World & Nation
Re “What’s Wrong With American High Schools,” Commentary, March 1: It is interesting that Bill Gates thinks the job of American high schools is to prepare all students for college -- since he did not finish Harvard himself.
March 5, 2005
High School Sports
Girls in grades six through 12 are invited to multiply their career opportunities by participating in a Math Science Conference sponsored by the Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks chapters of the American Assn. of University Women.
Jan. 31, 1998
Obituaries
Gerald Lawson dies at 70; engineer brought cartridge-based video game consoles to life
April 23, 2011
A few weeks before seminal climate change talks in Kyoto back in 1997, Mobil Oil took out a bluntly worded advertisement in the New York Times and Washington Post.
Dec. 31, 2015
Business
Some of the most famous names in American engineering have spent the past two days here debating a problem that has bedeviled policy makers for nearly a decade: how to reverse the relative decline of America’s high-technology industries.
Dec. 6, 1989
Science & Medicine
A Caltech professor was among those elected Tuesday to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences.
May 2, 1991
Gerald Lawson’s ‘revolutionary’ innovation came while he was working for Fairchild Semiconductor in the early 1970s, one of a small number of black engineers then working in Silicon Valley.
Ronald Scott, a Caltech civil engineer who designed a scoop that enabled the unmanned Surveyor 3 to collect soil on the moon, has died.
Aug. 22, 2005
A private memorial service is planned for Frank E.
Oct. 10, 1990
Travel & Experiences
Right about now, you are probably surrounded by piles of discarded gift wrap, serenaded by an astonishingly noisy array of new toys and overcome by the bleary feeling that results from temporarily substituting rum balls for green vegetables.
Dec. 27, 1990