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08/30/2004

Science by the Seat of the Pants

Caltech Communications

Sliding down a sand dune on your derriere might at first take seem a bit undignified for a professor from the California Institute of Technology. But for mechanical engineering professor Melany Hunt, it's all in the name of science.

08/02/2004

Alumna Clara Spalter Miller is Caltech's Newest Board of Trustees Member

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07/29/2004

New Caltech Center Receives $8 Million for Research on New Types of Optical Devices

Robert Tindol

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded an $8 million, four-year, basic-research program grant to the California Institute of Technology to initiate research in photonics technologies. The technical focus of the effort will be on optofluidics, an exciting new research area based on the use of microfluidic devices to control optical processes, and which is expected to result in a new generation of small-scale, highly adaptable, and innovative optical devices.

07/16/2004

Zewail Named to TIAA-CREF Board of Trustees

Jill Perry

Ahmed H. Zewail, Nobel laureate and the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Physics and professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, has been named to the board of trustees of TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund).

07/15/2004

Fifty Caltech Undergraduate Students Receive Merit Awards for 2004

Deborah Williams-Hedges

The California Institute of Technology has presented 50 undergraduate students with the 2004 merit awards, which are based exclusively on students' academic performance, faculty recommendations, and demonstrated research productivity.

07/13/2004

International Group of High School Science Students Intern at Caltech This Summer

Jill Perry

An international group of high-achieving high school students has converged on the campus of the California Institute of Technology this summer. Students from the United States as well as China, Germany, Greece, Kuwait, Pakistan, Singapore, and Turkey are participating in the Research Science Institute (RSI)--a highly competitive science program sponsored by Caltech and Virginia-based Center for Excellence in Education (CEE).

07/09/2004

Students at Caltech Summer Camp Explore Future Types of Computers

Robert Tindol

Rob Figueiredo has a standing $1,000 bet with a classmate back at MIT about when a certain milestone in quantum computation will be achieved. Considering that there is no such thing as a practical quantum computer—or at least not yet—Figueiredo's enthusiasm may seem overly optimistic.

06/16/2004

Caltech Graduate Receives Scholarship to Research the Language of Dance

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Whether it's an exhilarating and intense rhythmic tribal movement or a demure, ceremonious minuet, almost all cultures around the world are compelled to dance.

06/14/2004

Two Caltech Students Receive Fulbright Fellowships to Study Abroad

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Two students from the California Institute of Technology, Rachel Medwood and Suzana Sburlan, have received Fulbright Fellowships to pursue their graduate studies abroad for one year.

05/28/2004

Caltech Student to Launch Photography Project with 5th Graders

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Fifth grade students from Pasadena will use photography to document their lives thanks to a $10,000 scholarship from the Donald A. Strauss Public Service Scholarship Foundation. California Institute of Technology student Andrea Vasconcellos received the scholarship to work with the children.

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