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Volunteers for Vets
11/05/2015

Volunteers for Vets

Dave Zobel
For the last three years, Caltech students and staff have been lending a hand at Pasadena City College, providing free tutoring and mentoring to some of the campus's nearly 800 student veterans.
Cancer Treatment in a Painless Patch
11/05/2015

Cancer Treatment in a Painless Patch

Jessica Stoller-Conrad
Chemotherapy injections are a painful but necessary part of many cancer treatment regimes. SURF student Teo Wilkening spent his summer developing a chemotherapy patch that could one day take pain out of the equation.
Senior Spotlight: Aditya Bhagavathi
11/02/2015

Senior Spotlight: Aditya Bhagavathi

Lorinda Dajose
Senior Aditya Bhagavathi talks about leadership and legacy as a cross-country and track runner, and plans for the future after Caltech.
Elachi to Retire as JPL Director
10/28/2015

Elachi to Retire as JPL Director

Charles Elachi has announced his intention to retire as director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on June 30, 2016 and move to campus as professor emeritus. A national search is underway to identify his successor.
Two New Members Join the Board of Trustees
10/28/2015

Two New Members Join the Board of Trustees

Kimm Fesenmaier
Two giants from the biomedicine world—David Ho and Bill Rastetter—join Caltech's Board of Trustees.
Feynman's Nobel Year
10/21/2015

Feynman's Nobel Year

Douglas Smith
Fifty years ago on October 21, 1965, Caltech's Richard Feynman shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. The three independently brokered workable marriages between 20th-century quantum mechanics and 19th-century electromagnetic field theory.
Richard Feynman
Students Present Summer Research
10/16/2015

Students Present Summer Research

Lorinda Dajose
On Saturday, October 17, Caltech students will present the results of their research during SURF Seminar Day.
Making A World of Difference
10/15/2015

Making A World of Difference

Trity Pourbahrami
On October 1, 2015, Caltech celebrated the launch of Engineers Week with a panel discussion on diversity and how engineers are making a world of difference. The launch was designed to energize planning of programs and events to celebrate the accomplishments of engineers as well as to inspire the next generation during Engineers Week, which will be February 21–26, 2016.
Robotic Astronomer Finds New Home
10/15/2015

Robotic Astronomer Finds New Home

The world's only robotic adaptive optics system, Robo-AO, is moving to a new home: the 2.1-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.
A Passion for Entanglement
10/13/2015

A Passion for Entanglement

Rod Pyle
During last summer's SURF program at Caltech, undergraduate Patrick Rall worked in quantum information science. This is his second consecutive SURF summer.
SURF participant and Caltech undergraduate Patrick Rall.
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