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05/17/2010

Techers Take to the Sky

Barbara DiPalma

International Learn to Fly Day debuted this past Saturday, May 15, and Caltech's Aero Association (AACIT) observed the occasion by offering a free flying lesson to any interested member of the Caltech/JPL community. One of the Institute's more venerable clubs, AACIT has helped train more than 1,000 private pilots since it was established in 1966 by a handful of students, faculty, and staff.

05/04/2010

The Play's Her Thing

Michael Farquhar

It's been 15 years since members of the Caltech community last staged a musical, and five years since a student directed a Caltech production. Now sophomore Christina Kondos has taken on the plum job of directing I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, Off-Broadway's second-longest-running musical. The show, which explores the ups and downs of relationships from first date to last rites, opens May 7 in Ramo Auditorium on the Caltech campus.

04/30/2010

They're With the Band

Heidi Aspaturian

"This Too Shall Pass," is the title of the song by the band OK Go, but the outpouring of interest that the accompanying music video has generated seems unlikely to pass anytime soon. And that is, to say the least, okay with a group of Caltechers who were involved in the design and construction of the video's centerpiece—a two-story-high Rube Goldberg machine that to date has been seen by more than 12 million viewers on YouTube.

04/15/2010

Rumble in the Gymnasium

Michael Farquhar

How many blimps does it take to pick up a Ping Pong ball? When students and professors in Caltech's engineering design competition unleashed their balloon-borne robots in a gym last month, they provided a dazzling array of answers to that somewhat unorthodox question. With potential members of 2011's freshman class now visiting campus as part of spring's annual college-decision ritual, here's an up-close look at one of the many undergraduate experiences that makes Caltech unique.

04/05/2010

Encore Sabreuse!

Michael Farquhar

Having returned from her peripatetic fencing tour of Boston and Dallas and submerged herself in the hectic first week of spring-quarter classes, sabreuse Laura Decker remarks of the previous week that it "was certainly exhausting-three days in a row was a lot of fencing!"

03/23/2010

En Garde Sabreuse!

Michael Farquhar

Dueling scars and deadly thrusts may be passé in the world of fencing, but a keen mind and lightning reflexes remain de rigueur. Caltech junior Laura Decker has both, and they have carried her through the recent Western Regional Fencing NCAA Qualifiers to the 2010 National Collegiate Men's and Women's Fencing Championships, which will be held this week in Boston. She is the first Caltech fencer in five years to earn the coveted NCAA qualification.

03/09/2010

Adaptable, New Building is Catalyst for Discovery

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Caltech is opening the new Warren and Katharine Schlinger Laboratory for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. The state-of-the-art, sustainable Schlinger Laboratory will provide a custom-designed, adaptable facility for a number of Caltech's chemists and chemical engineers, and will house synthetic chemistry and chemical engineering, enabling new research in catalysis, materials, and the atmosphere.

03/03/2010

Young Caltech Innovators Recognized for Their Work in Advanced Disease Therapies

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Caltech graduate student Heather D. Agnew is the recipient of the 2010 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Caltech Student Prize. Agnew is among the four $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prize winners. She was recognized for her integral contributions to the development of innovative biochemical protocols that can be utilized for more stable, robust—and inexpensive—detection of diseases like cancer, HIV, or malaria.

02/24/2010

Caltech Receives More than $33 Million from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Jon Weiner

Research in genomic sciences, astronomy, seismology, and neuroeconomics are some of the many projects being funded at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

02/16/2010

Caltech Theater Arts Premiers "Pasadena Babalon" This Month

Heidi Aspaturian

There's a crater named for Pasadena rocket scientist John Whiteside Parsons on the dark side of the moon, which seems appropriate in light of his obsession with the occult. Parsons's fabulously eccentric life is explored in Pasadena Babalon, a new stage play to be premiered on February 19 by TACIT—Theater Arts at the California Institute of Technology.

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