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01/20/1999

Axline estate gives $60 Million to Caltech for student support

Robert Tindol

One of the largest-ever gifts in higher education for direct student support has been awarded to the California Institute of Technology by the estate of Rea and Lela Axline.

01/14/1999

SCE Joins Caltech in Seismic Program to Improve Quake Response

Sonia Chernobieff

ROSEMEAD, Calif., Jan. 15, 1999—On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the devastating Northridge earthquake, Southern California Edison and the California Institute of Technology today announced the utility's participation in a state-of-the-art seismic measuring network that will expedite power restoration and emergency response after a major temblor in the southland.

12/15/1998

Caltech Awarded Over $600,000 From the Norris Foundation to Support Joint MD/PhD Program

Sue McHugh

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12/08/1998

New educational module on earthquakes now on-line

Robert Tindol

The ever-changing Earth and the forces that make it so are the theme of a new Web-based educational module from the Southern California Earthquake Center.

12/01/1998

Caltech Associate Professor of Computer Science Peter Schroeder Receives Packard Foundation Fellowship

A Caltech computer scientist who specializes in wavelet-based methods for creating computer graphics has been awarded a $625,000 grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

12/01/1998

Annual machine vs. machine slugfestset for December 3 in Beckman Auditorium

Robert Tindol

Caltech engineering students will decide whose machine is the?best when the 14th annual ME72 Engineering Design Contest is held at 2p.m.?Thursday, December 3, in Beckman Auditorium.

11/30/1998

Annual Speakers Dinner to Feature Author Lisa See

Sue McHugh

The Friends of the Caltech Libraries (FOCAL) will host author Lisa See at their annual speakers dinner on Thursday, December 3, at the Athenaeum on the Caltech campus. The dinner and talk, "Family Stories and Histories: How Ideas Become Books," will begin with a no-host reception at 6 p.m., followed by dinner at 7 p.m. The deadline for reservations is November 30.

11/10/1998

Former Caltech President Tom Everhart Elected to Board

Sue McHugh

The California Institute of Technology is pleased to announce the election of former Caltech president Thomas E. Everhart to its Board of Trustees.?

11/10/1998

Caltech Student Receives National Security Education Program Fellowship to Study in Russia

Students from the California Institute of Technology won a large number of awards this past spring, including two Hertz Fellowships, ?Churchill Scholarship, three Department of Defense Fellowships, a Howard?Hughes Predoctoral Fellowship, and a Watson Fellowship. Eighteen Caltech seniors, roughly 10 percent of the graduating class, were awarded prizes this year. Included with these prizes was the National Security Education Program (NSEP) Fellowship awarded to Caltech undergraduate Reuben Walter "Walt" Ogburn IV. Ogburn used his award to study the Russian language and culture this past summer in St. Petersburg.

11/05/1998

Academy Award-Nominated Filmmaker Geoffrey O'Connor Presents Amazon Journal in Upcoming Caltech Talk

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