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Vibrations
The Newsletter for the EAS Community
Selected Upcoming Events
Monday, September 23, 2024, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Convocation 2024
Location: Beckman Auditorium
Monday, September 23, 2024, 8:15 am - 12:30 pm
KISS Short Course - Nano Engineering for Exo Discoveries: Advancing Metasurfaces for Exoplanet Exploration
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Thursday, October 3, 2024, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
David G. Goodwin Memorial Lecture: "Protonics for Sustainable Energy Technologies" - Sossina M. Haile, Walter P. Murphy Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Wouk Lecture: Two Engineers and a Whiteboard: Reimagining Clean Energy Systems, featuring Pedro Pizarro, President and Chief Executive Officer of Edison International, and Dave Welch, Founder of NosTerra Ventures
Location: Ramo Auditorium
PCC-Caltech Lunar Trailblazer Student Collaboration Internship Opportunity
Pasadena City College and Caltech undergraduate students have the opportunity to participate as interns in the development and operations of NASA's Caltech-led Lunar Trailblazer mission, a satellite that will map water on the surface of the Moon. This internship will run from October to mid December. Applications will be reviewed through October 6. Learn more and apply.
Surplus High-Value Equipment Wanted/Needed
Doing a summer clean out? Have perfectly working equipment that you no longer need? List it on the Division’s webpage for Surplus High-Value Equipment for your colleagues across the Institute to happily retrieve from you. To post equipment: please send a description, specs, and photo to commofc@caltech.edu. Please also include the date you will e-waste if there are no takers. It is assumed that the equipment is working and generally available at no-cost to others at the Institute, aside from transport to be mutually arranged.
Spotlight On Our People
Cui Ye
Postdoctoral Scholar, Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering
I joined Professor Wei Gao’s research group in July 2021 as a postdoctoral scholar. My research interests encompass wearable devices, biosensors, electroanalytical chemistry, microfluidics, nanotechnology, and personalized medicine. Specifically, I focus on nucleic acid-based wearable sensing systems for non-invasive, real-time biofluid analysis. Despite significant progress in wearable biosensors for physiological data collection, many existing systems struggle to accurately detect trace-level biomarkers, such as female hormones. To address this challenge, I fabricated a ring-like wearable devices that achieves picomolar-level sensitivity for non-invasive female hormones monitoring. This technology is currently being commercialized by the startup Persperity Health, where I serve as a scientific advisor with the goal of providing affordable and highly sensitive monitoring solutions for female reproductive hormones. Outside of academia and work, I enjoy hiking and swimming, activities that help me maintain a balanced lifestyle and support both my physical and mental well-being.
Juan Manuel Renteria
Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Hi! I’m a first-generation senior undergraduate student studying Mechanical Engineering with the plan of focusing on medical robotics. I’m inspired to work in medical engineering because of the challenges I’ve experienced being born with my disability, Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome, which affects my right leg. It's a condition that has, and will, affect me my whole life, but I’m proud and fortunate to be succeeding at Caltech and life despite the extra care my leg requires of me. If you know of any ways I can speak up about my condition/experience at Caltech or beyond, please reach out to me at jrenteri@caltech.edu. I’m currently doing research with the AMBER Lab developing a hand design for their upcoming humanoid robot, ADAM. I also held the position of President of Caltech’s Hispanic and Latino Association (CHLA) last year, where we work to create a strong Latino/Hispanic community and share our diverse culture with each other and the rest of the Caltech community. I also really love music, cooking, and photography. I recently made Mexican Milanesa and Japanese Onigiri while having Tyler, the Creator’s Call Me If You Get Lost (2021) and Jack Kerouac’s Poetry for the Beat Generation (1958) on repeat.
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Calls for Nomination & Funding Opportunities
Caltech’s Office of Foundation Relations maintains an online database and email subscription service of primarily non-federal funding opportunities as a resource for the Caltech community. Opportunities include calls for proposals released by private foundations, public charities, associations, corporations, internal Caltech opportunities and federal limited opportunities.
Keep your contact info updated at access.caltech.edu.
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