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Mike Brown's "Living Textbook"
06/03/2015

Mike Brown's "Living Textbook"

Douglas Smith
Feynman Teaching Award winner Mike Brown ventures into new fields of instruction: the Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC, and the "flipped" classroom, which inverts the traditional arrangement of listening to lectures in class and doing assignments at home.
Caltech planetary science professor Mike Brown
Yeast Protein Network Could Provide Insights into Human Obesity
05/29/2015

Yeast Protein Network Could Provide Insights into Human Obesity

Ker Than
A new study by Caltech researchers suggests that yeast could serve as a fast and inexpensive model organism for studying human obesity.
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory in Hawaii to End Operations
05/28/2015

Caltech Submillimeter Observatory in Hawaii to End Operations

After almost 29 years, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) will end operations of...
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Three Caltech Fulbrights
05/28/2015

Three Caltech Fulbrights

Douglas Smith
Caltech seniors Jonathan Liu, Charles Tschirhart, and Caroline Werlang will be engaging in research abroad as Fulbright Scholars this fall.
Gravitational Waves—Sooner Than Later?
05/26/2015

Gravitational Waves—Sooner Than Later?

Douglas Smith
Built to look for gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space itself that were predicted by Einstein in 1916, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is the most ambitious project ever funded by the National Science Foundation. We talk to two Caltech researchers to learn about how LIGO came to be.
Ditch Day 2015
05/22/2015

Ditch Day 2015

On May 22, students celebrated Ditch Day, one of Caltech's oldest traditions.
Caltech Astronomers See Supernova Collide with Companion Star
05/20/2015

Caltech Astronomers See Supernova Collide with Companion Star

Allie Akmal
The discovery, made using a robotic observing system, offers new insight into how white dwarfs become Type Ia supernovae.
Dedication of Advanced LIGO
05/19/2015

Dedication of Advanced LIGO

Kathy Svitil
The Advanced LIGO Project, a major upgrade that will increase the sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories instruments by a factor of 10 was officially dedicated on May 19.
Caltech Students Named Goldwater Scholars
05/18/2015

Caltech Students Named Goldwater Scholars

Lorinda Dajose
Two Caltech students, Saaket Agrawal and Paul Dieterle, have been awarded Barry M. Goldwater scholarships for the 2015–16 academic year. The program, established by Congress in 1986, provides financial support to college students who intend to pursue research careers in science, mathematics, and engineering.
The Planet Finder: A Conversation with Dimitri Mawet
05/15/2015

The Planet Finder: A Conversation with Dimitri Mawet

Douglas Smith
Associate Professor of Astronomy Dimitri Mawet, who recently joined Caltech from the Paranal Observatory in Chile, searches for solar systems around other stars, and hopes to one day discover a planet much like our own.
Dimitri Mawet
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