Caltech Resources
Caltech News (Caltech Today)
Caltech Today -- The site for campus news and information, includes
- Campus Calendar (includes upcoming lectures, performances and other events)
- Announcements (includes HR's Weekly Update and other campus announcements)
- News (features news articles from the Caltech periodicals)
- Theater (features Real Media Broadcasts of selected lectures and events)
Caltech Periodical (Engineering & Science)
Engineering & Science is a 48-page quarterly magazine, founded in 1937. Produced by the Caltech Office of Public Relations, its goal is to present to a scientifically literate audience a lively picture of the intellectual life and research activities at Caltech and to promote interest in science and scientific issues. Its circulation of 16,000 includes alumni, faculty, students, donors, high schools, libraries, science media, and government leaders. Annual subscription is $10.
Project Mathematics!
Project Mathematics! Produces 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. They are distributed on a nonprofit basis.
The goal of the project is to attract young people to mathematics through high-quality instructional modules that show mathematics to be understandable, exciting, and eminently worthwhile. Each module consists of a videotape together with a workbook, and explores a basic topic in mathematics that can be easily integrated into any existing high school or community college curriculum. The modules are crafted to encourage interaction between students and teachers.
More than 9 million students have seen one or more of the videotapes. They have been enthusiastically received by teachers and students nationwide and have captured first-place honors at eleven major film and video festivals. Produced by the California Institute of Technology.
Each program in the series opens and closes with Caltech Professor David Goodstein providing philosophical, historical and often humorous insight into the subject at hand while lecturing to his freshman physics class. The Mechanical Universe contains hundreds of computer animation segments, created by Dr. James F. Blinn, as the primary tool of instruction. Dynamic location footage and historical re-creations are also used to stress the fact that science is a human endeavor.
