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10/03/2005

Caltech Receives $18 Million Over 5 Years to Start Nanosystems Biology Cancer Center

Jill Perry

Jim Heath wants to catch cancer earlier and provide more effective monitoring of patients' responses to therapies. The National Cancer Institute likes his plan and just awarded him $18 million over five years to get started.

10/03/2005

Baltimore to Retire as Caltech President; Will Remain at Institute as Biology Professor

Jill Perry

David Baltimore, the seventh president of the California Institute of Technology, will retire on June 30, 2006, after nearly nine years in the post. He will remain at the Institute, where he intends to focus on his scientific work and teaching.

09/26/2005

NSF Awards $11.16 Million to Caltech's Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials

Robert Tindol

The National Science Foundation today awarded $11.16 million to the Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials (CSEM) at the California Institute of Technology. The renewal funding will allow the center to continue its work in exotic and futuristic materials applications, such as macromolecular materials, ferroelectric photonics, novel composites of glass and metals, spintronic devices, and fuel cells.

09/09/2005

Caltech Stem Cell Biology Training Program Awarded $2.3 Million

Kathy Svitil

At a historic meeting today in Sacramento, a three-year, $2.3 million grant was earmarked for the creation of the Caltech Stem-Cell Training Program at the California Institute of Technology.

08/17/2005

Milton Chang, Laser Expert and Venture Capitalist, Elected to Caltech Board of Trustees

Robert Tindol

Dr. Milton Chang, managing director of Incubic, a venture capital fund in Mountain View, California, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology. The announcement was made by David Baltimore, president of Caltech.

08/10/2005

Two Clare Boothe Luce Postdoctoral Fellowships Awarded to the California Institute of Technology

Robert Tindol

The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded $277,000 to the California Institute of Technology to fund two new postdoctoral fellowships for two years. The Clare Boothe Luce Fellowships will be awarded to two women, one in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science (EAS), and the other in the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy (PMA).

08/10/2005

Nobel Laureate Receives $17.5 Million Grant to Create the New Field of Physical Biology

Robert Tindol

Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist Ahmed Zewail has received an $17.5 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to create the Ultrafast Science and Technology (UST) Center at the California Institute of Technology.

07/13/2005

Caltech Graduate Receives Fulbright Grant to Study Abroad

Deborah Williams-Hedges

California Institute of Technology graduate David Powers has received a 2005-06 Fulbright grant to pursue graduate studies abroad, joining the prestigious ranks of other Fulbright recipients that include Nobel and Pulitzer prize winners, governors and senators, prime ministers and heads of state, professors and scholars, scientists, artists, Supreme Court justices, and CEOs. Powers, who graduated with honors in June with a BS in chemistry, will undertake a research project in environmental biochemistry at Nagasaki University in Japan this coming academic year. Powers will investigate the effects of pollution on the human body at the molecular and biochemical level.

06/30/2005

Baltimore Offered $13.9 Million from Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative for AIDS Research

Jill Perry

The Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, a major effort to achieve scientific breakthroughs against diseases that kill millions of people each year in the world's poorest countries, today offered 43 grants totaling $436.6 million for a broad range of innovative research projects involving scientists in 33 countries, including David Baltimore, president of the California Institute of Technology. The ultimate goal of the initiative is to create "deliverable technologies"--health tools that are not only effective, but also inexpensive to produce, easy to distribute, and simple to use in developing countries.

05/17/2005

Caltech Neuroscientist Receives Grant to Study How Autistic Patients Process Facial Information

Robert Tindol

Ralph Adolphs, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology, has been awarded a $120,000 grant from the Cure Autism Now foundation to study the way that autistic patients process information about other people's facial expressions.

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