Working at the edges of fundamental science to invent the technologies of the future.Ares Rosakis
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Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
SPOTLIGHT
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Number One Engineering and Technology University -
Distinguished Caltech Alumnus Receives Civilian Honor from the President of India -
Professor Minnich Receives NSF CAREER Award -
Professors Murray and Ortiz Elected to the National Academy of Engineering -
Professors Bhattacharya and Bruno Named 2013 SIAM Fellows -
Professor Kochmann Receives the Richard von Mises Prize -
Professor Seinfeld Elected to the National Academy of Sciences -
Professor Ligett Receives NSF CAREER Award
NEWS
Julia R. Greer, Professor of Materials Science and Mechanics, has been chosen as the 2013 awardee for the Nano Letters Young Investigator Lectureship. This award honors the contributions of a young investigator who has made major impacts on the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
The research of Oskar J. Painter, Professor of Applied Physics, and his student Amir Safavi-Naeini is featured in an animated videos by Jorge Cham of PhD Comics. The video is called A Quantum Experiment and is about cooling an oscillator to its ground state. Read Jorge's comments about the project in his post on the IQIM blog. [watch the video] [Caltech release about the research]
Caltech's 119th Commencement Ceremony was held on Friday, June 14th, 2013 celebrated the accomplishments of 588 graduates, awarding 256 bachelor's degrees, 96 master's degrees, 2 engineer degrees, and 236 doctoral degrees. The graduates were addressed by the University of Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman. She used the life and career of Caltech alumnus Frank Robert Capra, one of America's most powerful directors during the 1930s and the directory of It's a Wonderful Life (1946), to inspire the graduating students. She emphasized the main message of the movie "that each of us touches more than we can appreciate". [Facts about the class of 2013]
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