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04/15/2022

Radio Host and Producer Jad Abumrad to Give Caltech's 128th Commencement Address

The creator of Radiolab, More Perfect, and Dolly Parton's America will deliver the keynote address on June 10.

04/06/2022

Caltech Names David Kang Associate Vice President for Facilities

Lori Oliwenstein-Kluger

David Kang, a seasoned facilities and emergency management professional and public safety leader, has been appointed Caltech’s associate vice president for facilities. He will start at Caltech on June 1.

Portrait of David Kang wearing glasses and a dark suit and tie.

03/02/2022

Great Minds Think Together

Andrew Moseman

Cohorts that unite scholars and researchers from a wide variety of backgrounds are crucial to Caltech’s culture of interdisciplinary collaboration. Donors to Break Through: The Caltech Campaign amplified existing cohorts and established new ones.

01/27/2022

Caltech Names Laurie Leshin (MS '89, PhD '95) Director of JPL

Distinguished geochemist and space scientist brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in academic and government service to JPL

01/20/2022

Kneeland Youngblood Joins Caltech's Board of Trustees

Davin Malasarn

The business executive, political figure, and physician leads a firm that aims to reduce healthcare inequalities.

01/19/2022

Caltech Faculty Receive Named Professorships, Leadership Chairs

This year Caltech recognized two faculty members with the Institute's most distinguished award for individual faculty, a named professorship; and three faculty members with leadership chairs.

photo of Parsons-Gates Hall of Administration

01/14/2022

Ginsburgs Give to Create New Quantum Center and Building at Caltech

Ann Motrunich

The center will unite researchers exploring quantum systems and their potential uses.

12/06/2021

New Quantum Measurement Center Launched by Sherman Fairchild Foundation Grant

Ann Motrunich

A new grant enables construction of laboratories at Caltech that will integrate gravitational-wave science and quantum precision measurement.

Tabletop optics in a laboratory that steer laser light as it is used to measure vibrations in a glass disk that serves as an experimental stand-in for a mirror in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). The experiment aims to improve LIGO mirror coatings. New coatings c twan reduce background noise in LIGO's mirrors by a factor of two, thereby increasing the volume of space that LIGO can probe by a factor of eight.

11/10/2021

Caltech's Outreach Program Helps Expand Faculty Members' Impact in the Community

Andrew Moseman

Outreach programs allow more Southern California high school students, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds, to connect with Caltech. However, these programs also help faculty members expand the impact of their research in the community.

11/08/2021

Caltech Approves New Names for Campus Assets and Honors

Renaming decisions underscore Caltech’s “continuing commitment to cultivate a thriving, supportive, and inclusive community of scholars," and follow the completion of legal and other procedural efforts.

aerial photo of Caltech campus with newly renamed Caltech Hall in the center

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