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02/08/2010

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to Be Caltech Commencement Speaker

Jon Weiner

NASA administrator Charles Bolden has been named Caltech's commencement speaker for 2010.

12/16/2009

The Book of Bruck

Heidi Aspaturian

How would Jehoshua “Shuki” Bruck sum up his success as a teacher in just three words? “I love ignorance,” declares the exuberant winner of Caltech’s 2008 Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

08/04/2009

Shang-Li and Betty Huang create endowment to support Caltech graduate students

Jon Weiner

Caltech alumnus Shang-Li “S.L.” Huang and his wife have pledged $1 million to Caltech to endow the Shang-Li and Betty Huang Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund in Mechanical Engineering.

04/17/2009

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu to Be Caltech Commencement Speaker

Jon Weiner

Renowned physicist, recently appointed U.S. Secretary of Energy, and Nobel Laureate Steven Chu will be the featured speaker at the California Institute of Technology's (Caltech's) 115th annual commencement ceremony this year.

03/13/2009

Caltech Students Honored for Innovative Work

Jon Weiner

First Lemelson-Caltech Prize awarded to two students

11/25/2008

Caltech Undergraduate Research Journal Wins Top Award from Associated Collegiate Press

Martin Voss

The Caltech Undergraduate Research Journal (CURJ) has earned the 2008 Magazine Pacemaker award from the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) as one of the nation's top collegiate publications. This is the second year in a row CURJ has garnered ACP's top honor.

11/11/2008

Caltech to ShakeOut in Earthquake Drill

Deborah Williams-Hedges

On November 13, millions of Southern Californians will drop, cover, and hold on as they participate in the Great Southern California ShakeOut-the largest earthquake drill in U.S. history.

11/05/2008

Caltech's Novel Approach to Sustainability: Harvesting Olives

Martin Voss

Once considered a messy sidewalk annoyance on the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) campus, the fruit of the 130 olive trees lining the campus pathways is now being embraced for its contribution to Caltech's sustainability. The olives will be harvested and pressed into olive oil in Caltech's second annual Olive Harvest Festival on Friday, November 7.

08/07/2008

Caltech Seeks to Diversify Higher Education

Jacqueline Scahill

The California Institute of Technology recently announced new awardees for three long-standing programs aimed at increasing diversity in science, engineering, and technology fields. The programs include the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF); MURF, a summer fellowship for undergraduates around the country to conduct research at Caltech; and the Young Engineering and Science Scholars (YESS). Caltech recently selected the awardees for each of these programs.

07/18/2008

SURFing the Waves of Success for 30 Years

Jacqueline Scahill

The end of the academic year means one thing to 350 undergrads at the California Institute of Technology: time to SURF. The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) program is less lackadaisical than it may sound. Now celebrating its 30th year, SURF gives students the opportunity to create their own scientific research projects. And the program has yielded extraordinarily successful Caltech alumni, including a leading Major League Baseball (MLB) analyst and technologist whose work stemmed directly from his SURF project; the cofounder of Hotmail; and a current Caltech astrophysics assistant professor who began his undergraduate work at the Institute at the young age of 14.

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