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07/07/2015

New VP for Student Affairs

Douglas Smith

After serving the last six years as the dean of graduate studies, Joseph Shepherd (PhD '81), the C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics and professor of mechanical engineering, is taking on a new leadership role as the vice president for student affairs.

06/26/2015

New Dean of Graduate Studies Named

Jessica Stoller-Conrad

Doug Rees has been named the new dean of graduate studies at Caltech.

06/09/2015

Caltech Water Conservation and the "New Normal"

Shayna Chabner McKinney

A conversation with Caltech's sustainability programs director about how the Institute has and will continue to enhance its water saving efforts.

06/08/2015

Screening Cells for a Cure

Alyce Nicolo

Leadership from Caltech and City of Hope and members of the public celebrated Caltech-City of Hope Biomedical Research Initiative, which provides seed grants to accelerate the development of basic scientific research and its translation into applications ranging from new pharmaceuticals to medical devices to treatment methods, at a special event on May 13.

06/08/2015

Seniors Give to Support Caltech

Dave Zobel

Each year as Commencement Day approaches, Caltech's senior class traditionally makes a single combined gift to the Institute. But the class of 2015 has given that plan an unusual twist.

06/04/2015

Modernized "Open" Space for MCE

Shayna Chabner McKinney

The Gates-Thomas Laboratory, a renovated building that will house Caltech's Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, will provide generations of students and researchers access to state-of-the-art laboratories and experimental and computational facilities, as well as to areas for interdisciplinary work.

05/26/2015

Gravitational Waves—Sooner Than Later?

Douglas Smith

Built to look for gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space itself that were predicted by Einstein in 1916, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is the most ambitious project ever funded by the National Science Foundation. We talk to two Caltech researchers to learn about how LIGO came to be.

05/11/2015

Pennies for Ditch Day

Dave Zobel

When Caltech's class of 2014 chose to donate a penny press as their senior class gift, they added one stipulation: profits from the press can only be used to help students offset the cost of one the Institute's most famed traditions.

04/28/2015

Bronner and Three Others Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Jessica Stoller-Conrad

Marianne Bronner, the Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology, and three Caltech alumni have been elected to join the National Academy of Sciences.

04/23/2015

American Academy Elects Five from Caltech

Lorinda Dajose

Three Caltech faculty and two trustees were named to the 2015 class of fellows for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest honorary societies.

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