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2023 Three Minute Thesis

The 2023 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition will be held on Tuesday, April 25. 3MT challenges Caltech graduate students to explain their research in an engaging and clear three-minute talk intended for a non-specialist audience. The submissions portal will open March 1.

New Online Bookstore

Starting this fall, the Library has partnered with eCampus.com to supply materials for all Caltech classes. Students can use free expedited shipping to order textbooks to a personal address or the library for pickup. Price matching is also available:
Caltech.eCampus.com.

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Library Classes

We offer workshops to help with research, data management, and various software programs, including You & Your Thesis, The Unix Shell, Introduction to QGIS, Inventions, Patents, and Licensing, and more. Check out the winter 2023 schedule.

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Caltech Hall Cameras

At the top of Caltech Hall on the ninth floor, there are two cameras that capture the north and south views from the building, out over the mountains and lowlands of Pasadena and beyond.

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WBIS

World Biographical Information System (a de Gruyter database) has biographical information on ~6 million people from all over the world starting in 800 BCE. It can be used for information on people as well as genealogical research.

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CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform 

The new SciFinder Discovery Platform from the American Chemical Society—"accelerate game-changing discoveries with best-in-class scientific information solutions"— is now available to the Caltech community.

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Ouimet, Frédéric (2022) A multivariate normal approximation for the Dirichlet density and some applications Stat; Vol. 11; No. 1;
Mauger, L.; Lohaus, S. H.; et el. (2022) The temperature dependence of nuclear resonant X-Ray spectra of magnetic iron and cementite Hyperfine Interactions; Vol. 243; No. 1;
Shrestha, Sujan; Yoon, Subin; et el. (2022) Traffic, transport, and vegetation drive VOC concentrations in a major urban area in Texas Science of the Total Environment; Vol. 838;

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