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02/17/2012

Moore Foundation Gives Caltech $6 Million for Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Center

Kimm Fesenmaier

With $6 million of funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Caltech has established the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Center. The new center will build on the Institute's successes at the interface of chemistry and biology, and will focus on determining how complex systems of molecules interact to create the pathways that regulate the lives of cells and allow them to respond to their environments.

02/14/2012

Caltech Student Wins Churchill Scholarship

Kimm Fesenmaier

Caltech senior Arvind Kannan has been selected to receive a Churchill Scholarship, which will fund his graduate studies at the University of Cambridge for the next academic year. Kannan, a chemical engineering major and English minor, was one of only 14 students selected to receive the award this year.

02/13/2012

Live Webcast: "Seeing the Invisible Universe"

Marcus Woo

Watch a webcast of Tom Soifer, chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, professor of physics, and director of the Spitzer Science Center, exploring some of the exciting discoveries made with the Spitzer Space Telescope in a talk entitled "Seeing the Invisible Universe," which he gave on February 9 at Keck Observatory on the big island of Hawaii. For the video, click here.

02/09/2012

KISS Selects Student-led Rover Project for Funding

Kimm Fesenmaier

The Keck Institute for Space Studies has announced that it will fund a new student-led mini program, giving a handful of undergraduate students the opportunity to help develop instruments for an extreme-terrain rover called Axel, which could one day be used to explore the moon, Mars, or an asteroid.

01/25/2012

Research Symposium and Dedication Ceremony for the Linde + Robinson Laboratory

Allison Benter

The Linde + Robinson Laboratory for Global Environmental Science was officially dedicated with a research symposium and ceremony on January 24.

01/20/2012

Winners of the Doris S. Perpall SURF Speaking Competition Announced

Allison Benter

Seven finalists, named the best speakers out of 290 who presented their research on SURF Seminar Day in October, competed in the third and final round of the Doris S. Perpall SURF Speaking Competition on January 19. Three juniors won the top honors, with Kevin Gu in first place, Anum Jang Sher in second, and Matthew Mayers in third.

01/19/2012

S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation Gives $25 Million to Enrich Campus Life, Outreach Programs

Shayna Chabner McKinney

With an interest in enhancing the living and learning environment at Caltech, the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation has pledged $25 million to support campus life and outreach programs.

01/18/2012

SURF Student Orators Set for Final Round of Competition

Kimm Fesenmaier

Seven Caltech undergrads will do their best to impress, inform, and generally dazzle the audience and judges in the final round of the Doris S. Perpall SURF Speaking Competition Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Beckman Institute auditorium.

01/13/2012

Elon Musk to Deliver Caltech Commencement Address

Lawren Markle

Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk will be the speaker for the 118th annual commencement ceremony at Caltech. The ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. on June 15, 2012.

01/09/2012

Caltech Elects Two New Members to Board of Trustees

Marcus Woo

Two business leaders, Joshua S. Friedman and Richmond A. Wolf, have been elected to the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Friedman will serve on the board as a trustee and Wolf (MS '94, PhD '97) as a young alumni trustee.

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