Alumni News
Announcing the Caltech Alumni Oral History Project
Alumni: Be on the lookout for an interview invitation via email and postcard soon!
A Message from the Caltech Alumni Association
Dear Caltech Alumni— I am writing to all Caltech graduates to share news about a recent decision made by the...
It’s On Us
As artificial intelligence becomes mainstream, who will guide it?
Apply Now for the 2019 Chang Prize
The Hunt for Extreme Life
Jeffrey Marlow searches the ends of the earth for the limits of life.
Distinguished Alumna Sharon Long (BS ’73) Wins Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology
Distinguished Alumna Sharon R. Long (BS ‘73), now at Stanford University, has been awarded the 2019 Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology.
2018 Year in Review
2018 Year in Review Chemistry Professor Harry Gray Receives Feynman Teaching Prize FEBRUARY 19 Harry Gray, the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry, was awarded Caltech’s Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching in honor of his six-decade career at the...
The 2018 Distinguished Alumni Awards
Two Recent Alumni Win the Inaugural Milton and Rosalind Chang Career Exploration Prize
November 27, 2018 Caltech has awarded the inaugural Milton and Rosalind Chang Career Exploration Prize to one undergraduate alumnus, Sean McKenna (BS ’17, Economics and Applied and Computational Mathematics) and one graduate alumnus, Kyle Lakatos (MS ’14, Biochemistry...
Wilton Wells Webster, Jr. (BS ’49), 1928–2018
Wilton Wells (“Will”) Webster, Jr. (BS ’49), a pioneering inventor of cardiac catheters, passed away on November 10. He was 90. Curing patients with heart arrhythmias by radio-frequency ablation using catheters was a novel approach until Will Webster, together with...
A Celebration of Caltech Alumnus Frank Capra
A Celebration of Caltech Alumnus Frank Capra and Screening of It’s a Wonderful Life Join CaltechLive! for a free, holiday screening of It’s a Wonderful Life on Saturday, December 1 in Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium. The screening is part of a broader tribute to Caltech...