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12/17/2010

Caltech Goes for Three in a Row

Marcus Woo

After winning back-to-back games for the first time in 13 years, the Caltech men’s basketball team has a chance to make history again with a victory on Saturday. The Beavers face the Banana Slugs of UC Santa Cruz at 3:00 p.m. in Braun Gym, as part of the SCIAC Classic. All Techers are encouraged to come and support their team.

12/10/2010

Engineering for the Other Half

Ken Pickar's class, "Product Design for the Developing World," challenges Caltech students to solve some basic problems of the world's poor. The catch: in ten weeks, they must turn rough concepts into workable designs, including financial and market assessments. On December 7, this year's students presented their results. Their visual aids included a typically Caltech-like hodgepodge of pipes, motors, and fans—but as Pickar reminded the audience, "Prototypes aren't supposed to be elegant. They're supposed to be crude and quick."

12/07/2010

Caltech Basketball Notches First Win of Season

Marcus Woo

Caltech basketball won its first game of the season on Saturday, when the men’s team defeated American Sports University 74-67 in the Fulmer Tournament at the University of Redlands. The victory snaps a 44-game losing streak dating back to January 5, 2009.

12/05/2010

Scientific Americans

Lori Oliwenstein

Caltech freshman Erika DeBenedictis was invited to the first-ever White House Science Fair after winning the top prize in the Intel Science Talent Search as a high-school senior, thanks to her work on a software system to help spacecraft navigate the solar system. Here, DeBenedictis—daughter of Caltech alumnus Erik DeBenedictis, BS '78, PhD '83—tells the story of the presidential meeting that almost wasn't.

11/30/2010

Beginning a Life in Science

Ann Motrunich

It was a posting that offered a chance to "see how research is done and understand the lifetime enthusiasm that can be generated" that brought Zach Wickens to Caltech. The announcement was posted by pioneering organic chemist John (Jack) Roberts, Caltech's Institute Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus.

11/23/2010

Beaver Basketball on the Road

Marcus Woo

The Caltech men's basketball team opened its season in Milwaukee last weekend at the 2010 All-Engineers Classic. The tournament was Caltech's first out-of-state trip since 2004, when it played in the inaugural Classic, hosted by the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). This year, Carnegie Mellon and Merchant Marine Academy rounded out the rest of the field. "All the teams that are in it are very good and have had good programs in the last several years," said head coach Oliver Eslinger. "It presents good competition for us."

10/21/2010

SURFing in Cajun Country

Michael Rogers

Caltech junior Jordan Theriot returned home to Louisiana last summer for her Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship project. Besides catching up with friends, family, and the region's famous foods, Theriot took on a difficult problem in chemistry, helping a Caltech alum advance his research.

10/04/2010

Two Caltech Scientists Named Among 2010 NIH Director's New Innovator Awardees

Lori Oliwenstein

As part of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative to stimulate highly innovative research and support promising new scientific investigators, two scientists from Caltech were named among the 2010 class of the NIH Director's New Innovator Award recipients.

09/29/2010

NIH Awards $11.5 Million for New Caltech-Led Membrane-Protein Center

Lori Oliwenstein

The National Institutes of Health has awarded $11.5 million to a consortium of research institutions led by the California Institute of Technology for the creation of a center for the study of membrane-protein structures.

09/24/2010

Sustainable Energy—Without the Hot Air

David MacKay

The energy debate roils with statistics designed to impress, not inform. "Los Angeles residents drive 142 million miles—the distance from Earth to Mars—every single day." Sometimes there are no numbers at all: "We have a huge amount of wind energy just waiting to be tapped." But how does that hugeness compare to our energy consumption? David MacKay (PhD '92) has done the math, and he offers a simple, common-sense analysis.

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