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In This Issue The California Tech Volume CXiX number 8 Pasadena, California [email protected] noVember 16, 2015 Assistant Professor Yuki Oka awarded Mallinckrodt Grant NEHALY SHAH govern innate behaviors such as Editor-in-Chief eating and drinking. Currently, an estimated 30 million people This article was originally in the U.S. suffer from appetite published online at caltech.edu. disorders including polydipsia Yuki Oka, an assistant professor and bulimia, characterized by of biology, has been awarded a grant excessive water and food intake, from the Edward Mallinckrodt, respectively. Identifying neural Jr. Foundation, given to “support circuits underlying appetite may early stage investigators engaged offer insights into safe treatments in biomedical research that has the for associated disorders. potential to significantly advance Oka received his Ph.D. from the understanding, diagnosis, or the University of Tokyo and was treatment of disease,” according to a postdoctoral researcher at the foundation website. The grant University of California, San Diego will provide $60,000 per year for and Columbia University before three years. joining the Caltech faculty in 2014. “I’m thrilled by being selected He was named a Searle Scholar in for the 2015 Mallinckrodt Grant,” April 2015. said Oka, whose lab uses thirst Past Mallinckrodt grantees from and water-drinking behavior as a Caltech include Sarkis Mazmanian, simple model system to study how Luis B. and Nelly Soux Professor the brain monitors internal water of Microbiology; David Prober, balance and generates signals Yuki Oka will receive $60,000 per year for three years from the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation. assistant professor of biology; that drive appetitive behaviors. Photo Courtesy of Lance Hayashida/Caltech Mitchell Guttman, assistant The long-term goal of the work professor of biology; and Viviana is to understand how the brain internal body state and external homeostasis (a state of internal said, will provide a framework Gradinaru, assistant professor of integrates information about the sensory information to maintain equilibrium). The research, Oka for studying the mechanisms that biology and biological engineering. News briefs from around the globe Caltech hosts two-day A brief list of events from the past week, compiled by the editors astronomy symposium DOUGLAS SMITH to discover Earth-like planets Retired army captain to receive medal of honor Caltech Media Relations orbiting other stars. The clouds of dust and gas 2 suicide bombers ambushed Captain Groberg’s platoon, but Gorberg’s efforts prevented This article was originally from which stars and planets published online at caltech.edu. form — and the newborn “catastroph[ic]” damage [CNN] solar systems themselves — are too cold New ban on public smoking presented by Department of Housing and to be seen in visible light. Urban Development However, the heat they do 25-foot minimum distance from public housing could be in place by 2017 [BBC] emit shows up in the infrared, the shortest Mormons plan “mass resignation” in response to new church rules wavelengths of which are just 1,000 members to resign over new rules regarding homosexuality [BBC] slightly longer than the red light we do see. The earliest Earthquake off of Japan’s coast triggers small tsunami galaxies would 7.0-magnitude quake reportedly caused no injuries or major damage [BBC] Scores of baby stars shrouded by dust are revealed in be visible if this infrared image of the star-forming region NGC 2174, they were as seen by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Found in the closer to us constellation Orion, NGC 2174 is located around 6,400 in space and light-years away. Protests break out at college campuses across the country Photo Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech time; instead, the expanding 100s of students at Mizzou, Yale, other schools protest against racial injustice [TIME] Fifty years ago, a group of universe has stretched their Caltech physicists brought light so that the wavelengths are infrared light — then an shifted down into the infrared. Boston Marathon bombing “victim” admits to fraud underappreciated region of the However, most of this light never electromagnetic spectrum—to reaches earthbound telescopes, $40,000 received from public agencies over fabricated injuries [CNN] the forefront of astrophysics. as Earth’s atmosphere absorbs Infrared astronomy holds the most infrared waves very keys to our cosmic origins, efficiently. France devastated by numerous coordinated terror strikes revealing how planets, stars Two next-generation space and even the earliest galaxies telescopes, the James Webb 153 killed, many more injured after gunfire, bombing strikes Paris, Saint-Denis [CNN] formed. 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