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Articles tagged with "community_outreach"

10/08/2012

Katie Neith

Pamela Bjorkman has been studying HIV at Caltech since 2005. In the lab, she has made significant gains in the fight against the virus, developing antibodies that neutralize most strains.

03/18/2010

Elementary School Students Tour Caltech's Tectonics Observatory and Seismo Lab

Sixty sixth graders from Hamilton Elementary School in Pasadena recently visited campus to tour of Caltech's Tectonics Observatory and Seismological Laboratory.

02/25/2010

Grad Students Show That Anyone Can Be a Scientist

Three graduate students from Caltech's Tectonics Observatory recently visited a class of 33 sixth-graders at Pasadena Unified School District's Burbank Elementary to lead hands-on activities and teach about Earth science.

07/30/2007

Caltech Summer Camp Helps Kids Envision City on Mars

Anna Fioretti

Summer camp usually involves making craft projects and singing around the campfire, but at the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, campers use their imaginations and knowledge to design a community on Mars.

07/12/2007

Caltech's YESS Program Helps to Increase Diversity Among Young Science Students

Deborah Williams-Hedges

This summer 30 of the brightest high school students in the country are attending the California Institute of Technology's Young Engineering and Science Scholars (YESS) program. The program brings together some of the most talented students who have a passion for science and engineering and exposes them to scientific research and methodology.

05/24/2007

Caltech Selected as Regional Site in Siemens Science Competition

Deborah Williams-Hedges

The California Institute of Technology has been selected as the regional site in the ninth annual Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology.

04/24/2007

Caltech Outreach Brings Scientists Into Local Classrooms

John Avery

Holding a vibrating tuning fork close to the lip of a PVC pipe, high school student Kelsey Peterson bends close, suddenly saying, "I hear it!" She is trying to find the speed of sound indirectly, using her own measurements and a chain of logic she must forge for herself. She has learned that, as in a pipe organ, the cavity of her PVC pipe is an acoustic resonator, and the change in volume she hears tells her that it has reached the right length to resonate at the tuning fork's frequency.

10/10/2006

Caltech Students Offer Free Tutoring to PUSD

Jill Perry

Thanks to a $250,000 grant from the State Treasury Department under a California Educational Facilities Authority (CEFA) Bond, students at the California Institute of Technology will offer free tutoring twice a week in math and science to Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) 10th- and 11th-grade students.

06/23/2006

Media to Learn Newest Ways to Report on Earthquakes at Open House and Workshop

Jill Perry

The California Institute of Technology will unveil its newly renovated Earthquake Media Center to the news media at 9:30 a.m. June 29. This Open House event will include a free "Earthquakes 101" Workshop for the media where Caltech and U.S. Geological Survey scientists will discuss a wide range of topics to help new and veteran earthquake reporters cover the next major earthquake.

06/13/2006

Caltech and UC San Diego School of Medicine Create Program to Train Academic Physicians

Robert Tindol

High-school seniors looking for a futuristic way of studying medicine may want to take note. Beginning next year, six newly admitted freshmen at the California Institute of Technology will also be offered early admission to the University of California, San Diego, (UCSD) School of Medicine, pending completion of their Caltech degrees as "medical scholars."

03/31/2006

Scientists and Journalists Discuss Communicating Science to General Public

Jill Perry

What is the best way to explain complex scientific information to the public? An astronomer, an expert on science journalism, and a National Public Radio science reporter will discuss this topic at the fourth annual Words Matter Science Writing Symposium at the California Institute of Technology. The event will take place at 8 p.m. April 5 in Sharp Auditorium, Room 155 in Caltech's Arms Laboratory. Attendance and parking are free and open to the public.