Caltech in the News for the week of August 23, 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 latest issue of Chemistry World magazine includes a discussion with chemist Robert Grubbs on life as a Nobel laureate.
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2009/September/LivingtheNobellife.asp
The most recent issue of Technology Review magazine looks at quantum optics research by physicist Jeff Kimble.
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/23198/page1/
A trip to China by President Jean-Lou Chameau led to several stories in Reuters, ABC News.com, Xinhua News, China Daily News, and several other news outlets.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=8435310
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/27/content_11955077.htm
On August 28, Scientist Live ran a story and podcast with graduate student Heather Agnew, whose work with chemist Jim Heath led to the creation of an alternative to antibodies.
http://www.scientistlive.com/European-Food-Scientist/Q&A/SLAM:_Stable_antibody_surrogates/23217/
The August 27 Palisadian-Post mentioned Elizabeth Tito's new position as president of the Associates of Caltech.
http://www.palisadespost.com/content/index.cfm?Story_ID=5101
On August 27, Astronomy.com included a story by astronomer Lynne Hillenbrand on the opening of the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics.
An August 26 Scientific American story looked at recent data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and quoted astrophysicist Marc Kamionkowski. Discover Magazine also covered the story.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=gravitational-wave-ligo
The August 25 Christian Science Monitor looked at the state of the Internet and quoted electrical engineer John Doyle.
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/08/25/when-the-internet-breaks-who-ya-gonna-call/
An August 25 story on Space Fellowship.com covered work at the South Pole by research scientist Anna Moore.
The German news outlet Deutsche Welle recently ran a story on a scientific organization that meets solely in the online virtual world of Second Life. The story quoted astrophysicist George Djorgovski.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4562388,00.html
