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09/26/2012

13th Volume of Einstein's Papers Published

Kimm Fesenmaier

A new volume in the Einstein Papers Project is scheduled to be released on September 25. This volume covers a turbulent 15 months in the physicist's life and includes several hundred previously unpublished and unknown articles and letters, some of which express his desire for "a normal life."

09/22/2012

A Worthy Endeavor

Douglas Smith

The space shuttle Endeavour's final flight ended Friday, September 21, when it landed at Los Angeles International Airport en route to its new life as an exhibit at the California Science Center. But without Caltech professors Christopher Brennen and Allan Acosta and alumnus Sheldon Rubin, the entire endeavor might not have been possible.

09/13/2012

Whatever Happened to the Mars Global Surveyor?

Douglas Smith

On September 11, 1997, the Mars Global Surveyor slipped into orbit around the Red Planet. Like JPL's Mariner and Viking missions before it, MGS (as it was affectionately known) fundamentally changed our view of Mars.

09/07/2012

Whatever Happened to the Space Simulator at JPL?

Douglas Smith

You could call it the Ultimate Evil Tanning Bed—a stainless-steel torture chamber 47 feet tall and 25 feet in diameter that's expressly designed to deliver a fatal sunburn, if at all possible, to anything placed within.

09/05/2012

Happy 35th Birthday, Voyager!

Kimm Fesenmaier

Today, September 5, marks the 35th anniversary of the launch of Voyager 1, which lifted off in 1977 on a Titan III–Centaur launch system just 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. Now 11 billion and 9 billion miles from the sun, respectively, the spacecraft are the farthest-flung man-made objects, traveling every 100 days a distance equal to that between sun and Earth.

08/30/2012

Caltech Recognized for Commitment to Sustainability

Katie Neith

The Princeton Review has named Caltech to its "2013 Green Honor Roll." Caltech is among 21 schools that received the highest possible score—99—in an analysis that looked at 806 institutions and rated them on environmentally related practices, policies, and academic offerings. These "Green Rating" scores will be published on each school's profile in the new 2013 Princeton Review guidebooks.

Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology, Caltech

07/24/2012

Caltech Mourns the Passing of Sally Ride

Katie Neith

Sally Ride, the first American woman in space and a former Caltech trustee, passed away Monday, July 23, 2012. She was 61.

07/16/2012

Caltech Elects New Member to Board of Trustees

Ann Motrunich

Attorney and civic leader Maria Hummer-Tuttle has been elected to Caltech's Board of Trustees. Hummer-Tuttle practiced law for more than two decades with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, a Los Angeles–based firm currently of more than 350 attorneys. A former chair of the Management Committee and co-managing partner, she is now retired.

07/12/2012

Caltech Receives Gift from Sackler Foundation to Advance Biomedical Science Research

Michael Rogers

. Now, an endowment established by the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation will strengthen the Caltech-UCLA partnership and advance the Baltimore lab’s interdisciplinary research into areas where mathematics and engineering converge with biology.

06/06/2012

Caltech Elects New Member to Board of Trustees

Ann Motrunich

Venture capitalist and philanthropist Walter G. Kortschak has been elected to the Caltech Board of Trustees.

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