Jonathan N. Katz, chair of the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, has been named the Kay Sugahara Professor of Social Sciences and Statistics. The Sugahara family endowed the new professorial chair with a $2 million gift in honor of the late Kay S... More »
Nobel Laureate Renato Dulbecco, who spent nearly 15 years as a biology researcher at Caltech, passed away on February 19. He was 97. Dulbecco, who studied virology, won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “discoveries concerning the interaction ... More »
The Mayfield Senior School’s Student Arts Council hosted the inaugural event in their new Speaker Series, featuring artists Maria Karras and Ann Gauldin, who were pioneers of the feminist art movement in Southern California, in February. Karras (mother of Zo... More »
Approximately 150 Pasadena residents from City Council District 4 will get free disaster-preparedness training on Saturday, March 3, in a record turnout for a Fire Department Pasadena Emergency Response Team session, said Lisa Derderian, Emergency Management C... More »
This new view of the Orion nebula highlights fledgling stars hidden in the gas and clouds. Image credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/IRAM Astronomers have spotted young stars in the Orion nebula changing right before their eyes, thanks to the European Space Agency’... More »
At Monday’s Pasadena City Council meeting, the council heard a pre-development plan of a 980,000 square foot mixed-use project proposed for construction at the Parsons Corporation headquarters parking lots at 100 West Walnut Street. The report was prepared by ... More »
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Prior to this discovery, the microscopic carbon spheres had been found only in gas form in the cosmos. Formally named buckminis... More »
Connor McKnight, a senior at Polytechnic School who edits the school newspaper’s digital editions, has moved the Poly Paw Print into the smartphone era by developing an Apple-approved iPhone app, one of only very few high school newspaper apps in the country... More »
Roy John Britten, a pioneering molecular biologist who studied the organization of the animal genome, and Caltech’s Distinguished Carnegie Senior Research Associate, Emeritus, passed away on January 21. He was 92. Britten began his academic career as a physici... More »
Alexander Varshavsky, Caltech’s Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Professor of Cell Biology, has been awarded the 2012 King Faisal International Prize (KFIP) for Science. The winners of the prize, which also includes awards for medicine, Arabic language and literat... More »
Jacqueline K. Barton, the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry and chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Caltech—a leader in studies of the chemistry of DNA—has been named one of seven recipients of the 2011 Na... More »
