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03/28/2017

Caltech Receives $30M for Medical Engineering

Stacey Hong

Andrew and Peggy Cherng saw an opportunity to invest in their community and in the future of health care.

03/04/2017

Stephen A. Ross, 1944–2017

Alumnus and senior trustee Stephen A. Ross (BS '65), whose work helped shape the development of the field of financial economics, passed away on March 3, 2017. He was 73 years old.

03/03/2017

World-Changing Donors Celebrated

Leadership chairs funded include those for Caltech’s six division chairs, provost, and president.

Ted (BS ’65, MS ’66) and Ginger Jenkins with John Grotzinger (center), holder of the Ted and Ginger Jenkins Leadership Chair for the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences.

02/16/2017

Sharing a Vision of Sustainability

Charles Zeller (BS ’68) and Peter Cross (BS ’68) are betting on Caltech researchers to provide solutions for a more sustainable planet.

Senior class portraits of Charles Zeller (BS '68), left, and Peter Cross (BS '68)

02/04/2017

Venerable Oak Tree Succumbs to Fungal Infection

Jon Nalick

Stressed by drought, windstorms, and a systemic fungal infection, the 400-year-old Engelmann oak tree treasured by generations of Institute staff, faculty, and students has died.

The Engelmann oak as it appeared in 1965.

01/12/2017

Remembering Larry Gilbert

Robert Perkins

With the passing of Larry Gilbert, the founding father of tech transfer at Caltech, colleagues and friends look back at the creative forces that have helped turn pioneering research into practical applications and commercial products over the last two decades.

01/05/2017

Caltech Mourns the Passing of Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1924-2017

Andrew Mishin

Jewel Plummer Cobb, a life member of the Caltech Board of Trustees and president and professor of biology, emerita, of California State University, Fullerton, passed away on January 1, 2017. She was 92 years old.

01/05/2017

Interacting With History

Lori Oliwenstein

The history of Caltech is one of intriguing people, significant places, and some very unique things … all of which can be explored in the Institute’s new interactive history map.

01/03/2017

A Gift of History, a Gift for the Future

The path that the late Nobel laureate Donald Glaser (PhD ’50) cut in the scientific world was distinctively Caltech.

12/19/2016

The Gift of an Education

Svetlana Kryukova (BS ’95, MS ’95) and Anatoly Baumstein (PhD ’97) have established the Baumstein-Kryukova Student Grant Endowment Fund to help future generations of exceptional scholars pursue their studies at Caltech.

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