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05/24/2007

Caltech Graduate Wins Prestigious Award for the Best Astronomy Thesis

Robert Tindol

Edo Berger, currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, has won the 2007 Trumpler Award for his Caltech PhD thesis, "Cosmic Explosions: The Beasts and Their Lair." The award is given annually by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific to a recent recipient of the PhD degree in North America whose research is considered unusually important to astronomy.

05/24/2007

Six Caltech Female Graduate Students Win Educational Scholarships

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Six Caltech graduate students are the recipients of Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) Scholar Awards. The women are Cynthia Chiang, concentrating in physics; Ann Marie Cody, in astrophysics; Adrienne Erickcek, physics; Dennice Gayme, control and dynamical systems; Neena Kadaba, chemistry; and Margarita Marinova, planetary science. The women are part of the 85 award recipients, selected from over 700 applicants. This is the first time Caltech has garnered six awards from this competition.

05/15/2007

Ditch Day Is Today!

Jill Perry

Ditch Day, the annual end-of-school day of pranks and games at the California Institute of Technology, is today.

04/30/2007

Caltech Presidential Inauguration - A Student Affair

Jill Perry

Dr. Jean-Lou Chameau, who has served as Caltech's president since Sept. 1, 2006, will be inaugurated in a simple ceremony at the start of Caltech's 113th annual commencement on June 8.

04/24/2007

Caltech Students Receive Churchill, Hertz Awards

Jill Perry

California Institute of Technology students were recently notified that they will receive prestigious honors from the Churchill Foundation and the Hertz Foundation.

04/24/2007

Caltech Outreach Brings Scientists Into Local Classrooms

John Avery

Holding a vibrating tuning fork close to the lip of a PVC pipe, high school student Kelsey Peterson bends close, suddenly saying, "I hear it!" She is trying to find the speed of sound indirectly, using her own measurements and a chain of logic she must forge for herself. She has learned that, as in a pipe organ, the cavity of her PVC pipe is an acoustic resonator, and the change in volume she hears tells her that it has reached the right length to resonate at the tuning fork's frequency.

04/05/2007

Caltech Observatory Receives Science Education Award

Jill Perry

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in Hanford, Washington, which was created by the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and funded by the National Science Foundation, has received a science education award.

03/30/2007

Caltech's Planet Hunter Mike Brown Wins Annual Feynman Prize for Teaching

Robert Tindol

On a campus where scientific research can be pretty challenging for the uninitiated, Mike Brown's search for new bodies in the outer solar system is as refreshingly straightforward as, well, the brightly colored marble spheres that sit on his shelf. Each sphere represents a Kuiper-belt object he has found in the last few years, including Eris, which led to the demotion of Pluto to the status of "dwarf planet."

03/14/2007

Caltech's Rene Davis Makes All-Conference SCIAC Women's Basketball Team

Robert Tindol

Rene Davis has just accomplished something that no other California Institute of Technology woman has ever managed to do. The Corona junior has been named to the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference's 2007 women's basketball all-conference second team.

03/05/2007

Sally Ride Science Festival for Girls Returns to Caltech

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, is presenting the Sally Ride Science Festival, held in association with the California Institute of Technology on Saturday, March 24, on the Caltech campus. The popular science festival targets middle-school girls, grades five through eight. Parents, educators, and all others are encouraged to attend.

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