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PASADENA, Calif.--Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Commits $200 Million Support for Thirty-Meter Telescope

The California Institute of Technology and the University of California have received a $200 million commitment over nine years from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation toward the further development and construction of the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT). more

"There's only one. Caltech" in the Press

4/17/2008--Caltech Surpasses $1.4 Billion Campaign Goal

1/04/2008--Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology design profiled in Arroyo Monthly

8/20/2007--Thirty-Meter Telescope Project Receives $15 Million from Moore Foundation

8/13/2007--Promising New Nanomedical Cancer Therapy Also Highlights Tech Transfer, Inventor Says

6/28/2007--Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Awards $1 Million Grant to Caltech for New Research Laboratory

6/6/2007--Biotech Executive Kathleen Wiltsey Named New Board of Associates President

5/25/2007--Engineering Populations of Wild Insects to Fight Disease

5/18/2007--Researchers Announce New Discovery about Polymers; Could Lead to Better Plastics

4/11/2007--Some Earth-like Worlds May Have Foliage of Colors Other Than Green, Researchers Say

3/29/07--Caltech, Stanford Researchers Dedicate New X-Ray Molecular Observatory at SSRL

2/9/07--Moore Funds Center to Facilitate Chemical Discovery

2/2/07--New Astrophysics Building Under Way

1/24/07--Caltech, UCLA Researchers Create Memory Circuit the Size of a Human Blood Cell

12/19/06--Computer Simulation Improves Understanding of Carbon Nanotubes' Mechanical Properties

11/16/2006--Caltech Names Three New Trustees

10/19/06--Moore Foundation Grants Caltech $6.5 Million For Research on Solar-Driven Energy

10/19/06--Caltech Receives $1 Million Grant from Amgen Foundation to Support Undergraduate Research

10/17/2006--Engineers Devise New Method of Chemical Vapor Deposition for Smaller Nanostructures

7/26/06--Moore Foundation Gives $5.6 Million to Caltech for New Center to Study Cell Regulation

7/5/06--Jacobs Institute to Create New Medicines, Biomedical Devices

6/20/2006--NSF Awards $11.97 Million to Caltech for Distributed Data Analysis of Neutron Scattering

6/20/2006--Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awards $1.5 Million for Undergraduate Science Education

5/26/2006--Caltech Names New President: Georgia Tech Provost Jean-Lou Chameau

4/13/2006--Moore Foundation Awards Multiple Grants to California Institute of Technology

2/2/2006--Caltech Launches Brain Study Program with $8.9 Million Gift from Eli Broad to Fund 24 Researchers and Six New Labs

9/27/2005--Caltech and Cisco Team to Advance Development of FAST Network

8/10/2005--Nobel Laureate Receives $17.5 Million Grant to Create the New Field of Physical Biology

8/10/2005--Two Clare Boothe Luce Postdoctoral Fellowships Awarded to the California Institute of Technology

6/30/2005--Baltimore Offered $13.9 Million from Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative

5/3/2005--Architect Chosen for Annenberg IST Center

2/2/2005--Caltech Receives $2.5 Million to Further Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy

1/25/2005--Caltech Passes $1B Milestone

1/24/2005--The Rose Hills Foundation grants $315,000 to Caltech for undergraduate scholarships

1/14/2005--Fellowship for Graduate Students Established

12/03/2004--Fellowship Program Receives $1 Million Gift

11/22/2004--New Home for Astronomers

11/10/2004--Moore Foundation Gives $25.4 million to Caltech for Nanoscale Systems Initiative

10/29/2004--Caltech Launches New Information Initiative

10/27/2004--Observing the Roiling Earth

3/10/2004--Fred Kavli and the Kavli Foundation establish the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech

1/26/2004-- New Tool for Reading a Molecule's Blueprints

10/16/2003-- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awards $17.5 million for Thirty-Meter Telescope plans

4/17/2003-- Caltech to Renovate Historic Dabney Hall

3/13/2003--Caltech Receives $4 Million Grant for Cryoelectron Microscopy Laboratory

10/24/2002--Caltech Kicks off $1.4 Billion Fundraising Campaign