Articles tagged with "grants_and_giving"

10/21/2012 20:21:42
Clean-Energy Research Accelerates
Ann Motrunich
Caltech clean-energy research is accelerating thanks to the renovation of the Earle M. Jorgensen Laboratory. Transformed into a cutting-edge facility for energy science, the lab unites two powerhouse programs: the Resnick Sustainability Institute and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis.
08/04/2008 07:00:00
Caltech Scientists Awarded $20 Million to "Power the Planet"
elisabeth nadin
In the dreams of Harry Gray, Beckman Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, the future energy needs of the world are met with solar-fuel power plants. Now, a $20 million award from the Chemical Bonding Center (CBC), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry program, will help bring this dream one step closer to reality.
04/17/2008 07:00:00
Caltech Surpasses $1.4 Billion Campaign Goal
Jill Perry
The California Institute of Technology has exceeded its goal of raising $1.4 billion during a five-year capital campaign for the creation of new academic centers, buildings, and groundbreaking research projects. The total amount raised was $1.424 billion.
 
04/15/2008 07:00:00
Caltech Creates New Center to Study the Global Environment
Jill Perry
To address the complex issue of global climate change from a wide range of disciplines, Ronald and Maxine Linde have established an $18 million endowment for the California Institute of Technology to create the Ronald and Maxine Linde Center for Global Environmental Science, uniting faculty from chemistry, engineering, geology, environmental science, and other fields.
 
04/01/2008 07:00:00
Advanced LIGO Project Funded by National Science Foundation
Kathy Svitil
The Advanced LIGO Project, an upgrade in sensitivity for LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories), was approved by the National Science Board in its meeting on March 27. The National Science Foundation will fund the $205.12 million, seven-year project, starting with $32.75 million in 2008. This major upgrade will increase the sensitivity of the LIGO instruments by a factor of 10, giving a one thousand-fold increase in the number of astrophysical candidates for gravitational wave signals.
 
04/01/2008 07:00:00
New Rosen Bioengineering Center Funded
Jill Perry
Seeing a burgeoning new research field at the interface of biology and engineering, the Benjamin M. Rosen Family Foundation of New York has donated $18 million to the California Institute of Technology to establish the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center.
 
03/13/2008 07:00:00
One of Five Centers of Excellence for Predictive Science
elisabeth nadin

With a $17 million grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the California Institute of Technology becomes one of five new centers of excellence that will focus on the emerging field of predictive science.

 
02/20/2008 08:00:00
Bechtel Gives Personal Donation to Annenberg Center
Jacqueline Scahill
Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr., has awarded $1 million to the California Institute of Technology in support of the final stages of construction of the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology.
 
02/08/2008 08:00:00
Breaking Ground for Schlinger Laboratory
elisabeth nadin
Chemists and chemical engineers at the California Institute of Technology can soon start dreaming of experiments for their new labs, to be housed in a building dedicated to their work that will begin to take shape on February 13. The groundbreaking ceremony starts at 11 a.m.
 
01/23/2008 08:00:00
Keck Gives Caltech $24 Million for Space Institute
Jill Perry
The California Institute of Technology has received an eight-year $24 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to establish the W. M. Keck Institute for Space Studies, which will bring together scientists and engineers to develop new space-mission concepts and technology.
 
01/22/2008 08:00:00
Caltech Student Wins Churchill Scholarship
elisabeth nadin
California Institute of Technology student Vivek Narsimhan has been awarded a Churchill Scholarship for the academic year 2008–09. The chemical engineering major plans to complete the Certificate in Advanced Mathematics (Maths Part III) at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.
 
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