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News for February 9, 2010
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to Be Commencement Speaker
NASA administrator Charles Bolden (Major General, USMC ret.) will be the speaker for Caltech's 116th annual commencement on June 11 of this year. General Bolden was appointed the 12th administrator of NASA in July 2009. In this capacity, he leads the NASA team and manages its resources with the goal of best advancing the agency's missions and goals. This includes Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Neuroscientists Discover Brain Area Responsible for Fear of Losing Money
Caltech neuroscientists and their colleagues have tied the human aversion to losing money to a specific structure in the brain—the amygdala. The finding, described in the latest online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offers insight into economic behavior, and also into the role of the amygdala, which registers rapid emotional reactions and is implicated in depression, anxiety, and autism.
Kimble Named National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow
The Department of Defense (DoD) has named H. Jeff Kimble, William L. Valentine Professor and professor of physics at Caltech, one of 11 university faculty scientists and engineers in its 2010 class of National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows (NSSEFF). Up to $4.2 million of direct research support will be given to each NSSEFF fellow for up to five years to conduct unclassified research on topics of interest to the DoD.
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