Caltech in the News for the week of October 4, 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.
On Oct. 8, CNN en Español interviewed IPAC astronomer Solange Ramirez for a story on NASA's lunar impact project.
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/spanish/2009/10/08/WEBastrono.cnn
An Oct. 8 Wall Street Journal story on research into the neuronal basis of thought quoted neuroscientist Christof Koch.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125503611739074321.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories
A Los Angeles Times blog covered recent findings about Saturn's moon, Titan, by planetary astronomers Alex Hayes and Oded Aharonson, and graduate student Sonja Graves. Hayes' work also appeared in Universe Today, Scientific American, and USA Today.
http://www.thisisbrandx.com/2009/10/how-windy-is-jupiter-and-other-planteary-questions.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=from-carbon-planets-to-the-lakes-of-2009-10-07
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/10/06/new-evidence-of-seasonal-change-on-titan/
http://content.usatoday.com/topics/post/tech/68500465.blog/1
The 2009 Times Higher Education rankings have Caltech at number 10 on the list of the world's top universities. The ranking story appeared in several other publications including Insider Higher Ed and the Chronicle of Higher Ed, among others.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=408560&c=1
An Oct. 7 Nature story on plasmonics covered work by applied physicist Harry Atwater.
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091007/full/461720a.html
An Oct. 6 Scientific American article looked at work by Richard Mewaldt into cosmic rays and solar minimums.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=cosmic-rays-solar-minimum
AN Oct. 5 U.S. News and World Report story on new estimates of the entropy of the universe quoted cosmologist Sean Carroll.
The October issue of Los Angeles Magazine includes several stories on earthquakes, with one citing work by earthquake engineer Swaminathan Krishnan.
http://www.lamag.com/featuredarticle.aspx?id=20532
