Fires in the greater Los Angeles area have had significant impact on the Caltech's community and surrounding areas. For information and resources for members of the Caltech community, go to caltech.edu/fire.

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Don Turcotte

Don Turcotte, the former Maxwell Upson Professor of Engineering in the Department of Geological Sciences who brought his aeronautic research roots into pioneering collaborations in the study of mantle dynamics and plate tectonics, died Feb. 4 in Davis, California. He...

Joe Smith

University of Michigan President Emeritus James J. Duderstadt, who devoted his academic career to an institution he shaped with his zeal for technology, innovation and equality, died Aug. 21, 2024 at age 81. Duderstadt also held the title of University Professor of...

Lloyd Welch

Lloyd Richard Welch, of La Canada, passed away on December 28, 2023. Born September 28, 1927, in Detroit, MI to Richard C Welch and Helen Felt Welch, he served in the Navy from 1945 to 1948 and 1951 to 1952, earned a B.S. from University of Illinois (1951), and a PhD....

Arthur Spaulding

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