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09/28/2005

Real-time, Remote Internet2 Chamber Music Concert at Caltech

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Through the medium of Internet2, the California Institute of Technology will join in a live, remote, real-time performance by musicians from the New World Symphony, an orchestral academy headquartered in Miami Beach, Florida, and a discussion led by renowned composer William Kraft.

09/26/2005

Alice Gets Ready to Roll

Kathy Svitil

The intrepid Alice will soon take center stage at the California Speedway in Fontana. Alice is no diva, but the California Institute of Technology's entrant in this year's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Grand Challenge race, a take-no-prisoners field test of autonomously driven robotic vehicles organized by DARPA to speed the development of battlefield-ready robotic tanks, trucks, and other all-terrain vehicles.

08/01/2005

Caltech Summer SURF Students Conduct Exceptional Research

Deborah Williams-Hedges

These are not your average summer jobs for teens-like working at McDonald's or the Gap. The California Institute of Technology is providing students from around the world with an exceptional opportunity to conduct specialized research projects of their choice in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, or SURF, program.

06/10/2005

All-Female Chemical Engineering Graduating Class at Caltech This Year

Deborah Williams-Hedges

"I am not a novelty. . . It is not amazing that girls are engineers-it's normal," says Victoria Loewer, a member of the class of 2005 at the California Institute of Technology. Loewer is referring to the fact that she is a member of the first all-female chemical engineering graduating class at Caltech, a significant milestone in the history of the Institute.

05/26/2005

Kristen Zortman to Compete for CaltechIn Javelin Throw at NCAA Nationals

Robert Tindol

Speeding down a track runway with a javelin in her hand, Kristen Zortman probably doesn't fit many people's mental image of a rocket scientist.

05/24/2005

Autonomous Racing: Bob, Meet Alice

Enter Alice. It's the new driverless vehicle being built by Team Caltech 2005--a group of undergrads (more than 50 in the last nine months), graduate students, and faculty advisers--that will compete in this year's race on October 8.

05/17/2005

Ditch Day is today!

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

05/10/2005

24-Hour Run at Caltech Track to Begin Friday

Robert Tindol

If you think marathons take a long time to complete, there's an event this weekend at the California Institute of Technology that can change your idea of endurance.

04/28/2005

Caltech Chews up the Competition in Annual College Dining Services Contest

Robert Tindol

Students at the California Institute of Technology may be interested primarily in food for the mind, but the results of the 2005 Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards contest suggest that they're doing okay in the food-for-the-body category as well.

03/17/2005

Caltech fluid dynamics expert wins annual Feynman Award for excellence in teaching

Robert Tindol

Chris Brennen has many pleasant memories of the "frosh camp" trips he used to make to Catalina Island with famed physicist Richard Feynman. As two California Institute of Technology faculty members who were particularly willing to accompany the new crop of Caltech freshmen on the annual orientation trip, Brennen and Feynman shared various interesting experiences at the rustic Camp Fox.

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