Real Talk

Real Talk Alumni mentors offer practical perspectives to students and fellow alums When Caltech’s Department of Computing + Mathematical Sciences started thinking about how to connect students to alumni, they decided to buck the trend of traditional higher-ed...

Ready to Rumble

Ready to Rumble How Andrea Donnellan brings fault lines into sharper focus by Alexander Gelfand Photograph by Christina Gandolfo When the first of two powerful earthquakes struck near the town of Ridgecrest, some 160 miles northeast of Los Angeles, this past July,...

Student Support Text Line

Student Support Text Line Preethi Periyakoil (BS ’18) Being a student is stressful business. I certainly learned this the hard way first at Caltech and now as an MD/PhD student. I was very lucky to have had an overall amazing four years at Caltech, but I don’t think...