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01/26/2004

New Tool for Reading a Molecule's Blueprints

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12/17/2003

Managing Partner of 5AM Ventures Named to Caltech Board of Trustees

John D. Diekman, a founder and managing partner of 5AM Ventures in Menlo Park, California, has been named a member of the California Institute of Technology's Board of Trustees.

12/17/2003

Moore Foundation Awards Additional $17.5 Million for Thirty-Meter Telescope Plans

Jill Perry

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10/30/2003

Palomar Observatory expected to weather fire storm

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10/16/2003

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awards $17.5 million for Thirty-Meter Telescope plans

Robert Tindol

The dream of a giant optical telescope to improve our understanding of the universe and its origin has moved a step closer to reality today. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awarded $17.5 million to fund a detailed design study of the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT). This new grant allows the California Institute of Technology and its partner, the University of California, to proceed with formulating detailed construction plans for the telescope.

09/23/2003

National Human Genome Research Institute awards $12 million, five-year grant to "WormBase"

Robert Tindol

The Caltech-led WormBase project, an ongoing multi-institutional effort to make genetic information on the experimental animal known as C. elegans freely available to the world, has been augmented with a new $12 million grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute. The money will be distributed over five years for ongoing work on the genome database, which since its inception in 2000 has become a major resource for biomedical researchers as well as biologists attempting to better understand individual genes and how they interrelate.

06/26/2003

1944 Caltech Football Team Honored by Hall of Fame

Jill Perry

The undefeated and unscored-upon 1944 Caltech football team was inducted into the International Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame June 21 in Kingston, R.I., and a lunch will be held for the team members at Caltech's faculty club, the Athenaeum, on July 8 at 11:30 a.m.

05/28/2003

Hewlett Foundation President Named to Caltech Board of Trustees

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Paul Brest, president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, California, has been named a member of the California Institute of Technology's Board of Trustees.

05/27/2003

Caltech Installs Environmentally Friendly Power Generation SystemAnticipates Major Cost Savings

The California Institute of Technology will begin start-up tests on a new $10 million cogeneration facility in July of this year. When fully operational, the new facility will save an additional $2.5 million per year in avoided energy costs above the savings of its predecessor and will reduce overall emissions by 66 percent.

05/14/2003

Einstein Archives to Be Available Online

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