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05/07/2007

Watson Lecture: Brain Plasticity during Learning and Memory

John Avery

Everything we learn changes us, and our memories reflect the brain's ability to restructure itself in response to our experience. Neurobiologist Erin Schuman wants to know how memory works, and her research at the California Institute of Technology is helping to uncover the molecular basis behind learning. She will describe recent developments on Wednesday, May 9, in the fourth and final program of the winter/spring 2007 Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series.

04/30/2007

Caltech Presidential Inauguration - A Student Affair

Jill Perry

Dr. Jean-Lou Chameau, who has served as Caltech's president since Sept. 1, 2006, will be inaugurated in a simple ceremony at the start of Caltech's 113th annual commencement on June 8.

04/25/2007

Romy Wyllie, Expert on Caltech's Architectural Heritage, Writes Book on Bertram Goodhue

Robert Tindol

Visitors to the California Institute of Technology often compliment the architecture, the landscaping, and the general layout of the Pasadena campus. Much of the credit must go to the architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, who was responsible for the original master plan as well as several early campus buildings.

04/25/2007

Watson Lecture: Cassini-Huygens at Saturn

John Avery

Saturn's iconic image as a ringed planet is both the symbol and the product of scientific discovery. For millennia the planet appeared to be just a drifting dot in the heavens, until a primitive telescope showed Galileo Galilei that Saturn had "ears." Since then each closer view of the planet with better technology has exposed new and unexpected features.

04/24/2007

Caltech Students Receive Churchill, Hertz Awards

Jill Perry

California Institute of Technology students were recently notified that they will receive prestigious honors from the Churchill Foundation and the Hertz Foundation.

04/24/2007

Caltech Outreach Brings Scientists Into Local Classrooms

John Avery

Holding a vibrating tuning fork close to the lip of a PVC pipe, high school student Kelsey Peterson bends close, suddenly saying, "I hear it!" She is trying to find the speed of sound indirectly, using her own measurements and a chain of logic she must forge for herself. She has learned that, as in a pipe organ, the cavity of her PVC pipe is an acoustic resonator, and the change in volume she hears tells her that it has reached the right length to resonate at the tuning fork's frequency.

04/20/2007

Stolper Named Provost at Caltech

Jill Perry

The California Institute of Technology has named Edward M. Stolper as the Institute's ninth provost. He will take the post August 1.

04/05/2007

Caltech Observatory Receives Science Education Award

Jill Perry

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in Hanford, Washington, which was created by the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and funded by the National Science Foundation, has received a science education award.

03/30/2007

Caltech's Planet Hunter Mike Brown Wins Annual Feynman Prize for Teaching

Robert Tindol

On a campus where scientific research can be pretty challenging for the uninitiated, Mike Brown's search for new bodies in the outer solar system is as refreshingly straightforward as, well, the brightly colored marble spheres that sit on his shelf. Each sphere represents a Kuiper-belt object he has found in the last few years, including Eris, which led to the demotion of Pluto to the status of "dwarf planet."

03/14/2007

Caltech's Rene Davis Makes All-Conference SCIAC Women's Basketball Team

Robert Tindol

Rene Davis has just accomplished something that no other California Institute of Technology woman has ever managed to do. The Corona junior has been named to the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference's 2007 women's basketball all-conference second team.

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