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09/06/2002

Grand Opening of Broad Center at Caltech

Jill Perry

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08/21/2002

Grant awarded to Caltech to study the neural wiring of moral and economic choices

Robert Tindol

Steven Quartz, an associate professor of philosophy and member of the Computation and Neural Systems program at the California Institute of Technology, will lead a new program to examine the neural basis of economic and moral decision-making. The program is made possible by a $1 million grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

08/07/2002

Caltech Researcher Granted $500,000 Career Award

As a young medical student, Matthew Porteus recalls his frustration when admitting his first patient with chronic pain caused by sickle-cell anemia. There was little medicine could do to help her in a sustained and meaningful way. The experience influenced his decision to study the basic mechanisms of "gene targeting," one possible way to cure such diseases, which are caused by a single mutation in a cell. Now Porteus will be assisted in his studies thanks to a grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

08/05/2002

Caltech to be part of $15.5-million federal grantto understand how living cells communicate

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08/01/2002

MacMillan Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship

Deborah Williams-Hedges

David W. C. MacMillan, associate professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, has been awarded a $40,000 Sloan Research Fellowship. The Sloan Fellowship makes grants of unrestricted funds to young researchers in the fields of physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, neuroscience, and economics. Awards this year went to 104 recipients from 53 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

07/15/2002

New Professorship at Caltech will Support Research at Forefront of Information Science

A new proferrorship: Kerry Vahala named the Ted and Ginger Jenkins Professorship in Information Science and Technology professor

07/08/2002

Caltech gets $1.8 million from HHMI for undergraduate biological sciences

Robert Tindol

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06/05/2002

New Recycling Center Opens at Caltech

Deborah Williams-Hedges

The California Institute of Technology's long-awaited recycling center will open on Thursday, June 6. The grand opening celebration, complete with giveaways, will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Located at the former fire station site on Del Mar Boulevard between Michigan and Wilson Avenues, the center will be for use by the campus community and the public.

04/29/2002

Kavli Foundation Establishes Endowed Professorship at Caltech

Jill Perry

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04/16/2002

Henry Yuen Named New Board of Trustees Member at Caltech

These days it's become routine for cable and satellite television to give a viewer a choice of 50 or more channels to watch. In the near future, though, it's expected that number will leap to 500. Putting aside what 500 channels could do to your brain, the question then becomes how to find out what's on, and when.

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