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Artist-in-Residence to Screen Experimental Film on Campus
05/15/2019

Artist-in-Residence to Screen Experimental Film on Campus

Emily Velasco
Leslie Thornton, the first artist-in-residence of the new Caltech-Huntington Program in Visual Culture, will screen her 30-years-in-the-making experimental film series Peggy and Fred in Hell on campus..
A portrait of artist Leslie Thornton. She wears a red dress and glasses.
Science-Driven Plays Take Center Stage at Pasadena Playhouse
05/03/2019

Science-Driven Plays Take Center Stage at Pasadena Playhouse

Jon Nalick
Mixing science and theater, Caltech's MACH 33 festival surges in prominence.
Poster art of astronaut on moon
Geobiology Student Selected for a Fulbright
04/25/2019

Geobiology Student Selected for a Fulbright

Robert Perkins
Geobiology student Elise Cutts is headed to Denmark hoping to unravel a mystery about the oxygenation of Earth's oceans.
Elise Cutts
Exploring Environmental Solutions through Natural Sciences, Arts, and Culture
04/12/2019

Exploring Environmental Solutions through Natural Sciences, Arts, and Culture

Lori Dajose
Senior Michelle Dan has received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study how biodiversity, art, agriculture, and indigenous cultures around the planet will inform human-caused environmental change.
Michelle Dan
Two New Tours of the Caltech Campus
03/29/2019

Two New Tours of the Caltech Campus

Caltech has developed two new tours to help people on and off campus get to know the lay of the land and learn about different aspects of the community.
Photo of the Gene Pool
NSF Director France Córdova to Speak at Caltech's 125th Commencement Ceremony
03/28/2019

NSF Director France Córdova to Speak at Caltech's 125th Commencement Ceremony

Davin Malasarn
The distinguished astrophysicist, director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and Caltech alumna (PhD '79), will give the keynote speech at Caltech's 2019 Commencement ceremony on June 14.
Headshot of France Córdova
A Community Celebration of Science
03/25/2019

A Community Celebration of Science

Jennifer Torres-Siders
The second annual Science for March event drew thousands of visitors to campus for science talks and interactive demonstrations.
Postdoctoral scholar Cameron Hummels leads an astronomy demonstration while visitors to the second annual Science for March event watch.
Robots Make a Big Splash in Annual Engineering Competition
03/15/2019

Robots Make a Big Splash in Annual Engineering Competition

Emily Velasco
Student-built bots battled for balls in the competition's first amphibious challenge in years
A robot splashes through Millikan Pond with a brightly-colored ball it has captured.
Teaching Coding in Elementary Schools
03/14/2019

Teaching Coding in Elementary Schools

Jennifer Torres-Siders
Through a computer science course, Caltech undergrads are helping local elementary school students learn basic programming skills.
A Caltech computer science student helps a Pasadena third grader learn to code.
Caltech Student Selected for Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford
03/06/2019

Caltech Student Selected for Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford

Emily Velasco
Caltech senior Kavya Sreedhar awarded Knight-Hennessy scholarship to pursue graduate studies in circuit design and hardware at Stanford
A portrait of Kavya Sreedhar. She wears a maroon blouse and white cardigan sweater