Subterranean Homesick Clues
Caltech News gets to the bottom of an Institute mystery.

Steve Koonin Takes Science Helm at DOE
The Caltech alumnus and former provost becomes America’s point man for energy R&D.

High-Energy Commencement
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu delivers a charge to the class of ’09.

Two Techers Named to President's Scientific Advisory Council
Ahmed Zewail of Caltech and Billl Press ’73 of the University of Texas will help shape national science policy.

Way Down Under, Cold Coral Search Yields Hot Finds
New species get culled from the vasty deep.

"Nature's Engineer" Gets a Retrofit
Caltech News goes behind the scenes of a mascot makeover.

A King for One Season
A Techer looks back on life as an ice leopard.

Grids of Glory (and Sudoku Solutions)
Two Caltech puzzle hounds dog each other footsteps.

A New Day in D.C.
What might the Obama administration's new emphasis on science mean for Caltech?

Cahill Center—All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Caltech holds a stellar dedication.

Festival of Olives, Feast of Books

Redshift Turns Gold for Maarten Schmidt
How our perceptions of the universe shifted overnight.

The Score
How the quest for sex has shaped the modern man.

The Drunkard's Walk
How randomness rules our lives.

Alumni Propel GALCIT into a new era
From balloons to bioengineering, new aerospace initiatives take flight.

Sundial, the Sequel
How and when did a storied Caltech timepiece leave the building?

Ground Zero in the Middle Kingdom
Chinese seismologist Jing Liu, PhD '03, reports on the devastation in Sichuan.

Alumni Assess Wenchuan Quake's Aftermath
Earthquake engineers point to what went wrong and what needs to be done to bolster China's infrastructure for the next generation.

Green Matters
A trio of student startups springs from Techers' interest in sustainability.

Science Meets Art in Campus Contest
Techers take on truth, beauty, and all that.

Mathic Bus Research Puts Techer in Driver’s Seat
A Caltech student looks at public transportation by the numbers.

A Cosmic Reunion
Three Techers go walking in space.

“There’s Only One.” And Now There’s $1.4 Billion
Caltech’s campaign reaches, then exceeds, its ambitious fundraising goal.

FX Man
Scott Townsend reaches well beyond smoke and mirrors to create Oscar–winning special effects for the film and television industry.

A Book for the Curious Brain
Caltech Alum Sam Wang wants us to know our own minds.

Baker's Dozen with Anneila Sargent
Caltech's new vice president for student affairs talks about Scotland, stars, and serendipity, among other topics.

The Sun Also Catalyzes
Could laser printers rewrite the book on solar energy?

The Price is Wrong
A Caltech economist examines the high cost of taste.

America's First Lady of Rocketry
The Story of "Rocket Girl."

Caltech’s Olive Garden
The Institute’s cup runneth over at the first campus-wide olive festival.

Greening the Classroom
A new teacher-enrichment program grows from a Caltech seed.

Pulled Through Time
A Caltech reporter traces the path of an elusive alumni artist.

Fire on the Mountain
Palomar Observatory turns from star-gazing to fire-fighting.

Article Archive

Caltech News, 1989

About This Special Issue
Some thoughts on the craft of science communication.

Doin' the Write Thing
The Institute's alumni science scribes explore science through journalism.

• Grok jocks
• A Man for All Mediums

Art for Science's Sake
The Institute and Pasadena's Art Center team up in the new NEURO exhibit.

Remember Your Untransformed Self
The public has a right to know, but do scientists know the right way to tell?

Tackling Physics
Fans of Tim Gay will never again view a scrimmage in quite the same way.

There's Only One
The Institute's five-year campaign to raise $1.4 billion takes off.

José Cabezón's Unexpected Discovery
How a Caltech physics student became a renowned Buddhist scholar.

"Space Travel is Utter Bilge"
The ideas of yesterday's futurists only seemed farfetched.

Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm
Institute alum is awarded Nobel Prize in economics.

From Smart Bombs to Reading Machines
Jim Fruchterman's Bookshare.org illuminates new uses for technology.

A Life in the Theater
Performer/playwright Noemî de la Puente has her act together in the Big Apple.

Up, Up and Away
On a wing and a NASA grant, Alexey Pankine hopes to send balloons into space.

Fantastic Voyager
Twenty-five years into its amazing mission, Voyager has yet to leave the building.

Afghanistan Examined
Caltech students take a closer look at the troubled nation.

Calibrating Gordon Moore
"I look at the world as it exists."

Hartwell Rising
Yeast researcher Lee Hartwell has a Nobel Prize and plenty on his mind.

Barbara Wold: 30,000 Questions and Counting
Beckman Institute's new director considers the shape of things to come.

Whole-Earth Professor
Biogeologist and Feynman Prize winner Joe Kirschvink rocks on.

Democracy and the Desktop Computer
Stephen Hsu is in the business of protecting cyber privacy while fighting state censorship.

Revisiting Tsien
A Caltech professor talks about his long friendship with the Caltech-trained scientist who became "the father of Chinese rocketry."

Einstein's Editors
Caltech researchers track Einstein’s evolution from private physicist to public persona.

The
Entrepreneurial Issue

Vol. 35, No. 4
2001

Caltech's Adventures in Entrepreneurism
This overview sets the stage for a trilogy of entrepreneurial tales.
     • Ortel, in Three Acts
     • RAINFINITY: From Outer Space to Interspace
     • Clinical Micro Sensors: Star Trek Meets the Human Genome

Battling Bioterrorism

A Grad Student Road-Tests Business Basics
Jessica Stumpfel explores the intersection of business and computer graphics.

The Early Days at Intel

Vol. 35, No. 2,3
2001

Seeking Diversity
Caltech's graduate office sees progress in efforts to increase diversity. The perspectives of minority students students and faculty are as varied as their backgrounds.

Countering Airline Terrorism
In a special interview, Caltech News talks to an alum who dealt with airline security issues long before September 11.

Jorgensen's Scholarship Program is Enduring Legacy
How the trustee who never went to college saw to it that many others did.

How Many Techers Does It Take to Raise an Obelisk?
Is the use of brainpower and windpower novel, or did Egyptians do it this way?

21st Century Provost
A Q and A with Caltech Provost Steve Koonin '72.

Olympics, Ho!
Gary Bodie '78 sets sail for Sydney.

From High Tech to the Loh Road
Writer and performance artist Sandra Tsing Loh '83 forges her own path.

Science Through the Ages: An Archival Odyssey
Embark on a visual voyage of discovery.

Earthly Passions
For conservationist Steve Green, encounters with gators and apes and snakes are all in a day's workWhile he did a lot of exploring in his own early years, the aptly named Green did not always aspire to be a conservationist. In fact, when he came to Caltech, he had every intention of being a chemical engineer. But two things made him switch. First, Green, a native Californian, realized he had always been a "SoCal would-be naturalist."

Science on the Rocks
The search for a buried meteorite is far from easy. Just ask Harold Connolly, staff scientist in geology and planetary science. From November 1994 to January 1995 (Antarctica’s summer season), Connolly served as a field volunteer for the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET), an ongoing expedition established in 1976 by the National Science Foundation to collect and preserve meteorites for scientific study.

Memories of Arther Amos Noyes
Caltech students called him "the King"; some of his closest friends called him Arturo; but most people knew him only as "Dr. Noyes," the scholarly, quiet-spoken, and very reserved head of Caltech’s chemistry department (and later division) from 1919 until his death in 1936.

"A Little Science on the Moon" - On July 20, 1969, while millions of Americans thrilled to the televised sight of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon, Caltech Professor of Geology Lee Silver, watching TV at home with his family, had his eyes trained on the dust the two men were kicking up.

Especially Well Suited for the Job
Ask Dick Van Kirk ’58 to talk about one of his most memorable experiences, and he only needs to cast his mind as far back as July 4, when he found himself in Raleigh, North Carolina for the 1999 Special Olympics World Games competition.

The Reel Thing
When he isn’t guiding his students through the convoluted byways of German syntax, or drilling them on the declensions that can drive native English speakers to distraction, Andreas Aebi enjoys confronting another kind of cross-cultural challenge.

The Objects of His Affection
Unlike many of his peers Micheal Brown–assistant professor of astronomy–is not relying on the latest technology to look back far into the reaches of space and time. Instead, he’s curious about what’s in our own solar backyard.

Restoration Renders the Athenaeum Dusted off, Shined up, and more Authentic
The jewel in Caltech’s architectural crown is sparkling brighter than ever, thanks to a $60,000 restoration this summer that refreshed the surfaces of three elaborate Athenaeum ceilings and uncovered decorative elements hidden for decades.

Life by chocolate
You've heard about the workaholic and the chocoholic. Thomas Büttgenbach, PhD '93, succeeds by being a bit of both.

An interview with Michelin lecturer Jonathan Miller
This spring, Miller came to campus to present the Institute’s eighth James Michelin Distinguished Visitor Lecture.