Caltech in the News for the week of July 5, 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 July 10, PhysOrg.com covered research by chemical engineer Jim Heath on the development of an antibody surrogate. Also covering the story were Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, Laboratory Equipment.com, First Science, and many others.
http://www.physorg.com/news166361266.html
http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=57909879
http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-antibody-surrogates-medical-diagnostics-071009.aspx?xmlmenuid=51
On July 8 the Los Angeles Times ran an obituary for Caltech's Hans Liepmann. Also covering his passing were Pasadena Now and the La Cañada Valley Sun.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings9-2009jul09,0,2887228.story
http://pasadenanow.com/main/2009/07/06/caltech-professor-passes-away
http://www.lacanadaonline.com/articles/2009/07/06/obituaries/doc4a5248e3dd796897250194.txt
Caltech trustee Robert McNamara, who served on Caltech's board for forty years, passed away on July 6. His obituary was carried by hundreds of newspapers including The Telegraph of London.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/5760914/Robert-McNamara.html
A July 6 story in The Scientist looked at work by postdoc Avigdor Eldar and biologist Michael Elowitz into how developmental "noise" affects the evolution of bacterial spore formation.
http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55812/
A July 9 Aiken Standard story profiled incoming Caltech freshman Rachel Moore.
http://www.aikenstandard.com/Local/0709-rachel-moore
On July 9, Examiner.com reviewed the new movie, "The Philosopher Kings," which includes a segment on Caltech custodian Luis Cardenas.
http://www.examiner.com/x-10191-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d9-Review-The-Philosopher-Kings-documentary-custodial-staff
The summer issue of Small Times magazine includes a story on nanoelectronic work by bioengineer Michael Roukes.
http://www.smalltimes.com/display_article/365940/109/ARTCL/none/none/1/Emerging-commercial-applications-of-nano-electronics/
On July 8, a story on an egg catapult contest by Young Engineering and Science Scholars appeared in the Foothills Weekly chain of newspapers.
http://pasadenaindependent.com/2009/07/all-in-the-name-of-science-caltech-summer-scholars-catapult-raw-eggs-into-the-sky/
