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09/14/2004

NSF Awards $6.75 Million to Caltech for Geodynamics Computational Facility

Robert Tindol

The National Science Foundation has awarded $6.75 million to the California Institute of Technology to house the central activities of a major new community-based, software engineering effort to revolutionize scientific computing in geophysics. The NSF initiative, which will involve at least 24 other American universities and research institutions and four foreign affiliates, is intended to allow scientists studying such fields as seismology, plate tectonics, volcanism, and geomagnetism to take full advantage of recent advances and extraordinary opportunities available in scientific computation.

08/02/2004

Alumna Clara Spalter Miller is Caltech's Newest Board of Trustees Member

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07/29/2004

New Caltech Center Receives $8 Million for Research on New Types of Optical Devices

Robert Tindol

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded an $8 million, four-year, basic-research program grant to the California Institute of Technology to initiate research in photonics technologies. The technical focus of the effort will be on optofluidics, an exciting new research area based on the use of microfluidic devices to control optical processes, and which is expected to result in a new generation of small-scale, highly adaptable, and innovative optical devices.

07/16/2004

Zewail Named to TIAA-CREF Board of Trustees

Jill Perry

Ahmed H. Zewail, Nobel laureate and the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Physics and professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, has been named to the board of trustees of TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund).

07/15/2004

Fifty Caltech Undergraduate Students Receive Merit Awards for 2004

Deborah Williams-Hedges

The California Institute of Technology has presented 50 undergraduate students with the 2004 merit awards, which are based exclusively on students' academic performance, faculty recommendations, and demonstrated research productivity.

05/14/2004

L.A.Times Publisher John P. Puerner Elected to Caltech Board of Trustees

Robert Tindol

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03/18/2004

Revolutionary Chemical Instrument Receives Historical Recognition

Marcus Woo

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03/10/2004

Nanoscience Institute to Be Created at Caltech with $7.5 Million Gift

Robert Tindol

A $7.5 million grant has been awarded by Fred Kavli and the Kavli Foundation to create a new institute at the California Institute of Technology for research in the emerging field of nanoscience.

03/09/2004

Caltech, Cornell announce new $2-million study for building giant submillimeter telescope

Robert Tindol

The California Institute of Technology and Cornell University are in the planning stages for a new 25-meter telescope to be built in Chile. The submillimeter telescope will cost an estimated $60 million and will be nearly two times larger in diameter than the largest submillimeter telescope currently in existence.

02/18/2004

Caltech's Oral Histories and Personal Memoirs Online

Deborah Williams-Hedges

"In 1919, during the summer, when I was eighteen years old, I had been in southern Oregon as a paving engineer, a paving plant inspector, working for a contractor. . . And at the end of the summer, I did not have money enough to return for my junior year at Oregon Agricultural College. So I didn't return. I'd been sending my money to my mother, who was a widow and was having a hard time...."

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