Caltech in the News for the week of January 25, 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 Jan. 29, planetary astronomer Michael Brown appeared on KPCC-FM's Patt Morrison show to discuss an upcoming astronomy program to be held at Caltech.
http://www.publicradio.org/
A Jan. 30 Chronicle of Higher Ed story on how physicists are changing the way libraries manage publications quoted Caltech librarian Kimberly Douglas.
http://chronicle.com.clsproxy.library.caltech.edu/weekly/v55/i21/21a00104.htm
The Jan. 26 opening of the new Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics led to several news stories as well as an online photo gallery. Covering the event were the Los Angeles Times, Pasadena Star-News, Pasadena Independent, Pasadena Weekly, Pasadena Now, KPAS-TV Channel 56 and several architectural publications. http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_11558017
http://sgvtribune.mycapture.com/ http://beaconmedianews.com/2009/01/30/stairway-to-the-heavens/
http://www.bdcnetwork.com/article/CA6632954.html
http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/2009/01/27/spacey-times-in-pasadena/
A Jan. 26 CERN Courier story covered a recent high-speed data transfer record led by Caltech physicists.
http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/37317
On Jan. 26, a crew from the Discovery Channel interviewed astrophysicist Marc Kamionkowski for an upcoming episode of the series Sci-Trek.
NBC stations around the country recently began running a story on a small barcode chip created by chemist James Heath for quick and inexpensive blood tests.
http://www.nbcwashington.com/health/topics/Protein_Chip_All__National_.html
