Caltech Gets Grant for Research, Computers

Caltech has received $677,000 from the White Rose Foundation for research in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences and for advanced computers and software.

Of the grant, $500,000 will be used to support microbeam analysis research by mineralogy professor George Rossman. The rest of the gift consists of computer software and hardware that will be housed in undergraduate and graduate student residences.

The foundation, based in Sunnyvale, is headed by Michael Scott, who became the first president of Apple Computer in 1977, 12 years after earning his bachelor’s degree in physics at Caltech. Scott has contributed more than $2 million to Caltech.