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04/13/2006

Moore Foundation Awards Multiple Grants to California Institute of Technology

Jill Perry

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has recently awarded multimillion dollar grants to the California Institute of Technology for the establishment of three new projects: the Center for Geochemical and Cosmochemical Microanalysis, the Proteome Exploration Laboratory, and the Center for Theoretical Cosmology and Physics. The grants for these facilities total more than $22 million.

04/13/2006

McDonnell Foundation Grant Will Be Used to Study Neurons Involved in Snap Decisions

Jill Perry

Where do you get your "gut feelings," that intuition that leads you to distrust someone who appears trustworthy? It could be your Von Economo brain cells in action, and a neurobiologist at the California Institute of Technology intends to find out for sure.

04/10/2006

Caltech Receives $2.3 Million for Stem Cell Research

Jill Perry

The California Institute of Technology has been awarded $2.3 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to support 10 postdoctoral scholars in the Caltech Stem Cell Biology Training Program.

04/04/2006

Caltech Unveils New Virtual Exhibit for Historical Earthquake Archives

Deborah Williams-Hedges

April 18 marks the centennial of the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake. In commemoration of that event and the landmark developments that followed it, the California Institute of Technology Archives is presenting a new digital exhibit, Documenting Earthquakes: A Virtual Exhibit in Six Parts. This online display, for use by the public, media, and educators, can be viewed at http://archives.caltech.edu/exhibits/earthquake/index.html.

02/24/2006

Caltech Wins Three MURI Awards for 2006

Robert Tindol

The California Institute of Technology has been awarded three of the 30 program awards from the federal Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Program. The awards will bring in $3 million in funding each year for the next five years.

02/10/2006

The Athenaeum at Caltech Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary

Deborah Williams-Hedges

The Athenaeum, the faculty club at the California Institute of Technology, occupies a fascinating, but relatively little-known, corner of the intellectual and social history of Southern California.

02/02/2006

Caltech Launches Brain Study Program with $8.9 Million Gift from Eli Broad to Fund 24 Researchers and Six New Labs

For years, scientists have worked to study each of the 100 billion neurons in the human brain. But while they understand individual neurons, they've been stumped by how neurons work together, how they encode information, and how they generate thoughts, emotions, and actions.

01/27/2006

Three Elected to Caltech Board of Trustees

Robert Tindol

Robert T. Jenkins, a retired vice president of Intel; Jon B. Kutler, chairman, chief executive officer, and founder of the Quarterdeck family of companies; and Stewart A. Resnick, chairman and owner of Roll International Corporation, have been elected to the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology. The announcement was made by David Baltimore, president of Caltech.

12/06/2005

Caltech and Eight Universities Support Greater Gender Equity in Academia

Jill Perry

California Institute of Technology President David Baltimore has joined with leaders of eight other research universities to encourage continued advances toward the full participation of women in academia throughout the United States.

10/19/2005

NASA Grant Will Fund New Research on Mars with the Spirit and Opportunity Rovers

Robert Tindol

When it comes to longevity, the Spirit and Opportunity rovers on Mars are giving some real competition to the pink bunny from those battery advertisements. The two rovers in a couple of months will celebrate their second anniversary on the red planet, even though their original missions were only 90 days.

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