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Senior Spotlight: Justin Koch
06/12/2015

Senior Spotlight: Justin Koch

Kathy Svitil
Caltech's class of 2015 is group of smart, creative, and curious individuals. We talked to two of these graduates, Justin Koch and Phoebe Ann, about their years at Caltech and what will come next.
Senior Spotlight: Phoebe Ann
06/12/2015

Senior Spotlight: Phoebe Ann

Kathy Svitil
Caltech's class of 2015 is group of smart, creative, and curious individuals. We talked to two of these graduates, Phoebe Ann and Justin Koch, about their years at Caltech and what will come next.
Watching Paint Dry and Colors Fade
05/18/2015

Watching Paint Dry and Colors Fade

Douglas Smith
Conservation scientists and materials scientists use the same methods to work toward very different ends: conservation scientists study the treasures of the past, whereas materials scientists create the everyday stock of the future. Professor Faber does both.
Scanning an oil painting with an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer.
Searching for Vibrations from the Big Bang
05/05/2015

Searching for Vibrations from the Big Bang

Douglas Smith
For a brief instant after the Big Bang, the universe flew apart at speeds faster than light; the gravitational waves from this expansion sowed the seeds of galaxies. Caltech professor Jamie Bock is hunting for an echo of these waves in the cosmic microwave background.
BICEP2 at the South Pole
A Molecular Arms Race: The Immune System Versus HIV
03/27/2015

A Molecular Arms Race: The Immune System Versus HIV

Douglas Smith
Finding an anti-AIDS vaccine remains an elusive goal—partly because the HIV virus quickly mutates to evade the vaccine's antibodies. In a Watson Lecture on April 1, Caltech's Pamela J. Bjorkman will describe ways to neutralize that mutational advantage.
Cultural Anthropologist to Deliver Commencement Address
03/09/2015

Cultural Anthropologist to Deliver Commencement Address

Kimm Fesenmaier
An expert at the intersection of culture and technology, Genevieve Bell is a vice president at Intel Corporation and an Intel Fellow, a position that reflects the highest level of technical achievement within the company.
Genevieve Bell
Learning From Experience — How Do We Do It?
02/02/2015

Learning From Experience — How Do We Do It?

Douglas Smith
It is often said that people who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. John P. O'Doherty, professor of psychology and director of the Caltech Brain Imaging Center, discusses our current understanding of how we learn from experience.
fMRI scans of brain regions involved in value judgements
Size Matters: The Importance of Building Small Things
01/21/2015

Size Matters: The Importance of Building Small Things

Douglas Smith
Caltech professor Julia Greer is showing that the relationship between strength and weight is not graven in stone by creating brand-new materials that are incredibly strong but weigh next to nothing.
A fractal nanotruss made in Greer's lab.
How Do You Make a Greasy Protein?
01/06/2015

How Do You Make a Greasy Protein?

Douglas Smith
Professor of Biochemistry Bil Clemons is focused on working out the structures of and biological processes associated with membrane proteins—assemblies of protein molecules that act as transport channels through the greasy lipid membrane that encapsulates a cell.
Caltech Professor of Biochemistry Bil Clemons
Controlling Light at the Single-Photon Level
12/15/2014

Controlling Light at the Single-Photon Level

Douglas Smith
Integrating optics and electronics into systems such as fiber-optic data links has revolutionized how we transmit information. A second revolution awaits as researchers seek to develop chips in which individual atoms control the movement of light within the chip through optical "wires," and photons could replace electrons as the vehicle for performing computations. Andrei Faraon (BS '04), an assistant professor of applied physics and materials science in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, presents a preview of this revolution at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, December 17, in Caltech's Beckman Auditorium. Admission is free.
An optical bench in the Faraon lab.
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