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NSF-Funded Wireless Network Leads Palomar Observatory Astronomers to Major Discoveries
08/10/2006

NSF-Funded Wireless Network Leads Palomar Observatory Astronomers to Major Discoveries

For the past three years, astronomers at the California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory in Southern California have been using the High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) as the data transfer cyberinfrastructure to further our understanding of the universe. Recent applications include the study of some of the most cataclysmic explosions in the universe, the hunt for extrasolar planets, and the discovery of our solar system's tenth planet. The data for all this research is transferred via HPWREN from the remote mountain observatory to college campuses hundreds of miles away.

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Moore Foundation Gives $5.6 Million to Caltech for New Center to Study Cell Regulation
07/26/2006

Moore Foundation Gives $5.6 Million to Caltech for New Center to Study Cell Regulation

Robert Tindol
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded $5.6 million to the California Institute of Technology for the creation of the Center for Integrative Study of Cell Regulation. The goal of the center is to develop new computational methods for understanding how the many genes and proteins that make up individual cells work together to carry out specialized functions of different cell types, including neurons, plant cells, and bacteria.
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Norton Utilities Founder and Former Chairman of the San Francisco Federal Reserve among New Caltech Trustees
07/20/2006

Norton Utilities Founder and Former Chairman of the San Francisco Federal Reserve among New Caltech Trustees

Deborah Williams-Hedges
Four new members have been elected to the California Institute of Technology Board of Trustees. The individuals are Peter Norton, president of the Peter Norton Family Foundation; Nelson C. Rising, retired chairman and CEO of Catellus Development Corporation; Suzanne H. Woolsey, former chief operating officer for the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine; and Fred J. Hameetman, chairman and CEO of the American Group.
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Caltech and Princeton University Press Release Tenth Volume of the Einstein Papers
07/10/2006

Caltech and Princeton University Press Release Tenth Volume of the Einstein Papers

Robert Tindol
In the latter half of 1920, Albert Einstein faced a series of increasingly acrimonious public attacks against his recently confirmed theory of general relativity. He considered leaving Berlin, which would have deprived Germany of its most famous scientist. Colleagues, friends, and unknown admirers offered support, while Einstein worried about the care of his two sons and ex-wife in Switzerland, and his new family in Berlin.
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Jacobs Institute to Create New Medicines, Biomedical Devices
07/05/2006

Jacobs Institute to Create New Medicines, Biomedical Devices

Deborah Williams-Hedges
To address the most pressing and challenging problems in clinical medicine today and in the future, the California Institute of Technology has established the Joseph J. Jacobs Institute for Molecular Engineering for Medicine.
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NSF Awards $11.97 Million to Caltech for Distributed Data Analysis of Neutron Scattering
06/29/2006

NSF Awards $11.97 Million to Caltech for Distributed Data Analysis of Neutron Scattering

Robert Tindol
The National Science Foundation today awarded $11.97 million to the California Institute of Technology for computer software to analyze neutron-scattering experiments. This work could show how to design new materials for a huge variety of applications in transportation, construction, electronics, and space exploration.
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Caltech Grad Receives Fellowship to Travel Abroad and Explore
06/21/2006

Caltech Grad Receives Fellowship to Travel Abroad and Explore

Deborah Williams-Hedges
It is an inarguable fact that science affects society, and that society in turn affects scientific research and practices. Exploring how science is exported from laboratories into society to form effective public policies has always been a passion of California Institute of Technology graduate Rebecca Adler-and it is also the focus of her Thomas J. Watson Fellowship project.
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awards $1.5 Million for Undergraduate Science Education
06/20/2006

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awards $1.5 Million for Undergraduate Science Education

Robert Tindol
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has awarded $1.5 million to the California Institute of Technology for support of interdisciplinary undergraduate science education programs.
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New Drugs for Smoking Cessation to Be the Target of Grant-Funded Partnership
06/14/2006

New Drugs for Smoking Cessation to Be the Target of Grant-Funded Partnership

Robert Tindol
The California Institute of Technology has been awarded a five-year grant for $4.6 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to develop a program for discovering medications aimed either at helping people avoid nicotine addiction or at helping smokers to quit. The project will include researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder and from Targacept, a North Carolina-based biopharmaceutical company whose scientists are leaders in research focused on a class of receptors known as neuronal nicotinic receptors.
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Baltimore to Give Address, TV Show Recognized at Caltech Commencement Today
06/09/2006

Baltimore to Give Address, TV Show Recognized at Caltech Commencement Today

Jill Perry
David Baltimore, the president of the California Institute of Technology, will be the keynote speaker at the 112th annual Caltech commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. today, June 9, on Beckman Mall on the Pasadena campus. The topic of his address will be "Passing Through the Hourglass."
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