Caltech in the News for the week of January 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.
The February issue of Kiplinger's ranks Caltech #1 in Best Value in Private Colleges. The story was also covered by Reuters, MSN and many other publications.
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/
A Jan. 9 Pasadena Star-News column looked at the new Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics.
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_11411723
A Jan. 8 earthquake was covered extensively by local media including the Los Angeles Times, Pasadena Star-News, KCBS-TV Channel 2, KNBC-TV Channel 4, KTLA-TV Channel 5, KABC-TV Channel 7 and KTTV-TV Channel 11. Stories quoted seismologists Kate Hutton, Egill Hauksson and Lucy Jones.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/01/southern-califo.html
A Jan. 8 Los Angeles Times story looked at work by postdoctoral student Dominik Riechers on the relationship between black holes and the formation of galaxies. AFP, New Scientist, National Geographic, Discovery Channel and MSNBC also covered the story.
http://www.latimes.com/news/
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16377-black-holes-grew-up-before-galaxies.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/01/090108-black-holes-galaxies.html
A Jan. 7 New York Times story on solar cars quoted environmental energy expert Nathan Lewis.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/solar-powered-cars-not-just-yet/
A Jan. 2 Los Angeles Times story looked at the structural integrity of buildings based on information from the Great Southern California Shakeout Drill held in November. The story quoted civil engineer Swaminathan Krishnan and seismologist Lucy Jones. Jones also appeared on CNN that day discussing the same topic.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-steeltower2-2009jan02,0,3007844.story
In early January, images of snowflakes taken by physicist Ken Libbrecht made news in London's The Sun and The Star.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2102110.ece
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/561365
A Dec. 31 UPI news wire story covered chemical engineer Sossina Haile's efforts to create new fuel cells.
http://www.upi.com/Energy_Resources/
A Dec. 24 New Scientist story on how magicians trick the eye quoted neuroscientist Christof Koch.
http://www.newscientist.com/
A Dec. 23 Science News story looked at work on the Big Bang by astrophysicists Marc Kamionkowski and Sean Carroll and graduate student Adrienne Erickcek. The story also appeared in the Malaysia Sun, Birmingham News, Space Daily and several other outlets.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/
The creation of a titanium-based metallic-glass by visiting scientist Douglas Hoffman received coverage on Dec. 22 by China's Xinhua News, India's Hindu News and Italy's Le Scienze.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-12/22/content_10539568.htm
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200812201531.htm
