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Caltech fluid dynamics expert wins annual Feynman Award for excellence in teaching
03/17/2005

Caltech fluid dynamics expert wins annual Feynman Award for excellence in teaching

Robert Tindol
Chris Brennen has many pleasant memories of the "frosh camp" trips he used to make to Catalina Island with famed physicist Richard Feynman. As two California Institute of Technology faculty members who were particularly willing to accompany the new crop of Caltech freshmen on the annual orientation trip, Brennen and Feynman shared various interesting experiences at the rustic Camp Fox.
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Toward a Longer, Healthier Life
03/17/2005

Toward a Longer, Healthier Life

In two separate awards from the Ellison Medical Foundation, two scientists from the California Institute of Technology are taking a much more scholarly approach to the ravages of aging. Harry Gray, a chemist, has been awarded $970,000 to reveal the structure of a protein and a peptide that underlie two age-related diseases, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, while biologist Alexander Varshavsky has been awarded $972,000 to conduct a systematic investigation of the genetics and biochemistry of aging.

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First of Four Einstein Centennial Lecturesto Be Presented March 17 at Caltech
03/09/2005

First of Four Einstein Centennial Lecturesto Be Presented March 17 at Caltech

In 1905, Albert Einstein single-handedly formulated the theory of special relativity, demonstrated that light traveling in discrete units is responsible for the photoelectric effect, and calculated how microscopic collisions could account for the phenomenon known as Brownian motion. Any one of the three discoveries would have assured his enduring fame as a physicist.
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UC Riverside Chancellor to Speak at Alma Mater
03/02/2005

UC Riverside Chancellor to Speak at Alma Mater

Robert Tindol
France Córdova, the chancellor of UC Riverside and a graduate of the California Institute of Technology, will speak at her alma mater at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 9, in Beckman Institute Auditorium on the Caltech campus.
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Revolutionary Grassroots Astrophysics Project "Einstein@Home" Goes Live
02/19/2005

Revolutionary Grassroots Astrophysics Project "Einstein@Home" Goes Live

A new, grassroots computing project dubbed Einstein@Home, which will let anyone with a personal computer contribute to cutting-edge astrophysics research, is being officially announced today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). California Institute of Technology physics professor Barry Barish will make the announcement during a press briefing at 11 a.m.

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Smell: A Window into the Brain and Memory
02/18/2005

Smell: A Window into the Brain and Memory

Smell, along with taste, is also the most mysterious and least understood of our senses. California Institute of Technology neurobiologist Gilles Laurent studies the neuronal mechanisms underlying perception and behavior, focusing on olfactory coding: how are odors represented, learned, stored, and recognized by the brain?

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Marc Stern Named Caltech Trustee
02/09/2005

Marc Stern Named Caltech Trustee

Jill Perry
Marc I. Stern, president and director of the asset management firm The TCW Group, Inc., has been named a trustee of the California Institute of Technology.
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Author Walter Mosley to Speak
02/09/2005

Author Walter Mosley to Speak

Michelin lecture.
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Caltech Receives $2.5 Million to Further Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy
02/02/2005

Caltech Receives $2.5 Million to Further Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy

Deborah Williams-Hedges
The California Institute of Technology announces a $2.5 million award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to support the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy (CARMA).
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Kent Kresa Named Chairman of Caltech Board of Trustees
01/31/2005

Kent Kresa Named Chairman of Caltech Board of Trustees

Deborah Williams-Hedges
Kent Kresa, chairman emeritus of Northrop Grumman Corporation, has been named the new chairman of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology. Kresa, whose term as chairman begins this month, has been a member of the Caltech Board of Trustees since 1994.
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