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The Caltech Experience During Wartime
11/10/2016

The Caltech Experience During Wartime

Alyce Nicolo
Caltech alumnus Howard Jessen (BS ’46) recently donated to Caltech to help enrich humanities instruction and create opportunities for early-career PhDs. Jessen, who came to Caltech by way of the Navy’s V-12 program—a World War II program through which future officers were able to earn bachelor's degrees—took time to reflect on his experience.
Members of the V-12 navy unit at Caltech in 1941
SURF 2016
11/09/2016

SURF 2016

Lorinda Dajose
Domestic violence in 19th-century England, teaching a computer to play an Atari game—a glimpse at undergraduate research at Caltech.
Jagriti Agrawal and Yisong Yue.
Then and Now
11/07/2016

Then and Now

Katie Neith
To honor both Caltech’s humble beginnings 125 years ago and the leaps and bounds it—along with technology, society, and science—has made since then, we decided to compare facets of the school, past and present.
photo of a group of four students
Caltech Awards Millikan Medal to Donald Bren
11/07/2016

Caltech Awards Millikan Medal to Donald Bren

Kathy Svitil
The Caltech Board of Trustees has awarded the Institute's highest honor, the Robert A. Millikan Medal, to Donald Bren, chairman of the Irvine Company and a life member of the Caltech Board of Trustees.
group photo with Donald Bren and Millikan Medal
Ceres and the Dawn of the Solar System
11/03/2016

Ceres and the Dawn of the Solar System

Lorinda Dajose
JPL scientist Carol Raymond will give the November 9 Watson Lecture.
Carol Raymond
A Caltech Halloween Tradition Continues
11/02/2016

A Caltech Halloween Tradition Continues

Anybody can smash a pumpkin, but students at Caltech do it on a grand scale.
Photo of pumpkin falling
Putting the "Clean" in Clean Energy
10/28/2016

Putting the "Clean" in Clean Energy

Jon Nalick
Work crews recently took to the rooftops of Caltech's buildings and parking structures to wash clean the thousands of solar panels that provide the campus with as much as 1.4 megawatts of electricity.
Photo of men cleaning solar panels.
Visualization Brings Data to Life
10/28/2016

Visualization Brings Data to Life

Lorinda Dajose
Students from around the country use design and programming principles to solve data visualization challenges facing Caltech and JPL researchers.
comparison-rows-genome
Caltech Elects Three New Members to Board of Trustees
10/26/2016

Caltech Elects Three New Members to Board of Trustees

Steve Ritea
Spencer Abraham, Rebecka Belldegrun, and alumna Ann Stimmler Johnson have been elected to the Caltech Board of Trustees.
photo of the front of the Parsons-Gates building
Revolutionizing Medicine
10/25/2016

Revolutionizing Medicine

Lorinda Dajose
The October 26 Watson Lecture will be given by Rustem Ismagilov.