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Distinguished planetary scientist and astrophysicist Jonathan I. Lunine (PhD '85) has been appointed chief scientist of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech manages for NASA. He will officially assume his role August 16. As…

Carbon-I, which is short for the Carbon Investigation, was among four proposals selected to receive $5 million for a one-year feasibility study. After the feasibility studies are completed, NASA is expected to select two of the four…

Now a Caltech team has made a key discovery that helps simplify such calculations, speeding them up by a factor of 50 or more while maintaining accuracy. As a result, it is possible to compute electron interactions in more complex…

The Distinguished Alumni Award (DAA) is Caltech's highest honor for alumni. This year, the awards—which were first announced at Caltech's 87th Annual Seminar Day on May 18—went to four alumni who, because of both personal commitment and…

Shri Kulkarni, the George Ellery Hale Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science at Caltech, has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Shaw Prize in Astronomy "for his ground-breaking discoveries about millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray bursts,…

Peiwei Chen, who will receive his PhD in biology from Caltech in June 2024, has been awarded the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. A total of 12 graduate students in the United…

Throughout the week, undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars presented lunch seminars about their own cultural backgrounds and their experiences on international trips—sponsored by the Caltech Y's Hastrup…

Caltech neuroscientists are making promising progress toward showing that a device known as a brain–machine interface (BMI), which they developed to implant into the brains of patients who have lost the ability to speak, could one day help…

In September 2023, Vanya Agrawal, a senior at Palos Verdes High School, was searching for a science research project. "I've been interested in music since I was very young, and, over the past few years, I've also become interested in…

Ares Rosakis, Caltech's Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, has been named a foreign member of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. Founded in 1660 under the patronage of…