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06/12/2015

Caltech Seniors Win Library Friends Thesis Prize

Lorinda Dajose

The annual award recognizes undergraduates for theses that "exemplify excellent research, writing and the effective use of library resources."

06/12/2015

Senior Spotlight: Justin Koch

Kathy Svitil

Caltech's class of 2015 is group of smart, creative, and curious individuals. We talked to two of these graduates, Justin Koch and Phoebe Ann, about their years at Caltech and what will come next.

06/12/2015

Senior Spotlight: Phoebe Ann

Kathy Svitil

Caltech's class of 2015 is group of smart, creative, and curious individuals. We talked to two of these graduates, Phoebe Ann and Justin Koch, about their years at Caltech and what will come next.

06/12/2015

Students Win National and International Prizes

Kathy Svitil

Caltech undergraduate and graduate students have collected an impressive array of awards this year.

06/11/2015

Students Try Their Hand at Programming DNA

Sophia Eller

In a new class called Design and Construction of Programmable Molecular Systems, students came together to study molecular programming, a young research field with huge potential for transforming all molecular sciences into information technology.

06/10/2015

Biology, With a Beat

Cynthia Eller

This term, students in Biology 1—Principles of Biology—were offered a novel alternative to the traditional final exam: the opportunity to create a two-to-four-minute video explaining some aspect of biology in an interesting, entertaining and, yes, musical way.

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.

06/03/2015

Mike Brown's "Living Textbook"

Douglas Smith

Feynman Teaching Award winner Mike Brown ventures into new fields of instruction: the Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC, and the "flipped" classroom, which inverts the traditional arrangement of listening to lectures in class and doing assignments at home.

Caltech planetary science professor Mike Brown

06/01/2015

Spotlight on Graduate Research

Shayna Chabner McKinney

The annual Everhart Lecture Series provides three students a stage on which to talk about their research into energy efficiency, imaging, and polymers.

05/28/2015

Three Caltech Fulbrights

Douglas Smith

Caltech seniors Jonathan Liu, Charles Tschirhart, and Caroline Werlang will be engaging in research abroad as Fulbright Scholars this fall.

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