NEWS ARCHIVE

A Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Reception celebrating the Completion of the KNI Cleanroom will be held on March 4, 2008, at 9:00 am in the Steele Laboratory. Join President Chameau, KNI Director Axel Scherer, and members of the faculty as we celebrate!

A symposium on The Next Generation of Medical Diagnostics: Applications of Nanotechnology will be held on March 4, 2008. Plenary speaker is David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate and Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology. Read more...

The KNI Nanoscience Colloquia Series continues on Monday, January 28 with a talk entitled "Semiconductor Nanowires: Building Blocks for Future Digital Computation and More" presented by Jie Xiang, KNI Prize Postdoctural Fellow. Colloquia are presented monthly at 4 pm in Beckman Institute Auditorium unless otherwise noted. Click here for complete calendar.

A Giant Step toward Infinitesimal Machinery Caltech/KNI scientists and LETI/Minatec researchers from Grenoble, France have formed The Alliance for Nanosystems VLSI and are now collaborating to transform nanotechnology-based prototypes into robust, complex sensing systems. Read more...

Michael Roukes Reports on Nanotech Revolution (pdf)
NIH Director's Lecture Series (6/6/07)
NIH Record (9/21/07)

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announces a Call for Nominations for The Kavli Prize for outstanding scientific research in Astrophysics, Nanoscience, or Neuroscience. The first Kavli Prize will be awarded in Oslo in September 2008. For details about the nomination process see The Kavli Prize website. [poster pdf]

DEMETRIADES-TSFAKA PRIZE IN NANOTECHNOLOGY
The KNI is pleased to announce that Jang Wook Choi, who will be receiving a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (Advisor: Professor James R. Heath) and Robb Walters, who will be receiving a Ph.D. in Applied Physics (Advisor: Professor Harry Atwater) will share this year's Demetriades-Tsafka Prize in Nanotechnology and Related Fields.

NEMS3 2007 Summer School and Conference The purpose of this program is to provide a pedagogical introduction to the vibrant field of nanomechanics (with particular applications to biology) and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), and to bring together active nanomechanics researchers from around the world. Click here for details.

QEM-2 The second workshop on Quantum Electromechanical Systems (QEM-2) will take place December 13-15. QEM-2 will focus on universal challenges that currently confront the research community pursuing quantum limited measurements with nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). Click here for details.

Inaugural Symposium The first KNI Annual Symposium was held on Monday, October 24, 2005. Click here for program details.

Fred Kavli Named Policy Leader of the Year The Scientific American has singled out Fred Kavli for his far-sighted philanthropy: "Instead of funding research directed at near-term payoffs, as most major funders do, he is supporting nondirected basic research aimed at eventually improving the quality of life for people around the world."

Richard Smalley
The KNI community at Caltech, along with nanoscientists worldwide, mourn the death of Professor Richard Smalley of Rice University, who was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on C60. Click here for the NY Times announcement.

Nanosystems Biology Cancer Center
James R. Heath, the Elizabeth Gilloon Professor and Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded $18 million by the National Cancer Institute to realize and direct the Nanosystems Biology Cancer Center at Caltech. One of the research thrusts of the NSBCC is to use nanotechnology and microfluidics-based chips for profiling various cancers. The goal is to use a fingerprick of blood as a diagnostic window into health and disease by detecting a panel of serum-based proteins that reflect the onset, progression, and therapeutic responses of cancer. The new center establishes a collaborative team comprising investigators from Caltech, the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), and UCLA's Institute for Molecular Medicine and Jonnson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Former Caltech professor and ISB founder Lee Hood is a co-director of the NSBCC, and Michael Phelps, Norton Simon Professor and chair of the UCLA Molecular and Medical Pharmacology Department, is also a co-director. Read more...

Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials
The National Science Foundation has awarded $11.16 million to Caltech's Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials (CSEM). The renewal funding will allow the Center, directed by Harry Atwater, Howard Hughes Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, to continue its work in exotic and futuristic materials applications, such as macromolecular materials, ferroelectric photonics, novel composites of glass and metals, spintronic devices, and fuel cells. Research on spintronic materials will be led by Caltech physics professor Nai-Chang Yeh. A promising new research avenue in the physics of composite materials, spintronics seeks to exploit the quantum spin characteristics of electrons to operate electronic devices, rather than the moving of current through wires. Read more...