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Senior Spotlight: Raymond Jimenez
05/22/2013

Senior Spotlight: Raymond Jimenez

Kimm Fesenmaier
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Watson Lecture: "Decision Making and Quality Control in Early Moments of a Protein’s Life"
05/20/2013

Watson Lecture: "Decision Making and Quality Control in Early Moments of a Protein’s Life"

Douglas Smith
Professor of Chemistry Shu-ou Shan studies the gears and springs in the molecular machinery of life. She’ll be giving us a guided tour of the cellular assembly line at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium. Admission is free.
Notes from the Back Row: "Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Computing"
05/10/2013

Notes from the Back Row: "Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Computing"

Douglas Smith
John Preskill, the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, is hooked on quanta.
Master's Exchange Program Agreement Signed with École Polytechnique
05/07/2013

Master's Exchange Program Agreement Signed with École Polytechnique

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Fifty Years of Clearing the Skies
04/25/2013

Fifty Years of Clearing the Skies

Douglas Smith
Los Angeles has had bouts of smog since the turn of the 20th century. Angelenos might now be living in a state of perpetual midnight—assuming we could live here at all—were it not for the work of Caltech professor Arie Jan Haagen-Smit.
Watson Lecture: "Mars Science Laboratory: The Search for Habitable Environments"
04/23/2013

Watson Lecture: "Mars Science Laboratory: The Search for Habitable Environments"

Douglas Smith
John Grotzinger, Caltech’s Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology and project scientist for Curiosity—JPL’s newest Mars rover, exploring the floor of Gale Crater—will describe its discoveries so far during a free public lecture on Wednesday, April 24.
Caltech Senior Wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship
04/19/2013

Caltech Senior Wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship

Kimm Fesenmaier
Catherine Bingchan Xie, a senior bioengineering major and English minor at Caltech, has been selected to receive a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which will fund her graduate studies next year.
Watson Lecture: "Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Computing"
04/02/2013

Watson Lecture: "Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Computing"

Douglas Smith
John Preskill, the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, is himself deeply entangled in the quantum world. Different rules apply there, and objects that obey them are now being made in our world, as he explains at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 3, 2013, in Caltech's Beckman Auditorium. Admission is free.
Stolper Interim President Beginning July 1
03/26/2013

Stolper Interim President Beginning July 1

This morning the Caltech Board of Trustees unanimously agreed to appoint Edward Stolper to the role of interim president, effective July 1, 2013. He will assume the post from Jean-Lou Chameau, whose last day as president of Caltech will be June 30, 2013.
The First Genetic-Linkage Map
03/21/2013

The First Genetic-Linkage Map

Douglas Smith
A hand-drawn map published 100 years ago held the first proof that chromosomes carry our genetic material.
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