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Twelve graduate students have been named 2021 Hertz fellows by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, three of whom have a connection to Caltech. The Caltech students are: undergraduate student Alexander Zlokapa, who will receive his…

Brown University awarded the Horace Mann Medal to Ares Rosakis, Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, as an outstanding alumnus.Rosakis, who earned master's and doctoral degrees from the university in…

When Caltech's earth sciences graduate students teach Long Beach high school students about their research, the grad students ground their work in issues that connect directly to the community. For example, Long Beach is home to the…

An audience of more than 500 people from 15 countries—among them, Argentina, India, New Zealand, and Singapore—watched recently as 12 Caltech graduate students presented short descriptions of their thesis research projects as part of the…

Caltech invites all active members of the community to complete the Campus Climate Survey. which aims to help the Institute more fully understand the experiences of individuals who work and study on campus. The survey is part of broader…

A recent workshop hosted by the W. M. Keck Institute for Space Sciences (KISS) at Caltech has led to new ideas and recommendations for the detection and tracking of megafires, wildfires that burn upward of 100,000 acres. The two-day…

The Caltech faculty members recognized this year are Alexei Kitaev, Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics; Ellen Rothenberg, Distinguished Professor of Biology; and Anneila Sargent (MS '67, PhD '77), Ira…

Bethany Ehlmann, professor of planetary science and associate director of the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech, testified before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on April 29 about the scientific value of JPL's Mars…

This April, as part of Earth Week 2021, Caltech's Watson Lecture Series will highlight groundbreaking research to capitalize on the inexhaustible energy of the sun. Jonas Peters, Bren Professor of Chemistry in the Division of Chemistry…

More than 120 admitted graduate students participated in the Institute's inaugural and virtual Caltech Shines event on Saturday, April 3, which was designed to inform admitted students' decisions to attend Caltech.Developed by three…