In 1968, Wally Rippel, BS (BS ’68) and his Caltech team challenged MIT students to a cross-country race of electric cars
Transforming
Reef Relief
How Tom Goreau’s, PhD (MS ’72) electrifying technology is helping local communities rebuild the world’s coral reefs
Science In Action
Caltech’s campus is getting a sustainable upgrade from Yazdani Studios
Lure of the Rings
A new hyper-realistic simulation of underwater bubble rings may shed light on the forces that govern such phenomena.
Corporations Could Be the Best Weapon in Combating Climate Change
An essay by Nicola Peill-Moelter (PhD ’97), Director of Sustainability Innovation at VMware.
Transformative Instrumentation
Built close to the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the W.M. Keck Observatory—powered by twin 10-meter optical telescopes, the largest of their kind—is one of the most influential ground-based observatories operating today.
Turning the Tide
Oil spill expert CJ Beegle-Krause on her circuitous academic career, responding to Deepwater Horizon, and the art of predicting spills.
Brain Gains
Understanding the brain is one of the great frontiers in all of science.