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Caltech Chess Team Continues Winning Streak, Takes National Championship
03/24/2003

Caltech Chess Team Continues Winning Streak, Takes National Championship

Deborah Williams-Hedges
Having secured a recent victory over MIT in an Internet Chess Club intercollegiate match, the California Institute of Technology's chess team has gone on to win the U.S. Amateur Team Chess Championship, which was played on the U.S. Chess Federation's on-line server. Regional champions from the west, the midwest, the south, and the east battled it out via the Internet to see who would prevail as the national champions.
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Niles Pierce Awarded 2003 Feynman Teaching Prize
03/19/2003

Niles Pierce Awarded 2003 Feynman Teaching Prize

Head says it all.
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Caltech Coders Vie for World Title
03/19/2003

Caltech Coders Vie for World Title

Marcus Woo
Three Caltech undergrades competing in a computer programming contest.
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Caltech Receives $4 Million Grant for Cryoelectron Microscopy Laboratory
03/13/2003

Caltech Receives $4 Million Grant for Cryoelectron Microscopy Laboratory

Jill Perry
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Banff Mountain Film Festival at Caltech
03/12/2003

Banff Mountain Film Festival at Caltech

Deborah Williams-Hedges
Faster, steeper, higher, deeper! For those who like to ride the roaring rapids, scale the steepest peaks, or visit some of the most majestic ranges in the world, the Banff Mountain Film Festival is coming to the California Institute of Technology. The film festival will take place on March 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Ramo Auditorium on the Caltech campus.
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Middle School Girls Invited to Sally Ride Science Festival
03/12/2003

Middle School Girls Invited to Sally Ride Science Festival

On March 29. . . .
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Astronaut Sally Ride to Speak on Piquing Interest in Science
03/11/2003

Astronaut Sally Ride to Speak on Piquing Interest in Science

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At Caltech: Words Matter
03/05/2003

At Caltech: Words Matter

Science Writing Symposium on Monday, April 7, at 4 p.m.
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Caltech Professor Receives Award for Research into Mechanisms of Memory Formation
03/01/2003

Caltech Professor Receives Award for Research into Mechanisms of Memory Formation

Deborah Williams-Hedges
How do we form short-term and long-term memories in the brain? A California Institute of Technology professor will try to answer this question and others. Athanassios Siapas, assistant professor of computation and neural systems, has been awarded a $445,120 grant by the James S. McDonnell Foundation for his project "Network Mechanisms of Memory Formation."
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All 200 Caltech Varsity Athletes Named Sports Ethics Fellows by Institute for International Sport
02/28/2003

All 200 Caltech Varsity Athletes Named Sports Ethics Fellows by Institute for International Sport

Jill Perry
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