Press Release Archive
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2010

Caltech Awards Distinguished International Aerospace Honor to Lockheed Visionary 09.03.10

Fruit Flies Use Horizontal Landmarks for Altitude Control, Says Caltech Research Team 08.25.10

Caltech, Canadian Space Agency Awarded NASA Project to Develop Spectrometer Headed to Mars 08.02.10

Caltech-led Team Gets up to $122 Million for Energy Innovation Hub 07.22.10

Something in the Air 06.06.10

Recipients of the 2010 Thomas W. Schmitt Annual Staff Prize 06.03.10

Schooling Fish Offer New Ideas for Wind Farming 05.12.10

Spiders at the Nanoscale: Molecules that Behave Like Robots
05.12.10

Aseismic Slip as a Barrier to Earthquake Propagation
05.05.10

Caltech-Led Team Designs Novel Negative-Index Metamaterial that Responds to Visible Light
04.22.10

Caltech Researchers Create "Sound Bullets"
04.21.10

Two Caltech Faculty Members Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
04.20.10

Caltech Receives More than $33 Million from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
02.24.10

Two Caltech Professors Named to National Academy of Engineering
02.16.10

Caltech Researchers Create Highly Absorbing, Flexible Solar Cells with Silicon Wire Arrays
02.16.10

Caltech Researchers Obtain First Brain Recordings from Behaving Fruit Flies
02.14.10

Caltech Researchers Develop Nanoscale Structures with Superior Mechanical Properties
02.09.10

2009

Caltech Physicists Propose Quantum Entanglement for Motion of Microscopic Objects
12.21.09

Caltech Physicists Create First Nanoscale Mass Spectrometer 07.21.09

Caltech-led Team Shows How Evolution Can Allow for Large Developmental Leaps 07.20.09

Hans W. Liepmann, 94 07.06.09

Kent and Joyce Kresa Endow Professorial Chair at Caltech 07.02.09

Mechanics: Nano Meets Quantum 07.02.09

Maple Seeds and Animals Exploit the Same Trick to Fly 07.02.09

Caltech Scientists Create Nanoscale Zipper Cavity that Responds to Single Photons of Light 07.02.09

Caltech Scientists Use High-Pressure "Alchemy" to Create Nonexpanding Metals 07.01.09

Winners of the 2009 Thomas W. Schmitt Annual Staff Prize 06.08.09

DOE Names Caltech Professor as Director of EFRC Focusing on Light-Material Interactions 05.11.09

Caltech Researchers Pinpoint the Mechanisms of Self-Control in the Brain 04.30.09

Caltech Faculty Members and Board Chair Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences 04.21.09

Caltech Scientists Control Complex Nucleation Processes using DNA Origami Seeds 04.08.09

Caltech Researchers Train Computers to Analyze Fruit-Fly Behavior 04.07.09

Caltech Electrical Engineer Awarded $6 Million to Develop Self-Healing Circuits 04.07.09

Thomas McGill, 66 03.27.09

Caltech Students Honored for Innovative Work 03.13.09

Caltech Names Four Distinguished Alumni 03.10.09

Caltech Biologists Find Optimistic Worms Are Ready for Rapid Recovery 03.10.09

Ares Rosakis has been named chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, effective May 1, 2009 03.05.09

Caltech Scientists Find Evidence for Precise Communication Across Brain Areas During Sleep 02.25.09

Caltech Scientists Lead Deep-Sea Discovery Voyage 02.04.09

2008

Caltech Researchers Get First Look at How Groups of Cells Coordinate Their Movements 12.08.08

Caltech Scientists Show Function of Helical Band in Heart 12.01.08

Caltech Undergraduate Research Journal Wins Top Award from Associated Collegiate Press 11.25.08

George W. Housner, 97 11.14.08

$10 Million Gift Will Create New Engineering Center at Caltech 11.12.08

Four Caltech Faculty Members Named Among 100 Chemical Engineers of the Modern Era 11.06.08

Caltech Scientists Find Cells Coordinate Gene Activity with FM Bursts 09.30.08

Caltech Scientist Proposes Explanation for Puzzling Property of Night-Shining Clouds at the Edge of Space 09.25.08

MacArthur Foundation Names Alexei Kitaev Latest Caltech "Genius" 09.22.08

Scientists Find Our Eyes Evolved for 'X-Ray' Vision 09.03.08

Caltech Invention Earns R&D 100 Award 9.02.08

Caltech Scientists Create DNA Tubes with Programmable Sizes for Nanoscale Manufacturing 8.29.08

Caltech Scientists Discover Why Flies Are So Hard to Swat 8.28.08

Caltech Researcher Recognized as One of the World's Top Young Innovators 8.20.08

Philip Geoffrey Saffman, 77 8.19.08

Caltech Researchers Awarded $10 Million for Molecular Programming Project: Collaborative project may lead to revolutionary changes 8.18.08

Caltech Seeks to Diversify Higher Education 8.7.08

Caltech Neurobiologists Discover Individuals Who "Hear" Movement 8.6.08

Caltech Scientists Awarded $20 Million to "Power the Planet" 8.4.08

Caltech Bioengineers Develop "Microscope on a Chip" 7.28.08

Four Elected to Caltech Board of Trustees 7.24.08

Caltech Scientists Offer New Explanation for Monsoon Development 7.21.08

Sight Recovery After Blindness Offers New Insights on Brain Reorganization 5.15.08

Chemistry of Airborne Particulate—Lung Interactions Revealed 05.13.08

Illusions of the Present 05.13.08

Caltech Helps Open the Universe in "WorldWide Telescope" 05.13.08

Two Faculty Members Join American Academy of Arts and Sciences 04.30.08

Caltech to Have Largest Solar-Energy Facility in Pasadena 04.15.08

Caltech Creates New Center to Study the Global Environment 04.15.08

Scientists Display High-Tech Art at MoMA 04.10.08

A New Take on Microbrewing 04.09.08

Three Students Awarded Goldwater Scholarships 04.09.08

New Rosen Bioengineering Center Funded 04.01.08

Fly Flight Simulators Reveal Secrets of Decision Making 03.25.08

Somerville to Discuss Biofuels Development 03.14.08

Watson Fellow Explores Intersection Between Traditional and Western Medicine 03.14.08

One of Five Centers of Excellence for Predictive Science 03.13.08

Mechanical Engineers Defy Gravity 03.06.08

Physicists Transcribe Entanglement into and out of a Quantum Memory 03.05.08

High-Speed Data Transfer System Garners Outreach Award 03.04.08

Kavli Nanoscience Institute Hosts Inaugural Symposium 03.04.08

New Method for Creating Tough Metallic Glass Composites 02.27.08

Bechtel Gives Personal Donation to Annenberg Center 02.20.08

Distinguished Alumni Named 02.14.08

Pupil Dilation Marks Decision Making 02.12.08

New Technique Makes Tissues Transparent 01.28.08

Keck Gives Caltech $24 Million for Space Institute 01.23.08

The 700 MHz Auction 01.22.08

Programming Biomolecular Self-Assembly Pathways 01.16.08

Designing the 700 MHz Auction 01.10.08

Energy-Efficient Refrigeration from Ultranarrow Silicon Wires 01.10.08

Ortiz Wins Inaugural Prize in Solid Mechanics 01.03.08

2007

Attractiveness Is Its Own Reward 12.03.07

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Commits $200 Million Support for Thirty-Meter Telescope 12.05.07

Caltech Breaks Ground on Annenberg Center 12.05.07

Pulselike and Cracklike Ruptures in Earthquake Experiments 11.30.07

Genetic Underpinnings of Wood Digestion by Termite Gut Microbes Revealed 11.21.07

Team to Compete in Project Enterprise Ideas Contest on PBS 10.30.07

Alice on Trial, Redux 10.25.07

Caltech Public Lectures Address Fossil-Fuel Supplies 10.16.07

MacArthur Foundation Names Two New Caltech "Geniuses" 09.25.07

Caltech, JPL, Northrop Grumman to Celebrate 50 Years of Space Exploration 07.13.07

Caltech Scientists Create Breakthrough Sensor Capable of Detecting Individual Molecules 07.05.07

On-Chip Optics Makes Continuous Visible Light from Low-Power Infrared 06.05.07

Caltech, UCLA, and UCSD Host Conference To Address Clean Alternative Energy 04.06.07

Twisted Flux Tubes Expel "Wrong-Way" Ions 04.03.07

Mechanical Engineering at Caltech Celebrates Centennial 03.29.07

Negative Refraction of Visible Light Demonstrated; Could Lead to Cloaking Devices 03.22.07

2006

Researchers Create DNA Logic Circuits That Work in Test Tubes 12.07.06

Microfuidic Device Used for Multigene Analysis of Individual Environmental Bacteria 11.30.06

Expert on Nuclear-Weapons Effects Speaks at Caltech 11.27.06

Moore Foundation Gives $6.5 Million to Caltech For Research on Solar-Driven Energy 10.26.06

Engineers Devise New Method of Chemical Vapor Deposition for Smaller Nanostructures 10.17.06

Caltech, UC Berkeley to Investigate How Brain Activity Controls Complex Behavior 10.06.06

New All-Optical Modulator Paves the Way to Ultrafast Communications and Computing 10.04.06

Caltech Researchers Announce Invention of the Optofluidic Microscope 09.05.06

Interdisciplinary Team Demonstrates New Technique for Manipulation of "Light Beams" 08.04.06

NSF Awards $11.97 Million to Caltech for Distributed Data Analysis of Neutron Scattering 06.29.06

Physicists Devise New Technique for Detecting Heavy Water 06.12.06

Aerospace Engineers and Biologists Solve Long-Standing Heart Development Mystery 05.04.06

Fluid Mechanics Experts Come Up with New Test for Heart Disease 04.10.06