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05/11/2009

DOE Names Caltech Professor as Director of EFRC Focusing on Light-Material Interactions

Lori Oliwenstein

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has announced that it will fund the creation of 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) over the next five years, including one that will be housed at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). That EFRC will be headed by Harry Atwater, the Howard Hughes Professor and professor of applied physics and materials science.

04/17/2009

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu to Be Caltech Commencement Speaker

Jon Weiner

Renowned physicist, recently appointed U.S. Secretary of Energy, and Nobel Laureate Steven Chu will be the featured speaker at the California Institute of Technology's (Caltech's) 115th annual commencement ceremony this year.

04/15/2009

Caltech Appoints VP for Development and Alumni Relations

Jon Weiner

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has named Peter deCourcy Hero as its new vice president for development and alumni relations.

04/07/2009

Caltech Electrical Engineer Awarded $6 Million to Develop Self-Healing Circuits

Kathy Svitil

Over the past few decades, transistors in computer chips have become progressively smaller and faster, allowing upwards of a billion individual transistors to be packed into a single circuit. But these circuits have an intractable design flaw: if a single transistor fails, the entire circuit fails. A Caltech researcher has been awarded a $6 million DARPA grant to develop self-healing circuits--which can detect, isolate, and fix their own flaws--to get around the problem.

03/13/2009

Caltech Students Honored for Innovative Work

Jon Weiner

First Lemelson-Caltech Prize awarded to two students

03/11/2009

Caltech Elects Two to Board of Trustees

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Attorney Brigitte Bren, cofounder of International Strategic Planning, and Louis J. Lavigne Jr., retired executive vice president and chief financial officer of Genentech, have been elected to the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

03/09/2009

New Gift Allows Caltech and Cornell Scientists to Continue Simulating Warped Space-time

Jon Weiner

Sherman Fairchild Foundation's gift will continue advanced space research.

01/26/2009

Caltech's Newest Shining Star: The Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Lori Oliwenstein

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists who study the outer reaches of space are about to get some space of their own with the official opening of the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Caltech

11/25/2008

Caltech Undergraduate Research Journal Wins Top Award from Associated Collegiate Press

Martin Voss

The Caltech Undergraduate Research Journal (CURJ) has earned the 2008 Magazine Pacemaker award from the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) as one of the nation's top collegiate publications. This is the second year in a row CURJ has garnered ACP's top honor.

11/25/2008

Fred Blum, Former Business Executive, Named President of Caltech Associates

Martin Voss

Retired business executive and alumnus Fred A. Blum (PhD '68, physics) was recently named president of the Board of Associates of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

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