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Lakeside Restaurant & Bar - La Torretta Lake Resort & Spa
- Address:
600 La Torretta Blvd.
Montgomery, TX 77356Neighborhood:
- Cuisine:
AmericanPrice: $31 to $50
Lakeside Restaurant & Bar - La Torretta Lake Resort & Spa
- Dining Style: Casual Elegant
- Website: http://latorrettalakeresort.com/eat-and-drink
- Phone: (936) 448-3020
- Hours of Operation:
Dinner: Monday - Saturday: 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
- Payment Options: AMEX,Discover,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: American, Steakhouse
- Dress Code: Business Casual
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Chef's Table, Full Bar, Personal wines welcome, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Private Room, View, Wine
- Private Party Facilities: Private dining room seats up to 16 people with gorgeous lakefront view.
- Private Party Contact: Heath Lagrone 9364483038
A word from Lakeside Restaurant & Bar - La Torretta Lake Resort & Spa
Enjoy the beautiful sunsets over Lake Conroe while enjoying our signature pepper encrusted New York strip, barbecue glazed salmon, or garlic penne pasta at the new Lakeside Restaurant & Bar, the premier steakhouse of La Torretta Lake Resort & Spa. We feature an array of steak and fresh seafood, soups, salads, appetizers and desserts.Continued
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Lakeside Restaurant & Bar - La Torretta Lake Resort & Spa reviews from OpenTable diners
51 reviews since July 30, 2014
- Food3.9Service3.8
- Ambiance4.1Noise LevelModerate
scenic view (35)special occasion (26)romantic (21)fit for foodies (12)neighborhood gem (11)good for groups (11)notable wine list (11)great for outdoor dining (7)great for lunch (4)kid-friendly (4)great for brunch (3)late-night find (3)hot spot (2)vibrant bar scene (1)Show More
- Better Than Expectedernedavis33Dined on 10/25/2014Definitely pleased with our dining experience. Lakeside Restaurant was the best part of our weekend at La Toretta. Our party ordered pork chops, New York Strip, sauteed spinach, horseradish mashed potatoes, mushrooms, asparagus, lava cake and the white chocolate bread pudding. My personal favorites of the items ordered were the pork chops, New York strip, sauteed spinach, mushrooms and the bread pudding. Soooo good. Our server was right on when suggesting the pork chops and sauteed spinach. Fantastic experience.Special Features:
- Ok, not greatChatoDined on 10/25/2014We were seated promptly. Our server was friendly and reasonably attentive. Menu was limited, and my date and I ordered the only 2 pasta dishes. Penne alfredo with chicken, and garlic penne with chicken. The food was good and even though I normally expect alfredo sauce to be creamy, it was runny. Halfway through our meal, I realized that we had a bread plate and looked at adjacent tables to determine that we should have had some bread. I don't know why we had to ask for it, but when we did she brought some out pretty quickly. It was a nice meal, but a bit pricey and not a great variety of entree choices. The view of the lake must be nice when dining during daylight hours, but just reflection of indoor lighting at night.Special Features:
- NOT what we expectedOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 10/25/2014The dinner was sub par at best. The waitress was apparently inexperienced and had entirely too many tables. Service took a long time and the food arrived cold. I actually had to ask for my wine 4 times....the 4th i actually had to get up from the table and find our server. I had the peppercorn encrusted steak that literally had 1/4 inch of peppercorn and less than a drizzle of sauce. It was barely edible. It was a destination night for girlfriends and it would have been a better idea to have just papa John's pizza to be delivered to our lake villa. Very disappointing.
- Great steakgalvdocVIPDined on 10/24/2014We last dined at Lakeside a year ago, and I suspect there is new management or a new chef - last year we had a sommelier help us choose wine from the reserve list; this year the wine selection was printed on the back of a very inelegant plastic-coated menu. Despite the step down in refinement, the meat was beautifully cooked to order and the side dishes were delicious. Wish they had more options for dessert - if you prefer a lighter, fruit-based dessert you will not find it here. The best part is that you are not rushed when you dine, so my party stayed and talked, ate and enjoyed the time together.Special Features:
- Will definitely come back!ILoveShrimpDined on 10/11/2014Me and my wife were given a gift certificate to dine at Lakeside so we went for our anniversary. We made reservations so we were seated as soon as we arrived. The inside was very nice. Our waiter was awesome (he poured us some glasses of champagne for our anniversary). We didn't have to wait long for our food and once it arrived we were very impressed just by the presentation alone. The mango salsa shrimp and the sweet potato puree were delicious!! Wasn't the best bread pudding but I don't think we left any on our plate :-) Looking foward to going back VERY soon.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Always excellentLaTorrettazzDined on 10/6/2014In several visits, rating is always excellent. Consistently great food, excellent serviceSpecial Features:
- Great food; bad service!DisappointedDined on 10/4/2014We received terrible service, but when the food finally came, it was delicious! our party only was only five ladies. The waitress was quick to ask for our drink orders, but when we needed a few minutes, she didn't return for a long time. After we placed our drink orders, it took them quite a while to be served. Someone else served our drinks so we were unable to place our food. The waitress never came by to refill our drinks and we had to try to flag her down several times. About 40minutes after ordering, the waitress came by and told us that our food did not come out to the chef's liking and he has to start over. Our reservation was at 7:30 and we did not get served until 9:30. The waitress was kind but not apologetic for the delay.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Expecting much more!SeanDined on 9/25/2014It was our 16th wedding anniversary, and we wanted a nice restaurant close to the house. Started out fine…the complimentary wine was very good and the shrimp cocktail was tasty. After that it pretty much went downhill. My wife found a BIG BLACK hair in her chicken, a few bites in….and my steak was cooked on one side and RARE on the other. I like a nicely cooked rare steak but this was chewy and very tough! I only ate half of it, and it was a 26 dollars steak. Back to my wife's chicken…The young waitress picked it up and said she was sorry, only to bring it back nearly 20 minutes later. At this point my wife wanted it to go. Never was there a mention of adjustment of the bill. We will surely remember this 16th!Special Features:
- Sunset Birthday DinnerOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 9/24/2014Exquisite salmon and perfect ribeye as the sun set on my husband's birthday. Thanks for the beautiful experience.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- excellent!OpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 9/19/2014We will definitely be back the food was superb! The wait staff was very friendly. Great place to bring out of town guests!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- UnfortunateJerseyGirl678VIPDined on 9/16/2014Based on the food and ambiance, this could be a wonderful place for a romantic or special occasion dinner on the lake. Unfortunately, the service left a lot to be desired. Considering the restaurant was almost empty, we waited entirely too long for just about everything. Having said that, the meal itself - both land and sea options - delicious. Our compliments to the chef. Definite potential here, if service improves.Special Features:
- We had a wonderful time.MrsHendricksonDined on 9/16/2014We went there for a quiet get away for just my husband and I for his birthday. The staff was great in handling all of my surprises during the evening,(a special gift delivered at dinner and the Edible Arrangements I had them put on the bed for when we returned from dinner). We went to their steakhouse, and the food was just wonderful. We didn't get to enjoy the water park, but we look forward to coming back with the kids. Over all the experience was outstanding. I highly recommend it to anyone wanting a quiet retreat or for the whole family.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- lakeside @ la torrettaLove2dineDined on 9/10/2014The appetizer crab cakes were very good. The shrimp entree was satisfactory, but not exceptional. The side of asparagus was good as well. As for the view, a view over the lake would have been lovely, especially at sunset. However, we got there at dark and, since it's not lit up outside, you can't see anything.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- DavidDined on 9/8/2014Awesome views and quiet. The challenge was the wait staff. The waiter that we received spoke very little English so when it was time to order he did not ask how we wanted our steaks cooked or what type of salad dressing we would prefer. We helped him out throughout the process and everything turned out fine. They need to be able to communicate....Special Features:
- Great foodOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 9/6/2014The staff was great and the pork chops were amazing. Just like all the reviews I read before booking the table.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- excellent foodAustinDined on 9/6/2014We really enjoyed the service and the food was excellent. My only complaint would be that I felt it was a little pricey.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great views and atmosphereJct4Dined on 8/31/2014The view to the lake is amazing. Sitting in the restaurant while watching the sunset is amazing. You feel a peace and tranquility when at the restaurant. The food and service are great.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Mediocre, OverpricedHtownfoodieDined on 8/30/2014They dining room was a dingy, very outdated and worn. The food was acceptable (mushrooms, asparagus, pork chop and redfish) though, but the dishes were also quite outdated. I wouldn't even have minded that so much but the price was outrageous for the quality and cost added to the sub-par ambiance. We didn't have terrible service, but it was also very mediocre and the staff didn't seem to care and were very "humdrum". I definitely will not be returning.Special Features:
- OutstandingNDW1Dined on 8/29/2014This was my second visit and I dined alone for the first time , they made me feel special and warm. I would drive from Houston just to dine for the atmosphere. Keep up the great job!!!!. Ms.N.WilliamsSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- DeDeDined on 8/29/2014My husband and I had the pleasure of dining at this restaurant over labor day weekend....what a lovely experience! The sunset was spectacular along with the food! We had the crab cake for starters, then on to the pork chop.....wow...it was wonderful! Tasty, juicy, cooked perfectly! We hope to return soon.....Thank you for a fantastic evening at Lakeside!Special Features:
- Superior in-resort diningRancherDined on 8/26/2014This lake view in-resort restaurant has good food with elegant ambiance yet we were able to dress summer casual.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- AprilSounddinersDined on 8/25/2014Three of our group had the prime rib Monday night special. The fourth had a filet mignon. All were accompanied by salad and a generous sized baked potato. The prime ribs were good, not excellent, but well priced. The six ounce filet was excellent. Our waiter, Chris, was attentive and very helpful with our wine choices. We selected from the wine list instead of taking the complimentary glass of wine, which came with the prime rib. There was no credit for the house wine we did not take, but the bottles we selected complimented our meal nicely.Special Features:
- hidden gemluv2celebrateDined on 8/23/2014LAKESIDE is a great restaurant connected to LaTorretta Resort. It has been a fun quick get-a-way for our family and just us as a couple. The restaurant is great, great view at sunset., the wine list is complicated, The premium wines are all French and very expensive as in $1,400.00 and highest was $4,500.00. We enjoyed a Birthday dinner with friends with a less than delicious California every day Cab. Such a let down. We were prepared to splurge on a Luxury wine! The sommelier was too busy to come to our table, so the hostess came and we learned nothing about French wines nor did we experiment buying an expensive wine without any guidance.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Dining at lakesidebigDDined on 8/19/2014The waiter was not an English speaker and it took away from the experience. I ordered a Dewar's on the Rocks, easy ice and it came with lots of ice. Then when we asked what the house Chardonnay was, he told us it was Pinot Noir Chardonnay, but it rang up as something else and was as expensive as a few of the individually priced and listed wines on the wine list. I would not have asked for the "house" wine if I was paying as much for it as a featured wine. On occasion I had to ask the bartender to get the waiter. Although he was polite, he lack of command of English was a negative to our experience. I think with proper training he would be fine. Lakeside is a nice respite in this area.Special Features:
- will be backwhazzatDined on 8/18/2014This was our third trip to Lakeside. I guess the third time is not always a charm. I had a filet and a friend of mine had a ribeye. Both were very good. My husband had the peppercorn strip steak which had grisle throughout and was on the tough side. We also ordered the mushrooms and they just were not what we expected. Texture was rubbery and a little too sweet. Our server was kind enough to remove from our bill. We will return again because as a rule the food haa been delicious.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Pretty good for the areaLikeToEatDined on 8/14/2014We ate their while staying at La Toretta on a family mini vacation. The food was really good overall. The wine list was ok, not great but good enough. It's was kid friendly which was great for us, others looking for a more romantic dinner may not appreciate that as much. The setting is nice but could be much better with a little bit of effort by management. The windows look out over a nice lake sunset. Unfortunately on the patio between the restaurant and the sunset was an empty table with an electrical panel sitting on it, one chair, and a chair cushion on the ground. Minor detail but just a sign that no one is paying attention to the details. The service was very friendly but not as attentive as I would expect at this price point.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- OpenTable Diner Since 2011Dined on 8/11/2014our food was warm to cold when we were served.....seemed like they were overwhelmed.could have had more staff altho the staff that was working were trying to do their bestSpecial Features:
- not happyOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 8/11/2014Waited over one hour for our food. Prime rib was tough and fish over done. Very disappointed but manager was very understanding.
- Must returnLJWEKWDined on 8/11/2014A great restaurant. Food is excellent ,wait staff is attentive, lake views are great. The quality of the food and service draw me back quite frequently. Highly recommend.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great night.arnmDined on 8/9/2014The best food - & the best bargain on food, simultaneously - at La Toretta. We had the filet mignon and 4 of the 5 desserts. All wonderful. They do chicken strips/fries for young children - and they were great w/our kids - but don't want to say "kid friendly" b/c w/any upscale restaurant one bad kid can ruin it all. We'd come from the resort in shorts/collar shirts/tennis shoes ... that seemed to be okay. Outdoor seating will be great in the fall.Special Features:
- will be backwhazzatDined on 8/6/2014This was our 2nd trip to Lakeside. We enjoyed each visit. The food has been delicious and the presentation is great. Prices are a little high, but worth it when you do plan that special occasion. The restaurant was spotless and service was great. They had a big group the night we were there, but was not intrusive. Parking is a problem. Very limited!!! Needs inprovement there.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great Find!lovegoodfoodDined on 8/2/2014Arranged Wedding Anniversary dinner for four and it was great! They were expecting us, and served the gratuitious champagne upon seating. The waiter was efficient, the food was very good, and the prices are very good. We watched the sun set and never felt rushed. We have found a new place to eat out and it's close to home.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- LA TORRETTA LAKE RESORTMMWUSHUDined on 7/31/2014FOOD & SERVICE EXCELLENT, NICE VIEW, BUT MUSIC HORRIBLE !!!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- LaTorrettazzLaTorrettazzDined on 7/30/2014Once again a delightful experience. Brad (new head chef) continues to prepare everything perfectly. Between Lydia, Brad and our server, Tiffany Lakeside runs like a well-oiled machine.Special Features:
- The following 137 reviews are from the Lakeside Restaurant & Bar - La Torretta Lake Resort & Spa reviews archive.
- Poor, slow service, Rude hostessTerribleDined on 7/26/2014We found the hostess to be rude, the server was slow and inattentive and the good was only mediocre. They burnt my fish and it had to be remade (read: SLOW....) and then the second attempt was STILL overcooked and dry. I would never go back.Special Features:
- One change to menuOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 7/25/2014Great prices for a great restaurant. Location would require a kids menu. Had no children in our party, just my wife and I for our anniversary. Free champagne was a plea sent surprise. Would certainly go back tomorrow.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great view!DfwfoodieDined on 7/22/2014We sat in the private room right by the lake and had an amazing view while dining. The staff was friendly and helpful and made our dining experience special. Food was good for the price although not on the same level as a regular steakhouse.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Too many kid for a romantic eveningOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 7/12/2014With this being the properties upscale restaurant we found it difficult to have a romantic dinner with multiple groups of children running around.I would recommend this to a friend.
- OutstandingCat77Dined on 7/11/2014Filet was cooked to perfection. Vegetables were fresh and delicious. Cozy and beautiful view.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Dining at the lakewaldenfoodluvers1Dined on 7/7/2014Our dining experience at Lakeside Restaurant was more than we expected in all ways. The food, prime rib, was cooked to perfection and flavorful, the salad crisp with fresh dressing and the baked potato cleverly presented. The server were attentive and knowledgeable, a great value for a superb meal. We will be regulars and bring our friends too!Special Features:


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Eric Betzig (BS '83) Shares 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Eric Betzig (BS '83), a group leader at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, has been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Stefan W. Hell of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and William E. Moerner of Stanford University. The three were honored "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy," a method that allows for the creation of "super-images" with a resolution on the order of nanometers, or billionths of a meter. In essence, the work turns microscopy into "nanoscopy."
The technique developed by the trio overcomes the so-called Abbe diffraction limit, which describes a physical restriction on the sizes of the structures that can be resolved using optical microscopy, showing that, essentially, nothing smaller than one-half the wavelength of light, or about 0.2 microns, can be discerned by these scopes. The result of the Abbe limit is that only the larger structures within cells—organelles like mitochondria, for example—can be resolved and studied with regular microscopes but not individual proteins or even viruses. The restriction is akin to being able to observe the buildings that make up a city but not the city's inhabitants and their activities.
Betzig, building on earlier work by Hell and Moerner, found that it was possible to work around the Abbe limit to create very-high-resolution images of a sample, such as a developing embryo, by using fluorescent proteins that glow when illuminated with a weak pulse of light. Each time the sample is illuminated, a different, sparsely distributed subpopulation of fluorescent proteins will light up and, because the glowing molecules are spaced farther apart than the Abbe diffraction limit, a standard microscope would be able to capture them. Still, each of the images produced in this way has relatively low resolution—that is, they are blurry. Betzig, however realized that by superimposing many such images, he would be able to obtain a sharp super-image, in which nanoscale structures are clearly visible. The new technique was first described in a 2006 paper published in the journal Science.
After Caltech, Betzig, a physics major from Ruddock House, earned an MS (1985) and a PhD (1988) from Cornell University. He worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories until 1994, when he stepped away from academia and science to work for his father's machine tool company. Betzig returned to research in 2002 and joined Janelia in 2005.
To date, 33 Caltech alumni and faculty have won a total of 34 Nobel Prizes. Last year, alumnus Martin Karplus (PhD '54) also received the Chemistry Prize.
An Intuition for Scale
Bobby (BS '98) and Ann Johnson (BS '99, MS '00) today announced the public launch of their company, Interana, a data analytics startup in Menlo Park.
We interviewed the Johnson's for the winter 2013 issue of E&S.
"A lot of the things that you think a company like Facebook is doing with its data right now, it turns out that it can't," Bobby Johnson says. "The tools that exist just aren't good enough."
He ought to know. Bobby served for six years at the social media giant, rising through the ranks to become director of engineering, charged with scaling the technology as the site grew from hundreds of thousands of users to nearly one billion.
With its exponential growth, Facebook was often in jeopardy of being crushed under its own digital weight. Bobby helped develop software, build infrastructure, and grow an army of engineers to keep the site humming as hundreds of millions signed on. Then, to collect the massive amounts of data coming in from servers around the world, he wrote a program called Scribe, which was so effective that Facebook eventually made it open source.
"Most people don't have a good feel for scale," says Ann, who met Bobby while the two were students at Caltech in the late '90s; they married right after graduation. "Many think that after a million, the next large amount is a billion, without understanding how enormously different those numbers really are. Bobby has a strong intuition for it."
Now that the race is on to analyze the huge troves of data collected by services around the world, Bobby's intuition tells him there's a flaw in the existing system for doing so.
"Most information still ends up in standard databases," he says. Such systems were built to put data into neat boxes, making them less useful for finding relationships in these large, amorphous, and interconnected streams. "You can track statistics, but you can't really draw meaningful patterns."
So Bobby and Ann joined with one of Bobby's like-minded colleagues from Facebook to form Interana, a company created with the goal of designing a next generation platform capable of analyzing extremely large and loosely structured data sets. Ann serves as the chief executive, while Bobby directs the technology development.
Still in its early stages, the company has grown quickly, quietly generating buzz. "Caltech trains us to take an unknown, break it down to first principles and solve it," says Bobby.
"Starting a business isn't some magical thing, it's a real skill to be taken seriously. It can be learned, but it's important to find the people you trust to give you support and advice."
Sean C. Solomon (BS '66) Awarded National Medal of Science
Geophysicist Sean C. Solomon (BS '66) was named a recipient of the National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama on Friday.
A recipient of Caltech's Distinguished Alumni Award (2006), Solomon is the director of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and principal investigator of NASA's mission to Mercury.
"These scholars and innovators have expanded our understanding of the world, made invaluable contributions to their fields, and helped improve countless lives," President Obama said in a statement. "Our nation has been enriched by their achievements, and by all the scientists and technologists across America dedicated to discovery, inquiry, and invention."
In a career spanning four decades, Solomon has served on numerous projects exploring Earth and Earth-like planets in the solar system, including the Magellan mission to Venus, the Mars Global Surveyor mission, the GRAIL mission to the moon, and a number of ocean-bottom seismological explorations.
"The four inner planets of our solar system are nature's experiments in how a planet like Earth became the planet it is today, and they had four extraordinarily different outcomes," Solomon said in an interview with Columbia University in 2013. "To understand our own planet, we must understand how all Earth-like planets formed and evolved."
Prior to Lamont-Doherty, Solomon served for nearly two decades as director of the Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in Washington, D.C. When he departed in 2011, colleagues arranged to have a previously discovered asteroid named after him: asteroid 25137 Seansolomon, which orbits the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
"Sean Solomon is a pioneer in both Earth and Planetary Sciences, and a world leader in the discipline of geophysics," said John Grotzinger, chair of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences (GPS) and Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology at Caltech. "Being awarded the National Medal of Science is a celebration of his extraordinary career, which has been rich with exploration, extending from the structure of the Earth, to the Moon, Mars, Venus, and Mercury. We are very proud of our alumnus from Caltech's Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences."
Solomon is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received numerous other awards, among them the Geological Society of America's G.K. Gilbert Award and the American Geophysical Union's Harry H. Hess Medal.
The National Medal of Science was created in 1959 and is administered by the National Science Foundation. Awarded annually, the medal honors individuals who have done work of outstanding merit or have had a major impact in the fields of science and engineering. A committee of presidential appointees recommends medal candidates to the president based on their extraordinary knowledge in and contributions to chemistry, engineering, computing, mathematics, and the biological, behavioral/social, and physical sciences.
The new awardees will receive their medals at a White House ceremony later this year.
More from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory:
Q&A: Sean Solomon on Lamont-Doherty, Earth Science and Space
Columbia Record, Oct. 30, 2013
A Breadth of Expertise, A Pioneering Spirit, Sept 14, 2012
Andy Yen (BS '10) Launches Encryption Email Service
From Forbes.com
When the NSA surveillance news broke last year it sent shockwaves through CERN, the particle physics laboratory in Switzerland. Andy Yen, a PhD student, took to the Young at CERN Facebook group with a simple message: "I am very concerned about the privacy issue, and I was wondering what I could do about it."
There was a massive response, and of the 40 or so active in the discussion, six started meeting at CERN's Restaurant Number 1, pooling their deep knowledge of computing and physics to found ProtonMail, a gmail-like email system which uses end-to-end encryption, making it impossible for outside parties to monitor.
Encrypted emails have actually been around since the 1980s, but they are extremely difficult to use. When Edward Snowden asked a reporter to use an end-to-end encrypted email to share details of the NSA surveillance program the reporter couldn't get the system to work, says Yen.
"We encrypt the data on the browser before it comes to the server," he explains. "By the time the data comes to the server it's already encrypted, so if someone comes to us and says we'd like to read the emails of this person, all we can say is we have the encrypted data but we're sorry we don't have the encryption key and we can't give you the encryption key."
"We've basically separated the message that's encrypted apart from the key – all the encryption takes place on your computer instead of our servers, so there's no way for us to see the original message."
Gary Aston-Jones (PhD '81) Joins Rutgers University to Lead Brain Institute
Gary Aston-Jones, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, will join Rutgers University as director of the Brain Health Institute and the Murray and Charlotte Strongwater Endowed Chair in Neuroscience and Brain Health.Read More…
Bettina Chen (BS '10) Wins Funding for Toy Company on 'Shark Tank'
Roominate, a startup toy company founded by Bettina Chen (BS '10) and Alice Brooks aimed at inspiring girls toward an interest in engineering and science, earned bids from investors Mark Cuban and Lori Greiner during the season premier of "Shark Tank." Watch the clip:
When Chen met Brooks in graduate school at Stanford, they quickly bonded over a shared goal of influencing young girls to become interested in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
They realized that an educational toy could be a good introduction to STEM, and Roominate—a fully modular build-your-own dollhouse complete with wiring capabilities—was born. Each kit comes with all the walls, furniture-building pieces, circuit components, and decorations needed to construct a room from scratch. There is no set way to assemble a Roominate room; instead, the girls are encouraged to explore and experiment.
"Girls must use creativity and problem-solving skills—essential skills to develop
for STEM—in order to build and wire a room with Roominate," says Chen. "We believe that Roominate is the type of toy that is missing from the market today: a toy that will help girls build up the skills and confidence they need to persevere in more male-dominated fields."
Iain Stewart (PhD '99) offers Course on MITx
Theoretical nuclear and particle physicist Iain Stewart (PhD '99) offers his MIT course on Effective Field Theory on edX. Take a look:
A Conversation with C. Kevin Boyce (BS '95)
The Stanford paleobotanist and 2013 MacArthur Fellow answers a few questions about his work, and what a 100-million-year-old leaf can tell us about the world today.
CAA: What is a Paleobotanist?
Boyce: Very different people work on the front line of fossil records. Some analyze vertebrates, such as dinosaurs. Paleobotanists like me study how plants are formed. Taken together, all of our work creates a picture of Earth's environment from a different time.
CAA: How did you choose this line of work?
Boyce: What I do isn't the type of biology pursued at Caltech, but it was important for me to be there. I studied cell morphology in Eric Davidson's lab and Joe Kirschvink in geobiology helped to spark my interest in Earth's biodiversity. I also majored in literature. George Pigman's classes on Chaucer interested me in historical texts—which are similar to fossils, in a way.
I'd be perfectly happy being a biblical scholar if I wasn't so terrible with foreign language. Reading someone like Chaucer, it's very easy to think you understand the text by projecting our modern world back on to it. Then you'll get to something that you just can't understand from a modern perspective—and you can't justify it away. That's also true with fossils. There were forests 350 million years ago. They may feel familiar on a first look, but they were fundamentally different.
CAA: How do you approach your work with fossils?
Boyce: Any examination of fossil records has to start with our understanding of modern ecology. You look at a fossil of a leaf and think, "Okay, that looks like a leaf. I understand that." But as you examine the details more closely—and plant fossils can offer a great deal of detail, down to cellular anatomy—you discover that there are a number of differences within the structure. This leaf may not, in fact, operate like leaves today in terms of its construction or biological processes.
CAA: What does a prehistoric plant look like?
Boyce: There's a lot of weird things out there, like Lepidodendron. Their closest relative today are these scruffy little plants a couple inches tall that poke their heads out of leaf litter in temperate forests. But if you went back 300 million years, they were the canopy trees — 30, 40 meters tall. They weren't constructed at all like today's trees, though. They had almost no wood at all, just a great deal of bark. It's unclear what was holding them up. Everything about their construction is very strange.
CAA: What significant changes have occurred in plant life?
Boyce: Today, most plants are flowering plants, with reproductive characteristics that typically include flowers, seeds, or fruit. But more than 100 million years ago, these types of plants didn't exist. So how is it that they came to take over? Through my work, I demonstrated that as temperatures rose at that time, flowering plants' evolved a high vein density which allowed them to cycle water at faster rates than previously dominant plants.
CAA: What can these plants teach us about today's ecology?
Boyce: They can help us understand the origins of our food supply—which is dominated by crops that are all basically flowering plants.
One focus of my research is how primary production, the process by which living compounds are synthesized from carbon dioxide, has changed over time. We know that today, carbon dioxide is increasing in the atmosphere. Generally, if you give plants more carbon dioxide, they'll perform more photosynthesis and grow faster. That effect is easy to study over a couple of years. But what would happen if you were looking at increased levels of carbon dioxide across very large scales and over revolutionary time periods?
Understanding how past ecologies adapted and changed may yield us valuable clues into our ecology today. And—presented with new changes to the environment, how it might adapt again.
Scholarships Mean Freedom for Caltech's Stamps Leadership Scholars
Embracing the entrepreneurial spirit to help build a Bay Area startup, delving even deeper into research with Caltech faculty, heading off to that colder institute of technology for graduate study—these are choices that not every new college graduate could afford.
Caltech's inaugural cohort of Stamps Leadership Scholars—Randall Lin (BS '14), Ted Xiao (BS '14), and Jetson Leder-Luis (BS '14)—have earned an extra measure of freedom in choosing what to do next, thanks to scholarships that afforded them special opportunities during their Caltech days.
The Penelope W. and E. Roe Stamps IV Leadership Scholar Awards Program at Caltech, one of 35 Stamps scholarship programs nationwide, provides exceptional students with four years' worth of tuition, academic, and living expenses as well as supplementary funds to help pay for study abroad, research, internships, conferences, and more. The program is made possible by a one-to-one funding match between the Stamps Charitable Foundation and Caltech.
Courageous Choices
"I don't know if it's true," says Randall Lin, "but my mom always says if I hadn't had this scholarship, I would have had to study what they wanted me to study.
"They wanted me to go to med school. And now I have a physics degree and a computer science minor, even though I still did premed."
The first in his family to attend college, Lin loves challenges. After steeping himself in biophysics and computational neuroscience at Caltech, he has deferred graduate school to join Halo Neuroscience, a start-up developing a transcranial therapy.
Thanks to this award, he was able to spend summers researching how neurons process information. He also dared himself to go outside his comfort zone by traveling to South Korea and Japan, countries he had never visited, and shooting documentary footage about perceptions of plastic surgery in Seoul and about a Tokyo DJ who caters to middle-aged house and hip hop fans. Lin was also able to avoid taking on loans, which he says made all the difference in his choice to join a start-up.
Long-held Goals
Ted Guoning Xiao came to Caltech for the opportunity to work in the labs of world-class professors. Inspired by his mother's love of her medical career and an experience shadowing a City of Hope investigator, Xiao focused on science and math in high school, excelling in research.
"I knew early on what I wanted to do," he says. "And now I've had the opportunity to go to different hospital environments and experience what it's like to be in the ER and the operating room."
His unpaid hospital preceptorships were made possible by this opportunity. The funding also gave him the flexibility to spend summers conducting research in the lab of Frances Arnold, Caltech's Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry.
"The scholarship has really helped me," he says. "Without it, I would have had to do a lot of work study. As an engineering major, I had to study until early morning often. With the Stamps scholarship, I made it."
Xiao also had the freedom to achieve another long-held goal: reaching out to schoolchildren in the local community where he grew up, some from disadvantaged backgrounds. He started a volunteer program that brings several Caltech students to the nearby Learning Lab at the Hathaway-Sycamores Family Resource Center each week to help middle and high schoolers learn math and science.
Now a bioengineering graduate, Xiao hopes to spend a year working with another Caltech research group before enrolling in an MD/PhD program.
No Compromise
Graduating with options in economics and in applied and computational mathematics, Jetson Leder-Luis already has made contributions as a researcher.
Through summer work with Jean Ensminger, Caltech's Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Social Science, Leder-Luis helped conceptualize tools to spot fraud in development aid. He also collaborated with Harvard scientists to produce statistical models for analyzing survey responses, coauthoring a 2014 paper in the American Journal of Political Science.
Leder-Luis says the Stampses' generosity gave him the freedom to focus and excel. The scholarship also funded extensive travel—enabling him to gain firsthand experience in developing nations such as Albania and Malaysia, which galvanized his interest in economics.
"This is my job," he says. "I basically started being a grad student three years ago." Next up, he will begin doctoral studies in economics at MIT.
Being a Stamps Scholar gave Leder-Luis the chance to engage his artistic skills as well. He held leadership roles in Caltech's Fluid Dynamics a cappella group, Glee Club, and Chamber Singers, and was music director of an acclaimed Caltech production of the musical Rent.
Leder-Luis is thankful for every opportunity allowed by this award.
"I've never had to compromise academics for funds, and I've been able to do things I wouldn't have had the opportunity to do otherwise," he says. "Really, it feels like we have the sweetest deal in academia."
Caltech President Thomas Rosenbaum Accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Caltech president Thomas F. Rosenbaum accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge from MIT president Rafael Reif. Dr. Rosenbaum gets doused in the flume in the Earth Surface Dynamics Laboratory of Michael Lamb, Caltech professor of geology. Dr. Rosenbaum challenges Worcester Polytechnic Institute president and Caltech alumna Laurie Leshin (MS '89, PhD '95) and University of Chicago provost Eric Isaacs. The water used in the flume's experiments is recycled; it gets pumped from the flume's floor back up to the top of the incline. No water was wasted in the making of this video.
Rumi Chunara (BS '04) Named to MIT Technology Review's Innovator Under 35 List
Rumi Chunara, a researcher at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, was named to MIT Technology Review's annual list of innovators under 35.
Chunara investigates how social media and other online sources of information can help alert the public and authorities to an outbreak of disease.
According to Chunara, a rise in cholera-related Twitter posts in Haiti correlated with an outbreak. "That's important, because it takes the ministry of health in Haiti a couple of weeks to get their data aggregated," she told the Review.
Would you be willing to pay more than 25 cents a year to understand the cosmos?
By Rebecca Oppenheimer (PhD '99)
Professor and chair of the astrophysics department at the American Museum of Natural History
Studying the universe — perhaps even modern science as a whole — is as American as apple pie and baseball.
Although America was not the first country to launch a satellite into orbit, it has, for more than half a century, pioneered the exploration of the universe from the advantageous perspective that sensors, robots and telescopes offer once they are off-world. Looking through a telescope in space — as opposed to one on the ground — is, to an astrophysicist, as revelatory as a child's first sense that shapes and faces are physical, can be touched and explored, and that vision is a meaningful way to understand where one is.
Far from the water-laden, turbulent atmosphere that protects Earth's cozy climate, a telescope can study otherwise invisible aspects of the cosmos: black holes, the evolving structure of the universe, the birthing of stars and our closest, smallest neighbors, some comparable in size to Jupiter, yet roaming the universe alone. We even have evidence that planets similar to Earth may be quite common in orbits around stars other than the sun. These discoveries made by astrophysical experiments in space have completely transformed our view of where we are and how this planet came to be.
Twenty years ago, when I started graduate school at Caltech, if I said I wanted to find planets around other stars, people in the field would laugh and say, "Go watch 'Star Trek.'" Now the study of "exoplanets" is a rich field of research that addresses fundamental questions surrounding our own origins. Much of that knowledge comes from telescopes in space.
This priceless knowledge is a result of the dedicated effort of thousands of people over several decades. It could not have been achieved without the resources and forward-thinking mentality that NASA enables. Today, however, our country's political climate has put this groundbreaking work in jeopardy.
I recently chaired an independent review committee for NASA's astrophysics division to conduct a senior review, the highest-level peer review that division conducts. Our group of 10 experts was tasked with examining the existing telescopes and other types of sensors currently in operation, some in orbit around Earth, others trailing at huge distances and orbiting the sun.
There are 10 current missions, representing an investment of billions of dollars over three decades, including smaller contributions by the European and Japanese space agencies. All of these spacecraft have unique capabilities to render facets of the universe visible for scientific scrutiny, capabilities that probably will never be replicated.
Our committee's charge involved ranking the scientific value of these missions, and helping the senior administration at NASA allocate available funds to ensure the highest-quality science for the next four years. For three weeks, we professors, researchers and other professionals, none of whom was directly involved in any of the projects, deliberated pro bono to develop a plan that would keep the field healthy within the specified budget guidelines.
When we heard what the guidelines were, we were horrified. We estimated that NASA was operating many of these missions at a level that was below 2% of the initial construction and launch expenses. Standard management practice suggests that 10% of the initial construction cost is a reasonable annual budget for operating a facility. We had to work with a total of $75 million. That is what the government spends roughly every 10 minutes. It is less than a third of the L.A. Dodgers' payroll in 2014, and represents a contribution of a little less than 25 cents per American each year.
In the next few years, this mission operating budget is projected to fall to less than 40% of this year's value. As a result, several fully operational spacecraft will be turned off — and lost in space.
Because our panel sought to maintain as much scientific breadth as possible, other projects have been reduced in funding almost to the point of simply collecting the data but not analyzing it. If the current budget guidelines are put into law, teams of scientists, engineers and software experts will be laid off. The collective talent of these groups will be permanently lost.
Is this extreme austerity, an artifact of the current political climate, really the right way forward? The United States is in a better position than ever to advance human understanding of the universe in ways unimaginable to Ben Franklin as he established American science many years ago. Are we, as a nation, to be remembered by future generations for building these remarkable eyes on the universe, simply to let them drift away into darkness or vaporize in the atmosphere, when they can still see things no one has ever imagined? Are we not obliged to continue this bold exploration, with vigor, for the benefit of all of humanity?
Rebecca Oppenheimer (PhD '99) is curator, professor and chair of the astrophysics department at the American Museum of Natural History. This article originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times, with the author credited as B.R. Oppenheimer. Reprinted with permission.
Paul Chirik (PhD '00) Named Editor of Organometallics
Paul Chirik (PhD '00) was named the editor-in-chief of Organometallics, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Chemical Society focused on organometallic and organometalloid chemistry.
Chirik is currently the Edward S. Sanford Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University.
"My vision for the journal is to continue its position of excellence as the flagship publication in the field and also to capture the growth and new multidisciplinary chemistry moving forward," Chirik says.
Before earning his PhD at Caltech, Chirik studied at Virginia Tech. He went on to become a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2001, he joined the faculty at Cornell University, where he stayed for 10 years before joining Princeton.
The research group he now leads focuses on solving long-standing problems in chemical synthesis. For example, they are working on developing catalysts using earth-abundant elements, focusing on more environmentally benign syntheses.
"We are delighted to welcome Dr. Chirik in his new role as editor-in-chief of Organometallics," says Susan King, Ph.D., senior vice president of ACS Publications. "Dr. Chirik has been an active supporter of ACS Publications through his authorship, reviewing activities and Editorial Advisory Board capacity. Dr. Chirik's breadth of scientific interests, his strong leadership skills and his editorial experience will ensure Organometallics continues to innovate and expand into multidisciplinary areas."
Patricia Thiel (PhD '81) Wins 2014 Welch Award
Patricia Thiel (PhD '81) has been named the 2014 winner of the AVS Medard W. Welch Award, which recognizes outstanding research in the fields of materials, interfaces and processing. Thiel, who is a faculty scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and a Distinguished Professor of chemistry at Iowa State University, is recognized for her "seminal contributions to the understanding of quasicrystalline surfaces and thin-film nucleation and growth."
"We congratulate Pat on the Welch Award and for her outstanding contributions to the field of surface chemistry. Pat's work in understanding the surface structures of complex materials has advanced the understanding of quasicrystals and nanoparticles on metal and semiconductor surfaces," said Adam Schwartz, director of the Ames Laboratory.
The Welch Award was established in 1969. Thiel is the first woman to win the Welch Award in its 44-year history.
"This award is defined by the people who won it before me. They have been the giants in the field of surface science. I am humbled and honored to be joining their ranks. The award really recognizes much more than me. It recognizes my many talented coworkers and the agencies that have enabled our work, especially the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation," said Thiel.
Eddy Hartenstein (MS '74) Steps Down From Tribune Media
from the LA Times
Eddy Hartenstein (MS '74) has stepped down as publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times to become nonexecutive chairman of the Tribune Publishing board. Hartenstein will serve on the board along with five outside directors.
Civic leader and former Wall Street investment banker Austin Beutner has become the the new publisher and chief executive of the Los Angeles Times.
Hartenstein said that he recommended Beutner for the position and that the board of Tribune Publishing Co., The Times' new corporate parent, approved the appointment last week.
Hartenstein, 63, had led the Los Angeles Times since 2008, leading the newspaper, and later Tribune Co. (which will change its name to Tribune Media on Monday), during a four-year stay in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
"It's been an interesting journey," Hartenstein said. "It's one that I can look back on here, not only on Monday but for years to come, that speaks to the power of the various Tribune brands in their marketplace. I salute the women and men of Tribune Co., wherever they are — markets big, medium and small — for staying with it."
A satellite TV pioneer, Hartenstein graduated with a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering and math from California State Polytechnic University at Pomona in 1972 and added a master's degree in applied mechanics from Caltech. He started his career at California-based satellite company Hughes Electronics Corp., which was later acquired by General Motors.
In 1990, he was named to head a Hughes subsidiary developing direct-to-home satellite TV service, and four years later launched DirecTV, revolutionizing the subscription television landscape. He was named chairman and CEO in 2001, serving in that role until 2004, after GM sold its controlling stake in DirecTV to News Corp.
While publishing may not be rocket science, he was recruited by then-Tribune Co. Chairman Sam Zell to become publisher of the Los Angeles Times in August 2008 -- less than four months before the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Hartenstein stayed the course and played an instrumental role in its reorganization and emergence under new owners.
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Milan Mrksich (PhD '94) Creates Tool to Test Drugs at High Speed
Excerpt from Crain's Chicago Business
Pharmaceutical researchers trying to create medications begin by testing each variation for signs of effectiveness. Using automated machines, they can screen as many as 1,000 molecules a day.
Milan Mrksich can do 100 times better than that. A biomedical engineer and chemical biologist at Northwestern University, he has developed a process that can assess up to 100,000 compounds a day. He calls his turbocharged tool Samdi, for self-assembled monolayers for desorption ionization. He also has a startup, Samdi Tech Inc., that will run these tests for a fee for academic and commercial researchers.
"Samdi is the first label-free assay that can be performed at high throughput," Mr. Mrksich says.
Emre Toker (BS '84) To Head Center for Entrepreneurship at Washington University in St. Louis
Emre Toker (BS '84) has been appointed managing director of the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Toker most recently served as entrepreneurship senior mentor-in-residence at the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management.
An accomplished entrepreneur, Toker is the founder or co-founder of five Arizona- and California-based technology companies.
"We are ecstatic that Emre Toker has accepted our offer to lead the Skandalaris Center," said the university's provost H. Holden Thorp (PhD '89), also a graduate of Caltech. "With his passion for innovation and proven ability to develop, nurture and successfully launch startup enterprises, I am certain that he has the vision and ability to harness the creative energy of the university and the community to further our efforts to become a vibrant hub for entrepreneurship."
5 Myths about Networking for Techers
When Bobby Johnson (BS '98) was the director of engineering at Facebook, he was responsible for growing the social networking site from hundreds of thousands of users to nearly one billion. And he needed to hire a team of engineers to do that.
His favorite people to recruit? Techers.
"I loved hiring fellow graduates from Caltech, regardless of their specific majors," says Johnson, who branched off in 2013 to start his own company, Interana. "I knew how they were trained to think."
The problem was that he had trouble finding enough graduates to fill the ranks of his team. When Johnson organized networking socials—which overflowed with engineers in Palo Alto eager to hobnob with Facebook insiders—few Techers turned out. Johnson knew that when he could make contact with Caltech graduates, it was often a great fit. Why, then, did it seem difficult to make that first connection?
"For whatever reason, I think there's a kind of stigma amongst Techers against professional networking," Johnson says. "Maybe it's that we're introverted by nature, maybe we're focused on the work. We tend to think, 'Oh, networking is something business majors do. Not us.' But experience has taught me that no matter the industry or how qualified you are, you still need to leverage your contacts. You have to jump in."
Does the old and clichéd adage, "it's not what you know, it's who you know," really apply to the sciences, where the bar for required knowledge and competence is set so high?
Techers boldly tackle problems that change the world. Solving the challenge of your own career requires another set of skills that may feel foreign, but with a little effort, can be acquired.
We asked alumni for their opinions and experiences. Here, in no particular order, are five common Techer preconceptions about networking.
1: "Good work speaks for itself."
"We're trained to focus on our work" says Debbie Bakin (BS '86). "If we're rigorous about our work, then the thinking is it will help you to land the next job."
There can be no denying that the quality of one's work product is essential to unlocking future career opportunities. But how will the right people find out about your work?
"Good work is certainly important," says Elayne Chou, a career consultant in the Bay Area who advises a number of academic clients, including graduates from Caltech. "But to have the most effect, that work needs to be presented at the right moment." Managers hire because they are looking for a certain skill set to address a need, Chou explains, and no matter how good the portfolio—it must still reach the right person at the right time.
Search for people in your area of expertise and learn about their priorities, then find appropriate ways to make them aware of your own work and how it addresses their needs. Rather than assume they will make the connection, count it as your job to do it for them.
2: "A Caltech degree can work as well as networking."
There can be no doubt that a Caltech degree is a mark of significant accomplishment.
"One of the things that makes Caltech special is that it is, in many ways, a meritocracy. We had to do so much to earn our degree. It's evidence not just of our training but also our determination," says Johnson. "For those who know—it speaks for itself."
But it can be difficult to know exactly how well a hiring manager understands the specifics of an institution, or to what degree they value education versus other factors like work experience.
The advantage of a Caltech degree is the ability to solve difficult problems. Discover the problems that hiring managers are trying to solve, and then educate them on how you—using the methods learned at Caltech—can best help them find the solution. And your degree offers another benefit—access to a broad network of fellow alumni who are placed in positions to help.
Like Johnson, there are people looking specifically for Caltech graduates. Rather than waiting and hoping for them to find you, make it your role to find them.
3. "People don't want to hear me talk about myself."
"I think that, as Techers, one of the things we prize is authenticity," says Dave Tytell (BS '99). "Which may be why many of us tend to shy away from 'selling' ourselves."
Here's a fact: networking is uncomfortable for most people. Some worry that by communicating their accomplishments, they may sound boastful or arrogant.
"There is an art to speaking up such that others recognize your valuable contributions," says Chou, who recommends focusing on how your work benefits others. "That's a way of taking the focus off you and relating it to your work."
Practice helps you gain comfort. It may help to think of career networking like research. If a couple of experiments don't yield the results hoped for, it's not time to declare the entire theory invalid. Rather, take the opportunity to learn what didn't work and refine your methods.
"You won't develop your ability to appropriately self-promote unless you do it regularly," says Chou. Small, regular interactions can make a big difference. Share information on your projects, ask advice from colleagues, or drop a note just to catch up. Chou advises setting a goal to meet at least one new person per quarter to broaden your base.
4. "I don't know enough people."
One of Caltech's distinguishing features is its incredibly selective student body. Once in the marketplace, however, many Techers observe that larger schools have very broad professional networks. It's easy to feel eclipsed sometimes.
But the same advantages that make Caltech a superb place to study also amplify the power of its alumni network.
First, there are fewer degrees of separation. "Caltech's alumni community, which numbers more than 23,000, has an outsized impact on science, academia, industry, and society relative to its size," says Heather Dean (BS '00, MS '00), president of the Caltech Alumni Association. The smaller population means that there are often just one or two degrees of separation between a new graduate and an alumnus/a who is a recognized leader within his or her chosen field.
Second, the strength of ties between contacts is often tighter. "There's a real sense that we were in the foxhole together," says Tytell. "And even if I didn't know you personally, I know your experience." As a result, Techers often express a willingness to be of assistance to fellow graduates.
"It's not just about having a high volume of contacts," says Dean. "It's about having the right ones. Most Techers will find that they are uniquely positioned to make meaningful—and actionable—connections very quickly."
5. "My contacts will be annoyed if I ask for help."
One of the larger challenges many Techers express with networking is the fear of imposing.
"Rather than asking for a job, it can be more comfortable—and more successful—to ask for information or advice," Chou advises.
Not sure where to start?
The Caltech Alumni Association, in partnership with the Career Development Center, launched a new online mentorship initiative on LinkedIn: the CHAT Network (Career Help: Ask a Techer).
"More than 16,000 Caltech alumni are registered on LinkedIn. But it can be hard to know whom to approach," says Alexx Tobeck, executive director of the Caltech Alumni Association. "The CAA is committed to helping Techers connect professionally. We created this dedicated group to make reaching out as easy as possible."
By joining the group, alumni agree to respond to requests for advice from fellow alumni and current students.
"It's not necessarily the place to ask for a job," says Lauren Stolper, director of fellowships advising, study abroad and Caltech's Career Development Center. "But it's a good opportunity for Techers to learn more about a field of work, get recommendations, and expand their field of contacts."
"The hardest part about networking is knowing where to begin," says Dean. "The CHAT group is a great place to start. "
Whether you're looking for advice—or have guidance to give—join the Caltech Alumni Association's dedicated career advice network on LinkedIn. Look for alumni displaying this green badge, then go ahead and ask. You've got the green light.
Robert Lang's (BS '82, PhD '86) Work on Exhibit
Never mind that back-of-the-napkin calculation. Robert Lang will take your napkin and turn it into an origami masterpiece. The Distinguished Alumnus ('09) has several new exhibitions throughout the country over the coming months. You'll never look at paper the same way.
- Folded, displaying more than 100 of his pieces at the Williamson Gallery at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, through August 20.
- Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, Washington through September 21
- Kevin Box/Origami in the Garden sculptural exhibition at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden in Santa Fe, New Mexico through October 25
Lang achieves his work through the assistance of computers. Last year, he collaborated with professors from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Cornell University, and Western New England University to develop the world's smallest origami sculpture—a programmed self-folding polymer the thickness of five human hairs. The sculpture was part of a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate structures that could one day construct themselves in space.


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Yes Scotland
|25 May 2012
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|Blair Jenkins, Chief Executive
Yes Scotland was the organisation representing the parties, organisations, and individuals campaigning for a Yes vote in the Scottish independence referendum, 2014. It was launched in Edinburgh on 25 May 2012.[1]
Yes Scotland's chief executive is Blair Jenkins, and Dennis Canavan is the chair of its advisory board.[2] Stephen Noon, a long term employee and policy writer of the SNP, is Yes Scotland's chief strategist. Its principal opponent in the independence campaign is known as Better Together.[3][4][5] Yes Scotland claims to be "Scotland's largest ever grassroots political campaign".[6]
Yes Scotland officially opened its campaign staff headquarters on 19 November 2012 in Hope Street, Glasgow. The headquarters are open to the public.[7]
In March 2013, a number of Yes Scotland activists promoted the movement at bedroom tax protests throughout Scotland.[8][9]
Yes Scotland first disclosed its finances in April 2013, revealing it had taken over £1.6m in donations.[10]
In July 2013, the Sunday Herald reported that there were "persistent rumours" of funding problems within Yes Scotland, and suggested that these were related to Jacqueline Caldwell and Susan Stewart leaving the campaign organisation. The organisation "shared out" the women's responsibilities between other employees instead of replacing them.[11]
Throughout 2013, Yes Scotland launched specially targeted campaign groups like Veterans for Independence,[12] Farming for Yes,[13] and Crofters for Yes.[14]
In August 2013, the Telegraph reported that Police Scotland were opening a hacking inquiry in response to a complaint received from the campaign about internal emails that appeared to have been accessed illegitimately and leaked to the media.[15]
The campaign is an alliance of the governing Scottish National Party, the Scottish Green Party, and the Scottish Socialist Party.[16]
The Scottish Greens joined in October 2012, after their party members voted overwhelmingly for "full participation" in the campaign.[17]
The organisation has collaborated with Labour for Independence, an independent organisation which seeks to provide a voice for pro-independence supporters of the Scottish Labour Party. In 2013, Yes Scotland covered the £245 accommodation bill for LFI's first conference.[18]
Other groups supporting a Yes vote include Women for Independence and Business for Scotland.
Advisory Board[edit]
- Dennis Canavan (Chairman)
- Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
- Andrew Fairlie
- Colin Fox
- Pat Kane
- Dan Macdonald
- Elaine C Smith
- Nicola Sturgeon
- Sarah-Jane Walls
- Patrick Harvie
- Ellie Koepplinger
In April 2013, the campaign revealed that it had received over £1.6m in donations since its launch the preceding May. Roughly £1.3m of this came from five donors, including the two EuroMillions winners, Christine and Colin Weir. A contribution to the value of £342,797 was provided by the Scottish National Party to "fund the start-up and staffing costs including the official launch on May 25, 2012".[10]
Yes Declaration[edit]
The campaign aims to have one million residents of Scotland sign its "Yes Declaration", a statement of intent to support the independence of Scotland.[1] Signatures can be input electronically by supporters using the campaign's website, and are also collected by grassroots activists who are encouraged to campaign in their local communities and around Scotland at appropriate events. The Declaration reads:
|I believe it is fundamentally better for us all, if decisions about Scotland's future are taken by the people who care most about Scotland, that is, by the people of Scotland.
Being independent means Scotland's future will be in Scotland's hands.
There is no doubt that Scotland has great potential. We are blessed with talent, resources and creativity. We have the opportunity to make our nation a better place to live, for this and future generations. We can build a greener, fairer and more prosperous society that is stronger and more successful than it is today.
I want a Scotland that speaks with her own voice and makes her own unique contribution to the world: a Scotland that stands alongside the other nations on these isles, as an independent nation.
The Sunday Mail newspaper reported that by 1 July 2012 approximately 22,000 people had signed the Declaration and less than 8000 signed up to the cause on the first day, 'prompting organisers to remove a counter from their website'. The newspaper went further by stating that 'There was more embarrassment when it emerged they used actors in a picture on the site.'[19] In September, Alex Salmond announced that Yes Scotland had gathered over 100,000 signatures for the Yes Declaration.[20] By St. Andrew's Day of the same year, the figure had risen to 143,000, to which a Better Together spokesman responded that ″If they want to sign up enough Scots to win a majority, they will still be chasing signatures in 2018"[21] The total reached 372,103 by 24 May 2013,[22] and 789,191 by 9 June 2014.[23] On the 22nd August 2014, Yes Scotland announced that they had exceeded their target of 1 million signatures.[24]
|This article's Criticism or Controversy section may compromise the article's neutral point of view of the subject. (June 2014)
Two weeks after the official launch of the campaign, Scottish Green Party co-leader Patrick Harvie distanced his party from Yes Scotland, saying it was "entirely an SNP vehicle". He suggested that "could lead to defeat at the referendum in 2014".[25] The party eventually joined the campaign in October 2012.[26] The Guardian also reported that the campaign was forced to "restructure" its website because "it appeared to claim that anyone who followed its Twitter feed – including senior BBC journalists and opposition politicians – were supporters of independence" and for "doctoring stock images of actors by adding yes badges".
There has been some criticism[by whom?] over endorsements by high-profile figures who do not reside in Scotland, including Hollywood actor Alan Cumming, James Bond star Sir Sean Connery, and actor Brian Cox.[27] The Yes Scotland launch, which featured actors Alan Cumming and Brian Cox, came under fire from critics[who?] who branded it a "handknitted Hogmanay show".[19]
In August 2013, the chief executive of Better Together, Blair MacDougall, accused figures within Yes Scotland of "copy[ing]" his campaign's slogan — "best of both worlds" — to "reassure voters over independence". In response, a senior SNP source said that "It's arrogant of the No campaign to claim ownership of language."[28]
Later in August, Yes Scotland filed a police complaint that its internal emails had been accessed illegitimately. Details of the particular email that was accessed were not initially released, but it was later revealed to be correspondence with Dr Elliot Bulmer in connection with an article he wrote for the Herald in July, A Scottish constitution to serve the common weal. Their campaign opponents, Better Together, accused Yes Scotland of "secretly paying off supposedly impartial experts" and urged an inquiry, as Dr Bulmer is research director of the Constitutional Commission, a registered charity which states that it has no political alignment. Yes Scotland said the payment was a "nominal fee for the considerable time and effort [Dr Bulmer] spent" on the piece, and its content was not influenced.[29]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b "Scottish independence: One million Scots urged to sign 'yes' declaration". BBC News. 25 May 2012. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ "Scottish independence: Blair Jenkins OBE named Yes Scotland chief". BBC News. 28 June 2012. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ Peterkin, Tom (30 December 2012). "SNP 'could disband' after independence". The Scotsman (Johnston Press). Retrieved 22 April 2013.
- ^ Kirkpatrick, Stewart (30 December 2012). "Yes vote will 'stop Westminster system's damaging changes to Scotland'". Yes Scotland. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ Maddox, David (31 December 2012). "Scottish independence: No chance a 'yes' vote would be end of SNP, says Jim Sillars". The Scotsman (Johnston Press). Retrieved 22 April 2013.
- ^ "JOIN IN". Yes Scotland. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ McArdle, Helen (20 November 2012). "Yes Scotland opens new city base". The Herald (Herald & Times Group). Retrieved 22 April 2013.
- ^ Peterkin, Tom (31 March 2013). "Bedroom tax: Thousands protest across Scotland". The Scotsman. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ "Thousands rally in Glasgow to protest Coalition's 'bedroom tax'". STV. 30 March 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
- ^ a b "Yes Scotland publish list of donors for indyref campaign". The Herald (Herald & Times Group). 10 April 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ^ "Cash questions for Yes Scotland as another senior figure quits after just six months". The Herald. Herald & Times Group. 7 July 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
- ^ "Independent Scotland's armed forces 'should focus on peace'". The Herald. Herald & Times Group. 8 June 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
- ^ "2014 'Yes' team targets farmers". The Herald. Herald & Times Group. 29 July 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
- ^ "Scottish independence: crofters launch campaign". The Scotsman. Johnston Press. 1 August 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
- ^ Cramb, Auslan (20 August 2013). "Yes Scotland calls in police over hacking claim". The Telegraph. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
- ^ "About Yes Scotland". Yes Scotland. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
- ^ Gordon, Tom (7 October 2012). "Greens ditch SNP 'puppet' fears and join the Yes Scotland campaign". The Herald. Herald & Times Group. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
- ^ "Fresh questions raised over pro-independence group's Labour credentials". The Herald. Herald & Times Group. 4 August 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
- ^ a b Aitken, Mark (1 July 2012). "Embarrassment for SNP as only 22,000 Scots sign 'declaration of independence'". Sunday Mail (Trinity Mirror). Retrieved 20 July 2012.
- ^ "Salmond announces 100,000 signed 'yes' declaration". Scottish National Party. 22 September 2012. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ "Yes Scotland signs up 143,000 supporters,". BBC News. 30 November 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
- ^ "Yes Scotland hail 372,000 Independence Declaration signatures". The Herald. Herald & Times Group. 24 May 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ Dempsie, Peter (9 June 2014). "With 100 days to go Yes is on course for success as Declaration signatures near 800,000". Yes Scotland. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
- ^ "Scottish independence: Yes declaration hits million target". BBC News. 22 August 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ Carrell, Severin (10 June 2012). "Scottish Greens pull back from SNP pro-independence campaign". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ "Scottish independence: Greens join Yes Scotland campaign". BBC News. 6 October 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
- ^ McDonald, Toby (7 July 2012). "Scots film star Alan Cumming ditches New York to back independence vote". Daily Record. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ Barnes, Eddie (9 August 2013). "Scottish independence: Row over campaign phrase". The Scotsman. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ "Political row after Yes Scotland say: we paid academic for Herald article". The Herald. Herald & Times Group. 22 August 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
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A year ago Teal Bunbury was recovering from a torn ACL and facing an uncertain club future. Today, he is lighting up the MLS playoffs.
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October 23,2014 - Bill C-43 (The Economic Action Plan 2014 Act) read. Division 17 of Part 4 of the bill will amend the DNA Identification Act to, among other things, create a national DNA-based Missing Persons Index to help police investigations. Public Safety Canada.
October 1, 2014 - October is Child Abuse Prevention Month! Boost Child Abuse Prevention & Intervention have launched the "NO Secrets" campaign. This campaign highlights the critical fact that over 90% of kids who are abused know their abuser. Please visit www.nosecrets.ca to learn more about talking to kids about secrets.
September 20, 2014 - Bill C-489, an Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (restrictions on offenders), comes into force. This Bill amends the Criminal Code to require a court to consider making an order prohibiting certain offenders from being within two kilometers or less of a victims home or any other place specified in the order; creates mandatory conditions prohibiting anyone on a conditional sentence or on probation from having contact with a victim or other person identified in the order or from going to any place specified by the judge, unless the victim consents in writing to having contact with the offender; and ensures that victims safety and security concerns are taken into consideration by either the Parole Board of Canada or Correctional Service Canada when making a release decision about an offender.
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April 10, 2014 - Bill C-14, the Not Criminally Responsible Reform Act, receives Royal Assent, ensuring that the Government can deliver on its commitment to protect Canadians from not criminally responsible (NCR) accused persons who have been found to pose a higher risk of committing violence if released. Amendments will come into effect three months from the date of Royal Assent (July 10, 2014). Government of Canada.
April 3, 2014 - Prime Minister Stephen Harper announces the introduction of legislation to create a Canadian Victims Bill of Rights that would transform the criminal justice system by creating, at the federal level, clear rights for victims of crime a first in Canadian history. Prime Minister of Canada.
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