I n T h 5 I 5 5 U e

A Presidenrial In terview

A Poeti c Undertak in g

An Oily Enterprise C,llforn\a IIl.tltu'l of T.chnot o ll! N e w s

"A New Kind of World" 3 Caltech News interviews J ean-Lou Chameau.

10 From Psi to Poetry A former mathematical economist follows he r muse.

Also in this issue A new provost, a new Feynman Prize-winner, alumni on the wa ll s, and a campus for the birds (on the back-page post(,r).

Picrure Credits: Cover-Cathy 1-1 ill ; 2,9-Mike Rogers; 3-Jean-Loll Chnm eau ; 3.4,6,8,9- Robert Paz; 4-llerb Shoebr;dge; 5-NAS AlJ PL and Doug Cumm;ngs; 6-Gary Meekl Georgia Tech; IO-Naohiko Ucno; 13-Elizabcrh Allen; 14-Mark Bareelt; I S-Gary Kious! Northrup Grumman; 16-CIAR Phow; Back Cover-Gail Anderson, Roben Paz. Poscer design by DOllg Cummings.

ON THE (OVER Issued four times a ye,l f and published by rhe California Insriul[(.' of Technology and rhe With Caltech embarking on an Alumni Association, 1200 East C.'1liforn ia Blvd .. Pnsndena , Cn li(ornia 9 11 25. All rig hts ambitious olive oil (not to be reserved. Third-class postage paid at Pasadena, California. Postmnster: Send address confused with oil drop) experiment, changes to: C((llcch NelliS, Cal tech l-7 1, Pasadena , CA 91 125. Ca/tech News asked artist Cathy Hill to adapt Vincent Van Gogh's The Olive Pickers to the occasion. Exemlil'e Edilor - Heid i Aspaturian Ang;e Il ealko '96 The related story begins below. Writer - Barbara Ell is President of Ibe AllIlIJn; A.r.f()(i£llion Writer - Michael Rogers Roberr L. O' Rourke Prodllclion Arlisl- DOllg Cummings Vire Presidelll for Pllblic l?elatio1lJ Co"'ribNlon - Jill Perr y, Robert Tindol COP) £""ul'S - Alh!.u l1 Bt'nter, ML Ch.lcl Farquhar, Elena Rlidnev Visit Ca\tcch News on the Web al

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We may live in an era of dimin­ when Ca l tech president J ean-Lou eha­ ca n, They skimmed the oil off rhe rop, ishing petroleum resources, but [Wo meau and his wife, Carol Carmichael, yielding half a liter of oil. "As ir looked emerprising Cal tech srudems recen rly out on a weekend stroll , stOpped ca more and morc like olive oil, we were alerted the Institute co the fact that it chat. A longtime proponent of environ­ getting morc and more exc ited," J ones is sitting on valuable oil reserves. Not mental suscainabi lity, Chameau made said. Brent Sweet Li ght black crude, alas, the tWO scudents an offer they seeming­ But rhe final product didn't exactly but Pasadena virgi n li g ht g reen--of the ly couldn't rcfuse: if Adali an and J ones look pristine- there was still some olive persuasion. could actually distill u respectable solid material nO

2 I Cali/Orilla I IISt; t lltt 0/ T echn ol ogy · VOLU,Mfi4 I NO . 2, 2 007 , , A N e w K n d ,, o f w o r d

Growing "I) ill northern France, in the IJYovince of Normandy, Jean- Loll Chameall seems to have discovered his princij)al affinities early in life: hard work, working with people, new experiences, anel, last bllt not least, lIIathematin emd science. He brollght this olltlook with him when he left the Old World for the new in 1976 to p"rS1le gradllate work ill engilleerillg at Stanford, and it has slil'ved him well throllghollt a career that has ineillded faCIlity positiollS at Pllrellle Uni­

versity and Georgia Tech, tilJle spent rlt/Illing (I cOllipallY, alld, over Ihe last eleCC/de. a move into the IIpper echelom of academic adlllillisll'Cttion. In 1997, he was afJjJoillled dean of the college of enginel!l'ing at Georgia Tech, and fOllr years later he becel1!1e the IIl1iversily's l)rOvosl. LClSt SlIII/­ Iller, he was nallied Ihe ninth president of Caltech. Chrl1l1eall aSSJIIlles the job al a tillle when isslles that he has long challlpioned- forging interdisciplinary and illStitlltionai coliaboratiollS and promoting global sllst(linability, to nallle two--have IiIllerged as //Iajor Ihe//les on both the natio11al anti internettiolla1 s/tlge, It's tin environment in which, tiS he says, scienlislS and engineers have an increasingly complex and vital role to Illay, and to whit"h Cet/tech, throllgh its faCilIty, stlldents, staff, and gradllates, is poised to make IIniqm and far-reaching contriblltiollS. He talked abollt these topics, anel a variety of others, in an illferview wilh Calrech N ews editor Heidi Aspat"rian. extent I:x:fore I came, so it has also been a wonderful surprise to find that chis campus also has outstanding musicians, and people who love sports and [he theater and many ocher aCtivities. What I like is that Caltech provides extracurricu lar opportunities for YOII gtlve tI speech ill 2000 ill tI/hich YOII St/it/thal YOII Ibollgbllbe 21 sl eel/fury them that arc in ma ny respects as good as what they would have at a la rger un ivers ity. lI'ould cOl1sl illlle a Rellll ina nee period for engineers. Wlhal d it! YOII metlll by that? In fact, they're likely better, because they are all ava ilable on a small er scale, which makes for closer and more meaningful interactions. That, tOO, is a very positive thing. Bas ica ll y, J think it's simple. We live in a world [hac is being dri ven more and more by science and techn ology. T hat means [hat people educated in those disciplines have Hou' tIre YOII goillg tlbollt meeting sllldellls? and will continue to have an ad vantage in life, as well as crucial opportunities to in­ fluence the world pos itively. I focused on eng ineering in my otiginallecrure, because My fitst sustained encounter was at Freshman Ca mp, and sin ce then I have tr iecl I was the dea n of eng ineering at Georgia Tech at th e ti me, but 1 thin k the comment ro find ways ro interact w ith both undergraduate and grad uate students as much as 1 applies eq uall y well to people working in the sc iences. We are dea ling wi th very diffi­ ca n, and ro make sure that students have opportunities to communicate easil y wi th cult, very complex problems. Recentl y, we had [New York Times columnisr and Pulitzer me, both formally and informall y. I've Pri ze-winn ing :l llthor] Tom Friedman on campus talking about energy and how it been ro dinners at the student Houses, relates to an amazing range of issues, including economic development, quality of life, attended musical and Sports events, a health policy, and nat ional and international securi ty. It's so clear that we are rea lly at meeting of the Ca ltcch Entrepreneur's :l critical juncture fo r g lobal society in the next SO to lOO years, and that dealing wi th Club, and this year's Theater Arts pro­ most of the critical issues facing us will requ ire a very deep understanding of science duction of Shakespeare's A \'(Iillter's Tale, and rechnology and how best to apply that knowledge. I think you can draw some among many other activities. va lid parallels here with the Renaissance era, when Western Europe emerged from the Overall , it is very simple for me: jf Midd le Ages to face a new kind of worl d. The issues today are very different, bllt we are you are in academia, it is because you once aga in fi nd ing ourselves at a unique in flect ion point in history. The fo rces shapi ng have an interest in students. Otherwise it are such that I think that scientists and engineers are likely to play an unusual, there is no reason to be here! 1 have unprecedented role. And I hope that will be the case. spent more or less time wi th students at different stages of my career, bur the You've beell 011 ({1I11/JlIS lor jllSI over six moulhs IlOlI', so--here comes the opportunity ro spend time with them illel!itflb/e questioll- hou' wOllld YOII describe YOllr illili(tI impressiolls o/Ca/tech? has always been a d ri ver-a strong HilS tlllylhillg come (is" /wrliclIl",. SlII1,,.ise to YOII? motivati ng facror, if you wi ll-for me. Cal tec h offers some great advantages I had a good fee l for what Caltech would be like before I srarred as president. here because, while you will never get I knew a number of fac ulty members, and I was we ll prepared by the fac ul ty and to know all of the students, the Insti­ trustee search committees when J arrived on campus last summer. Since then, I' ve tute's small size makes it possible to es­ been spend ing quite a bit of time getting to know students, getting acquai nted with tabli sh genuine conneCtions with many staff, and meeting one-on-one w ith each facu lty mem ber, so every day I'm learn- of them. Georg ia Tech is not a huge ing more. If there has been one big discovery-and a very positive one-it is th at J uni versity, but it was large enough that have found Ca l tech's students to be even more exciti ng and stimulating than what it was hard fo r me to actuall y know I had in mind. J knew they would be very smart , bur they are so much more. T hey many students. H ere at Ca ltcch, 1 ex­ The Making of a President. Top, clockwise are irreverent, they are eccentr ic, they are dynamic, they are interested in all kinds of pect that the numbers will be much fro m left, Chameau as a pensive youngster in his native Normandy; as a young Purdue things, and J think that tec h is perhaps unique in the concentration of talented Cal larger, and that J wi ll also have a chance Uni versity professor in the I 980s; and as and unusual people that make up its student body. At most un iversities, you expect to get to know what some of their a newly appointed president waiting to be to find a w ide range of capab ilities among the students, and here that range is very interests arc, and what's important ro introduced to the Caltech community last narrow-they are all extraordinarily capable. The chance ro be with rhem and to them. J w ill get ro know some of th eir summer. Above, at Frosh Camp in September, experie nce that pleasure is very interesting and rewarding. fa milies too. 1 find it to be a wonderful he indulges in one of his favorite activities: spending quality time with students. Dean of 1 think too th at there is an outside perception that CaJtech srudents fo r the most new opportunity. students and acting vice president for stu­ part are only interested in science, math , and engineering. 1 shared that idea to some ContinNed 011 page 6 .. . dent affairs John Hall is seated to his left.

3 I Cn/tuh News Energy Ph ys ics. Their election brings resea rch that focuses on the behavioral rowl Insti tute ll"lell1bership in the NAS fou ndations of economics and politi- to 76 faculty and three trustees. cal sc ience; laboratory experimental STOLPER NAMED hi s BS from I Iarvard, hi s MS from rhe David Anderson's work has led ro methods; and regulation, dere,sulation, CALTECH PROVOST Universiry of Edinburgh, and his PhD the identifICation of stem cell s in the and policy design. Il is fundamental from Ilarvard. H e was promoted to embryon ic nervous system, and ro work on experimenral economjcs has Edward Stolper has been appointed assoc iate professor in 1982 and to pro­ the discovery that embryonic arteri es isolated the: eq uilibration process of Calcech's ninth provost, repri sing a role fessor of geology in 1983. His honors and veins are generica ll y distinct even large, multiple market systems and he temporarily assumed in 2004 when include election to the National Acade­ before the onsct of heartbeat. More information fl ows in markets. I-Ie has he served for a tin1c as rhe In sricuce's my of Sciences in 1994 ar rhe relarively recentl y, in coll aboration with Boswell contributed extensive ly to the des ign of accing provost. Srolper, a member of yourhful age of 4 l. Professor Emeritus and Crafoord Laure­ special , eleCtroni c market processes that rhe Calrech faculry for 28 years, will ate Seymour Benzer, he has undertaken are used throughout thc world, and his step into [he job on August 1. In a a new initiative to develop and apply work is widely used in the development EIGHT WITH CALTECH novel molecular biological tools ro of regulatory mechanisms. CONNECTIONS NAMED mapping and manipulating the neu- Mark Wise is involved in the fie ld TO NATIONAL ACADEMY ral ci rcuits involved in innate animal of high-energy physics, where he has behaviors, particularly fear. The work developed information on t he essential Four Calrech faculry and four Insri­ could have im pl ications for enhanced characteristics of pa rticles and how tute alumni have been named to the understanding of underl ying emotional they interact with each Other to create National Academy of Sciences, ac­ states in humans. the physical world. Among his accom­ counting for more than ten percent of William Johnson's research incl udes plishments arc the discoveries of heavy the 72 new members, whose election studies of metalli c materials such as quark-mass expansion and heavy quark symmetry in quantum chromodynam­ was announced on May 2. Election (Q liquid all oys, bulk metallic g lasses, the NAS is one of the hi g hes t honors nanostrLlctureci metals, and mctal­ ics, which leo to a quanrirativt' theory that can be accorded an American sc i­ matrix composi tes. He also works on of rhe decays of c- and b-Aavored had­ enrist or engineer. applications of metallic g lasses for rons. These pred ictions are imporrant This year's new Cal tech inductees strLl ctural materials in sporting goods, fo r determining from experimental data are David Anderson, the Sperry Profes­ aircraft, mili tary hardware, and other the values of some of the parameters sor of Biology, who is also a Iloward objects for whi ch cll~rom - des igned that occur in still another lnw that de­ llughes Meoicallnstitlltt: investigdtor; (hara([cri~ti<..~ arc dll aovantage. Those sc:rib<.·~ the wl..'ak inr(~ r'l(fion s ofqll

4 I Cali/orlllfJ I nstlllli e of 'ftehll ology • VOl.UME4 I NO. 2, 2007 INAUGURAL WILL COINCIDE WITH COMMENCEMENT

Jean-Lou Chameau, who has served as Calrech's president since September, will be inaugu­ rated in a simple ceremony at the start of Calteeh's ll3th annual commencement on June 8. A presidential inauguration offers an institution a chance co connect with all of its constitu­ encies, and can be used [0 set the tone (or what's to come. Accord­ ingly, Chameau has said that his inaugural, at which he will officially ass ume t he mancle as the head of the institution, should reAeer his pri orities ancl not be lav ish, PLANETARY ASTRONOMER MIKE BROWN AWARDED FEYNMAN TEACHING PRIZE A campus committee sug­ gested combining hi s inaugura­ tion with commencement when Pl anet hunter and Pluto demoter Like many ourstanding teachers, As for Brown's g raduate-level course, students and rhei r parents, Mike Brown has been awarded Caltech's Brown confesses to sometimes finding formation and Evolution of Planetary faculry, Staff, trustees, and other most prestigious instructional award, that ;;teach ing is terrifying. It's the Systems, students credit their professor friends of the Institute would be the Feynman Pri ze for Excellence in most stressful thing' do. I have g iven for making [hem feel as if [hey are pare in ancnclance anyway. A casual Teaching. The prize, which is pre­ countless presentations over the years of the sc ientifi c process. As one gradu­ outdoor lunch will be held earlier sented annuall y to a facu lty member about my research, but it is nothing ate student put it, "We could watch the that week to allow members of for "exceptional ability, creativity, and like the classroom experi ence. Around formation of the solar system unfold in rhe Calrcch campus community innovation in both laboratory and class­ here, yo u a,lways feel like you're JUSt front of us, like a good book [hac we who do nO[ uncncl the com­ room instruction," commemorates the keeping your head above water when couldn't put down." mencement ceremonies to par­ invigorating classroom style of Nobel you lecture students. You ca n't teach The latest chapter in Brown's re­ ticipate in the celebration. Laurea[e and physicist Ri cha[d Peyn­ and nOt have some off days, and you search ca reer has to do with his ongo­ "J think those who've gonen man, who taught on campus for more know all toO well when you're having ing investigations in the Kuiper belt ro know me over my first few than 30 years. one-it's easy to see when the students reg ion of the outer solar system. In months ar Calreeh, and cerrainly T he discoverer of Eris, Quao.r, are engaged and when they're not. March , he and graduate students Kris­ those on the search committee, Sedna, and a bevy of other dwarf planets '" guess that's why I try so hard tina Barkume, Darin Ragozzine, and will understand my reluctance to roaming the outer solar system, Brown to teach well- I hate that feeling of Emily Schaller reporeed in the journal focus anent ion on myself espe­ received an outright cash bonus of knowing the students reali ze I'm hav­ Natllre that one of the Kuiper-belt ciall y if it involves a signifi cant 3,500 and by now has no doubt also ing an off day." objects Brown previously discovered expenditure of resources," discovered that an equal amount has Teaching a survey course for nonma­ shows signs of having been struck by Chameau said . "I[ feels right been added to his annual sala ry. jars at Cal tech poses pareicular chal­ a small er body 4.5 billion years ago. that my inaug uration ceremony ''I'm [hrilled," sa id [he Feyn- lenges and opportunities, he adds. "At The discovery sheds new lig h[ on [he should be one thar places a grear­ man Prize's fourteenth recipient after a scate university, you often find 'rocks dynamics of solar-system formation, er emphasis on the accomplish­ Cal[ech's provost Paul Jennings, PhD for jocks' courses, which are designed and could help lead [0 a beccer under­ ments of students and one that '63, announced his selection at a recent for people who aren't going into science standing of how both [he sun's family brings roge[her the members of Institute faculty meeting. " I never in­ but are just trying to get their degrees. of planets and more distant solar sys­ the Cal tech community." teracted with Pey nman, but the people Here, we don't have any nonscientists, tems formed. As is often the case where The inauguration will be who have won the award in the past are so the question is what is going to scientifi c publications are concerned, brief, but will include [he key the teachers 1 have a l'lLIge amount of expand their horizons." His answer has Caltech's press release reporting the elements of a traditional ceremo­ respect for. So it's a fantastic honor." been to design a CQurse that focuses on discovery carried an embargo on the ny. Delegates representing na­ The Feynman Prize is endowed the fi eld as an observational science. "In announcement date, prompting one tional and local universities and through the generosity of lone and Rob­ geology, yo u rake what you're given­ journalist to inquire, "How can you institutions, including those that ert E. Paradise, with additional contri­ you can't drill to the center of Earth to embargo something that happened 4.5 Chameau attended or worked at, bu[ions from Mr. and Mrs. Wi II iam H . sec what's there, or go back in time to billion years ago'" I['s [he sore of will be invited. Trustee Chair­ Hurt. It anml ally honors a professor who see what happened-so [he laboratory conundrum Richard Feynman would man Kent Kresa will place the demonstrates, in the broadest sense, un­ experi ence is different from the one in have appreciated. traditional academic regalia on usual ability, creativity, and innovation chern iscry or physics or biology." Chameau, The passing of Rob­ in undergraduate and g raduate class­ ere Millikan's academic hood to room or laboratory teaching. Winners the new president has become are selected by a committee of students, a Cal tech inaug ural tradition. former winners, and other faculty. (AI[houg h he never accepred [he According to Jennings, Brown was [ide of president, Millikan was sing led out for the award beca use of "his the first administrative head of extraordinary teaching ability, his skill CALTE C H T O COHOST "FIFTY YEARS OF SPACE EX PLORATION " modern-day Cal[ech,) in exciting his students, and his evident Chameau wi II speak brieAy caring about his students' learning. On September 20 and 21 , Cal[ech's Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories on his Caltech experience to date "Mike is first recogni zed for his con­ (GALClT), Norehtop Grumman Space Technology, and JPL will hose an inter­ and outline his goals. Consistent cribution to Geology I, Earth and En­ national conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of space exploration, which with his emphasis on the stu­ vironment, which he has taught since began with the launch of [he Sputnik satelli[e in 1957. The event will offer an dents, Chamea u has requeSted spring 2005," said Jennings, adding in-depth look a[ [he past, present, and future of space Aight and explora[ion, that a student speaker part of be that although Brown is a professor of from the perspectives of an internationally recognized group of speakers, in­ rhe official program. The tradi­ planetary astronomy, "he volunteeted to cluding Institute trustee and former astronaut Sally Ride and the fi rst scientist tional commencement ceremony teach Ge I because he wanted to learn and, thus far, las t man to walk on the moon, former astronaut Harrison "J ack" will immedia[ely follow, the geology ma[eria l himself. " Brown's Schmicc, PhD '57. To find oue more or to register for [he fall event, which will As reporeed in [he last Cn/tech autodidactic tendencies certainly paid also include a reception, dinner, and exhibitions, p lease go to http://www.gaIcic. News, Pulitze r Prize-winning off for his students, one of whom in­ ca I[ech. edu/space5 0/. author Jared Diamond will be formed the Feynman Prize committee the commencement speaker at [hac "Attending [his) fun and engaging this year's ceremony. lecture to break the monOto ny of core classes was [he bese pare of our day."

5 I Cnlttch NW' J The Evolution of an Engineer. At left, Dean of Engineering Chameau works with Georgia Tech students in 1999, and, below, right, ponders a problem in Lego design with Cal tech undergraduates at Frosh Camp '07,

Cal tec h. He described how yo u could get fellowships to study in the United Stares. This was the first time it had occurred to me that such a thing was possible, and I thoug ht. "Well . why not?" I looked into it. and J ended up going to Stanford. At the time I thoug ht I mig ht be in the Uni ted States for one yea r at the most; now it has become a li fetime.

Looking hack, li 'tlS Ihere tilly sense o[ cII/lllre sbock whell YOII encollntered Ihe Ulliled Stales? , Jf I had landed in the middle of Kansas or South Dako ta- and I have since been to these places- there would probably have been more of one, But, yo u know, 1 starred in the Bay Area, near San Francisco, and there was not much se nse of disloca­ tion. 1 think fo r so me people there is- I had frie nds who ca rn e at the same time that I did, who never rea ll y adjusted well and , in fact, did not stay. But I think I am the type of person who enj oys new situations- getting to know new people, places, and ways of doing things, and encollntering different cultures, so it was never an issue for me. The West Coast and Northeast regions of the United Scates are rea ll y areas where Ch"fll t all , Western Eu ropeans in particular quite quickly fee l at home. Other parts of the coun­ Has Ibere heel/. tillylbillg else "bollllbe flll,irolllllenl here Ibal ((line tiS tl/la,.­ try mig ht require morc time to adj ust to, but I t hink it also depends on the person. I;ell/t,r slIr/n'ise 10 YOII?

Learning the ex tent to which Cal tech hi stori ca lly has been and still is engaged in ambitious, very large-scale projects has been somewhat surprisi ng, Agai n, it's a case Overall, it iJ very simple for me: if yo[.l are in in which appearances are deceptive. From the outside, you wouldn't necessarily think we would be involved in projects with the scope of the Keck and Palomar Obser­ academia, it is becallSe YOIt have an interest in vatories, or L1GO , or managing the J et Propul sion Laboratory. There is, I think, a particular exci tement that goes along with being able to accompl ish so much while students. Otherwise there is no reason to be here.' appearing from the outside to be relatively small. To me, it's an especially interesting aspect of the Institute.

}'Oll s/Jent leI/. yetll's in bigh-Iel'e! tlcadelllic ac/lllinislrtllioll til Georgitl Tech, Hal'e YOII persollally el/er/Olllld illl diuuli'(IIIIf1ge /0 he /oreign-hor" tlnt/lo \flbtll tire YOII hringing/rom Ib(11 eX/Ji!rienfe 10 Ib;s job til (a/lecb? btl I'€! wille If) Alllericil tI.\ d young tit/II/I? \'ollle p"rlJ fJ/lbiJ t:I)/III" ~ Y lire slill /)1'£'11)1 iU~II/{II : In my job as dean of eng ineering and then provost at Georg ia Tech, 1 think I was always a person who got considerable satisfaction and motivation our of the facr that J wi ll say no, You will always find a person here and there, from time to time, who I was always working with and helping smart people, J enjoyed dealing extensively has, lct's say, some reluctance to interaCt with so meone of foreign origin, but this can with faculty, staff, students, alu mni-all of the university's stakeholders-and foster­ occur anywhere in the world. It happens here, it happens in France, in China. On the ing relationships, developing new initiatives, seeking conse nsus, and being a bit of a rare occasion when this has happened to me, I don't pay much attention to it, and I cheerl eader for the insticu tion as well. I think that at different times in their evolu­ don't view it as refl ecting what the majority of people think or do. Some people do tion, organi zations need different people to lead them, and that Caltech was looking get sensi tive when they encou nter these attitudes and, especiall y sin ce 911 l , some for a person with those kinds of skills and qualities at this stage in its development. people have told me that they have fe lt less welcome in the United States-but this It didn't have to be me, but I'm happy that it is, And overall, I am a perso n who t ri es has never been true in my case, and I think that I have almos t always fOllnd my back­ not to look back too much, My inclination is to look ahead and move forward , and I ground to be an advantage. 1 think that fundamentall y you r success with people is am approachi ng Ca ltec h in the spirit of seeing it as a new adventure, a new rea lm. r not a function of where YOll come fro m. I f you can relate we ll to people and be open tend to believe that whatever ea rlier experi ences yo u have had will , ideall y, prepare with them, then they will react we ll to you. you well for whatever new chall enges you underrake, and that is essentially the per­ spective I am bringing to this job. YOII u'ere eerl(IiIl!Y tI slrong Pro/lollelll %L'erSetis stlldy /lrOl!,roms for silu/ellis (II Georgia Tech tilld tlclit'e ill eS/clb/isbillg lieu' exchclIJge Prog"tIIllS Ibere. \l7ollld \'(Iollid YOII say Ibeu Ib(/I YOII jilld Ihe detllillg-u·ilh-/Jeo/Jle tIS/)eel olle of Ihe 1II0sI YOII like 10 do 1I10re of Ihis II I ClIlleeh? rell'tlrtiillg pClrls of beillg (III (Il/minislralo,.? The Institute already has a number of sll ch programs with different universities, and It is, definitely. I always say to people: if yo u do not find this kind of interaCtion I think there is a des ire among fandty to respond to the rising level of student interes t. rewarding, do not get into a leadership position. If you want to rake a lead ing ro le in I don't know exactly what the numbers should be yet, bur 1 definitely want to encour­ an organi zation, and especiall y in a university environment, you have to be willing to age it. As YO ll can imagine from my own hi story, I'm a strong beli ever in the idea that serve and be comfortable with being reward ed by the accomplishments of other peo­ it's advantageous for young people to have the opportunity to experi ence at least twO ple and the institution, rather than by your ow n achievements. So metimes, people different cultures, particularl y in our increasingly global society. At the same time, I who seek these leadership roles tend to fo rget that. There is a bit of g lory that comes think it has to be a mea ningful experi ence. Going overseas for a few weeks on vacation with such positions, but they basically consist or hard work and servi ng people. And if that isn't in your mind or in yo ur way of enj oying life, yo u should not do it. This idea of working hard , and enjoyment of working with people, ca me ea rly in my li fe . I come from a relatively modes t fami ly and background, and I was taug ht from a young age that hard work was expected of me. This applied to sc hool too: My parents did not themselves have a higher education, but they always pushed me towa rd getting a good education,

\l7ere YO Il inleresled ill math and sciellce/rom tl yOllllg age?

In hi g h school and ea rl y on in college. I really loved mathematics. My dream would have been to be a mathematic ian, but I felt I was nOt quite good enoug h, and also my pa rents told me that I would make more money as an eng in ee r, And then I did well on the entrance exam for an elite eng in eering school in France, and was offered admission, lr was one of those offers yo u just don't refuse, so I became an eng inee r- not by design, but without regrets.

HOll ' did YOIl bfl/J/ll!1I 10 come 10 grcll/IIC1 Il! st.·boo/ ill Ibe Ulliled Siales?

It was totally, purely by acc id ent. When I was an undergraduate, I happened to hear a talk by a former student- a Frenchman- who had received his PhD from

6 I Ca/i/orfli ll I ,IJlillllt 0/ 'Tu hnology • VOtuME4 I NO.2, 2007 is fun and enriching, bm wh ar you wam [Q offer sw dems is enough rime [Q appreci- that are a bit easier on rhe environment, thar use less energy, fewer resources, and so are orher culrures and d iscover for rhemselves how people in oc her pan s of rh e world on. Althoug h I approached it from rhe enginee ring srandpoi nr, J reali zed rh at there act, think, and behave, and how they mig ht approach and solve problems differently. were people in areas like ecology, and in parricular, archi tt:.cture, who were also se ri­ Georgia Tech was di ffe rent from Calrec h in rhar it has rhe largest eng ineering program ously thinking about and working on these questions. The 1992 Inrernarional Envi ­ in rhe coumry, g raduari ng almost L,300 undergraduare eng ineers a year. Many of them , ronmenral Summit in Ri o de J aneiro also helped foc us global arrenrion on rhese iss ues, especiall y rhose wirh bac helor's degrees, wi ll go imo industry, and ir is very impon anr and so you had all these factors begi nning to come together at the sa me time. By this for such srudems [Q have overseas experi ence, because rhat is what rheir employers will rime 1 was ar Georg ia Tech, and talking co coll eagues there as well , and we gor rhe id ea expect from rhem. Ar Calrech, we are ra lk ing aoom much small er numbers, and a good of starr ing a university prog ram- rhe Cenrer fo r Susra inable Technology-tO look ar number of our studenrs will be going on co adva nced degrees and research posi rions. rh ose iss ues. I lefr soon after that co take a job in ind ustry, and when J returned, co rhe I still think ir is ve ry va lua ble for rhem CO be nefi r from cross-cultural experi ences, bur ca mpus in 1995, rhe ce neer and its prog rams were rea ll y in rh e process of raking off, rhere are differenr ways CO ac hi eve rh ar, depending on the universir y. Our small size is and had become quire significanr- ir 's now rhe Insriture for Susrainable Technology an advantage for developing deep and meaningful experi ences. Conce ivabl y, we could and Development. Once I became dea n of the college of eng ineering in 1997, my role see stllcienrs spending six months or a year doing research in a lab in Eng land or H ong beca me very much more thar of a facilitaror to keep promoting rhe ideas, while rhere Kong, or wharever environment is mos r appropriare co rh em. Thar would be one of we re lors of more talenred people who gor directly involved in doing rhe research and several possible ways co offer rhe expe rience. educarional aspectS of these prog rams.

Promolillg alld -'ws lail/illg c()"ah(}raliolls-ll'ilb illdllslry, across discijJliues, Hotl , did YO Il 1I 11c1 YO II,. colleaglles go flhO ll1 gellerlllillg il/leresl ill Ibe field til " lid ll 'ilb olbe,. II l1i l'ersil ies- bas figllred prom i lIell/~y i ll )'0111' lIdmill islral it'e Georgia Tuh? (l nd (lctldemic career, Call YO II IlIlk tlhOll1 boll' Ibl.!Y emel~f!.l.! d liS ill leresIs for YO II? Talk ing abour it! Well , as YOll mi ght My interest in industri al coll aborarions partially came abom because I left academia expecr, rhere were ini tiall y some argu­ rO become pres id enr of a pri vare company in rhe mid-1 990s. l r was also in parr because ments as co whether jr was a worth­ cuJrivaring rel ari onships with industry is narural fo r eng ineers. W irhour ci ring specific while idea. You fas t forward to 2007, names, I rh ink one of our successes ar Georg ia Tech was co help fo rge relationships wirh of course, and even rh e pres ident of the corporarions and indusrry rhat were des ig ned ro be long-term . I don't rh ink rhar uni­ United States is finally acknowl edging versities shoul d be extensively in vo lved in shorr-rerm projec ts with the publi c secro r. thar we have iss ues ro dea l wirh. Bur Ir is nor whar we do: we are here co educare, ro do research, and co loo k ar issues and thi s was not rhe case 10 or 15 yea rs ago. trends ove r it long time-hori zon. To do that well , I rhink ir is best if you develop rela­ Even in the earl y 1990s, we had many ri onships with corporate parrners rhar williasr for a numbe r of years, and show these more skeptics rhan supporrers, so keep­ pareners how their competiriveness will benefit over rime from a long-rerm partnership ing atrention and disc uss ions focused on and outlook. That's wh at I promoted the most at Georg ia Tec h, and we had good suc­ rhe many posirive and prag maric reasons cess on rhar fron t with a number of large companies. why we should be looking seriously at Thac's one end of rhe spectrum. At rhe opposite end, of course, is the faCt rhat uni­ these questions turned out to be very versities arc getting more and more involved in the commercia lization of rheir research imporrant. I recall several corporarions, and d iscoveries. They must make sure thar the process is as effec ri ve and pru nless for incl ud ing a fe w based in Arlanra, who the faculty as possible, and that it is also an intell ectually and personall y enriching ex­ were iniri all y not happy wirh having a pe rience for them . This is so mething that Caltech already does very well. The O ffi ce of local universi ty initiare a program along Technology Transfer, led by Fred Farina, who is a Caltech alum, and prior to him, Larry those lines. Bur here we are now, more Gilbert, has been a gr",.t model for how this kind of thing should be done. It was very than a decade later, and I know that at pleasing co see an article in the New York Times in J anuary where Caltech's prog ram was least from a marketing srandpoint, rhey singled Out as being among the beSt of its kind in rhe coumry. have become supporrers. For me, 1 think Inrerdisciplinary and instirurional collaborations were efforrs rhar 1 helped co rh ere was also some appeal in doing Chameau, who began his academic career as a iniriare because, aga in , rhey seemed like borh rhe ri g hr and rhe logical rhing co cl o. something positive and producrive rh at professor at Purdue, is shown here (right) in Dealing with my co ll eag ues in the 1980s and the 19905 , I started to rea li ze-and it ran a bir counrer to the usual rhinking. 1986 with fellow civil engineering professor is even more rrue now- thar rh e mOSr effective way ro approach many of rhe iss ues In life you always like to do things that Robert Holtl (left), and graduate student Siva Sivakugan. we were fac ing was co bring people from many di sciplines and perhaps from different are a litrle bir ar odds wirh whar or her instirutions cogether, and that historically universiries were nor necessaril y well orga­ people rhink, and jr was ni ce for a while ni zed co fac ilirare research al ong rhese lines. So a number of us began co rhink abour co be engaged in something rhat was not how best to engender and promote that kind of environment and how to ger things in the mainsrrea m. moving in the ri ghr direction. That's bas ica ll y the way ir happened. There is always in life a bir of vi sion, a bit of srraregy, and a bir of simply reacting ro needs and op­ Nol i1l Ihe lJIaillslretllJl. WI() lIld YOII say Ibtll YO II cO llsitier YO llrself tl hit of a portuniry. Very ofr en yo u will develop a srrategy or put somerhing inro place simply con I ra ria 11 l in response co a need , and after it works, people wi ll as k, "How did you happen co have thar g rand vi sion?" Bur ir was no g rand vi sion: it was a need, and whar you've 1 have to say- well , I don't see myself quite in that li g ht. Part of having French acruall y done is rO meer it. roors-rhe French culrure-is rhar we like to ques ri on things and be skeptical (very One very useful thing I have lea rn ed from these experi ences is thar all rhese rypes often, too mucb! ). 1 always like to try to look at the opposite sid e of the coin . It of collaborario ns work best when rh ey are dri ven by faClJiry inrerest. The administra­ doesn't mea n thar J will end up on thar side bur llike to know whar is over there. tion should suppOrt, promore, and fa cilitate these parrnerships and prog rams, and You frequently learn a lot by playing the devil's advocate: there is usually informa­ work to remove hurdles rhar mig hr ex ist, but f think rhe main movers should always rion rhar comes out as part of rhar discuss ion thar is useful co a dec ision. be the fac ulty. Susltthlflbility btlS gOllefrom being tllOllgb sell 10 tlll"iverStllly tlck1l0ldetlged Glohfll sllslaillflhilily htls beell tl llolher ofY Ollr ollgoillg research ,"ul tlt/millis- bOI-blllloll isslle. Wt'htll role tlo YO II envision jJlayillg til tlllti ll lifl; Cdllecb ill belp­ 1I'IIIiL,t! i nle,.esls. Tbis tlretl is Oil e l.-'eryoJle's l'Iul",. screell 1I0U~ bill u'hell YO II first i1lg 10 keep Ibe cllrrenllellel of inleresl It/h'el gnl ill In Ibefield in Ibe etldy 1990s, Ibtllll'tlS lIollhe case, WIIHII molh'(lled YOII, II l1d bou' did YO llr illl'oll'f:melll cOllle abollt? I think thar our rol e here is co keep raising rhe Aag-co make sure that this area remains a prioriry for rhe Insriture in our scientific undertakings, in our education, I did get interested in rhis area ea rl y, although others were certainly rhinking abour and also more and more in rhe way we run our campus-rhe way we develop new it too. That was less a case of being driven by need and opportunity and more a mar­ faci liries, mainrain exi sring ones, use energy, and rake care of our physical plant. We rer of really believing in somerhing. I was a civil eng ineer at Purdue University in the are very good at preaching in academia, and I think we should kee p being good at it 1980s, a rime when civil eng ineers were starting to get more and more involved in rhrough our research and education. Ar the same rime, in an area like rhis, especially, environmental iss ues. Parr of my research involved working with firm s rhar had some you are not very credible if you don't also try to pracri ce what you preach. acriviries in rhose areas, and ar some stage, J srarted co feel thar bas ically we were ad­ dress ing rhe wro ng problems. We were trying to solve rhe problems after rhe facr, Is Ihere II scienlific or hislorictll figllre YO II ptirlicllltirly tlf/mire/' Or bolh/' rarher than rrying CO prevent rh em from arising in the firsr place. You're pollurjng somerhing , you creare an environmental hazard, and rhen you rry ro clean ir up. So out There is one scienrisr whom I never met---obviously, since he died in rhe early of rhis came rhe id ea-and for me, initiall y, it ca me in an educari onal contexr- rhar 19 th century- who has always g ready appealed to me. That is the French mathe­ we ought ro try co educa re scientisrs and eng inee rs co rhink more broadly abour these matician Evarisre Galois, who is vi ewed as one of rhe founders of modern marhemar­ types of challenges, and encourage rh em co see if rhey can des ign systems and processes COlltillued 011 page 8

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Chfl1lltfll( , , , [rOIll /}flge 7 J love cooking, and in faCt for a while I considered a career in restaurant ics, particularl y modern algebra. I-I e d ied at the age of 20 in a duel over a young lady. work, b ut it's just tOO hard. It's easier H e was a m athem atical genius, and the legend-wh ic h seems to a bi t be being an academic! But I'm fi nding exaggerated-is t hat he wrote down a ma jor pa re of h is most important work in the outlets fo r m y cu linary interests on n ight before he died , H e was m y hero fo r a while when I was young, partly because cam p us. O ne of my m ost enjoyable in­ of my earl y am bition to a mathematician and partly because when you're very be fo rmal venues for meeting students has young you th ink chat dying in a d uel is a kind of romantic ideal. More seriously, or been at the cooking classes organi zed m aybe just more maturely, I have al ways g reatly ad mired Albert Einstein as someone by Caltecl, s offi ce for student affa irs. who was never afraid to think differently, both as a scientist and as a human being, The olive oi l concession is going well. Being at Caltech, where he spent som e ri m e and where his infl uence can still be fe lt, [See Up Prolll, page 2.] T h is fa ll we will has been very exciting and inspiring, have a harvest festiva l w ith this p roj­ ect as a centerp iece. I love ski ing roo. Chameau and hi s wife , Carol Carmichael, met I haven't done any th is year, but I am when bot h were working at Georgia Tech , We work on long-term problems, but it is important defin itely plann ing to next yea r,

By I/Jell YOII lI lill h"l'e slJelltmore tbaJJ (I yell I' (II Cllltecb, Looking IIbelld, to shoUl the public and all of our stakeholders that ,,,bere ll 'O'"'' YOlllike 10 see tbe Instilllte, if 1101 ill Ibe lIexf yell 1', in, SIIY, fbe next what we do has a relationship to the world at large tell years? First I should say that I am not the type of person who comes to a new place and and to the isslles societies and the world are facing. position with "the grand vision." Usuall y, it does not work, and it would be very fool ish at a p lace like Cal tech wi th a great h istory of success. So, at t he moment, li ke any Cal tech student, J am lea rning, t rying to get to k now the ou tstanding people we Historical fig ures I am drawn to? There is one in pare icular- the French leader and have on campus and getting acquainted with thei r accom p li shments. I have also been polit ician Charles de Gaulle. I was born in 1953, so I did not live th rough the period devoting q ui te a b it of t ime to u nderstanding the Institute's fi nances. We m ust when he ra ll ied France and the French Resistance d uring World War II, but of course I ensure that our fac ulty and students have the support they require to fu lfi ll thei r as­ grew up knowing about the heroic role that he p layed . The fact that he had the courage p irations, and to d o so we need to m anage our resources better. In particular, 1 th in k and the streng th [Q go against the ruli ng establishment d uri ng Worl d War " and to we should increase our foclls on build ing the Institute's endowm ent, and I intend to say (hat (he real France was not the one bei ng led by the government in Vichy, and that be very consistent about this in ou r d evelopment p lans. In these efforts, we wi ll need he was going to em bolden (he French people [Q fi g ht on- there are few people in the the help of all our frie nds and alumni, world who demonstrate that kind of g utS and vision and sheer determinac ion under any When I think about Caltcch a decade from now, I keep com ing back to a remark conditions, So while I am fa r ftom agreeing with some of the things he did when he that Professor Ahmed Zewail made at rh is year's Freshman Convocation, when he went on to serve as France's p resident, l adm ire some of the politicall y risky aCt ions he described t he Inst itute as "a place where we dream w it h foc us and freedom ." For me rook then as well. He was wi ll ing [() stand up and say it was time to disband France's that comment summarizes very wel l what Caitech is about and where it should be colonial empir.:;:. T hese 4umities of h is have always impressed me. in abollt ten years, Now, even more than in the past, the Instiwtc needs to keep its em phasis on d oing big things- making the sig n ificant discoveries and contributions How abollt idens or books thaI II/oy h(II'e had a strollg illflllence 011 YOII.' If/hal that ca n change the wo rl d. T h is goal shou ld be driving us, but achieving it is getting hove YOII read reeelllly? to be a m ore and more diffi n ll t tas k in the cu rrent environment. I would like Cal tech to have the resources it need s to ensure it can con t inue d o ing those unusual and out­ I am fa irl y eclectic in terms of what I read, but 1 haven't had that m uch time to standi ng things regardless of the national situation. read books lately! I rea ll y like Tom Fried man, and have recom mended his book The I also see us doing more and more work across d isciplines, in both fu ndamental and World Is Plat to others. I also I ike very much J ared Diamond 's books, GillIS, Germs, applied scientifi c areas because, as I mentioned C'J rl ier, the crucial iss ues fac ing our na­ aud Sleel, which won the Pu li tzer Prize, and Collapse, abom the conditions u nder tion and the worl d are less and less likely to be problems that Gill be addressed wi thout which societies ul ti mately succeed or f.1 il. I am rea ll y deligh ted that he w ill be g iv­ b ringing tOgether insights, techniq ues, and expertise from d iffe rent research fields. We ing the g raduation address for m y fi rst commencement at Caltech. should continue to capi tali ze on Caltech 's h istoric strengths in pursu ing fundamental As fo r novelists, I would say the Russ ian writet DostOevsky, and the French nov­ sc ience, bur wi th connecti on to the iss ues the nat io n and the world are fac ing. In addi­ el ist Emi le Zola. My favo rite Dostoevsky novel is Tbe Gambler, which perhaps says tion to our cont inued lead ershi p in areas like space exploration, geophysics, astronom y, something about me. engineering, physics, b iology, and others, I think we will be talki ng more about energy, the environment, sc ientific medici ne, bioengineering, and so forth. Now, trying to That lI 'o,IId be tbe olle he dicttlted 10 Ihe slellogrlll)her be laler lIIt1rried-tls address these critica l iss ues fo r soc iety doesn't imply that you arc addressi ng them for ,l'il/; GlIlois, 1I1l01be,' relll-It!e rOllllllltic tllle. tomorrow morning. We work on long-term problems, b ur it is importan t to show the public and all of our stakeholders that what we do has a relationsh ip to the worl d at Ah yes, well , perhaps that says someth ing about me, tOo. large and to the issues societies and the world are fac ing. This is a message that we have to fin d new ways to articulate, and it has to be delivered consistentl y, by the ptes ident, Tbe Pasadena Weekly htls ,-eIJOI'led Ihfll bOlh YOlllllld YOllr u ,ife, e"rol, fire by the fac ulty, as well as by students and staff who are involved in such efforts. Grafef"l De"d P"'S, Did YOII ere,. ol/elld one of Iheir coucerls? We also need to provide a "Caltcch experience" to our students that reAects the un iq ueness of the Institute and leverages its streng ths. Caitech is small , and our "small ­ Yes, I d id once in Ch icago, as a matter of fact , in the earl y to m iddle 1980s. ness" should lead to an experi ence on cam pus that clearly diffe rentiates LIS from other unive rsities, incl ud ing the opportunity fo r one-on-one interaction between f.lc ulty and students. G Ut stu­ den ts' opportunities for g rowth and personal develop­ ment, academic and nonacademic, should be unparal­ leled. We can develop a true commun ity of scholars and lC'dders who care about the world. I also hope that [his community can become more diverse. This can only enhance our cu lture and fu ture opportunities as we p repare fo r a more and more com plex and g lobal world. Finall y, I would like Cal tech to have an organ­ izational infrastructute that operates at the sam e level of excell ence as its educational and research programs. No university can currently make that cl aim, and I see no reason why the Institute, which has achi eved so many scientific b reakthroug hs in its h istory, should not be a p ioneer in this realm as well. Achieving this objective ca n on ly fu rther t he abili ty On the day he was named Calt ech 's presid ent (left), Chameau was welcomed to campus by members of the presidential search com­ of our facu lty and students to "dream with (ocus and mittee, including Atkins Professor of Chemistry and Nobel Laureate Bob Grubbs and Professor of Physics Nai-Chang Yeh. A fe w months freed om ." later, at his fi rst Caltech convocation, it was his turn, along with Pauling Professor of Chemical Physics and Nobel Laureate Ahmed lewail, to welcome entering students.

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Calrcch doesn'r usuall y rurn our poers, bur J essica Goodfellow, MS '89, is making a name for herself as one, despite rhe fa ct char she li ves in J apan, where her intri- care Engli sh-lang uage poetry is, to say the least, not in heavy demand. There's also her choice of unconventional subjecc matter. Goodfell ow, 4 1, left Cal tech without completing her planned PhD in economics in order to foc us on a writing career, but while you ca n ra ke the poet Ollt of the Institute, it's not so easy, it turns OUt, to take the Insricute QUt of the poec. Dark mancr, string theory, Berg man's rule, and Zeno of Efea are among rhe subjens and themes that permeate her poetry. Such topics may be fami li ar to Techers, but (hey aren 't usually put intO verse. Yet Jessica's poetry is beginning to gain an audience; in the last four years she's received the prestig ious Chad Walsh Poetry Pri ze, won a hi g hl y competitive contest to have a poetty col­ leerion publ ishecl , and been nominated three times fo r a coveted I iterary prize, the Pushcart. And this past March, twO of her poems were heard nationwide when Gar­ ri son Keillor read them on his \Vriter's Almaflac segment on National Public Radio. In the intensely competitive literary ni che that is poetry, that's not a bad snlrt. Goodfell ow's poems often blend rhe vocabulary of rhe marh and science she studied in sc hool wirh rhe reli gious imagery of her childhood. The second of eig hr child ren in a close-knit fa mily, J ess ica g rew up JU St outside Philadelphi a, where her father was an electri cal eng ineer and her mother a sc hoolteacher. She attended the ci ty's public sc hools before going to Provo, Utah, to study at Brig ham Young University, an institution affi li ated with her family 's Mormon fai th. After earni ng a bachelor's degree in economics, with a minor in math and communications, she came to Ca lrech in 1987 to study for an economics PhD, amacred by rhe work of experi ­ mental economics pioneers such as Charl es Plott, Harkness Professor of Economics and Political Science. But she soon rea lized that she "wasn't that interested after all " in mi croeconomics. econometrics, and game theory, and that what she rea ll y wanted co do was creative writing. Her mother had once cold her that as a young chi ld she made up poctry even before she could write ("She said t hat fused ro recite poems Poet's Corner. Jessica Goodfe llow and her sons Taiyo (left) and Hugo settle themselves next to a to her and ask her to wrire rhem down"), and she had composed poems all rhroug h stylized stone lion at a historic Shinto shri ne in Kobe. Japan, where the fa mily lives. school, and even had several of them published in literary magazin es for children and teenagers. "My favor ite poets at that ti me were T. S. Eliot, Lou ise G luck, Mark Strand, and J ohn Ashbery," she recalls. But "because ( was good at it," het teachers and parents encouraged her to study math and economics, "and as I was one of those ized that some subjects had not even been covered at Brig ham Young. For example, overly obedient children who tried to please every authority fi gure in my life, J didn't we studied Lamarck, and how to class ify species, but didn't learn about evolution." rebel," she says, "Untill came to Calrech." To fill in rhe gaps, J essica began to read popular science books, and found herself The "obedient" daug hter found it very difficult to announce her decision to g ive particularly drawn to the history of Western thought. " tarting with the ancient up on her PhD, bur "people were a lor more accepring rhan I had expecred." H er G reeks. when sc ience and belief systems were not separate areas of study. J fo llowed professors suggested she rake a leave of absence to think things over, and encouraged as well as I could the development of thinking, to where the sc ientific discoveries her to come back, bur in rhe end she lefr rhe Insriture wirh her MS in 1989. "l reall y began to conflict with religious ideas-and we all know the repression of ideas that enjoyed my time at Caltcch," says Goodfell ow, "and j met some of t he most interest­ followed from those conflicts," she says. "I think I was trying to find a hi storical par­ ing, intell igent, and well -read people J have ever come across." Through her Caltech all el for the confli Cted feelings I had as I g rew up, when I began to perceive a grow­ fr iends and roommates, she also learned about areas of sc ience that had bare ly been ing dichotomy between the faith in which 1 was raised and the scientific subjects I touched on during her hig h school and undergraduate yea rs. "To my surprise, r real ~ was encouraged to study."

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01lly hllfllankind cOllid ji1ld the whole wllnbers, infinite as they are, to be wanting . .. , - Prom "The Invention of Fractions," read on NPR

After Cal tech, J essica looked around for work that would support her while she foc used on her writing. "J apan was doing very well economicall y at [he rime, and chere was a big demand for businessmen to lea rn Engli sh ," she recalls. So in 1990, she moved co the hisco ci c J apanese port city of Kobe, where she call ghe English in the afternoon and evening and "worked at my writing in the mornings." She started on a novel, but "it was horrible, and I never got near the end." Ie wasn't a waSte because "YOLI have to work it all our of yo ur system before YOLI can write decently," but since then she's concentrated on poetry and short essays. Returning to the states in 1992, Goodfellow put her quantitative skills back to use as a math teacher and, later, as an advisor in a Newporc Beach investment firm. But working analytica ll y with figures all day left her unable to write creatively in the evenings. "1 would occasionally attempt to, but the resu lts were abys mal," she aelmits, In 1996, she returned ro J apan ro marry Naohiko Ueno, a J apanese docror JESSICA GOODFELLOW whom she had met shortl y after arriving there in 1990.

COllrtesans of tmth cmtllry j t/pall knew the keellillg of the caged copper phemallt, solo double-note aria for a missing male, could be silenced u;ith a mirror. - From "In Praise of Im perfect Love, " also read on NPR

Today J essica, her husba nd , and their two yo ung so ns make their home in Kobe, where Ueno, now an MD/ PhD, combines his work at Kobe Seaside Hospital with a visiting professorship at Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medicine. At prese nt, he conducts clinical research into how chains of am in o acids ca ll ed brain-gut peptides may be implicated in conditions sti ch as diabetes, obesity, and anorexia. "When I returned to J apan I gO[ part-time work teaching English and studied J apanese," says J essica, who today also runs a small English-language editori al busi­ ness alit of her home, "but mostly I was bored out of my mind. It was at that point that I gO t serious about poetry as a future, and decided to try and publish my work." Writing poetry keeps Goodfell ow linked with the literary world in the United A Pilgrim's Guide to States and counteraCtS some of the isolation she feels in her adopted country. "I don't in the have a lot of time to write, so bei ng faced with a blank page and no idea where I am Chaos Heartland going to starr is es pec iall y daunting," she says. ")t'S useful to always have a theme that 1 am working on. Usuall y a poem starts with an image or a line, and I build up from that. So metimes I get spontaneous inspiration, but mostly it comes fro m sit­ ti ng down with a pen and paper and willing so mething to come." There's also a lot of wasce in poetry, she adds. "You hack away and hack away. In some ways, jt'S like doing a scientific experiment. Jt'S mostly fa ilure before yo u get anythi ng." OOpotfTUOO Once she'd sec herself the goal of gaining a readership, J essica began submitting poems to Ameri ca n literary jou rn als, and saw several of them published. Her first rnajor success ca me when the Beloit Poetry ) ollrtut! (BP)) of Farmington, Maine, pub­ lis hed her six-parr poem A Pilgrim's Guide to Chaos ill the Heartlalld in ea rl y 2004 and All the poems excerpted in this article with the exception of "What You See If You Use Water as a Mirror," can be read later award ed it the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize for that year, The $3,000 pri ze was, at in full in the above chapbook, A Pilgrim's Guide to Chaos the time, the most lucrative in t he poetry field. "It ca me out of the blue," J essica re­ in the Heartland, published by Concrete Wolf and available ca lls. "When I opened the letter in my kitchen, 1 starred jumping up and down with from its website (www.concrttewolf.com) for $10. "I mag· excitement, and began gasping for air. The kids gO t quite worried and said, 'Mom­ ine No Apples," which is printed in its entirety on page 12 my, are you okay?'" Taiyo, now six, and Hugo, five, we re also thrilled when rhey against an apple·peel backdrop, first appeared in Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art, while "The Beach at Big Salt" hea rd her poems on NPR (v ia an internet stream), although Taiyo was so mewhat had its debut in the magazine RATTLE. And while it would disappointed chat Keil lor had not chosen either of rhe poems that mention him. certainly be nice, it won't be necessary to travel to Japan to photograph these flowering cherry·tree branches, which At the motel, he watches lIIe were blossoming in April not far from the Cal tech campus in lower the blillds agaimt Pasadena's Old Town. lhe while noise, Ihe presence of0/1 pOJJibilit5ies in the night, u /I's Jl(ch a lovely dark, MCllna, /I he says. • - From A Pilgrilll's Gltide parr 1, "Road Trip"

The Pilgrim's Guide follows a woman and her son as they drive through America's tall -grass prairie states, The poem is based on Goodfell ow's childhood experience, ha rk­ ing back to a time when her f..'lm il y drove every few yea rs fro m Pennsylvania to her maternal grandparents' home in Southern Cal ifornia. "That's how I got to see South Dakota and Kansas, whose imagery haunts me-the extreme weather condirions, the emptiness and Aarness, and the excess of nothing," she says. Prom the begi nning of the poem cycle, numbe rs begi n cropping up at seemi ng ly arbitrary spotS within ch e words and become more and more prevalent unti l the fina l poem, "0 15Random N6umber Tab8le," consists almost entirely of digits. COli/II/lied 01/ Pllp,t /2.

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Po t try.. ./rolll page I I • The original inspiration fo r this, says the amhor, came by accident while she was working on her compucer with then two-year-old Taiya on her lap. "lie was busy bang­ ing at the number keypad while r typed, and r got t ired of stopping ro delete hi s inser­ t ions, so I decided to juSt fini sh the project and come back and delece all rhe numbers when he was asleep. When J returned to do that, J was surprised at how readable the , document was, with its 'random' number additions; it was actuall y a challenge [Q find them all because my eyes would JUSt skip over them without any loss of comprehen­ sion. That gOt me thinking about all the randomness that occurs in Ollf lives and how we process rhe information without letting it overwhelm or deter liS; in many cases people don'r even cake any notice of it. So that started the poem for me." The former Cal tech swdent crafted her poem with mathematical precision, using one random All brgmningJ wetI, thlir apphs like dark shadou',. number table to choose the dig its,

Encouraged by the favorable reception for Pilgrilll', Cllide, Goodfellow began work­ ing on a collection of poems incorporating the scientific, mathematical, and religious themes that she had noticed appealed ro many of her readers. She began by writing Today J essica has moved on to a new theme-water and the aCt of emptying (" loss down "all the concepts on a math theme that I thought had the possibil ity of being in many g ui ses," as she expresses it}--and is hard at work on what she hopes wi ll be forged into a poem, then, when I had ,I subject on my mind, 1 wou ld look at the li st a cycle of about 60 poems. Her goal is to publish an actual book, whose press run and invariably one mathematical or scientific concept would fit with it." In the result­ will be significantly larger t han a chapbook print ru n of 100 to 200 copies, but 'TIl ing seri es of poems, the tale of Adam and Eve's fa ll from paradise is ass imilated ro the be competing against Eng li sh professors, establi shed poets, and people who have apple's legendary fall on Newron's head (see "Imagine No Apples," above right); the already had several chapbooks published," she says. "What You See If You Use Wa­ pathos of barren Sarai, the biblical Abraham's wife, opens Ollt into a meditation on ter as a Mirror," one of her first poems in the series, has already appeared in the BPj, physical and metaphysica l emptiness (" llIlhe lime before zeros / merchants marked floth- on the Verse Daily website (www.versedai ly.o rg),and in the anthology Best New PoelS illg with I/othing / le(l'lIing SP(lfeS to show where something was missing. / Bllt whttl shape was 2006: 50 Poelll1frOIll Elllergillg Writer" publi shed by the University of Virg ini as liter­ the sp(lCe?"); and both geometric and interpersonal dynamics are explored in "Spatial ary magazine, Meridi(lIl. Although her new theme isn't science- or math-based, "s ine Relations" ("Tollight I II11der1lalld IIIhy / YOII 1I~'e Iryillg to I",m, / like Zeno o/EI'tI, 1101/ to waves and other such images keep creepi ng in ," she confesses. The lang uage also diJlillJ!,lIish belween a body l aud tbe space ill u,hieh it is. '1) Tn the "The Beach at Bi g Salt" invokes J apanese imagery, something that is just "starting to come throug h" after (excerpted above), Jessica describes dark matter in words no astronomer wou ld use, yet her many years in J apan. they're not inaccurate in their simultaneous invocation of the spiritual and material J essica has achieved success despite having no formal poetry training. H er advice essence of this mysterious phenomenon. for other would-be poets is to "work with other writers, professors, or peers. Careful In January 2006, she felt ready to enter fiftee n of both her newer and previously readers can show YOll YOllr mistakes a lot faster than YOll will notice them on you r publ ished poems in a chapbook competition (chapbooks are artfull y designed booklets own, though yOll would probably get there eventuall y. On the other hand, "there's a of poems or essays printed on letterpresses in limited editions). Most poetry journals level of intuitio n in writing poetry that a person has or doesn't have. I'm not sure YOll run such co mpetitions annuall y, and a couple hundred chapbooks are published each can learn it, but I think you can struggle toward it." Jessica also recommends joinin,g yea r, but there are thousa nds of would-be poetS competing to win because, according to a writing group, as she did when her fami ly was living for a time in Florida. She has J ess ica. "it's an easy and cheap way to get published." To her astOnis hment, she wo n the since fou nded one in the Kansai region where she li ves, because "it's illuminating to first one she entered-the 2005 Concrete Wolf Chapbook competition. (Of course, she have feedback from the ri g ht people at the right time." There are currently six other then had to withdraw from all the others.) Her chapbook. entitled A Pilgrim's Guide 10 native English speakers. all of them married to J apanese men, in the group, but it's Chaos ill the He(lrtland in honor of the poem she still considers her fin es t, was publis hed open to anyone wri ting in Engli sh. in the filii of 2006. She later learned that her use of sc ientifi c imagery had resonated It tOok courage to g ive up her PhD program and leave Cal tech, but J essica doesn't with the Concrete Wolf judges. one of whom had studied math, and the othet, chem­ reg ret her decision to pursue a calling that has captivated her since child hood. istry, in coll ege. "They were impressed by my poems because they fo und it difficult to Despite the awards she's ,garnered, and the poems she's published, she continues to use science in their own writing," she says. The judges praised her "energetic use of lan­ describe herself as a writer. "Poet is a designation 1 don't feel worthy of at this time," guage and her intellectual capabil ities" and sing led out an "invi gorating and playful" she insists. Perhaps these lines from a prose poem, "Strategy of Change, " ostensibly style that "wi ll leave you craving more from this uniquely captivating poet." written about a friend, sum lip her thinking best:

/" ShilllO, the eight elements I-Iavillg no method of invention but the process of elimillolion­ of be(lIIty include imperll/tll/ellee IlIlorg(lIJized and rtllldom- i/yo/{ were 10 say all her efforts and /Jerishtlbilily, Choo1' one amOlmted to 1l0lhing, she'd 7101 find it s/lrprisillg. This does not deler her; as YOll r w(llermark. No. she doesn't beliet;e in entropy, WllliNlleJ her ceaseless creatiNg. Ihal is Ihe -wrong one. - From "What You See If You Use Water as a Mirror"

121 California I lIu;tlll e of Technology · VOLUME 4 1 NO. 2, 2 007 From left, the Alumni Associ­ ation's Jennifer Schmidt joins volunteer hon­ orees Ralph lin '02 and Ayeh FROM THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT­ Bandeh-Ahmadi WHAT CALTECH COMMUNITY REALLY MEANS '02.

When each of LIS first arrived as a student at Caltech, we learned about the Honor Code and chis entity call ed "the Cal tech Community," From my very first days on campus, jt was clear co me chac rh e Ca lrcch community included not only students, ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ESTABLISHES but also faculty and staff members. What was not immed iately obvioLis was chac it VOLUNTEER SERVICE AWARD also included alumni and other fr iends of the inscicurc. Frankly, char fa ce wasn't reall y apparent co me even afrer I g raduated, or even when I joined rhe Alumni As­ Throughout the United States and in many other parts of the world, sociation 's Board of Directors in 2000. rr didn't strike me until this very year during volunteers are an integral part of the Cal tech Alumni Association's pro­ my term as president of rhe Alumni Board. grams and servi ces. Several hundred Institute graduates regularly give Over the past yea r, I have witnessed time and again the amazing camaraderie and thei r time and expertise to recruit potential students, network with fe l­ strength of rhe Calrcch community across the generations. I t was ev id ent when the low Tec hers, plan events, host gatherings, and promote goodwill among women's and men 's basketball teams won their first ga mes (twO athletic conference members of the Caltech community. wins for the women!) and I received dozens of e-mai ls from alumni all over the world To honor rhe hard work, innovation, and commitment of our volun­ who had read the news and were beaming with pride. It came home to me aga in as teers, the Alumni Association has established the Volunteer Service Rec­ 1 was preparing for our Volunteer le'ddership Conference and realized that we have ognition Award, an honor that will be conferred annually upon alumni more than 700 alumni volunteers who donate thcir tin"lc and energy to engaging who exemplify excellence and dedication to fellow alumni, students, with students and alumni in both the United States and abroad. And perhaps tbe and the Caltec h community. The recipients of the inaug ural 2007 award mOSt obvious manifestation of tbe Ca ltcc h community spirit came during this year's are Ayeh Bandeh-Ahmadi '0 2 and Ralph Lin '02, both of W as hington, return of the infamous Inrcrhouse party. More than 300 alu mni showed up to share D.C., Keith Karasek '74 and Michelin Sioneker '95, both of Chicago, in the revelry and to celebrate the rebirth of a g re~lt tradition. and Kristin Polito '95 and An tony Chan '93, both of Pasadena . When I'm on ca mpus for CAA boatd meetings, J always make time to meet with Please donate you r time and talents! The Alumni Assoc iation has students one-an-one. Each meeting makes me realize that coday's students are much vo lunteer opportunities across several program arcas and all across t he more awa re than J was as a student that Caltech is a community tbat extends beyond country, even overseas! Volunteers are needed to help plan regional graduation. T hey ask me for help with campus in itiatives, seek advice on how best to events, recruit new Cal tech students, coordinate eminar Day and contaer alumni in va ri ous ind ustries, ask for advice on graduate school opti ons, and Reunion weekend, organize ca reer se rvice, and serve the Institute as a JUSt share Cal tech slOr ies and inquire about mine. 1 thoughl I was pretty savvy about whole. Contaer [email protected] for more information, or networking during my student days, but coday's Techers are fa r more so. They seem visit our Volunteering page at http://alumni.caltech.edu/volu nteering. instinctively to understand the imponance of building relationships across the gen­ erations, not only for career purposes, but also for establishing personal conneerions and engaging in plain old conversational camaraderie. As a CAA board member, 1 have had the opportunity to expand my generational friendships to include alumni from the 1940s all the way through the current decade. As a result, I have come to rea lize how much J have in common with alumni whom I never wou ld have met if J hadn't stayed in vo lved with the Cal tech community. I now have dozens of friends and mentors whom I wi ll cherish for years to come. So, why is all of this im portant to you? Because what I've discovered is that even if you haven't stayed in tOu ch with the Cal tech community, you can rekindle that bond at any time. Seven hundred of your fellow alumni spend time planning events and engaging with students every yea r. At least a thousand more attend evencs and get tOgether with other alumni soc ially and intell ectually, on a fairly regular basis. Still, that leaves thollsands more of you who are mi ss ing OLlt. You're missing out on the opportunity to reconnect and rediscover what you loved about Caltech (now that most of the pain has faded away!). There are so many ways to get started: by JUSt Award·winning volunteers Keith Karasek '74 (left) and Michelin Sioneker '95 going to the CAA website (alumni .caltech.edu) and finding an event in you r area to (right), nank the Alumni Association's Jennifer Schmidt and Karen Carlson. attend; by coming back to campus for Alumni College, Seminar Day, or reunions; or by signing up for a travel advencure with other Jnstitute alumni. And if you fmd yourself inclined to do something different or to share a personal passion, please sug­ gest an event YOlI would like to host. Just go to Oll r website and you'll find out from the Volunteer Toolkit how easy it is to get started. Maybe you'll be the one to con­ vince other alu mni that yodeling rea ll y is a fun group activity!!? Particularly if you "PLENTY MORE ROOM"-2007 ALUMNI COLLEGE can yodel the Ride of Ihe V(dkyries. WILL LOOK AT "TRENDS IN NANOSCIENCE" Althoug h several hundred of YOll voluntee r already, we always have space for new faces and new ideas. Reunions are a g reat way to get sca rred , as you get the chance to pick a fun event to host and connect instantly with dozens of your classmates. This ln L9 59, Richard Feynman told an at sc ientific progress in exploring and year we introduced Assoc iation-sponsored HOllse reunions, and we arc looking for audience of phys iciscs (in a talk subse­ exploiting the potential of the micro­ alumni who wane to reminisce about thei r favorite H ouse traditions and to suggest quently published in February 1960 in world and wi ll examine the Institute's ideas for evencs. Caltcch's E&S magazin e) that "there's role in these developments, 48 years Regardless of how you dec ide to reconneer with the Caltech community, remem­ plenty of room at the bottom." The after Feynman's original remarks. How ber that each of yo u makes the community the unique entity that it is-and it only future Nobel laureate was expounding are scientists fu lfill ing and expanding gets stronger when you rake your place as an active participant. on the potential for nanoscience, "a new on Feynman's visionary chall enge of the See you around the Community soon, field of physics," to change the very last century? And how will their dis­ way in which we think about science coveri es change the world tomorrow? and eng in ee ring. For additional information, con taer Save the dates to join fellow alumni J ennifer Schmidt at jennifer@alumni. and friends of Caltech for Alumni caltech.edu or 626/395-6592 or visit College 2007: "Plenty Mo re Room: http :lla Iu m n i .ca Ite ch .ed ul Iea rn i ngl Trends in Nanoscience," on Friday alumni_coll ege. a nd Saturclay, Septembe r 7 ancl 8. The event wi ll offer an in-depth look

131 Calltrh NtU'! ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOlOCY STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION SEPTEMBER 30. 2006 AND 2005 ASSETS 2005 200' restated Assets Cosh and cash equivolents $ 170.7\6 $ ISS.617 Accounts recei'o'oble 26.679 9,88<1 Prepaid expenses 7.337 18,226 Collech pooled inveslment occounts 7,311,683 6.740.584 Computer equipment

Total Auets S 7.516A15 $:6.927,311 LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS LiQbi1ltles Accounts payable .$ 35)'46 ", 7,368

Unrestricted Net Assets 7, 480.669 6,919,943

Dear Editor. and used that as a patching material. 1 Total Llobillties and Net Assets 1 7.516 .• 15 1 6.927.311 wonder how mLlcll dried toothpaste was STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES AND CHANGES IN NET ASSETS Enioyed The \'(/rilillgi i)J lhe recovered in [he remodeling? ... support, lIevenues and Other Income \Valls, on the remodeling of [he four 1 remember trying ro install stage Membership dues $ 74,990 I 66.9.04 5 student houses. YOLl asked for remi­ li g hting in the dining room (for Inter­ Life membership dues 195,025 92.390 niscences- here are a few that never house) and discovering chac the beams Seminor dey 68.830 68.245 made it into Legends oJCalt ech. co whi<:h on [he cei lings were fake, simply by Alumni college (continuing education I 39,230 15.545 J contributed, along with editing rhe firing a stud gun into one of chern and Closs reut1ions 34.914 22,.0458 yearbook and doing al\ kinds of other li stening to rhe projectile rattle around Regional programs 20,480 29.831 nonscientific things in the years J was between [he floors. Tro'ol81 study programs 19.COO there. I remember the story we were tOld Ne t investment returns - pooled accounts 688,878 1,156.633 I entered Cal tech as a freshman in by buildings anel grounds [hat [he Interest (ncome 6,311 4, 178 rhe fall of J 963, and lived in Fl eming ro06ng tiles used on rhe buildings \Vere Miscelloneous Income 5,556 2.510 House in the "old Swelent H ouses" no longer made, and that therefore the for my fi rst three yeats, moving alit to Institute had to buy older homes in Tolol Support. Revenues ond other Income 1.153.214 1.458.735 preserve some sanity my senior year. Pasadena and rear them down [Q get J don't remember any writing on the replacements. This waS the justification Ex.penses walls. I do remember having [0 pay for for reully huge charges for roof repairs. Program Expenses walls being painted, and my supposi­ - Robert D. Parker '67 Semin()r day 93,985 88.023 tion is that, in those years, rhe building Calef/a Forest, Reno, Nevada

Alumni c~ege Icontlnuing education) 56.864 38,823 and g rounds people would have imme­

Closs reunions 82,311 58.575 diately repainted any such decorations. 1 was appalled by Dave Zobel's r remember the end-of-quarcer bon­ article The \'Vriling'j ill the \'(/aIIJ, in Reglonol progrom~ 98.048 99,014 fire in the courtyard where all the New which he g lorifies [he graffiti in [he Travel study programs '2,920 York Timej copies from hated Humani­ stllclenc houses. Anyone who sees artis­ New Opportunities - undesignoled funds 17,500 1.200 ties 5 class were burned. I remember tic value in this would be captivated Comrnunicolions - eleclronlc 20.573 34.1 42 waking in tile middle or the night to by the views frolll Amtrak ,goi ng into Communications - prinl 75,171 50.337 [he sound of my door being kickecl in, south L.A., where every flat surface is MembershIp 11.371 16,135 and seeing a Pasadena fireman stand­ covered with gang graffiti . Do we wane Undergraduale admissions support 37.029 53,032 ing there in full tllrn-Q ue gear (there this on Our campus? Career services 15.1 40 25,941 was a sm oldering fire in the basement I can remember that many years ago Sponsorships 7.500 11,558 arca that we affectionately called the when Calecch sought to expand, we "infinite storeroom" that Was filling the received a rather cold reception ftom Total Program Expenses 501.614 493.578 rooms in thar area with smoke). Pasadena, in part because rhe campus I remember how rare it was that Administration Expenses 98.910 80,225 was drab and the landscapin,g: was plire a stlldent, usually an upperclass man, ice plant. Today the campus is a show­ Total Expenses 592.488 581.839 would have an actual telephone in hi s place, and is even used as an exemplary room . Televisions were even rarer; 1 background in ~J TV seri es. Bur rhe last Change In Net "nels 560.726 876,896 think when 1 was there, the only one rime I rook my son to Seminar Day in [he house belonged [Q [he [esidem I avoided showing him where I once Net Assets, Beginning of Year 6.919,943 6,043,047 associate (and we were g lued to th,lt, lived (Dabney) because i[ looked like watching the events fo ll owing the an inner-ci ty slum. To permit this to Net "neb, End of 'feor ! 7,480,669 $6.919.943 STATEMENTS OF CASH flOWS assassination of J ohn Kennedy). Wire­ happen is bad management. Cosh flows tram Opetatlng Activities less internet-wow! I'm a\l (or (reedom o( expression, Cash received ',om service fecipients $ 441. 230 $ 270,236 I remember rhe upperclassman bur it used to be worehy of ehe staeure Cash paid 10 SUPPliers and employees (553.221) 1573.1511 foo[ba\l playe[ (if ever [here was an ofCal[ech . The famous moclifica[ion Interest and dividends received 122.908 122.265 oxymoron i[ was "Calcech Foo[ball of UCLA's sig nature stum in [he Rose Player") who knocked a hole in an alley Bowl rook genius. Gra(f.[i rakes a

Net Cosh Provided by (USed In) Operating Activities 10.917 ,180.6501 wall between Fleming and Dabney by vacant mind and a spray can. MIT g ift "blocking it." T-shirts that sa id "the othcr Institllte I remember the srudent who bathed of Technology" and "because nor eve[y­ Cash flows from "wesllng Activities so seldom rhat rhe entire all ey he lived one can go ro Caltech" were good, bue Net change in Callech pooled investments 1.182 147.565 in was almost uninhabitable. 1 remem ­ where were our studenc geniuses when ber students fashioning Wilter balloon we lost the robotic car challenge to Nellncreose (Decreose) In Cash 12.099 133.0851 slingshots [Q shell [he new houses, and Harvard and Stanford? J( [he studenrs occasionally Blacker House. I remem­ want to burn off some energy and show Cash and Cosh Equivalents, Beginning 158.617 191.702 ber the stories about the synchrotron their initiati ve, there are plenry of out­ "losi ng the beam" and irradiating the lets that are more sa tisfy ing than foul ­ Cosh and Cosh fqulvolenls. Ending ! 170,716 ! 158.617 second story rooms of Fl eming and ing their own nest. Reconciliation of the Chong. In Het Anets Dabney [hat faced it. I also remember J would suggest [hat Caltech News To Nel Cosh Provlded bV (Used In) Operating Acl\vllies students throwing beer bottles high write an article promoting the Veysey Change in Net Assels $ 560.726 $ 876.896 in the air so that rhey came down re­ Swdent Life Disc re[ionary fund, which Adjustments to feconc:le the change In net os.sels soundingly on the rrailers that housed is dedicated to encourag ing and ac­ to nel cosh plo... ldect by (used Inl operollng ocli ... llif!s rhe sy nchrotron physics g raduate Stu­ celerating the underg rad uate student's Realized and l.Ifl(e

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MATTER OF THE 1945 and in 1981 he was named by the American FEYNMANIZED Linden R. Burzell , of Vi sra, California, has Public Works Assoc iation as one of the Top Ten FRESCO been inducted by the American Water Works Public Works Lead ers of the Yea r. Association (AWWA) into its Water Industry Hall of Fame. He begun hi s six.decadc caree r .. I n the laSt Caltech N ews 1947 in the water industry as a U.S. Navy ensign in Edwin J. Cowan, of Newport Beach, Ca li for­ .' Dave Zobel '84 opened his 1945. when he was assigned to assist the res i­ nia, writes that he is happil y married to Ilelene. medication on South House dent officer administering construCtion 0 11 the his bride of 17 years, and that si nce retiring he wa ll art (The Writing's in the firs{ San Diego AqueduC{. lie joined the Visra has traveled to 40 countri es. The patio heater Walls) with rhe conjecture Irrigation Di stri C{ (VID) in 1946 as its distriC{ he invented in 1961 is now sold worldwide. that the stenciled name engineer, and by 195 1 was general manager and He founded hi s former company- Infrared "feynman" on the Dabney chief engi neer. In 1964, he moved to rhe Sa n Dynamics, of Yorba Linda, C:t1iforn ia- in 1966. courtyard bas-relief featllr­ Diego County Water Amhoriry (SDC WA ) as H is current in terest is a new company, Shuttle ing luminaries of science irs new gcneral manager and chi ef engi neer, a Dynam ics, through which he plans to develop quite possibly qualified as the pos ition he held for the next 20 years. He has an elevated hi8 h-speed rail system for shuttling complex's founding g raffico. also worked as a private engineeri ng consu ltant cars on freeways. See www.shurrledynamics.com to the Borrego Springs Waec r Company and for morc information. Shortly afterward, he heard the Borrego \'qater District, and after leaving from Allen Schwenk '68 , who SDCWA he added both it and the Yuima Mu­ 1948 wrote chat he had been present at rhe creation of that particular embell ishmem, and nic ipal Water District to hi s li st of clients. [n Yuan·Cheng "Bert" Fung, PhD, professor of was quiee sure char he remembered rhe day, the rime, the precipitating incident, and 1992 he re joined VJ D as a di rector. A registered bioengi neering, emeritus, at UC San Oi e8o'S rhe perpcrracors. professional civi l engineer, he served for eight Jacobs School of Engineering, received the "The morning ofOnober 22 , 1965," wrote Schwenk, who coday is a mathemat­ Ye'drs on the Regional Water Quality Concrol National Academy of Engineering's Fritz J . and ics professor at Western Michigan University, "about 8:30 .. .J came through the Board and is also a member of the Am eri can Dolores H. Ru ss Pri ;(;e on February 20. The Dabney I-Iollse arch on my way co breakfast. r had to divert arollnd a rail stepladder Soc iety of Ci vil Engineers and the Am erican $500,000 biennial award, which recognizes blocking the way. As 1 did, I looked up and saw a frosh, J bel ieve it was Mark Bartelt Public Works Association . H is AWWA honors engineering achievement thar sign ificantly im ­ (BS '69, MS '70), painstakingly lette[ing 'Feynman' ontO the frieze above the arch, inc lude the George Elliot Award, the George W. proves rhe human condition, went to Fung "for I was amused, and [hought, 'Better enjoy this whil e it laStS, Band G wi ll probably Pull er Award, and the Gold Water Drop Award , the characterization and modeling of human tis- wash jt off next week. ' J am charmed to know it is sti ll there. .. Can YOll believe an old-timer like me can remember the precise date arter 41 yea rs? In truth I looked up the date of the event that occurred the day before, and added one. That was the day we heard the most stunning news of my fouf years at Tech ." That is to say, it was the day Feynman won the Nobel Prize for helping to untang le the intricacies of quantum electrodynamics, or QED. In a fo llow-up e-mail, Schwenk sounded a Aerospace industry slig htly more tentarive nore, commenting that "While J feel very certain about the legend Silllon Ramo, date, I imagine it could have been a day or twO later, but no more. The time and Ph D '36, has recei ved painter may be in doubt. .. I have nOt seen [Mark] or communicated with him enough medals and si nce g raduation. But I found an e-mail address for him .... So he might be reached awards (Q weigh down even a four· to confirm or deny. Maybe Band G are waiting to send him a bill. " star general, but in The e-mail trai l obli gingly led back to the Caltech campus, where Bartelt March he received a has worked for many years as the lead system administrator for the Center for double honor that had Advanced Computing Research. H e had not done the deed, he said, but thanks to somehow eluded him. hi s mother, who called him about l8 months ago, "to come get your old stuff or 1'm To mark the 50th throwing it our," he had incontrovertible photographic proof of those who had. H e anniversary of his identified the foursome who, as he put it, "Feynmanized the fresco" as (clockwise cofounding of Space Technology Laboratories (STL) in Redondo Beach, the city's mayot from top left) Joe Jeffrey, Paul Ba[tlett, Dave Peeasso, and Bob Pelzmann, presented Ramo with the keys to the ci ty, and a Street was also named after him on che So, would that make him rhe one who rook rhe picture? Confesses Bartelt, grounds of the rocility. "1 honestly don't remember whether 1 did." Among his numerous accomplishments as an electrical engineer helping de­ velop rhe fielel of microwave electricity, Ramo is best known as the co·founder (along with his Caltech classmate Dean Wooldridge, PhD '36) of TRW, the aerospace and technology company acquired by Northrop Grumman in 2002. Ramo, who curns 94 in Ma y, was honored at the ceremony by hundreds of Northrop Grumman employees, old friends amI colleagues, and several members of (he Caltech community, including Caltech president Jean-Lou Chameau. Chameau cold the audience how Ramo had overcome numerous obstacles as a graduate studenr, including passi ng a required French exam without ever having studied The solution for the language. "I think I can make the case that rhe ingenuity, inventiveness, and, yes, Dave Zobel's cross­ audacity {hat have served Si Ramo so well throughout hi s illustrious career were forged at word, "A Rough Map of the Caltech Calre<:h ," Undergraduat e TRW formed STL in 1957, (he sli me yC'M chat the Soviet Union shocked [he Houses," published world with rhe launch ofSplitnik I, the first arcificial satellite. STL won (he first spncecraft in t he last issue of comract issued by NASA for its Pioneer series, and Pioneer lO,launch{.-d in 1972, became Ca/tech Hews, the first craft to leave the solar system. appears at right From a single engineering building, Space Technology Laborarories has ex~ and can also be paneled to a 47-build ing campus, where 7,300 employees develop a wide range of space, found online at defense, and electronics technologies. Many of those em ployees came OLlt to cheer Ramo, http:I'pr,caltech . who was on hand for the ccremolly, but did not speak. Afterwards, he was surrounded by edu/periodicals/ CaltechN ews/ar­ many old friends who shook his hand and hugged him. ticles/v4 1/solut ion. One of chose enthusiastic employees was Al exis Livanos '70, PhD '75, president html. (Theme of Space Technology and corporate vice president for Northrop Grumman. "Si Ramo is not entries a re one egg only very bright, but also very effective in providing feedback in an honest and humorOlls ove r easy, ridiculed, way," Livanos £old the crowd. "I-Ie's truly lin inspiration ro all of us." Myrna Loy, Patch Asked after the ceremony how it felt ro have a strect named after him and to be Adams, crick- awarded the keys to the city, Ramo replied, "It isn't the awards or street nnme that marrero ets, fl aming out, It's the friendships. The people." What's the secret to his longevity? "The secrC[ is, it's a deep kn ee bends, secret," said Ramo. "I'm 93 and I don't look a day over 92 and a ha lf." Bleecker Street,)

I S I Co/tech Neun R ic h ~lr d Bo nd , MS '75, PhD '79, Univer­ sity Professor in the University of Toronto's ~ue mechanICs and funcriun leading to preven­ significa nt comriblllions [Q the enginee ring department of astronomy and astrophysics, tion lind mitigation oftnluma." Known liS the litemture," and to the "pioneering of new und and di rcctor of the C.'lnadian Institute for "f.lther of modern biomech.miu." Fung, accord­ developing fields of technology, making major Advanced Resea rch (CIAR) Cosmology and Ing to the (lcademy, ha.~ "dm:ctiy wntriburcd advancements in traditional fields of engineer­ Gravity Program, is the winner of both rhe to desi,i.;ns. inventiolls, and app li nlfion~ that ing or developing/i mplementing Innovative ap­ 2006 Gerhard Herzberg G lnado Gold Medal save lives, mitigate the severity of soft tissue proaches to enginee ring ed uca tion." Cofounder for Science and Engi neering-:lrd. r('Ceived the Herzberg Medal, named fo r Medal of Science, in 2000. For more on his con­ I-I e and Ill S institute colleaglle Valerie Log.tIl C.'lnadian Nobel laureate Gerhard Ilen;berg, from the Narural Sciences and Engineering rribullon ... and ca ree r, check out rhe 20{)0 Called) have .Ibo received one of the fi rst-ever Science Resea rch Counci l ofC.'\nuda on March 19 at a ce remony in Ottawa. New! art iel(' "Baldeschwieler and Fung Go to Edllcation Advocatc Awards of Washington He was honored in the natural-sciences ca tegory of the Ki llam Prizes and will Washingon." at htrp :llpr.ca l[ cc h .ed u / ~rioJi - State LASE R (Leadership and A ssi~ tance for Sci­ receive a cash prize of $ 100,000. Establishc..'C1 in 1981 through funds donated by Dorothy c .11 s/C:.1[('( h N ('ws/:m ic lesl v ,41 na t meda Is. h t m I. ence Educlnion Reform), which recogni zes five Killam in memory of her husband, Izaak, the prizes are administered by the Canada individuals, organiZlltions. li nd prujeCl t(:ams Council for t he Arts and "provide support ro scholars of exceptional abiliry who are 1955 "whl.) h~lv e exhibited oursr:anding advocacy fo r enguged in research projectS of brood significance and widespread imcrcs(." Ilemy P. Schwarcz, MS, PhD '60. profes- s( ience education in the state of Washing ron by "Winning the Ki ll am Prize was a roml shock to me lind obviollsly a great hon· sor cmerirus in the School ofGrogmphy and promotlllg the impormnLe of sc.. ic:nce (·ducarion or," Bond rold reporters. "To win both the Killam Prize and the Herl.berg Gold M(-dal in G('ology at McMaster Unlv('rsity, in Hamilton, llmong the geneml publiL andlor the education [he same year proves that this really is the year of the cosmic microwave background in Ontario. has been awarded the Canadian Quater­ system ."' The awards include $5.000 for each re­ rhat three other rnnjor awards given to other reseu rchers, including the Nobel Prize ch is nary Aww.:iarion·s 2007 W. A. j ohnston Medal cipient, whi ch can be g ivc: n HI til(' not-for-profit yea r, we re for this area. J g uess the Big Bang is here to stay." for "outulInding professional contriburions to organi zarion or public-educlltion entity of the Bond should know. He is internationall y recognized for his investigations into qu:uernary studies .. ' A pioneer in the usc of recipienr's choice for use in sc ience cdllCarion. the nature of the microwave background- the rel ic mdiation of the Big Bang, which isotopt dar.\ from speltmhems (mineral delx)si rs Ilood is curremly a visiring associate in biology gave birth to the cosmos. In the 1980s, he and Cambridge University cosmologist fo rmed III GiVe'S, such as swlactl tes, 5w iagmitl's, at G lltl"Lh. George Efsta(hiou developt.-d theoretical models showing how minute fluctuations in this and crystal growths) for palrorempemture and otherw ise uniformly distribuR-d radiation could provide important clues to the shape, mher pall'oenvironmcntal recnnstruLtlOn S, as 1964 size, age, and compos irion of the early universe, and this work has played a key role in well as rheir use in dating, Schwarcz ha.lO research Mason L. Williams has received the 2007 tmnsforming cosmology into an increasingly precise sc ience over the ]:Ist tWO decades. illll'rl'stS th:ll mnge from Jluleo:uuhropology Reynold B. j ohnson Dara Storage Dt'vice 'It-ch· From 1996 to 2006, Bond se rved as director of the Canad ian Instinae for and lIrchaeological gt.'Ology to the application of nology Award from the Insritute of Electrical Theoret ical Asrrophys ics (CrrA), overseeing rhe design and developmem of a series of stablL· isotopes ro mL"(eived his PhD by a mathematician and a linguist ," he writC"S. tmdemark applications, both nationally and snaillOxins, such as potent painkillers that can "NLP ( lin actually do much of whut psychology from usc. internationally, also cOlillsds cliems in patem be admin istered to patients who do not respond promised some' hundred ye:lfs ago. bllt never prosecution lltrategy, assessing intellecnml prop­ to morphine. qui te delivered. A previous book, Trdlu/orllJillg 1966 erry for business transactions and/or litigarion, W'ah er Arabasz, MS, PhD '7 1, d irector of the l'OII Y Self: Becoming \'(Iho l'oll \'(Ialll 10 Be. explored and technology licensing, and he has in addition David Sch wartz, chairm:m of Bio- Rad labora­ University ofUrah Se ismograph Stations and the structurc of se lf-concept, and how (() lise provided advice on the [fea rmenr of patent tories. has received the 2007 Piuton l-I e r ita~e those underswndings to rapidly change how research professor of geology and gcophysics, has royalties undet Intcrnal Revenue Code S('ction AW:lrd . which honors scientls[s who have madl' been named a member of the Advisory Commit­ you think of yourself." Andreas has produced 1235. Previously he was a partner with Wall outstanding contributions 111 analycical dWllli .. - tee on Earthquake I lazards ReduCtion, which is more t han SO videotaped demonstrations of Marjama & Bilinski LLP in Boston, and prior to try and spectroscopy. at the annual Pittsburgh pan of the National Earthquake Hazurds Reduc­ Nl. P processes, and writccn SO articles and book that, he was an assoc iate professor in the electri­ Conference & Exhibition on Analytical Chemis­ (ion Program. The IS- member committee chnprers, many of which can be found lit www. ca l eng ineering deparrmenr of the University of try & Applied Spectroscopy. Since Schwartz and steveandreas.com . I-lis major hobby is coll ect­ will advise the program, which wus creared by Massachusetts-Lowell. He received a PhD in his wife, Ali ce, cofound ed Bio-Rad in 1952, the Congress in 1977 ro improve c:lrthqUllke safety. ing and researching the paimings of Charles inorganic chemistry from the Polytechnic In­ company has evolved into a g lobal enrcrpri se, Ori~inally an Eng lish major at Boston College, Pam idge Adams, an C'.l rl y Colorado impression­ stitute of Brookl yn in 1971. an MBA from the munuf.lc turing and distributing n broad ran,gc A raba.~z did well on his geology midtcrm, and ist artist (1858- 1942), and some of the results University of Maryland, College Park, in 1981, of products for life-sciences research and clinica l hi s professor convinced him ro change his major. of this can be found at www.charlespartridgead- and a jD cum laude from New England School diagnostics, and is coday known worldwide I-Ie joined the University of Utah in 1974 as a ams.com. of L'lW in 1999. among hospitals, universi tle ... , and biotechnol­ rcsearch professor in seismology. ogy and pharmaceucical wmpanies. 1960 BaldoOlcro M . Olivera, PhD, professor ofbio­ I I. W ilhelm Behrens, PhD, of Northrop Leroy Hood, PhD '68. already a member of the chemi lO try and neurosci('nce ar [he University of 1967 National Academy of Sciences, the American Grumman Space Technology, has been elected a Utah, was honored by the Harvard Foundation Gerard Bloch . MS, has joined rhe GEVERS fell ow of rhe American Institute of Aeronuutics Ph ilosophica l Society, the Aml'tican Associa­ for Intercultural and Race Relations as irs 2007 GrOllI', a European leader in inrellenual­ and Astronaurics, "for more than 70 years the tion of Arrs and Sc iences, li nd the Instiwte of Sc ientist of the Yea r in March. P a.~r honorees propcrty law. "Founded in 1898 by j acques Mt'tlici ne, has been elected to membership in principal society of the aerospace engineer und have included Mae J emison. the fi rst black Gevers," he writes, "the GEVERS Group. with scientist. Our m iss ion is to advance the arts, the National Academy of Engineering "for the femal e astronaut, and math reacher Jaime Es­ its fami ly feeling, developed an active and invention and commercialization of key instru­ sc iences, and technology of aeronautics und calante, whose outsranding career as an educator dynamic management, combining the skills of astronaurics, and to promote the professionalism ments. notably the automated DN A sequencer, served liS rhe basis of the film S/(I1ul mill Delir'tr. profess ional managers and experts. With an of rhose engaged in these pursuits." Behrens is a (hat have enabled the biotechnology rcvolu­ After completing postdoctor.d work ar Stanford, overall staff of 140 people, it incl udes about (ion." One of the hig hest professional distinc­ Cal tech Associate. Olivero, a native of rhe Phil ippines, began doing 40 patent attorneys and trademark anorneys." tions accorded to an engi neer, NAE member­ resc:urch on rhe deadly cone snails that live in GEVERS, he adds, is the world leader in the shi p honors those who h:lve made outstanding Joseph B. Milstein has joined the new Bos­ that nation's waters. H is research inco neurotOx­ field of community trademarks, and the Belg ian ton-area office of Hiscock & Barclay LLP as a contributions to "engint!ering resea rch, practice ins isolated from snuil venom has led to a bereer leader in parent matters. He lOe rves as president or education, including, where appropriate, of BLOCI-I & G EVERS in P.lris, :Ind the firm

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rafLIS." I-I e and hi S reams have also made (I shift develorx:d for air-condirioning applications, has of technology, making major advancements in inm rhe field of hydrogen bonds. Noted for his won rhe Best Green Motor Conrroller award, 1976 traditional field s of engineering or develop­ career as hoth an educator ancl a researcher, he and its I RMCF.?4 I, a sensork'SS control inte­ Srcli os Kyriakides, MS, PhD 'SO, director, ing/implemenring innovative :Ipproaches to has been at U\VI since 1984. The duration of g rared ci rwit in (he iMOTJON platform devel ­ Cemer (or Resea rch in Mechanics ofSolic!s, engineering education." Kyriakides has served hi .. fir .. r term as dean will be five years. oped fo r di rect-d rive washing machines. took Structures and Materia ls, and Temple Founda­ on UT Austin's College of Engineering faculty rion Endowed Professor, depanmenc of aero- since 1980. The recipient of a National Science

(7 1Ca/ Iuh NtlllJ Foundation Presidential Young Invest igator November. and was appointed associate d irector cleet riCld and computer engineering, and res ides Am('rican Chemiclll Sociecy (ACS) Award for Awa rd in 1984, he has published more chan 100 fo r srrmeg ic research in February 2005. He in I... '!. J olla with hi s wife, Kimberl y. and their Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceuti- technical articles and reports and was a 1997 prev iously w:ts a professor of geosciences at the son, Gabriel J r. Ar UCS D, he leads a g rou p of cal Research. An award symposiu m was held ASME Fellow. I-lis research focuses on instabi li ­ University of Arizona. He was also an associate 18 PhD students and postdocs doing rese'drch in her honor in March by the Computers in ties thar limir rhe extent to which solids, StruC­ in the applied mathematics gmduat(' prog ram, in RF MEMS (radio-frequency m icro-electro­ Chemistry division at the 233rd ACS national tures. and macerial s can be loaded or defo rmed. curator of the University of Arizona Mi neral mechanical systems). m icrowave and mi lli mcter­ meeting in Chicago. C'!.rter's honors include Museum, and d ireclOr of t he Southern Ari zona wave CMOS/SiGe RrlCs, and planar ;Intennas. awards. medals, and fellowships of the ACS, (he 1979 Seismic Observatory. The din'ctor of the DA RPA S&T Ceneer for RF Ameri can V:lCu um Soc iety, the American Phys i­ Carlto n Caves, PhD, a member of the physics MEMS Reliability and Desig n Fundamentals cui Society, the Ameri can Associat ion for the and astronomy faculty at the Uni versity of N ew Catherine Strader, PhD, has been named and a member of the Center fo r Wi reless Com­ Advance ment of Science, and the Intetnarional Mexi co, is one of I I professors ro havl' ocen senior vi ce presidcm, sc ience and technology. municocions, he can be reached at rebeiz@ece. Academy of Quantum Molecular Sci ence. Afrer promottd to the rank of disli ng uished profes­ at Sc hering-Plough Corpo ration. In rhis new ucsd .edu. 16 years on the chemistry and materials science sor, the hig hest rank bestowed on UNM f.'!. culty. position, reponing directly to the company faculry at UCLA, she moved to Princeton in Disting uished professors "a re individuals who chairman and CEO, she wi ll participate in cor­ JuJie Straub, MS '83, has been promoted to September 2004 as a professor of mechanical have demonstrated outswnding achievemenrs porate actions. including business deve lopment executive di recw r of resea rch at Acusphere and aerospnce eng ineering and applied and and are narionlilly and internationally rcnownl-d ancllicensing . centered on external sc ience and Inc., a specialty pharmaceut ical company that computational marh('matics, wi th appointments liS scholll rs." A fe llow of the America n Physicdl technology. Since joining the company in 1995 develops new drugs and improved fo rmulations as associated fa culty in the Princeton Instin a e Soc iety and a member of the American Associa­ as vice pre~ icl e m, CNS (centrJI n('rvous sysrem), of existing d rugs throug h its propriecary micro­ for Computational Sc ience and Eng ineering, tion fo r the Advllncement of Sc ience, Caves has cardiovascul:lr and genomics resea rch, Stradt! r sphere technolog y. Since joini ng Acusphere in in the Princeton Institute fo r t he Science and r«eived the Einstein Prize for I...'!.se r Sc ience has held positions of increas ing res ponsihi l- 1995, Straub has been involved in eve ry research 'I(:chnology of Material s, and in the chem istry from the Society fo r Optical and QlIllntlim ity ancl WitS appointed chief sc ientifi c offi ce r in project at the company, and in her new role and chemical engineering departments. She was Electron ics and has bttn honorl'(l three t imes 2006. With more than 150 publications to her she wi ll oversee formulation suppOrt , phllrma­ named Marks Professor 10 2006. !-I er resea rch for Excellence in Teaching at UN M. I-lis areas credir, she is:1 recogni zt!d expert in the field of ceuties, analytical research, and prec li ni cal and focuses un underswnding how materia ls fai l d ue of expertisc include the phys ics of information, receptor biolog y ancl led the g roup rhat identi­ inrelJ « tual-propertyactivicies. Prior to joi ning to chemical and mechan ical cfft,cts and how to quantum information theory, quantum chaos, fi ed the molecular rargt!t of Zctia (ezerimibe), a Acusphere. she work('d at Al kermes Inc., whert! optimall y prot('([ materia ls against fnilure. quantum optics, the theory of nonchtss icallight, medicltrion that has helped thousands of people she was involved in research on microparcicle­ the theory of quantum noise , and qU:Lntum worldwide lower their cholest(·rol. Sc hering­ based d rug-delivery systems, receptor-mediated 1989 theory measurement. Ploug h is a g lobal sc ie l1 (('-basoo hea lth-cor(' d rug-delivery systems, and med icinal chem istry. Dean El zinga writes, " M y parmer, Ron company providing prescription, consumer, T he invemor on 22 issued U.S. pat('nrs and the BUlkmirc, and I reccndy cel ebrated our 16th 1980 and animal-health products. Throug h imernal lIuthor of 22 publications, Straub received her anniversa ry. He was g ranted tenure at Occi­ Te r ry Wall :u:e, MS, PhD 'S" has been nllmed research and collaborations with partners, it PhD in chemistry from M IT. dental College in 2004, and we recently boug ht Los Alamos Nat i ona ll~ l ~mll ory's princi pa l discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets ou r first home in rhe Mon(('cito I leig hts area of assoc illte direc tor for science. t« hnolngy and advanced d rug thempies. 1984 Los Angeles, adjacent (Q South Paslldena. Ron engineering. I-I e had I)(:<: n acti ng associat(' di­ J effrey Pugh, MS, PhD, '88 has joined MySQL is now chair of the O xy Math Dept lind I am 10 r« tor since Los AllIOl O<; National Security took 1983 AB , developer of d,(' world '~ mOst popular open­ yellr'i inrn my freelance classical s in ~ ing CMeer. over the I

181 C alIfo rn ia I tl slillitt of T u hfl ol ogy • VOLUME 4 I NO.2, 20 07 o b t u a r e 5 1999 Shana O . Ke lley. PhD, professor ofbiochemis­ try and pharmacy at the Universi ty of Toromo, has r(.'(civ(.-d rhe 2007 Pirrsburgh Conference Achievemenr Award fro m the Pittsburg h Con­ ference and rhe Society for Analytical Chem- isrs of Pirc"burgh. Her current rCSC'J. rch is on 1928 Elmer, MS '47, Eng. '48, on March 8, 2006; 1962 clcvelnping m:w nanoscalc sensors for disease George R. Crane, on February 13,2006. William M, Hamilto n, MS , on May 24, 2006. Peter Edgar Hare, PhD, on May 5, 2006; diagnosis, Jod in 2001 shecofollndcd GcneOhm \Vill iam J . 1·logan, on OctOber 19,2006. Sciences, a company devoted to developing 1929 1944 new clinical diagnostics. The annual Pins­ Andrew V. Haeff, MS, PhD '32, on Novem­ Ho lt Ashley, Ex , on Mny 9, 2006; Cl ifford 1. 1966 burgh Conference and Exhibition on Analytica l ber 16, 1990; Joseph A, Niles, on October 5, Cummings, on july 8, 2006; J . Hobert Free­ Halph S. Hage r, PhD, on September 29, 2006. Chemistry and Applied Spccrroscopy, helel this 2006. man Jr.,on july 2, 2006; Robert F. Ll]abs, year in Chicago, recognizes scientists who have on April 15, 200 5; Hobert P. Phipps, MS, on 1968 macl(' outstanding concribllrions ro those fields. 1930 j al1lmry 17,2006. Leonard M . "Bi ll " Stephenson, PhD, on Kell ey's other honors include rhe Resea rch Tomatsu T, H iyama, on January 18,2006; August 26, 2006. Corporation Innovati on and National Sc ience Robert W , \Vil son, MS '32, PhD '36, on June 1945 Foundation Career awards, and sdection as an 26,2006. Halcyon Ball, on October ." 2006; George 1977 Al fred P. Sloa n Fellow. S. Budney, on May 2 1,2006; Lawrence E. Stephen R, Walton, on November I I , 2006. Wilfcrth J r., on july 28, 2006. Erik Severin, PhD, has been Ilamed regional 1935 J ackson Edwards, on September 19,2006. 1979 manager, Asia, fo r P. Kay Mctallnc., and 1946 Gregory S. Hoffman, MS 'SO, on March 25, will head the company's first Asian office. in 1936 J ohn O . Crum, MS, on March 10, 199-1; Carl 2006. Shenzhcn, China, slIPlxming tbt· market-de­ Clarence G(K)(lheart, on June 4, 2006; Richardson, MS, j anuary 26, 2006; Paul C. velopment effortS of \'(Ion8's Kong King and r. Ricks Jr., on Apr il 2, 2006; Morris Skurka, 1982 other MS2 d istribution partners throughom rhe MS,on June 18.2006. Stuart R. Stampkc, PhD, on May 2 1,2006. Asia-Pacific region. Severin has bet'n working 1937 Thomas S. H arper, on j anuary 20, 2006. in new business developmenr and wi th start-up 1947 1987 companies for (he past sevt'n Y('ars, and hi s Wi ll iam C. Cooley, MS, on October 27,2006; Lada Po povic. MS, on J :lIluary 25. 2003. PhD reseanh ae G dtel h, whi(h fO<':lIsed on new 1938 Henry T, Nagarnatsu, OS '39, MS '40, PhD Stephen F. Moran 111 , on june 2 1,2006; materi als and instrumentation, led to more than '49, on May 15, 2006, Norman C. Petcrson, MS, PhD '49, on J uly 4, 2002 a dozen issued patents and peer-reviewed papers. 2006; Calho un \V. Su mrall , MS , on May 29, Neal S, Reeves, on OCtober I I , 2003. P. Kay Mt tal is thc deve loper of the MS2(TM) Molten So lder Sur(.'\cCrtnt, the process that elimi­ 1939 2006. \Vi ll imll I!. Bcrg, MS '40, on OCtober 27, 2006; nares dross in electronics mamd:,\Cturing, Robert W, Winche ll , MS '40, BS '4 1, on J une 1948 2000 2 ~ , 2()(){,. J oseph N . Benezra. MS, Eng '49, on Novem­ ber 10,2006; Albert H. Hcdden, MS, on July Mi chelle Armond writes liut she and Alex­ 1940 4, 2004; l ~ d\Vard A. (Bohjancn) North, on AN AVIARY BY ANY OTHER NAME! ander Ihler '98, who rece ived his PhD from Stephen E. BleweH, MS '42. on March 3 1, August 4, 2006. M IT in 2005, were married in August 2006 2006; Robert C. Brumficld , MS '4 1, PhD '43, in J small seas ide ce remony in Laguna Beach, A sizeable number of bird. call the on December 29, 2002; Frederic C. E. "Fritz" California. "Follow ing our wedding, we spent 1949 Caltech campus their home. Oder, MS '4 1, on May 11, 2006; George F, Patrick D. Doherty, on August 2, 2006; Don our honey moon in J apan. In ea rly 2007, we Several more species stop over for dcpan oo Southern California and moved co \"'heeler. MS, on January 15,200 I. H. Pickrell J r" MS '50, PhD '56, on J uly II , the winter, some choose to nest here 2006; Jo hn D. Hichartz, on November 13, Chicago. Al ex is currently an ass ismlH research during the spring, and others merely 194 1 2006; Albert M , Taylor, MS, on March 3, professor at the Toyota Technological lnsticure Paul S, Farrington, MS '47, Eng '48, PhD T. visit for the day or two ... or three. at the University of Chicago." Armond, who 2006; \Vi ll inm Vickrey, on April 25, 2006. 'S O, on May 20, 2006; Hic hard £1, Silberstein , Our back-page collage showcases a rece ived her JD from UC Berkeley in 2003, MS '42, on July 26, 2006; J oh n D. Spikes, selection of the Institute's feath- has joined the patent law praCt ice at Marshall, 1950 MS '46, PhD '48 on June 14, 2006; Charles Donald H. Baer, MS, on Oerober 25, 2006; ered friends, starting (top, left) with Gerstein & Oorun LLP, tl Chi<.:ago inlC'llect ual H . "Terry" Terhune Jr., Eng, on August 30, J ames H . I-I ottenroth, MS, on February I, four raven fledglings who, from the property law firm . 2006; Thomas I I. Wiancko, MS, on November 2000; Ralph L. Merrill , MS, on Aug ust 26, shelter of a window niche above the 2001 17,2006. 2006. president's office in Parsons-Gates, Matthew Allen, PhD, a biochl:'rnisny postdoc­ are doing their best to proclaim their 1942 1951 toral researcher at rhe UnlverslrY of Wisconsin­ putative descent from the dinosaurs. Sheldon \V. Brown, Eng, on May 15,2006. Charles Oates, on September 28, 2006; Madison, has won (hl:' Pathway to Independence Continuing clockwise, we find a red­ Raymo nd H. Grcuterr, I3S '53; Gerald M. award for ourscanciin!-\ postdr)(s who intend to crowned parrot; a black-throated gray 1943 Mo nroe, PhD, on May 24, 1998; Richard K. pur~lIe a career in academia. Ill' IS one of 58 Claude L. Cartcr. on J une 30, 2006; David A. Nuno, on Aug ust 22, 2006. warbler; a Huttall"s woodpecker; a scientists who have received the inaugural award female peacock, or peahen; a mourn­ from the National lnstirutes of Ilea lth, and after ing dove; an orange-crowned warbler; he completes his research at UW, the award will 1952 Samuel P. Cook, on J :lnuary 16,2006. an Anna's hummingbird; a house g rant him three years of funding for proposed sparrow; and In the center, some­ research wherever he decides to work. lie is currently looking into improving the sensitivity OO I TUA RI ES H A V E 1955 what 1''1!er than life (that dinosaur George Stalk, MS, Eng '55, on September 26, dynamic again), a house flnch. Every of MRI scar,s, and hopes the resu lt s will eventu­ MO V ED ONL I NE all y be lifesavi ng. All en is also rhe rec ipi ent 2006. Tuesday at noon, an ad hoc group of of tht 2007 POlliO, Boyer award, given to rhe campul birdwatchers scours the cam­ 1956 most outstanding biocherni sn y postdoc. The [11/1 Cal tech News pus for birds along a route flrst de­ Lee M, Sonneborn, PhD, on J anullry l , 2004. obillMrie! Can be[olllld online vised In 1986 by Alan Cummings, PhD a I hllp: I I alII 11111 i, Ca /Iech. edllillet­ 1957 '71, a member of the professional ll'orklobitllories, ulhere reaelers Joe Lingerfelt, MS '58, on December 30, 2005; stall In physics, and Ernie Franzgrote, FOR THE R ECORD MS '57, a longtime member of JPL'. (an brou'se expanded conlent S, James Mo ri'l.umi , MS, on July 28, 2006; H aruo Oguro, MS, on November 15,2002 technical staff. Cummings continues Based on a fabricated repon, and (!delilione'; biographical to lead the group today, and, as befits Cn/tech Nell IS published an obitu­ in/ormcllion Clb01l1 Ihe alumni 1958 a Caltech graduate, he has seen to it Robert M. \Vorlock , PhD, on July 18,2006. ary for William J. Schoene '64 in lisled here. that the data from each walk-flearly the las t issue. We are happy to 900 to date-are recorded and ana­ report that Schoene is alive and 1960 lyzed. To flnd out more, Including how Robert L Normn, on November 19,2006. well and li ving in Santa Monica, to participate In the weekly walks California. (logistics permitting), check out the Cal tech Birding web.lte at http://blrd­ walks.ultech.edu/.

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