http://alumni.caltech.edu/ News for the California Institute of Technology Alumni Association en-US Copyright 2004, California Institute of Technology aure@caltech.edu aure@caltech.edu http://alumni.caltech.edu/sundial/ http://alumni.caltech.edu/sundial/ On Friday, May 16th at 3:00 pm, the Caltech Alumni Association will unveil its analemmetic sundial. Stand on the plinth and become a human timepiece, using your shadow to tell the current time. Alumni, students, faculty, staff and visitors are invited to the unveiling of this interactive public artwork. http://alumni.caltech.edu/news/story_display?story_id=4544 http://alumni.caltech.edu/news/story_display?story_id=4544 Caltech alumnus Ronald Linde ('62 MS, '64 PhD MS) and Maxine Linde have established an $18 million endowment for an interdivisional approach to studying global environmental science. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/04/gallery_plasma http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/04/gallery_plasma Caltech professor Paul Bellan and the research conducted by the Bellan Plasma Group is featured in this month's WIRED. Bellan's lab uses a giant vacuum chamber to simulate the jets of plasma found on the sun. Photo at right of the inside of the vacuum tube from WIRED.