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Real-time, Remote Internet2 Chamber Music Concert at Caltech
09/28/2005

Real-time, Remote Internet2 Chamber Music Concert at Caltech

Deborah Williams-Hedges
Through the medium of Internet2, the California Institute of Technology will join in a live, remote, real-time performance by musicians from the New World Symphony, an orchestral academy headquartered in Miami Beach, Florida, and a discussion led by renowned composer William Kraft.
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Watson Lecture: Caltech by the NUMB3RS
09/27/2005

Watson Lecture: Caltech by the NUMB3RS

Kathy Svitil
What do you get when you combine statistics, combinatorics, and number theory with FBI crime fighters-and throw a genius mathematics professor into the mix? A hit prime-time TV series, of course.
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Alice Gets Ready to Roll
09/26/2005

Alice Gets Ready to Roll

Kathy Svitil
The intrepid Alice will soon take center stage at the California Speedway in Fontana. Alice is no diva, but the California Institute of Technology's entrant in this year's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Grand Challenge race, a take-no-prisoners field test of autonomously driven robotic vehicles organized by DARPA to speed the development of battlefield-ready robotic tanks, trucks, and other all-terrain vehicles.
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NSF Awards $11.16 Million to Caltech's Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials
09/26/2005

NSF Awards $11.16 Million to Caltech's Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials

Robert Tindol

The National Science Foundation today awarded $11.16 million to the Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials (CSEM) at the California Institute of Technology. The renewal funding will allow the center to continue its work in exotic and futuristic materials applications, such as macromolecular materials, ferroelectric photonics, novel composites of glass and metals, spintronic devices, and fuel cells.

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Caltech Stem Cell Biology Training Program Awarded $2.3 Million
09/09/2005

Caltech Stem Cell Biology Training Program Awarded $2.3 Million

Kathy Svitil

At a historic meeting today in Sacramento, a three-year, $2.3 million grant was earmarked for the creation of the Caltech Stem-Cell Training Program at the California Institute of Technology.

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Milton Chang, Laser Expert and Venture Capitalist, Elected to Caltech Board of Trustees
08/17/2005

Milton Chang, Laser Expert and Venture Capitalist, Elected to Caltech Board of Trustees

Robert Tindol
Dr. Milton Chang, managing director of Incubic, a venture capital fund in Mountain View, California, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology. The announcement was made by David Baltimore, president of Caltech.
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Two Clare Boothe Luce Postdoctoral Fellowships Awarded to the California Institute of Technology
08/10/2005

Two Clare Boothe Luce Postdoctoral Fellowships Awarded to the California Institute of Technology

Robert Tindol

The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded $277,000 to the California Institute of Technology to fund two new postdoctoral fellowships for two years. The Clare Boothe Luce Fellowships will be awarded to two women, one in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science (EAS), and the other in the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy (PMA).

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Nobel Laureate Receives $17.5 Million Grant to Create the New Field of Physical Biology
08/10/2005

Nobel Laureate Receives $17.5 Million Grant to Create the New Field of Physical Biology

Robert Tindol
Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist Ahmed Zewail has received an $17.5 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to create the Ultrafast Science and Technology (UST) Center at the California Institute of Technology.
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Caltech Summer SURF Students Conduct Exceptional Research
08/01/2005

Caltech Summer SURF Students Conduct Exceptional Research

Deborah Williams-Hedges
These are not your average summer jobs for teens-like working at McDonald's or the Gap. The California Institute of Technology is providing students from around the world with an exceptional opportunity to conduct specialized research projects of their choice in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, or SURF, program.
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Caltech Graduate Receives Fulbright Grant to Study Abroad
07/13/2005

Caltech Graduate Receives Fulbright Grant to Study Abroad

Deborah Williams-Hedges
California Institute of Technology graduate David Powers has received a 2005-06 Fulbright grant to pursue graduate studies abroad, joining the prestigious ranks of other Fulbright recipients that include Nobel and Pulitzer prize winners, governors and senators, prime ministers and heads of state, professors and scholars, scientists, artists, Supreme Court justices, and CEOs. Powers, who graduated with honors in June with a BS in chemistry, will undertake a research project in environmental biochemistry at Nagasaki University in Japan this coming academic year. Powers will investigate the effects of pollution on the human body at the molecular and biochemical level.
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