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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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

10/01/2015

Dow Grants Support New Faculty and Instrumentation

Wayne Lewis

The Dow Chemical Company Foundation has awarded two new grants to benefit Caltech’s Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (CCE), funding faculty start-up investments and leading-edge instrumentation.

09/30/2015

Summer Interns Return with a World of Experiences

Shayna Chabner McKinney

Caltech undergraduate students returned to campus this week, many after spending the summer working at companies in biotechnology, technology, and finance, among other fields. These students have had the opportunity to learn firsthand about the career opportunities and paths that may be available to them after graduation.

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