12/02/2013 10:40:25
David Dreier Elected to Caltech Board of Trustees
Kimm Fesenmaier
David Dreier, chairman of the Annenberg-Dreier Commission at Sunnylands, has been elected to the Caltech Board of Trustees.
09/26/2013 14:13:30
Scientists Find a Martian Igneous Rock that is Surprisingly Earth-like
Kathy Svitil
A Caltech-led team of Mars Science Laboratory scientists has found that a surprisingly Earth-like martian rock offers new insight into the history of Mars's interior and suggests parts of the red planet may be more like our own than we ever knew.
09/25/2013 11:17:52
Convocation 2013 Welcomes New Students
Jessica Stoller-Conrad

On Sunday, September 22, Caltech extended a formal welcome to new undergraduate students, graduate students, parents of new students, and postdoctoral scholars at its 11th annual Convocation at Bec

09/25/2013 10:58:25
Spirals of Light May Lead to Better Electronics
Jessica Stoller-Conrad

A group of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created the optical equivalent of a tuning fork—a device that can help steady the electrical currents needed to power

09/24/2013 21:29:22
Colin Camerer Named MacArthur Fellow
Kathy Svitil
Colin Camerer, a behavioral economist at the California Institute of Technology whose work integrates psychology with economics experiments to understand how people behave when making decisions, has been named a MacArthur Fellow and awarded a five-year, $625,000 "no strings attached" grant.
09/22/2013 17:16:29
Caltech Establishes New Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
Kathy Svitil
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in a move that creates an academic division unlike any other among its peer institutions, has combined the disciplines of biology and biological engineering into a new Division of Biology and Biological Engineering (BBE).
09/23/2013 09:30:41
New Gut Bacterium Discovered in Termite's Digestion of Wood
Jessica Stoller-Conrad
When termites munch on wood, the small bits are delivered to feed a community of unique microbes living in their guts, and in a complex process involving multiple steps, these microbes turn the hard, fibrous material into a nutritious meal for the termite host. One key step uses hydrogen to convert carbon dioxide into organic carbon—a process called acetogenesis—but little is known about which gut bacteria play specific roles in the process.
09/18/2013 09:02:05
What Causes Some to Participate in Bubble Markets?
Kimm Fesenmaier
During financial bubbles, such as the one that centered around the U.S. housing market and triggered the Great Recession, some investors react differently than others. New neuroeconomic research at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has found that the investors most likely to take a risk and fuel bubble markets are those with good "theory of mind" skills—those who are good at "putting themselves in others' shoes." They think the most about the motives behind prices and what other people in the market are likely to do next, but during bubble markets, that actually becomes risky behavior.
09/18/2013 09:28:29
Caltech-led WormBase Project Awarded $14.8 Million by NIH
Kimm Fesenmaier
As many as 1 million nematode species are thought to live on Earth, and many are pests or parasites that ravage crops and spread diseases. They also happen to share many genes that are found in humans, and are intensively researched by labs around the world.
09/17/2013 11:14:55
Team Led by Caltech Wins Second $10 Million Award for Research in Molecular Programming
Jessica Stoller-Conrad

During the past century, programmable technologies evolved from spinning gears and vacuum tubes to transistors and microchips.

09/13/2013 09:52:55
Caltech to Offer Online Courses through edX
Jessica Stoller-Conrad

To expand its involvement in online learning, the California Institute of Technology will offer courses through the online education platform edX beginning this O

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