News | Parents

11/10/2005

Steve Barr to Speak at Caltech about Changing Los Angeles, School to School

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Steve Barr, founder of Green Dot Public Schools in Los Angeles, will present the third event of the 2005-2006 season of the Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series. His talk will take place on Thursday, November 17, at 8 p.m., in Beckman Institute auditorium on the Caltech campus, and is free and open to the public.

10/21/2005

Watson Lecture: Marvelous Mars Rovers

Kathy Svitil

Spirit and Opportunity, the unflappable exploration rovers, have each spent over 600 days trekking across the surface of Mars--more than 500 days longer than either was expected to last. "The rovers have done much more than we ever hoped they would," says geologist Joy A. Crisp of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, the lead scientist for the rover project at JPL. "Although they've passed their warranty, Spirit and Opportunity could keep on going for years," Crisp says.

10/11/2005

Chris Mooney to Speak at Caltech about the Republican War on Science

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Chris Mooney, Seed magazine Washington correspondent and author of the bestseller The Republican War on Science, will present the first event of the 2005--2006 season of the Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series. His talk will take place on Wednesday, October 19, at 8 p.m., in Ramo Auditorium on the Caltech campus and is free and open to the public.

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.

05/11/2005

Urban Development Expert to Discuss Los Angeles's Social Challenges

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Occidental College professor of political science Peter Dreier will present the final keynote address in the 2004-2005 season of the Social Activism Speaker Series at the California Institute of Technology. Dreier is the director of the Urban and Environmental Policy program at Occidental College and a commentator on social and civic issues facing Los Angeles. This event will take place on Thursday, May 19, at 7:30 p.m., in the Beckman Institute Auditorium at Caltech. It is free and open to the public.

04/14/2005

Bush Administration Critic Kurt Gottfried to Discuss Science, Politics at Caltech

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Cornell University professor of physics and noted science advisor Kurt Gottfried will present the third keynote address in the

04/14/2005

Former MIT President to Speak at Caltech

Robert Tindol

Charles M. Vest, president emeritus of MIT, will speak at the California Institute of Technology at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, in Beckman Institute Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

04/11/2005

Art and Science: A Da Vinci Detective Story

In 1920, says the California Institute of Technology's John Brewer, the art dealer Joseph Duveen dismissed an alleged Leonardo da Vinci painting, "La Belle Ferronniere," as a copy or a fake. His opinion initiated a decade-long lawsuit and courtroom drama dubbed "the battle of the experts," in which the art connoisseur's eye and the tools of modern science were locked in conflict.

04/04/2005

Sandra Tsing Loh to be Caltech Commencement Speaker

Jill Perry

Writer/performer/musician/humorist Sandra Tsing Loh will be the guest speaker at the 111th annual California Institute of Technology commencement ceremony at 10 a.m., June 10, on Beckman Mall on the Pasadena campus.

03/30/2005

Correction:The Effects of Media and Marketing on Children

Deborah Williams-Hedges

The presentation by Dr. Susan Linn, Ed.D., cofounder of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and author of Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood, who will speak about the effects of media and commercial marketing on children, will take place on Wednesday, April 13, at 7 p.m., at the California Institute of Technology Ramo Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations are required.

News tagged with 'campus events' Subscribe via RSS

Steve Barr to Speak at Caltech about Changing Los Angeles, School to School

Watson Lecture: Marvelous Mars Rovers

Chris Mooney to Speak at Caltech about the Republican War on Science

Watson Lecture: Caltech by the NUMB3RS

Urban Development Expert to Discuss Los Angeles's Social Challenges

Bush Administration Critic Kurt Gottfried to Discuss Science, Politics at Caltech

Former MIT President to Speak at Caltech

Art and Science: A Da Vinci Detective Story

Sandra Tsing Loh to be Caltech Commencement Speaker

Correction:The Effects of Media and Marketing on Children