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05/01/2006

Watson Lecture: Puzzling Prices

Kathy Svitil

Ever wonder why gas prices can vary by 15¢ --or more-- over a two-mile drive, or why an airline will change the cost of fares 500,000 times per day? Curious about what determines prices in the first place?

04/13/2006

Moore Foundation Awards Multiple Grants to California Institute of Technology

Jill Perry

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has recently awarded multimillion dollar grants to the California Institute of Technology for the establishment of three new projects: the Center for Geochemical and Cosmochemical Microanalysis, the Proteome Exploration Laboratory, and the Center for Theoretical Cosmology and Physics. The grants for these facilities total more than $22 million.

04/13/2006

McDonnell Foundation Grant Will Be Used to Study Neurons Involved in Snap Decisions

Jill Perry

Where do you get your "gut feelings," that intuition that leads you to distrust someone who appears trustworthy? It could be your Von Economo brain cells in action, and a neurobiologist at the California Institute of Technology intends to find out for sure.

04/10/2006

Caltech Receives $2.3 Million for Stem Cell Research

Jill Perry

The California Institute of Technology has been awarded $2.3 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to support 10 postdoctoral scholars in the Caltech Stem Cell Biology Training Program.

04/10/2006

Caltech's Cannon Headed Back to Pasadena from MIT

Jill Perry

Caltech students have "re-stolen" their cannon from MIT.

04/06/2006

Caltech Pranked by MIT Today

Jill Perry

MIT pulled one over on Caltech today.

04/04/2006

Caltech Unveils New Virtual Exhibit for Historical Earthquake Archives

Deborah Williams-Hedges

April 18 marks the centennial of the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake. In commemoration of that event and the landmark developments that followed it, the California Institute of Technology Archives is presenting a new digital exhibit, Documenting Earthquakes: A Virtual Exhibit in Six Parts. This online display, for use by the public, media, and educators, can be viewed at http://archives.caltech.edu/exhibits/earthquake/index.html.

04/03/2006

Watson Lecture: Bacterial Biofilms

Kathy Svitil

Next time you're brushing your teeth in the morning, give a thought to biofilms, the complex communities of bacteria that form the slippery scum you're scouring off your teeth, along with the slime on river rocks, the gunk in clogged drains, and filmy coatings on just about any surface, anywhere, that's exposed to water.

03/31/2006

Scientists and Journalists Discuss Communicating Science to General Public

Jill Perry

What is the best way to explain complex scientific information to the public? An astronomer, an expert on science journalism, and a National Public Radio science reporter will discuss this topic at the fourth annual Words Matter Science Writing Symposium at the California Institute of Technology. The event will take place at 8 p.m. April 5 in Sharp Auditorium, Room 155 in Caltech's Arms Laboratory. Attendance and parking are free and open to the public.

03/29/2006

Murray Awarded Feynman Teaching Prize

Kathy Svitil

Richard M. Murray was a freshman attending frosh camp at Camp Fox on Catalina Island when he first encountered famed physicist Richard Feynman. "I was sitting down, looking across a field, and a professor sat down next to me and started talking about some shells he had found while he was swimming. Lo and behold, it was Richard Feynman-although I was an engineering student and not in physics, and I'm not sure I knew who he was at the time. That willingness to talk to a student typified his approach to teaching."

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