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Studies of the brains of blind persons whose sight was  partially restored later in life have produced a compelling example of the brain's ability to adapt to new circumstances and rewire and reconfigure itself. The research, conducted by postdoctoral researcher Melissa Saenz along with Christof Koch, the Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of  Cognitive and Behavioral Biology and professor of computation and neural systems, and their colleagues, shows that the part of the brain that processes visual information in normal individuals can be co-opted to respond to both visual and auditory information. Read more... 5/29/08 |
A. J. Colussi, senior research associate in environmental science and engineering, and colleagues have found that airborne particulates impair the lungs' natural defenses against ozone. Their research focused on what happens when air meets the thin layer of antioxidant-rich fluid that covers our lungs, protecting them from ozone, an air pollutant that pervades major cities. "We found new chemistry at the interfaces separating gases from liquids using a technique that continuously monitors the composition of these interfaces," Colussi says. Under normal physiological conditions, ascorbic acid instantly scavenges ozone, generating innocuous byproducts. However, the researchers discovered that when the fluid is acidic, a pathological condition found in asthmatics, ascorbic acid instead reacts with ozone to form potentially harmful compounds called ozonides. Read more... 05/26/08 | Mani
Chandy, Simon Ramo Professor and Professor of  Computer
Science, Mathieu Desbrun,
Associate Professor of Computational Science and Engineering
and Computer Science,and Joel Tropp, Assistant Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics, have  been recognized as exceptional teachers
by the students at Caltech. Each has won a 2007-2008 ASCIT prize,
awarded by the undergraduate Academics and Research Committee (ARC)
and the
Associated  Students of the California Institute of Technology (ASCIT).
This
award is bestowed upon only five faculty members each year. 05-13-08 |
Chiara
Daraio, Professor Aeronautics and Applied Physics, has
won the 2008 Richard von Mises Prize. This prize is
awarded each year by the  International Association of Applied Mathematics
and Mechanics (GAMM) to a young scientist for exceptional scientific
achievements in the field of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. The
prize was awarded at the opening ceremony of the Annual meeting of
GAMM in March, in Bremen, Germany. 05-07-08 |
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