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12/16/2011

Undergrad Finds New Inspiration in Honduras

Katie Neith

When Giulio Rottaro elected to take a year off from his physics studies at Caltech to teach kids with special needs in rural Honduras, his parents, along with many of his peers, questioned his choice to leave school. But for Rottaro, who is now back in Pasadena and completing his senior year, it just seemed like the right thing to do. As a native of Venezuela, he attended a bilingual school as a young child and felt a strong desire to give something back to a similar community.

12/12/2011

Caltech Appoints VP for Development and Institute Relations

Kristen Brown

Caltech has named Brian K. Lee as its new vice president for development and institute relations. Lee, who is currently the senior vice president for university advancement at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, will assume his new duties at Caltech on April 1, 2012.

11/29/2011

Moore Foundation Awards $6 Million for Research Leading to Earthquake Early Warning System

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded $6 million to Caltech, UC Berkeley, and University of Washington, Seattle, to create a prototype earthquake early warning system for the Pacific Coast of the United States.

11/21/2011

DNA Robotics Research Earns Undergrads a Gold Prize at BIOMOD 2011 Competition

Katie Neith

A team of undergrads recently received accolades for their research at an international competition in Boston. Their studies, which earned them a gold award at the 2011 International Bio-Molecular Design Competition, started out as a summer undergrad research fellowship (SURF) project. The group also received a third place ranking in the "best wiki" prize category, based on a series of web pages that explained their project, "DeoxyriboNucleicAwesome."

11/18/2011

Beaver Basketball Begins

Marcus Woo

Caltech basketball tips off with the first games of the season on Saturday. Cheer on the women as they face Pacific University in Braun Gym at 4 p.m. The men, who are coming off their historic season last year in which they broke a 310-game conference losing streak, play Vanguard University in Costa Mesa at 2:30 p.m.

11/11/2011

Student Group Aims to Highlight the Importance of Mental Health

Kimm Fesenmaier

A new student group, Active Minds at Caltech, is dedicated to getting the word out on campus about the importance of mental health.

11/11/2011

From the President's Outbox: Celebrating Service

Jean-Lou Chameau

This Veterans Day we pause to honor the generations of extraordinary Americans—among them, past and present members of the Caltech community—for their service to our country as part the United States Armed Forces. These women and men are our friends, relatives, neighbors, and colleagues. They are Caltech faculty, staff, and students who answered our nation's call in its hour of need, and who embody our tradition of service to society.

11/09/2011

The Magnetic Moon

Marcus Woo

A team of scientists, led by a former Caltech undergrad, are proposing a new solution to a decades-long lunar mystery: how did the ancient moon power its now-defunct magnetic field?

11/04/2011

Students Take SURF Research to Boston for International Competition

Katie Neith

Their summer research is about to take a group of Caltech undergrads SURFing across the country for a global competition. The students, gold medal winners in last month's International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) regional competition, are headed to MIT this weekend for the world championship jamboree.

10/18/2011

Thorne Selected to Receive Graduate Education Award

Kimm Fesenmaier

Kip Thorne, Caltech's Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, has been selected to receive the 2012 John David Jackson Excellence in Graduate Physics Education Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT).

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