Watson Lecture: Global Climate Change

John Avery

Pollution around cities like Los Angeles can be seen from space and is visible evidence of humanity's growing effect on Earth's atmosphere. Using a thousand-cubic-foot indoor smog chamber, John Seinfeld studies atmospheric gases and particles and their interaction with climatic factors such as clouds, rain, and sunlight.

02/27/2007

Caltech's LIGO Science Education Center Receives 2007 AIA Design Award

Deborah Williams-Hedges

In a region where devastation and disaster reigned, rebuilding becomes of paramount importance. In these circumstances, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) New Orleans Design Awards take on special significance.

02/09/2007

Moore Funds Center to Facilitate Chemical Discovery

John Avery

Facilities to automate the work of experimental chemistry may soon accelerate the process of chemical discovery at the California Institute of Technology, thanks to a grant of over $11 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

02/02/2007

New Astrophysics Building Under Way

Jill Perry

In December 2008 astronomers and astrophysicists at the California Institute of Technology will have a new home for their offices, classes, and meetings. Construction on the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics began Jan. 31 with a groundbreaking ceremony.

01/31/2007

Jared Diamond Named Caltech Commencement Speaker

Jill Perry

American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer, and Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction author Jared Diamond will be the keynote speaker at the 113th annual commencement ceremony at the California Institute of Technology at 10 a.m. June 8 on Beckman Mall. The commencement ceremony will be digitally recorded and made available for viewing online at http://pr.caltech.edu/commencement.

01/12/2007

Watson Lecture: Booming Sand Dunes

John Avery

Marco Polo heard the sounds and wrote of evil spirits that could fill the desert air with the emanations of musical instruments, of drums, and the clash of arms. Today's desert explorers still wonder at the booming sands: loud, low-pitched droning that accompanies the avalanching of sand down the leeward face of a large dune, and may continue to rumble for up to a minute after the avalanche stops.

12/18/2006

Caltech Student Wins Marshall Scholarship

John Avery

As the California Institute of Technology'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.'"

12/04/2006

Watson Lecture: European Conquest

John Avery

How did the West conquer the world? The secret, says California Institute of Technology economic historian Philip T. Hoffman: technological innovation.

11/27/2006

Expert on Nuclear-Weapons Effects Speaks at Caltech

Jill Perry

Charles S. Shapiro, an expert on the effects of nuclear-weapons testing on humans and the environment, will speak about significant findings of his many years of study on this topic at a seminar at 4 p.m. on November 29, in room 142 of the W.M. Keck Engineering Laboratories at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

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