March 16, 2020 Dear Fellow Alumni and Friends, Please know that you are in our thoughts as the world comes to grips...
Update Regarding COVID-19, Reunion Weekend Canceled
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Caltech Alumni Association Update Regarding COVID-19
March 11, 2020 With great concern for the health and well-being of our campus community and Caltech alumni worldwide,...
Techer Magazine 2020
Po-Shen Loh (BS ’04) Leads Math Olympiad Team to Victory
In July of this year, top-ranked high school mathematics students from more than 100 countries gathered in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to compete in the annual International Mathematics Olympiad. The team from the United States won, under the guidance of head coach and...
Elaine Hsiao (PhD ’13) Selected as National Geographic Emerging Explorer
Elaine Hsiao (PhD ’13) has been honored as an Emerging Explorer by the National Geographic Society. Each of this year's 14 awardees, described by the society as "uniquely gifted and inspiring scientists, conservationists and innovators who are at the forefront of...
Alumni Spotlight: Dean Oliver (BS ’90)
While a student at Caltech, Dean Oliver (BS ’90) formed a system to track NBA statistics — and went on to revolutionize modern basketball analytics (read below). In this webinar Dean discusses his career path and the use of analytics in basketball.A Passion for Stats...
Knowing the Vote
Forecasting elections is becoming more sophisticated, thanks in part to methods developed by Erin Hartman (BS ’07
Remembering Richard P. Feynman
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Three Alumni Elected to the National Academy of Science
Three Caltech alumni and one professor have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The announcement was made Tuesday, April 28, in Washington D.C. The alumni are: Featured Eric Betzig (BS '83) Nobel laureate and group leader in...
Six Alumni Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected six Caltech alumni as academy fellows: Featured Mory Gharib (PhD '83) Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bioinspired Engineering, director of the Ronald and Maxine Linde Institute of Economic...
A Passion for Stats
Dean Oliver (BS ’90) Director of Player Personnel and Analytics, Sacramento Kingsfrom E&S+ Unusual for Caltech, what started for me was a career in sports, one that now has me in the front office of the Sacramento Kings. In the last years of high school, the...
Mel Levet (BS ’39, MS ’40) Tosses First Pitch Against Occidental
The last time that Mel Levet squared off against Occidental College in a baseball game, Franklin Roosevelt was in his second term as the nation's president and Gone with the Wind had just won the Oscar for best picture. Now 97, Levet returned to campus last Friday to...