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02/27/2007

Caltech's LIGO Science Education Center Receives 2007 AIA Design Award

Deborah Williams-Hedges

In a region where devastation and disaster reigned, rebuilding becomes of paramount importance. In these circumstances, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) New Orleans Design Awards take on special significance.

01/31/2007

Jared Diamond Named Caltech Commencement Speaker

Jill Perry

American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer, and Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction author Jared Diamond will be the keynote speaker at the 113th annual commencement ceremony at the California Institute of Technology at 10 a.m. June 8 on Beckman Mall. The commencement ceremony will be digitally recorded and made available for viewing online at http://pr.caltech.edu/commencement.

12/18/2006

Caltech Student Wins Marshall Scholarship

John Avery

As the California Institute of Technology's first woman to win a Marshall Scholarship, Emma Schmidgall is making a little history, but it's a place where she feels right at home. "I've been to Cambridge before," she says. "It's like something out of 'Harry Potter.'"

10/19/2006

Caltech Receives $1 Million Grant from Amgen Foundation to Support Undergraduate Research

Deborah Williams-Hedges

The California Institute of Technology has received a $1 million grant from the Amgen Foundation to support undergraduate research opportunities for 25 students each summer over the next four years.

10/19/2006

Caltech Students Receive Merit Awards

Deborah Williams-Hedges

The California Institute of Technology has presented 51 undergraduate students with merit awards, which are based exclusively on students' academic performance, faculty recommendations, and demonstrated research productivity.

07/10/2006

Caltech and Princeton University Press Release Tenth Volume of the Einstein Papers

Robert Tindol

In the latter half of 1920, Albert Einstein faced a series of increasingly acrimonious public attacks against his recently confirmed theory of general relativity. He considered leaving Berlin, which would have deprived Germany of its most famous scientist. Colleagues, friends, and unknown admirers offered support, while Einstein worried about the care of his two sons and ex-wife in Switzerland, and his new family in Berlin.

06/21/2006

Caltech Grad Receives Fellowship to Travel Abroad and Explore

Deborah Williams-Hedges

It is an inarguable fact that science affects society, and that society in turn affects scientific research and practices. Exploring how science is exported from laboratories into society to form effective public policies has always been a passion of California Institute of Technology graduate Rebecca Adler-and it is also the focus of her Thomas J. Watson Fellowship project.

06/20/2006

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awards $1.5 Million for Undergraduate Science Education

Robert Tindol

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has awarded $1.5 million to the California Institute of Technology for support of interdisciplinary undergraduate science education programs.

06/09/2006

Baltimore to Give Address, TV Show Recognized at Caltech Commencement Today

Jill Perry

David Baltimore, the president of the California Institute of Technology, will be the keynote speaker at the 112th annual Caltech commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. today, June 9, on Beckman Mall on the Pasadena campus. The topic of his address will be "Passing Through the Hourglass."

06/08/2006

Two Caltech Students Awarded Goldwater Scholarships

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Two students from the California Institute of Technology have been awarded Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships for the 2006-07 academic year.

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