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10/20/2014

How to Grip an Asteroid

Kimm Fesenmaier

Caltech junior Edward Fouad spent 10 weeks this summer as part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program working in the lab of Aaron Parness, a group leader at JPL, where researchers are designing, prototyping, and refining technology for a device called a microspine gripper. Looking something like a robotic circular foot with many toes extending radially outward, such a gripper has the ability to grab onto a rocky surface and cling to it even when hanging upside down.

10/16/2014

Improving The View Through Tissues and Organs

Kimm Fesenmaier

This summer, several undergraduate students at Caltech had the opportunity to help optimize a promising technique that can make tissues and organs—even entire organisms—transparent for study. As part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program, these students worked in the lab of Viviana Gradinaru, where researchers are developing such so-called clearing techniques that make it possible to peer straight through normally opaque tissues rather than seeing them only as thinly sectioned slices that have been pieced back together.

10/14/2014

Remembering Tom Tombrello

Douglas Smith

Thomas Anthony Tombrello, Caltech's Robert H. Goddard Professor of Physics, passed away on September 23, 2014, at age 78. His studies of nuclear reactions in the 1960s helped show how chemical elements are created.

10/10/2014

Sensors to Simplify Diabetes Management

Jessica Stoller-Conrad

Caltech students use their Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship opportunities to advance the idea of painless diabetes management.

Sagar Vaidyanathan, a visiting undergraduate researcher from UCLA, and Caltech sophomore Sophia Chen

10/06/2014

Orchestrating the Healing Process in a Damaged Cornea

Kathy Svitil

SURF fellow Jacqueline Masehi-Lano has experimented with various growth factors that might inhibit the formation of scar tissue and promote orderly wound healing.

09/26/2014

Honored Students Return

Kathy Svitil

Among this year's cadre of returning Caltech students are four seniors—Adam Jermyn, Ann Miao Wang, Charles Tschirhart, and Lawrence Wang—who already have been recognized at the national level for their scholarly and research accomplishments.

09/20/2014

Back to School, 2014

On Sunday, September 21, we welcomed Caltech's newest class of freshmen and returning students to Convocation, the official kick off of the new academic year.

09/12/2014

New Master of Student Houses Appointed

Kathy Svitil

Following Caltech tradition, the MOSH is a professorial faculty member who focuses on promoting a positive overall experience for Caltech undergraduates and acts as a liaison between students and faculty.

09/04/2014

Big Data Summer School Is in Session—Virtually

Kathy Svitil

Caltech and JPL are offering an unusual take on the massive open online course (MOOC) model: a two-week-long "virtual summer school" class, providing advanced instruction by experts at Caltech and JPL on the computational skills and methods used in the analysis of complex data sets—that is, of "big data."

09/03/2014

Measuring Earthquake Shaking

Cynthia Eller

This summer, Caltech junior Kevin Li has been working with computational scientists and seismologists to refine the Community Seismic Network (CSN) by developing a machine-learning system that can accurately estimate the magnitude of an earthquake within seconds of its detection.

Caltech junior Kevin Li and his mentor Julian Bunn

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