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11/05/2015

Volunteers for Vets

Dave Zobel

For the last three years, Caltech students and staff have been lending a hand at Pasadena City College, providing free tutoring and mentoring to some of the campus's nearly 800 student veterans.

11/05/2015

Cancer Treatment in a Painless Patch

Jessica Stoller-Conrad

Chemotherapy injections are a painful but necessary part of many cancer treatment regimes. SURF student Teo Wilkening spent his summer developing a chemotherapy patch that could one day take pain out of the equation.

11/02/2015

Senior Spotlight: Aditya Bhagavathi

Lorinda Dajose

Senior Aditya Bhagavathi talks about leadership and legacy as a cross-country and track runner, and plans for the future after Caltech.

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.

10/16/2015

Students Present Summer Research

Lorinda Dajose

On Saturday, October 17, Caltech students will present the results of their research during SURF Seminar Day.

10/15/2015

Making A World of Difference

Trity Pourbahrami

On October 1, 2015, Caltech celebrated the launch of Engineers Week with a panel discussion on diversity and how engineers are making a world of difference. The launch was designed to energize planning of programs and events to celebrate the accomplishments of engineers as well as to inspire the next generation during Engineers Week, which will be February 21–26, 2016.

10/13/2015

A Passion for Entanglement

Rod Pyle

During last summer's SURF program at Caltech, undergraduate Patrick Rall worked in quantum information science. This is his second consecutive SURF summer.

SURF participant and Caltech undergraduate Patrick Rall.

10/07/2015

LIGO SURF and the Perfect Wave

Douglas Smith

As the Advanced LIGO Project geared up last summer, 27 undergraduates from around the world became full partners in one of the biggest, most complex physics experiment ever. Their contributions ranged from creating hardware and software for current use to helping design next-generation detectors.

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.

09/28/2015

Back to School, 2015

Today marks the beginning of the new academic year here at Caltech. Get to know a little more about our students, our faculty, and what makes Caltech unique.

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