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Student Athlete Spotlight: Chris Bradley
12/07/2015

Student Athlete Spotlight: Chris Bradley

Lorinda Dajose
Bradley discusses mechanical engineering, Caltech water polo, and breaking the school record for goals scored.
Funding the Future
12/03/2015

Funding the Future

Marisa Demers
The Institute has launched an initiative with the ultimate aim of endowing all graduate fellowships at Caltech—an undertaking that carries with it vast possibilities for a close-knit community of scholars who share a common dream of discovering something new that matters and may directly improve the world.
SURF: Working to Make a Better Insulin
12/01/2015

SURF: Working to Make a Better Insulin

Kimm Fesenmaier
Junior Mary Boyajian spent her summer as a student in the SURF program working on a project that aims to devise a faster-acting insulin-replacement therapy for the treatment of diabetes.
Lepe Named Marshall Scholar
11/24/2015

Lepe Named Marshall Scholar

Lorinda Dajose
Senior Bianca Lepe, a bioengineering major from Granada Hills, California, has been named a Marshall Scholar.
New Leadership Chair Is a Tribute to Exploration
11/24/2015

New Leadership Chair Is a Tribute to Exploration

Ann Motrunich
Ted (BS ’65, MS ’66) and Ginger Jenkins—longtime Caltech supporters and early employees in the semiconductor industry—have established a leadership chair for the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences (GPS).
Ted and Ginger Jenkins
Learning to Teach
11/23/2015

Learning to Teach

Lorinda Dajose
To support their peers in their growth as educators, a group of graduate students began the Caltech Project for Effective Teaching (CPET) in 2006. The program's mission is to help members of the Caltech community—including postdocs, undergraduates, professors, and graduate students—become more effective teachers and communicators.
Three's Not a Crowd
11/17/2015

Three's Not a Crowd

Dave Zobel
The Butkovich sisters—junior Slava, sophomore Nina, and freshman Lazarina—find their own nearly identical trajectories unsurprising.
T Cells Get Schooled
11/17/2015

T Cells Get Schooled

Douglas Smith
The road to becoming a T cell is fraught with choices, false starts, and dead ends, where a regulatory tug-of-war brings cells surprisingly close to the border of leukemia.
Fluorescence-labeled immature T cells
Caltech Appoints Chief Communications Officer
11/16/2015

Caltech Appoints Chief Communications Officer

Kathy Svitil
After a national search, Farnaz Khadem—a communications leader with two decades of experience in higher education, journalism, private industry, and the public sector—has been appointed Chief Communications Officer at Caltech.
When Harry Met Arnold
11/12/2015

When Harry Met Arnold

Douglas Smith
Caltech celebrates the 25th year of the Beckman Institute and the 80th birthday of Harry Gray, the Beckman Professor of Chemistry and the institute's founding director.
Caltech chemist Harry Gray
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