Caltech in the News for the week of February 15, 2009

A Feb. 20 Pasadena Star-News story reported on Andrew Lange being honored with the Dan David Prize for astrophysics. Also covering the award were the Associated Press, Chronicle of Higher Ed, Jerusalem Post, UPI, and several other publications.
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_11744188
http://chronicle.com/news/
http://www.jpost.com/

A Feb. 20 Nature story on the demand for–and supply of–fossil fuels quotes engineer David Rutledge.
http://www.nature.com/climate/2009/0903/full/climate.2009.19.html

A Feb. 19 Newsweek book review looked at Toxic Truth, which chronicles the efforts by former Caltech geochemist Claire Patterson to increase awareness of lead poisoning.
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2009/02/19/bookshelf-toxic-truth.aspx

A Feb. 19 Chicago Tribune story on delays in restarting the Large Hadron Collider quoted physicist Harvey Newman.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-duelingaccelerato,0,3205782.story

On Feb. 18, KCBS TV Channel 2 interviewed astrophysicist Sean Carroll for an upcoming science show aimed at children.

Also on Feb. 18, a crew from CBS Evening News interviewed physicist Ken Libbrecht on his work with snowflakes.

A Feb. 16 Los Angeles Times story reviewed the new Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics building.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/02/thom-maynes-cah.html

A Feb. 15 Pasadena Star-News story highlighted the achievements of engineer Franklin Thomas, who had early ties to Caltech.
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_11711023

On Feb. 15, Genetic Engineering News covered a presentation by economist Colin Camerer on game theory and economics.
http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=49703570&chid=0&taxid=23
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090215151809.htm