Caltech in the News for the week of May 10, 2009
Caltech In the News is our weekly review of Caltech faculty, staff and students who have appeared in the news media this past week. This is but a sampling of our coverage. Please note that some links may expire after some time.
The launch of the Herschel and Planck space missions-–both of which have Caltech-led elements–was covered extensively by news media including the UPI, iTWire.com, and SpaceflightNow, among others.
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/05/13/Herschel-Planck-ready-for-Thursday-launch/UPI-19381242233908/
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/ariane/v188/herschel.html
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25051/1066/
On May 13, CBS Radio's 'The Osgood Files' covered research by neuroeconomist Antonio Rangel, behavioral economist Colin Camerer, and postdoctoral scholar Todd Hare on decision-making areas in the brain. Fox News and Live Science also covered the story.
http://fetch.noxsolutions.com/ww1/mp3/osgood_05132009_925.mp3
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519928,00.html
The announcement of a new DOE-funded Energy Frontier Research Center led by materials scientist Harry Atwater was covered in Nanowerk and Pasadena Now, among other news outlets.
http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=10626.php
http://pasadenanow.com/main/2009/05/14/us-department-of-energy-to-fund-research-center-at-caltech/
A May 12 Los Angeles Times story on local elections quoted political scientist Michael Alvarez.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cong-ethnic13-2009may13,0,1373999.story
A May 12 Chemical Science story looked at work by chemist Nate Lewis using inkjet printers to create photoelectrodes.
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemScience/Volume/2009/06/Printing_solution.asp
A May 11 PhysOrg.com story covered jellyfish research by bioengineer John Dabiri. The National Science Foundation news site also recently covered his work.
http://www.physorg.com/news161277344.html
http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114748&org=NSF&from=news
A May 10 story on Universe Today covered the decommissioning of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. A similar story appeared in the May issue of Ka Wai Ola Loa magazine. Astrophysicists Tom Phillips and Tom Soifer were quoted.
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/05/10/caltech-observatory-dismantled-so-others-can-rise/
http://www.oha.org/kwo/loa/2009/05/story04.php
Discover Magazine has posted videos from a January event at Caltech involving the NSF and Thirty Meter Telescope. Planetary astronomer Mike Brown appears in several segments.
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/may/10-frontiers-of-astronomy
