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2018 ME 72: Tank Wars
03/13/2018

2018 ME 72: Tank Wars

Robert Perkins
At this year's Engineering Design Competition, six teams squared off with robot tanks. Get the play by play.
Tank Wars 1
New Class Explores the Humanity of Animals
03/08/2018

New Class Explores the Humanity of Animals

Emily Velasco
Professor of Comparative Literature Jocelyn Holland is teaching a new class at Caltech this term, The Human Animal, which uses literature from the 16th through 18th centuries to discuss questions about animal intelligence, whether animals have souls, and what makes a human.
Image of a 19th-century engraving depicting animals dressed in Victorian garb and acting as humans
Gift Enables Advances in Health Care
03/07/2018

Gift Enables Advances in Health Care

The Heritage Medical Research Institute (HMRI) has extended its partnership with Caltech for a minimum of three more years.
Caltech President, Provost, and HMRI investigators are pictured with Richard Merkin.
Q&A: The Importance of Science Outreach
03/02/2018

Q&A: The Importance of Science Outreach

Whitney Clavin
Evan Kirby discusses his work with high school students and his recent Cottrell Scholarship.
Evan Kirby
Civil Rights Leader to be Commencement Speaker
02/26/2018

Civil Rights Leader to be Commencement Speaker

U.S. Congressman John Lewis's visit comes 60 years after MLK visited campus
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Remembering MLK's Visit to Caltech
02/26/2018

Remembering MLK's Visit to Caltech

Jennifer Torres Siders
Sixty years ago this month, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Caltech as part of the Caltech Y's Leaders of America program, urging students to "rise above the narrow confines of individual concerns to the broad concerns of all humanity."
photo of Martin Luther King, Jr.
From TECHER: Circles of Thought
02/15/2018

From TECHER: Circles of Thought

How Linus Pauling (PhD ‘25) put his ideas into pictures.
Linus Pauling's chemical diagrams
Caltech Students Win Prestigious Churchill Scholarship
02/13/2018

Caltech Students Win Prestigious Churchill Scholarship

Whitney Clavin
Two Caltech students have been awarded the Churchill Scholarship to pursue graduate studies at the University of Cambridge.
Matthew Weidner and Aishwarya Nene
Networking with Tech Leaders
02/12/2018

Networking with Tech Leaders

Students meet with science and tech luminaries from Chicago.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum discuss the role of science and technology in government at a lunch with students and faculty on Monday. Emanuel, along with a delegation of Chicago business leaders, visited Caltech as
Graduate Students Dip Their Toes into Industry
02/07/2018

Graduate Students Dip Their Toes into Industry

Whitney Clavin
Graduate students are getting a chance to try out biotech industry jobs through a training program administered by the Rosen Center.
Students at Craig Venter Institute