Your stomach growls to let you know it’s time for dinner. But what can you do when you don’t feel like cooking and you’re on a budget? If you’re a Caltech student, or just want to rub shoulders with the smart and saavy, head over to Chandler Café for th... More »
The Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) has selected Ares Rosakis as the recipient of the P.S. Theocaris Award. Rosakis is Caltech’s Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics, professor of mechanical engineering, and chair of the Division of Engineerin... More »
Members of Occupy Pasadena joined with postal workers, union officials, and area politicians on Monday evening to demonstrate near the steps of City Hall against the USPS’s decision to close the Mack Robinson Mail Processing Facility. Between speeches, many ... More »
Three engineers from the European Space Agency wearing blue hoods are investigating the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) that recently arrived at NASA Goddard. The MIRI sees light in the mid-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Credit: NASA Members... More »
The Flame Nebula sits on the eastern hip of Orion the Hunter, a constellation most easily visible in the northern hemisphere during winter evenings. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A new image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows the ... More »
Pasadena City College student Hanna Israel has been elected as the 2012-2013 student trustee member for the Pasadena Area Community College District. She took the oath from Geoffrey Baum, Pasadena Area Community College District Board of Trustees president, ... More »
The Curiosity rover and its sky crane separate from the back which helped protect both during entry in the Martian atmosphere. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech One month and a day after celebrating its independence with fireworks exhibitions throughout the count... More »
Director Will Stoller-Lee To the Community: As director of the Fuller Colorado campus, I’d like to provide an update on the Fuller Colorado family and the fires in Colorado Springs. These fires started in the mountains west of Colorado Springs on Saturday, but... More »
“I’ll never forget what my grandfather once told me. ‘Don’t concentrate on success. Concentrate on the client. It’s the client’s interest that comes first. Then, you will be a success. Concentrate on the client and success will come as a by-product... More »
Long Cai’s new imaging technique (d.) can zoom in on and identify genetic information within a single cell. [Credit: Long Cai/Caltech] Last fall, assistant professor of chemistry Long Cai received a New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (N... More »
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has taken its first snapshots of the highest-energy X-rays in the cosmos (lower right), producing images that are much crisper than previous high-energy telescopes (example in upper right). [Credit: NASA... More »
Pasadena Fire units responded to a reported apartment fire in the 1000 block of East Villa Street on Thursday night to find a Caltech-owned apartment building on fire, Fire Dept. spokesperson Lisa Derderian said this morning. The heavy smoke and fire were conf... More »
