Caltech in the News for the week of February 22, 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.
A Feb. 27 Wall Street Journal story highlighted the work of computation and neural systems graduate student Virgil Griffith.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/02/27/books-and-music-that-make-you-dumb/
A Feb. 26 Science Centric story looked at work by computation and neural systems graduate student Casimir Wierzynski and associate professor Athanassios Siapas on communication within the brain during sleep.
http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Sleeping-Plays-an-Important-Part-in-Learning-105472.shtml
A Feb. 25 New York Times story quoted atmospheric chemist Paul Wennberg on the failure to launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory into space.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/
A Feb. 25 Yale Daily News story reported on an agreement allowing Yale researchers to use the Caltech-operated Keck telescopes in Hawaii.
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/27939
A Feb. 24 Scientific American story on giant observatories profiled the Thirty Meter Telescope. The story quoted astronomer Chuck Steidel.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=giant-telescopes
A Feb. 24 Los Angeles Times opinion piece on the future of California's water supply was written by Caltech and JPL oceanography research scientist William Patzert.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-brick24-2009feb24,0,1347620.story
On Feb. 24, RAI Italian TV interviewed geochemist Jess Adkins and geologist Jean-Philippe Avouac for upcoming stories on their work.
A Feb. 24 story in The Australian on rising textbook prices quoted economist R. Preston McAfee.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25101449-25192,00.html
A Feb. 24 Associated Press story on the Large Hadron Collider quoted physicist Harvey Newman. The story ran in dozens of publications including the New Zealand Herald and the Baltimore Sun.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10558478
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.accelerators23feb23,0,4599293.story
A Feb. 23 Popular Science story covered a recent deep-sea research trip by geochemist Jess Adkins.
http://www.popsci.com/environment/
