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03/09/2009

New Gift Allows Caltech and Cornell Scientists to Continue Simulating Warped Space-time

Jon Weiner

Sherman Fairchild Foundation's gift will continue advanced space research.

01/26/2009

Caltech's Newest Shining Star: The Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Lori Oliwenstein

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists who study the outer reaches of space are about to get some space of their own with the official opening of the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Caltech

11/25/2008

Fred Blum, Former Business Executive, Named President of Caltech Associates

Martin Voss

Retired business executive and alumnus Fred A. Blum (PhD '68, physics) was recently named president of the Board of Associates of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

11/12/2008

$10 Million Gift Will Create New Engineering Center at Caltech

Lori Oliwenstein

The Gates Frontiers Fund has pledged $10 million to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to support the establishment of the Charles C. Gates Center for Mechanical Engineering within the soon-to-be-renovated Thomas Laboratory on the Caltech campus.

11/10/2008

W.M. Keck Foundation Gift to Enable Caltech and JPL Scientists to Research the Universe's Violent Origin

Jon Weiner

The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded $2.3 million to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to fund the Keck Array--a suite of three microwave polarimeters at the South Pole--and the corresponding research initiative, "Imaging the Beginning of Time: A Search for the Signature of Inflation in the Cosmic Microwave Background."

09/23/2008

Caltech Researcher Awarded $10 Million Grant

Kathy Svitil

Brian M. Stoltz, the Ethel Wilson Bowles and Robert Bowles Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), has been awarded a $10 million grant from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

09/16/2008

Caltech Solar Project Receives City Rebate

Jon Weiner

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and EI solutions, a leader in solar solutions, announced that the City of Pasadena has granted a rebate to the city's largest-ever solar-energy facility as part of the Pasadena Water & Power Pasadena Solar Initiative (PSI) program.

08/18/2008

Caltech Researchers Awarded $10 Million for Molecular Programming Project: Collaborative project may lead to revolutionary changes

Kathy Svitil

The National Science Foundation's Expeditions in Computing program has awarded $10 million to the Molecular Programming Project, a collaborative effort by researchers at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Washington to establish a fundamental approach to the design of complex molecular and chemical systems based on the principles of computer science.

08/04/2008

Caltech Scientists Awarded $20 Million to "Power the Planet"

elisabeth nadin

In the dreams of Harry Gray, Beckman Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, the future energy needs of the world are met with solar-fuel power plants. Now, a $20 million award from the Chemical Bonding Center (CBC), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry program, will help bring this dream one step closer to reality.

07/24/2008

Four Elected to Caltech Board of Trustees

Jacqueline Scahill

Robert C. Bonner, senior partner of Sentinel HS Group LLC; John S. Chen (MS '79), chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Sybase Inc.; and Peter D. Kaufman, chairman and chief executive officer of Glenair Inc. have been elected to the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology. Gil I. Elbaz (BS '91) has also been elected to the board as a Young Alumni Trustee. The announcement was made by Jean-Lou Chameau, president of Caltech.

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