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Laurie Leshin (MS '89, PhD '95), president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), has been appointed director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and vice president of Caltech. Leshin will formally assume her position on May 16,…

This property is known as negative refraction and it means that the refractive index—the speed that light can travel through a given material—is negative across a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum at all angles.Refraction is a…

All of these cell types have a common origin as so-called pluripotent stem cells. Full of possibility, stem cells are like a blank slate that can become any type of cell. As an analogy, think of how a child grows into an adult and chooses…

These honors provide faculty with additional resources to pursue research ideas while they continue to mentor future generations.Each named professorship brings its own distinct legacy. Many professorships, for instance, have…

The fulcrum of a major initiative in quantum science and technology, the center will unite a diverse community of theorists and experimentalists devoted to understanding quantum systems and their potential uses (see a video about the new…

The address, scheduled for noon (PT) on Jan. 18, is open to the public and is part of a weeklong series of events and programs organized by the Caltech Center for Inclusion and Diversity, Caltech Y, Black Scientists & Engineers of…

To quantify these effects, a team of researchers studied archival images captured by the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), an instrument that operates from Caltech's Palomar Observatory near San…

With unprecedented technology, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will peer both near and far, from the planets and bodies in our solar system to the deepest reaches of space, where the first stars and galaxies formed more than 13…

"Ultrasonic Genetically Encoded Calcium Indicators for Whole-Brain Neuroimaging"Mikhail Shapiro, Professor of Chemical Engineering"Imaging neural activity on a brain-wide scale is a major technology goal of the BRAIN Initiative. To…

On December 8, officials at the U.S. Forest Service declared the restoration of the mountainous site of the former CARMA radio telescopes to be complete. As part of the decommissioning process for the venerable radio observatory, which…