Directory of California Institute of Technology Resources

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The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a small, private, research-oriented university located on a 124-acre campus in Pasadena, California. Caltech is home to some 1800 students, over half of which are graduate students and post-graduate fellows. The faculty numbers almost 300 professors, and about 500 research members. Caltech faculty and graduates are highly regarded in their fields; 26 Nobel prizes have been awarded to Caltech faculty and alumni. As an institution, Caltech is highly regarded, consistently ranking in the top 10 in the U.S. News & World Report rankings (and First in 1999). Caltech maintains strong programs in many areas of cutting-edge scientific interest, with a strong culture of interdisciplinary research and commercial start-ups.

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• California Institute of Technology

  http://www.caltech.edu/
  Caltech Home Page. Highlights from research results and current events. Caltech news; admissions; alumni association; academic departments.

• Caltech Admissions

  http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/
  Information for prospective graduate and undergraduate students.

• Caltech Alumni Association

  http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/
  Promotes the interests of Caltech as a world standard of academic excellence by strengthening the ties of goodwill and communication between the Institute, its alumni and current students, and by maintaining programs to serve their need.

• Caltech Earthquake Info

  http://media.caltech.edu/earthquake_info
  Information and analysis of recent earthquakes in Southern California

• Caltech Library

  http://www.library.caltech.edu/
  Access Caltech library catalog, CaltechAUTHORS, CaltechTHESIS, ejournals, databases, and document requests

• Project MATHEMATICS!

  http://www.projectmathematics.com/
  Videotape-and-workbook modules that explore basic topics in high school mathematics in ways that cannot be done at the chalkboard or in a textbook. The tapes use live action, music, special effects, and imaginative computer animation.

• Public Events

  http://www.caltech.edu/content/public-events
  Arts and entertainment program hosted at Caltech.

• Steven Quartz group

  http://qlab.caltech.edu/
  Uses fMRI to study in neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, statistical models of decision making, moral decision-making, non-pharmaceutical management of affective disorder, structural neural plasticity, and neural representations of probability and uncertainty.

• The Mechanical Universe

  http://www.its.caltech.edu/~tmu/
  Highly acclaimed Caltech-produced videos for university freshman physics.

• UGCS

  http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/
  The undergraduate computer science cluster. Contains links to personal home pages, house web pages, and student government sites, plus a statistics page.

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