News for January 28, 2012
Forbes Magazine Recognizes Three Caltech Leaders

Caltech alumni Jessie Rosenberg and Kelly Littlepage, and Caltech graduate student Chris Rogan have been named to Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30, a list of notable leaders who have yet to reach their 30th birthdays.

Making Sense of Sensory Connections

A key feature of human and animal brains is that they are adaptive; they are able to change their structure and function based on input from the environment and on the potential associations, or consequences, of that input. To learn more about such neural adaptability, researchers at Caltech have explored the brains of insects and identified a mechanism by which the connections in their brain change to form new and specific memories of smells.

Caltech Mourns the Passing of Roy Britten

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.