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'Round
About the Institute
Fall
2001
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The
Red Door Cafe is the unofficial center of campus.
Housed in the Winnett Student
Center, it is that local magical place which dispenses liquids
and
solids, and where, within a few minutes of sipping or munching,
everything just seems clearer. The crossroads, if you will, of
from here to there.
This
intellectual gathering place—a Caltech center not funded
by the NSF—witnesses more consequential informal and freewheeling
conversations between groups of faculty and students than any
other on campus, and it has really great chocolate muffins.
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 Fall
Gathering
What
would you call a melange of cool jazz, delicious morsels,
a bit of wine, and 200 professors, staffers, their spouses,
and other assorted EAS compatriots? Nothing other than the
Second Annual EAS Fall Gathering. As it did last year, Dabney
Gardens provided an elegant retreat for the EAS campus community
to schmooze and chat, get to know new colleagues, catch
up with others from across campus, and simply enjoy a delicate
fall afternoon.
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Undergraduates
are Publishing The
Caltech Undergraduate Research Journal (CURJ)
premiered last April. The shaker and mover behind the project,
Editor-in-Chief Lakshminarayan "Ram" Srinivasan, pulled
together a team of students from Caltech and Art Center College
of Design that produced a publication stunning in both content
and design. While the first issue (distributed free) was a complete
"sell-out," their website reproduces every issue in
both html and pdf formats. Take a look for articles on "Computer
Gesture Recognition," "The Aging Enigma," "Evolving
Enzymes Faster"—and more—from the first issue.
CURJ will be published twice per year, distributed to campuses
across the country, and encourages submissions from undergraduates
at all educational institutions. The next issue is slated for
Spring 2002.
Coming
Soon
The Broad Center for the Biological Sciences
is
named for Caltech Trustee Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, in recognition
of their contributions to Caltech's Biological Science Initiative.
The building is designed by architect James Freed, a senior partner
in the firm of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, who also designed the
acclaimed U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Scheduled
to open for research occupancy in June, 2002 (shown here in September,
2001), the Broad Center will house three major new research facilities:
a magnetic resonance imaging center, a biomolecular structures
laboratory, and a genetic resources laboratory.
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