Alumni News

Greening the Golden State

by Angelica ZhouIn the first quarter of my project, “Understanding and Alleviating Environmental Inequality in Underprivileged Communities,” I was able to explore different facets of the fight for environmental justice while contributing to the efforts in my local...

Tara Gomez-Hampton (PhD ’11) Joins CAA Board

In late 2020, the Caltech Alumni Association Board proudly welcomed Tara Gomez-Hampton (PhD '11) as its newest member. The 15-member volunteer board, charged with setting strategy and direction for CAA and representing alumni at Caltech, currently comprises graduates...

A Toolkit for Telling an Alternate Institutional History

by Niv KarthikeyanThis third quarter of my Chang Prize project has been both preparatory and reflective. I have been glad to look forward to my upcoming digital publication, “Fragile Solidarities,” and dive into archival work for it. The past few months have thus seen...

Intersections: From My ‘Personal Archive’

by Niv KarthikeyanThe last seven months have been transformative. To give you a taste of the projects I have been working on, the communities I have connected with, and the ways that my experiences have allowed me to start reimagining both myself and the world, I...
Write Your Health

Write Your Health

There’s an introspection that occurs when you write and discover things about your past that start to combine into a complex tapestry of trauma, pain, but also humor and light. This is not what I set out to do initially when I began the MFA in Bilingual Creative Writing at UTEP, but it’s something that has emerged through my first two years in the program. I have more insight into my thought process, and the memories that are welling up don’t plague me as much.

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Greening the Golden State

Greening the Golden State

In the first quarter of my project, “Understanding and Alleviating Environmental Inequality in Underprivileged Communities,” I was able to explore different facets of the fight for environmental justice while contributing to the efforts in my local community.

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We’re Here For You

We’re Here For You

To our alumni community, At the Caltech Alumni Association, we believe nothing is more important than the safety and well-being of you — our alumni. We’re here to assist you in every way we can to help you connect with Techers around the world and leverage your...

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Two Recent Alumnae Win the Second Annual Chang Career Exploration Prize

Two Recent Alumnae Win the Second Annual Chang Career Exploration Prize

Caltech has awarded the second annual Milton and Rosalind Chang Career Exploration Prize to one undergraduate alumna, Preethi Periyakoil (BS ’18, Computer Science) and one graduate alumna, Nicole Tetreault (PhD ’13, Biology). Periyakoil received the Chang Prize for her proposed project “University Support Text Line,” and Tetreault received the prize to work on her project “Beyond the Cell.”

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