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10/19/2006

Caltech Receives $1 Million Grant from Amgen Foundation to Support Undergraduate Research

Deborah Williams-Hedges

The California Institute of Technology has received a $1 million grant from the Amgen Foundation to support undergraduate research opportunities for 25 students each summer over the next four years.

09/13/2006

Caltech Gets $18 Million from NHGRI to Map Vertebrate Development

Robert Tindol

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded an $18-million grant for creation of a Center of Excellence in Genomic Science at the California Institute of Technology.

08/10/2006

NSF-Funded Wireless Network Leads Palomar Observatory Astronomers to Major Discoveries

For the past three years, astronomers at the California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory in Southern California have been using the High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) as the data transfer cyberinfrastructure to further our understanding of the universe. Recent applications include the study of some of the most cataclysmic explosions in the universe, the hunt for extrasolar planets, and the discovery of our solar system's tenth planet. The data for all this research is transferred via HPWREN from the remote mountain observatory to college campuses hundreds of miles away.

07/26/2006

Moore Foundation Gives $5.6 Million to Caltech for New Center to Study Cell Regulation

Robert Tindol

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded $5.6 million to the California Institute of Technology for the creation of the Center for Integrative Study of Cell Regulation. The goal of the center is to develop new computational methods for understanding how the many genes and proteins that make up individual cells work together to carry out specialized functions of different cell types, including neurons, plant cells, and bacteria.

07/20/2006

Norton Utilities Founder and Former Chairman of the San Francisco Federal Reserve among New Caltech Trustees

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Four new members have been elected to the California Institute of Technology Board of Trustees. The individuals are Peter Norton, president of the Peter Norton Family Foundation; Nelson C. Rising, retired chairman and CEO of Catellus Development Corporation; Suzanne H. Woolsey, former chief operating officer for the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine; and Fred J. Hameetman, chairman and CEO of the American Group.

07/05/2006

Jacobs Institute to Create New Medicines, Biomedical Devices

Deborah Williams-Hedges

To address the most pressing and challenging problems in clinical medicine today and in the future, the California Institute of Technology has established the Joseph J. Jacobs Institute for Molecular Engineering for Medicine.

06/29/2006

NSF Awards $11.97 Million to Caltech for Distributed Data Analysis of Neutron Scattering

Robert Tindol

The National Science Foundation today awarded $11.97 million to the California Institute of Technology for computer software to analyze neutron-scattering experiments. This work could show how to design new materials for a huge variety of applications in transportation, construction, electronics, and space exploration.

06/20/2006

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awards $1.5 Million for Undergraduate Science Education

Robert Tindol

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has awarded $1.5 million to the California Institute of Technology for support of interdisciplinary undergraduate science education programs.

06/14/2006

New Drugs for Smoking Cessation to Be the Target of Grant-Funded Partnership

Robert Tindol

The California Institute of Technology has been awarded a five-year grant for $4.6 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to develop a program for discovering medications aimed either at helping people avoid nicotine addiction or at helping smokers to quit. The project will include researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder and from Targacept, a North Carolina-based biopharmaceutical company whose scientists are leaders in research focused on a class of receptors known as neuronal nicotinic receptors.

05/26/2006

Caltech Names New President:Georgia Tech Provost Jean-Lou Chameau

Jill Perry

Jean-Lou Chameau, the provost and vice president for academic affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named the new president of the California Institute of Technology. He will take office on or before September 1.

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