Caltech in the News for the week of September 20, 2009

A Sept. 24 Science Daily story looked at work done by biologist Grant
Jensen and postdoc Ariane Briegel on the architecture of chemoreceptors in
bacterial cells.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090924153642.htm



On Sept. 24, Sacramento's News 10 Good Morning mentioned Caltech's ranking
as one of the best values among U.S. universities.

http://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=949&DateTime=9%2F24%2F2009+5%3A34%3A59+AM&Term=California+Institute+of+Technology&PlayClip=TRUE



A Sept. 24 India Journal article reported on former President of India
Abdul Kalam and Yannick d'Escatha, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
France's Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales being named as the recipients
of GALCIT's International von Kármán Wings Award.

http://www.indiajournal.com/pages/event.php?id=8466



A Sept. 23 article in the Daily Pennsylvanian looked at neuroscientist
Richard Andersen's work on cognitive neural prosthetics.

http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2009/09/23/News/Caltech.Prof.Discusses.Cognitive.Neural.Prosthetics-3779704.shtml



On Sept. 23, an MSNBC story looking at the prospect of moon ice mentioned
the 1961 work of Bruce Murray, Kenneth Watson and Harrison Brown on ice in
polar lunar craters.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32987896/ns/technology_and_science-space/



A Sept. 23 article on monitoring and predicting extraterrestrial weather
quotes planetary scientist Greg Lawson on the importance of environmental
information.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1757965/monitoring_and_predicting_extraterrestrial_weather/



An upcoming lecture by chemistry Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail is noted in a
Sept. 22 article in the Racine News.

http://racinenews.org/2009/09/23/nobel-prize-winning-chemist-to-give-bernstein-lectures/



On Sept. 22, the awarding of the National Medal of Science to Caltech
alumni Berni Alder and James Gunn was mentioned on the websites
FreeCollege and SoCal Minds.

http://freecollege.com/2009/09/22/two-caltech-alums-awarded-national-medal-of-science/

http://www.socalminds.com/2009/09/2-alums-win-national-medal-of-science-honors.html



A Sept. 21 New York Times article features Caltech alum Carolyn Porco and
her work with Cassini, and also quotes astronomer Peter Goldreich.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/science/space/22prof.html?hpw



A Sept. 21 article on ArtDaily  describes the appointment of Caltech
alumnus France A. Córdova to the Smithsonian's Board of Regents.

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=33449



A Sept. 21 article on xconomy.com discusses a start-up biotech company
founded by Caltech alum Leroy Hood and chemist Jim Heath. The company was
also discussed on TechFlash and other outlets.

http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/09/21/lee-hoods-big-new-idea-integrative-diagnostics-for-early-cancer-detection-raises-7-5m/

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/09/leroy_hoods_integrative_diagnostics_raises_cash.html