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07/12/2011

Linde + Robinson Lab Making Headlines for Extraordinary Renovations

Katie Neith

The world is taking note of the innovative work being done at Caltech—not just in the labs, but also in the unique renovations of our research spaces. The spring issue of Solutions Journal, a magazine of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), features an in-depth profile of the Linde + Robinson Laboratory, an astronomy facility built in 1932 that has undergone extensive renovations and will be the nation's first LEED Platinum laboratory.

07/08/2011

Caltech Summer Program Leads the Way Toward Higher Education for Minority Students

Katie Neith

Building upon the institute's mission to benefit society through research integrated with education, Caltech is opening its doors to 23 diverse and gifted high school sophomores and juniors this summer. The LEAD Summer Engineering Institute, held on campus July 6–27, gives students the opportunity to explore Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (or STEM) careers.

06/22/2011

$6 Million Gift To Spur Innovative Research Collaborations Between Caltech, City of Hope

Michael Rogers

As part of a program to foster innovative biomedical research projects, an anonymous donor has pledged $3 million each to Caltech and City of Hope to strengthen scientific collaborations between the two leading research institutions.

06/17/2011

Caltech Students Win National and International Prizes

Kathy Svitil

Students from Caltech won a large number of awards this spring, including a Fulbright grant, a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, three Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, two Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, a Xerox Technical Minority Scholarship, and 36 National Science Foundation Fellowships.

06/15/2011

Caltech Space Challenge: Mission to an Asteroid

Marcus Woo

If you're a student who's ever wanted to plan a manned space mission—or channel your inner Bruce Willis from the movie Armageddon—now's your chance. This September, Caltech will a host a workshop inviting about 20 graduate and undergraduate students from around the world to design a mission to an asteroid or comet in Earth's neighborhood—a so-called Near-Earth Object (NEO)—that would return a sample of rock or ice.

06/13/2011

Precocious PhD

Kathy Svitil

On June 10, Catherine Beni graduated as the youngest woman to ever receive a PhD from Caltech, the youngest person to be bestowed her actual diploma—and locked in a virtual dead heat for the "precociousness title" with physicist and Caltech grad Stephen Wolfram, developer of the Mathematica software program. Wolfram says he was a scant five days younger than Beni when he defended his thesis, making him title-holder. Beni's take? Not so fast, Stephen.

06/09/2011

Greening the Gowns

Kathy Svitil

This year, the graduation regalia sported by Caltech grads had a new look: plastic. The caps and gowns were produced from a trademarked material called GreenWeaver, made from 100% post-consumer plastic bottle pellets.

06/06/2011

Caltech Today ... and Tomorrow

Lori Oliwenstein

In his third annual Town Hall address to the Caltech community, President Jean-Lou Chameau looked back at the last academic year—from its game-changing research to its streak-ending basketball games—and considered the year to come.

05/20/2011

Ditch Day!

Allison Benter

Ditch Day, that annual day of quirky college pranks and games at Caltech, is today! On one fateful day each spring—kept secret until the last minute—Caltech seniors ditch their classes and vanish from campus. The rooms of the absent students are vulnerable to all sorts of mischievous goings-on, so the seniors have devised elaborate mazes, scavenger hunts, and other challenging adventures to keep the underclassmen at bay.

05/20/2011

What Is Ditch Day?

Allison Benter

Ditch Day is one of Caltech's oldest traditions—a cross between Animal House and a science fair. One day each spring, kept secret until the last minute, seniors ditch their classes and vanish from campus, leaving behind complex, imaginative scavenger hunts, mazes, puzzles, and other challenges that are carefully planned out to occupy the underclassmen—preventing them from wreaking havoc in the seniors' rooms.

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