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A "Gifted" Professor
A Group of Caltech Alumni Come Together to Create a Professorial Chair to Honor Their Mentor, Frank MarbleNews Writer: Shayna Chabner McKinneyFrank Marble, the Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman...
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Planetary Weatherman: An Interview with Andrew Ingersoll
News Writer: Shayna Chabner McKinneyAndrew Ingersoll, Earle C. Anthony Professor of Planetary Sciences, has been a leader in the investigation of planetary weather and climate for nearly five decades....
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Drop, Cover, and Hold On!
Caltech to participate in the Great California ShakeOutNews Writer: Andrew Allan Get ready to drop, cover, and hold on! On Thursday, October 18, Caltech will once again participate in the Great...
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Clean-Energy Research Accelerates
News Writer: Ann MotrunichCaltech clean-energy research is accelerating thanks to the renovation of the Earle M. Jorgensen Laboratory into a cutting-edge facility for energy science. Here, JCAP...
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Literature in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Jennifer Jahner
News Writer: Marcus Woo This fall, Jennifer Jahner joined Caltech as an assistant professor of English. As an undergraduate, she planned to study environmental science at Western Washington University....
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Beware of Falling Pumpkins
A Caltech Halloween tradition continuesNews Writer: Douglas Smith At midnight on Halloween, several dozen pumpkins ride the Millikan Gravitational Accelerator—a fancy way of saying they are tossed off...
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How I Landed on Mars
Caltech graduate students on the MSL mission drive science, the rover, and their careersNews Writer: Shayna Chabner McKinneyCaltech graduate students Lauren Edgar (left) and Katie Stack (right) are...
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How to Grow an Entrepreneur
News Writer: Ann Motrunich Recent Caltech grads Cole Hershkowitz (BS '11) and Ka Suen (BS '12) are the cofounders and sole full-time staffers of Chai, a start-up marketing a mobile app that people can...
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Diving Into the Unknown: An Interview with Andrei Faraon
News Writer: Kimm FesenmaierCredit: Engineering & Applied Science Communications Office This fall, Andrei Faraon (BS '04) returned to his alma mater to take a position as an assistant professor of...
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Bottling Liquid Gold
Caltech Olive Harvest Festival to be held tomorrowNews Writer: Andrew AllanIf you happen to see groups of people perched in the trees along Caltech's famed Olive Walk and Beckman Mall tomorrow,...
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The Miracle and Beauty of Physics: An Interview with Cliff Cheung
News Writer: Marcus Woo When you lift a paper clip off a table with a small magnet, you're accomplishing a remarkable feat: the tiny magnet is overcoming the gravitational pull from the entire Earth....
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From Theory to Reality: An Interview with Jason Alicea
News Writer: Marcus Woo Quantum computers—computers that harness the bizarre laws of quantum mechanics to become vastly more powerful than conventional computers—have been touted as the next leap in...
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Caltech Senior Wins Churchill Scholarship
News Writer: Kimm Fesenmaier Caltech senior Andrew Meng has been selected to receive a Churchill Scholarship, which will fund his graduate studies at the University of Cambridge for the next academic...
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Viewing the Cosmos from the South Pole: An Interview with Jamie Bock
News Writer: Marcus WooAlmost immediately after the Big Bang—roughly after ten trillionths of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second—the universe suddenly grew. Very fast. The entire cosmos, which at...
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Caltech Senior Wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship
News Writer: Kimm FesenmaierCatherine 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...
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TEDxCaltech: Surmounting the Blood-Brain Barrier
News Writer: Kimm FesenmaierResearchers are developing nanoparticles that could carry therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier. Credit: Devin Wiley/Caltech The brain needs its surroundings to be...
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Senior Spotlight
Tech-savvy student headed to SpaceX News Writer: Kimm FesenmaierCaltech's Class of 2013 is a group of passionate, curious, and creative individuals who have spent their undergraduate years advancing...
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Ditch Day Is Today
News Writer: Shayna Chabner McKinneyWhat's this? Take a look at our Ditch Day 2013 Puzzle Page and maybe you can tell us!Students donning sumo suits, racing shopping carts, rappelling down buildings...
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Senior Spotlight
Student programmer builds platform for future technology and careerNews Writer: Shayna Chabner McKinneyCaltech's Class of 2013 is a group of passionate, curious, and creative individuals who have spent...
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Senior Spotlight: Mason Freedman
Two Wins for the AgesNews Writer: Marcus WooCredit: Nhi CaseyCaltech's class of 2013 is a group of passionate, curious, and creative individuals who have spent their undergraduate years advancing...
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