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10/31/2014

The Inauguration of President Rosenbaum: A Recap

Jessica Stoller-Conrad

On Friday, October 24, 2014, Thomas F. Rosenbaum was formally inaugurated as the ninth president of Caltech in a ceremony that brought together students, faculty, staff, and academic leadership along with local community members and leaders.

10/30/2014

Future of Science and Innovation

Kathy Svitil

On the evening of Thursday, October 23, Beckman Auditorium was host to a lively discussion on the future directions of academic science and its evolving relationship with government, industry, and private philanthropy. Read some highlights of the conversation.

10/24/2014

The Inauguration of Thomas F. Rosenbaum

On Friday, October 24 we celebrated the inauguration of Thomas F. Rosenbaum as the Institute's ninth president.

10/24/2014

The Inauguration: New Leadership and Old Traditions

Jessica Stoller-Conrad

The inauguration of President Thomas F. Rosenbaum marks the beginning of a new era of leadership at Caltech. And yet, many of the traditional events associated with the inauguration ceremony itself are actually quite old.

10/23/2014

What to Expect at the Inauguration of President Rosenbaum

Jessica Stoller-Conrad

Here is a summary of the events that will take place on October 23 and 24, 2014, in honor of President Rosenbaum's inauguration.

10/20/2014

How to Grip an Asteroid

Kimm Fesenmaier

Caltech junior Edward Fouad spent 10 weeks this summer as part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program working in the lab of Aaron Parness, a group leader at JPL, where researchers are designing, prototyping, and refining technology for a device called a microspine gripper. Looking something like a robotic circular foot with many toes extending radially outward, such a gripper has the ability to grab onto a rocky surface and cling to it even when hanging upside down.

10/16/2014

A Newborn Supernova Every Night

Douglas Smith

A new camera is being built at Caltech's Palomar Observatory that will be able to survey the entire Northern Hemisphere sky in a single night, searching for supernovas, black holes, near-Earth asteroids, and other objects.

10/16/2014

Improving The View Through Tissues and Organs

Kimm Fesenmaier

This summer, several undergraduate students at Caltech had the opportunity to help optimize a promising technique that can make tissues and organs—even entire organisms—transparent for study. As part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program, these students worked in the lab of Viviana Gradinaru, where researchers are developing such so-called clearing techniques that make it possible to peer straight through normally opaque tissues rather than seeing them only as thinly sectioned slices that have been pieced back together.

10/14/2014

Remembering Tom Tombrello

Douglas Smith

Thomas Anthony Tombrello, Caltech's Robert H. Goddard Professor of Physics, passed away on September 23, 2014, at age 78. His studies of nuclear reactions in the 1960s helped show how chemical elements are created.

10/13/2014

Watson Lecture: Quantum States of Matter in Crystals

Douglas Smith

David Hsieh, an assistant professor of physics at Caltech, is searching for new forms of matter that exhibit weird quantum properties in bulk. Find out the why, where, and how at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, October 15, in Caltech's Beckman Auditorium. Admission is free.

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