Caltech in the News for the week of October 11, 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.
An Oct. 16 Pasadena Star-News story covered Caltech's participation in the Southern California ShakeOut drill and quoted outreach coordinator Margaret Vinci and seismologists Kate Hutton and Lucy Jones. Similar stories ran in Xinhua News, KFI AM, and the LA Daily News.
http://www.sgvtribune.com/news/ci_13571350
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_13573406
http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/3556221
http://www.kfi640.com/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=153218&article=6170185
An Oct. 16 Santa Cruz Sentinel story quotes seismic engineer Tom Heaton in a story on quake prediction.
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_13574281
On Oct. 15, the NSF ran a story on work by geobiologist Victoria Orphan and graduate student Anne Dekas on nitrogen fixing by deep-sea microbes. Similar stories ran in Science Daily and PhysOrg.com.
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=115776&org=NSF&from=news
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091016094047.htm
On Oct. 14, geologist Michael Lamb was interviewed by KABC-TV Channel 7, KNBC-TV Channel 4, and KMEX-TV Channel 34, for stories on potential debris-flows in the recently burned San Gabriel Mountains. On Oct. 13, Lamb appeared in a similar story on the CBS Early Show.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=7064047
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5383390n&tag=mg;earlyshow
The Oct. 14 issue of Chemical Biology included a Q&A with chemical engineer Frances Arnold.
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/cb/Volume/2009/11/Evolving_evolution.asp
An Oct. 14 Medill Reports story on the Large Hadron Collider quoted theoretical physicist John Schwarz.
http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=142253
An Oct. 13 New York Times story, also about the Large Hadron Collider, quoted astrophysicist Sean Carroll.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?bl
An Oct. 12 USA Today story on Einstein's theory of general relativity also quoted Carroll.
An Oct. 12 Nature story on recent protein design research included comments by biologist Stephen Mayo.
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091012/full/news.2009.998.html
