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07/18/2008

SURFing the Waves of Success for 30 Years

Jacqueline Scahill

The end of the academic year means one thing to 350 undergrads at the California Institute of Technology: time to SURF. The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) program is less lackadaisical than it may sound. Now celebrating its 30th year, SURF gives students the opportunity to create their own scientific research projects. And the program has yielded extraordinarily successful Caltech alumni, including a leading Major League Baseball (MLB) analyst and technologist whose work stemmed directly from his SURF project; the cofounder of Hotmail; and a current Caltech astrophysics assistant professor who began his undergraduate work at the Institute at the young age of 14.

06/06/2008

Zhen-Gang Wang Receives Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching

elisabeth nadin

Zhen-Gang Wang favors the tried-and-true chalkboard for his classroom lectures on thermodynamics and polymer physics. The clarity of these lessons and the admiration of his students have won him this year's Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching at the California Institute of Technology.

05/21/2008

Caltech's Ditch Day is Today!

Jacqueline Scahill

Ditch Day, that annual day of quirky college pranks and games at the California Institute of Technology, is today.

04/30/2008

Woolsey Speaks on Energy Independence

Jill Perry

Former CIA director R. James Woolsey will discuss "The Need for Energy Independence" as part of the Chen-Huang Sustainable Energy Seminar Series at 8 p.m. on May 6 in Beckman Auditorium at the California Institute of Technology.

04/17/2008

Caltech Surpasses $1.4 Billion Campaign Goal

Jill Perry

The California Institute of Technology has exceeded its goal of raising $1.4 billion during a five-year capital campaign for the creation of new academic centers, buildings, and groundbreaking research projects. The total amount raised was $1.424 billion.

04/15/2008

Caltech Creates New Center to Study the Global Environment

Jill Perry

To address the complex issue of global climate change from a wide range of disciplines, Ronald and Maxine Linde have established an $18 million endowment for the California Institute of Technology to create the Ronald and Maxine Linde Center for Global Environmental Science, uniting faculty from chemistry, engineering, geology, environmental science, and other fields.

04/15/2008

Caltech to Have Largest Solar-Energy Facility in Pasadena

Jill Perry

The City of Pasadena's largest-ever solar-energy facility will soon be installed on the California Institute of Technology campus. Construction begins this week and will conclude in August. The facility will be located on top of Caltech's Holliston parking structure.

04/09/2008

Three Students Awarded Goldwater Scholarships

Jacqueline Scahill

Three students from the California Institute of Technology have been awarded Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships for the 2008-09 academic year, and one student received honorable mention.

04/01/2008

Advanced LIGO Project Funded by National Science Foundation

Kathy Svitil

The Advanced LIGO Project, an upgrade in sensitivity for LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories), was approved by the National Science Board in its meeting on March 27. The National Science Foundation will fund the $205.12 million, seven-year project, starting with $32.75 million in 2008. This major upgrade will increase the sensitivity of the LIGO instruments by a factor of 10, giving a one thousand-fold increase in the number of astrophysical candidates for gravitational wave signals.

04/01/2008

New Rosen Bioengineering Center Funded

Jill Perry

Seeing a burgeoning new research field at the interface of biology and engineering, the Benjamin M. Rosen Family Foundation of New York has donated $18 million to the California Institute of Technology to establish the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center.

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