Project aims to track big city carbon footprints
9 days ago
And in nearby Pasadena, a refurbished vintage solar telescope on the roof of a laboratory on the California Institute of Technology campus captures sunlight and sends it down a shaft 60 feet...
Young gay athletes set tone for NBA coming out
17 days ago
Several campuses - including Princeton, the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley - now have groups for gay and lesbian athletes.
Diverse high court families mirror country
69 days ago
Eastman also teaches law at Chapman University law school in Orange, Calif.
Nadal `very scared' after quake hits tourney
71 days ago
The 9:55 a.m. quake had an estimated magnitude of 4.7, according to the California Institute of Technology's seismological laboratory.
Farm labor shortage looms as California workers age
71 days ago
People simply are not doing farm work to the extent they were doing before," said J. Edward Taylor, a University of California, Davis, economist who has studied the migration of farmworkers from...
College credit recommended for free online courses
103 days ago
"There are many working adults today that do not have a college degree," Andrew Ng, a Stanford University researcher who co-founded Coursera, told The Associated Press.
Caltech baseball team ends 228-game skid
107 days ago
California Institute of Technology's baseball team ended a 228-game losing streak Saturday with a 9-7 victory over Pacifica - the Beavers' first win in nearly 10 years.
Powers of prophesy: Davos looks to the future
115 days ago
Sebastian Thrun, a computer science professor at Stanford University and leader of Google's Self-Driving Car Project, said he thinks Google co-founder Sergey Brin's prediction that within five...
Correction: Obit-Leon Leyson story
116 days ago
It always came from the head and the heart," said Marilyn Harran, his friend and a religious studies professor at Chapman University.
UC President Mark Yudof to step down in August
123 days ago
Yudof has led the University of California through a tumultuous period, when deep cuts in state funding led to sharp tuition hikes, cuts to academic programs and rowdy campus protests.
