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01/22/2008

Caltech Student Wins Churchill Scholarship

elisabeth nadin

California Institute of Technology student Vivek Narsimhan has been awarded a Churchill Scholarship for the academic year 2008–09. The chemical engineering major plans to complete the Certificate in Advanced Mathematics (Maths Part III) at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

12/13/2007

McWhinney Elected as New Trustee

Jacqueline Scahill

Deborah Doyle McWhinney, an expert in financial services and former president of Schwab Institutional, has been named as a trustee of the California Institute of Technology.

12/11/2007

Caltech Helps Students Afford College

Jill Perry

The California Institute of Technology will eliminate loans for its neediest undergraduate students by replacing loans with additional gift aid, such as scholarships and grants. Beginning with undergraduates entering in the fall of 2008, most domestic students whose total family incomes are $60,000 per year or less will be offered a financial-aid package that substitutes scholarship gift aid for loans.

12/05/2007

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Commits $200 Million Support for Thirty-Meter Telescope

Jill Perry

The California Institute of Technology and the University of California have received a $200 million commitment over nine years from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation toward the further development and construction of the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT). Funding under this commitment will be shared equally between the two universities, with matching gifts from the two institutions expected to bring the total to $300 million. When built, TMT will be the largest telescope in the world.

12/05/2007

Caltech Breaks Ground on Annenberg Center

Jill Perry

The California Institute of Technology will break ground on the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology at 11 a.m. December 7 at Caltech.

10/16/2007

Weston Havens Foundation Awards Multiple Grants to Caltech

Jacqueline Scahill

The Weston Havens Foundation has recently awarded $1.3 million in philanthropic gifts to the California Institute of Technology that will fund five separate research projects. Faculty working on these projects received $260,000 each to cover such wide-ranging topics as stem cell differentiation dynamics, the gastrointestinal connection to autism, and treating viral diseases.

08/20/2007

Thirty-Meter Telescope Project Receives $15 Million from Moore Foundation

Robert Tindol

The California Institute of Technology and the Regents of the University of California have each received $7.5 million in additional funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the development of the Thirty-Meter Telescope. The TMT is being developed by a U.S.-Canadian team with construction anticipated to begin in April 2009. The new grants augment the $64 million already planned for the design development phase of the TMT project, which included $35 million previously awarded to Caltech and UC by the Moore Foundation.

06/28/2007

Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Awards $1 Million Grant to Caltech for New Research Laboratory

Robert Tindol

The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation has pledged $1 million to the California Institute of Technology toward construction of a new building for chemistry and chemical engineering positioned to be the centerpiece of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering's plan for the future.

06/20/2007

Richard Merkin of Heritage Provider Network Elected to Caltech Board of Trustees

Robert Tindol

Richard Merkin, M.D., founder and chief executive officer of Heritage Provider Network, has been elected to the California Institute of Technology Board of Trustees. The announcement was made today by Caltech president Jean-Lou Chameau.

06/18/2007

Ooguri Appointed Fred Kavli Professor of Theoretical Physics

John Avery

Like many Japanese schoolchildren, Hirosi Ooguri read about the physicist Hideki Yukawa, who became Japan's first Nobel laureate in 1949 for predicting the existence of mesons, elementary particles that hold atomic nuclei together. Ooguri says, "I was very impressed by the power of mathematics in discovering how the universe works."

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