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05/10/2005

Three Elected to Caltech Board of Trustees

John E. Bryson, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Edison International; A. Michael Lipper, founder and chief executive officer of Lipper Advisory Services Inc.; and Donald W. Tang, vice chairman of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., have been elected to the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology. The announcement was made by David Baltimore, president of Caltech.

05/04/2005

Caltech Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman Honored on 2005 U.S. Commemorative Stamp

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Widely regarded as one of the most influential physicists of the 20th Century, Nobel laureate and Caltech professor Richard P. Feynman will be honored on a 2005 U.S. postage commemorative stamp. The stamp will be unveiled locally at a celebration on Friday, May 20, at 5 p.m. in Ramo Auditorium on the California Institute of Technology campus. The public is invited to attend this free event. Caltech will offer a limited-edition special commemorative envelope bearing the four stamps that compose the American Scientists series, and a special cancellation stamp from the Feynman Station at Caltech. Stamps and cachets, as well as Feynman books and memorabilia, will be available for purchase.

04/19/2005

Campus Weather Station to Be Dedicated to the Late Caltech Nobel Laureate Ed Lewis

Robert Tindol

The famed geneticist Ed Lewis won his Nobel Prize for his breakthroughs in understanding how genes relate to embryonic development. But for four years in World War II, he served as a U.S. Army meteorologist.

04/06/2005

Caltech wins Energy Star Award

Marcus Woo

The Caltech community can take comfort in knowing that the fuel used to generate electricity is spent wisely and is environmentally friendly.

That's what the Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Partnership, a division of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), concluded last month when it bestowed, on behalf of the EPA and the Department of Energy, the 2004 Energy Star CHP Award to Caltech.

03/17/2005

Toward a Longer, Healthier Life

In two separate awards from the Ellison Medical Foundation, two scientists from the California Institute of Technology are taking a much more scholarly approach to the ravages of aging. Harry Gray, a chemist, has been awarded $970,000 to reveal the structure of a protein and a peptide that underlie two age-related diseases, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, while biologist Alexander Varshavsky has been awarded $972,000 to conduct a systematic investigation of the genetics and biochemistry of aging.

03/09/2005

First of Four Einstein Centennial Lecturesto Be Presented March 17 at Caltech

In 1905, Albert Einstein single-handedly formulated the theory of special relativity, demonstrated that light traveling in discrete units is responsible for the photoelectric effect, and calculated how microscopic collisions could account for the phenomenon known as Brownian motion. Any one of the three discoveries would have assured his enduring fame as a physicist.

02/19/2005

Revolutionary Grassroots Astrophysics Project "Einstein@Home" Goes Live

A new, grassroots computing project dubbed Einstein@Home, which will let anyone with a personal computer contribute to cutting-edge astrophysics research, is being officially announced today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). California Institute of Technology physics professor Barry Barish will make the announcement during a press briefing at 11 a.m.

02/09/2005

Marc Stern Named Caltech Trustee

Jill Perry

Marc I. Stern, president and director of the asset management firm The TCW Group, Inc., has been named a trustee of the California Institute of Technology.

02/02/2005

Caltech Receives $2.5 Million to Further Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy

Deborah Williams-Hedges

The California Institute of Technology announces a $2.5 million award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to support the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy (CARMA).

01/31/2005

Kent Kresa Named Chairman of Caltech Board of Trustees

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Kent Kresa, chairman emeritus of Northrop Grumman Corporation, has been named the new chairman of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology. Kresa, whose term as chairman begins this month, has been a member of the Caltech Board of Trustees since 1994.

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