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02/28/2014

Theoretical Physicist Wins Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching

Cynthia Eller

Steven C. Frautschi, professor of theoretical physics, emeritus, at Caltech, has been awarded the Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching—Caltech's most prestigious teaching honor.

02/14/2014

Caltech Joins Alliance to Boost Minority Representation in STEM Fields

Cynthia Eller

Four California universities have founded a new consortium to support underrepresented minority graduate students in the fields of mathematics, the physical sciences, computer science, and engineering.

02/11/2014

Everyone Starts Small: How Metals Learn to Behave

Douglas Smith

In a Watson Lecture on February 12, Assistant Professor of Aerospace Dennis Kochmann will explain how controlling a material's complex structural details from the atomic scale up can affect its behavior in everyday life.

01/28/2014

Moneyball Comes to Caltech

Cynthia Eller

The new course, The Theory and Practice of Moneyball, is taught by Caltech professor of political science and dean of undergraduate students Rod Kiewiet, and Fred Claire, former general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers and current sports consultant and educator.

01/27/2014

1+1= 3, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Holistic Circuits

Cynthia Eller

In a matter of a few decades, silicon chips have transformed the way we live. Developing these technologies and exploring potential applications keeps Ali Hajimiri and everyone in his lab busy.

01/16/2014

Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Cynthia Eller

The new lecture series is intended to bring together a diverse community to discuss the broad theme of exploration, from antiquity to the present day, from new lands on Earth to other planets in our solar system.

01/13/2014

Watson Lecture Preview: Aiding and Abetting a Culture of Corruption

Douglas Smith

Jean Ensminger, Caltech's Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Social Sciences, is studying a corruption network linked to aid money, using interviews and quantitative analytical methods to follow the money disbursed by a large World Bank project in Africa.

01/07/2014

John Bryson Elected as Caltech Trustee

Cynthia Eller

John Bryson, former chairman and chief executive officer of Edison International (1990-2008), the parent company of Southern California Edison, has been reelected as a trustee of Caltech.

12/13/2013

John H. Schwarz Wins the Fundamental Physics Prize

Cynthia Eller

John H. Schwarz, the Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, and Michael B. Green of the University of Cambridge have been awarded the 2014 Fundamental Physics Prize.

12/11/2013

Caltech Announces Open-Access Policy

Cynthia Eller

According to the new policy, all faculty members will automatically grant nonexclusive rights to the Institute to disseminate their scholarly papers, making wider distribution of their work possible and eliminating confusion about copyright when posting research results on Caltech's websites.

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