“What is it about food that makes it so appealing? We need to eat, we need to fuel ourselves, but why is it delicious?”
The Flavor Fanatic
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Kitchen Aid
In a sector eager to cut costs, Ryan Sinnet, PhD (BS ’07) has developed a solution. As cofounder and chief research officer at Miso Robotics in Pasadena, Sinnet sees the untapped potential of a human-robot workforce
Abe M. Zarem
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John Marshall Williamson
PhD ’87
Scenes from Frosh Camp
This year, Caltech's freshman orientation took place on September 18 and 19 in Ventura, California. Over the two days, students from the class of 2021 attended talks about the Honor Code and academics, met deans and resident associates, and participated in elective...
Richard Jali
BS ’55
Kurt M. Mislow
PhD ’47
Michael Rosbash (BS ’65) Wins 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Caltech Distinguished Alumni Michael Rosbash (BS '65), the Peter Gruber Endowed Chair in Neuroscience and professor of biology at Brandeis University and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
Kip S. Thorne (BS ’62) Awarded 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three key players in the development and ultimate success of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO)
Nine Moments from the Cassini Mission that Shaped the Journey
Jupiter Flyby: I remember seeing our first image of Jupiter as we approached in late 2000 for our Jupiter flyby. We were so far away—about ½ the distance between the Earth and the Sun—and yet the detail was outstanding. I knew then that we were in for a remarkable...
Caltech C Club Members Rally to Endow New Graduate Fellowship
James Zhu likes to think that the newly endowed Caltech C Graduate Fellowship he helped create had its origins 1.3 billion years ago, with the violent collision of two monster black holes. In summer 2016, a few months after the Caltech- and MIT-operated Laser...
