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01/28/2015

Knutson Receives AAS Award for Outstanding Research

Lorinda Dajose

Heather Knutson, assistant professor of planetary science at Caltech, has been awarded the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).

01/23/2015

Batygin Named to Forbes's "30 Under 30" List

Lorinda Dajose

Konstantin Batygin (MS '10, PhD '12), an assistant professor of planetary science at Caltech, was recently included in Forbes's "30 Under 30" list in the science category, and described by the editors as being "the next physics rock star."

01/21/2015

SPIDER Experiment Touches Down in Antarctica

Kimm Fesenmaier

SPIDER, an instrument carrying six Caltech-made telescopes, just landed after 16 days drifting in the wind above Antarctica searching for signs of inflation in the earliest moments of the universe.

01/21/2015

Caltech Professors Named Fellows of the AAAS

Lorinda Dajose

Caltech Professor of Astronomy George Djorgovski and chemist Bruce Brunschwig are among the 401 newly elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for 2014.

01/07/2015

Clues In the Quasar

Ramanuj Basu

Caltech researchers discover a light signal that hints at an extremely close pair of super-massive black holes.

12/03/2014

India Becomes TMT Partner

Shayna Chabner McKinney

Leaders of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project announced on Tuesday that the government of India has signed on as a full partner in the construction of what will be the world's largest ground-based telescope.

11/27/2014

Marvin L. "Murph" Goldberger

Kathy Svitil

Marvin L. "Murph" Goldberger, Caltech president and professor of theoretical physics, emeritus, passed away on November 26, 2014. He was 92.

11/17/2014

Watson Lecture: "Photosynthesis: A Planetary Revolution"

Douglas Smith

Two and a half billion years ago, single-celled organisms called cyanobacteria harnessed sunlight to split water molecules, producing energy to power their cells and releasing oxygen into an atmosphere that had previously had none. These early environmental engineers are responsible for the life we see around us today, and much more besides. At 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 19, in Caltech's Beckman Auditorium, Professor of Geobiology Woodward "Woody" Fischer will describe how they transformed the planet. Admission is free.

11/06/2014

Caltech Rocket Experiment Finds Surprising Cosmic Light

Kathy Svitil

Using an experiment carried into space on a NASA suborbital rocket, astronomers at Caltech and their colleagues have detected a diffuse cosmic glow that appears to represent more light than that produced by known galaxies in the universe.

10/31/2014

No Galaxy Too Small: An Interview with Evan Kirby

Douglas Smith

"I study the smallest galaxies we know about...These galaxies are interesting because they are part of our cosmic story. The first galaxies to form were small ones, and over time they got smashed together to build up bigger ones."

Evan Kirby, Caltech assistant professor of astronomy

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