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Watch: A Conversation with Distinguished Alumnus Charles T. Munger (CERT ’44, CAVU)
Join Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum as we celebrate 2020 Distinguished Alumnus Charles T. Munger (CERT ’44, CAVU) for his accomplished career as an investor, businessman, and attorney.
Submit Nominations for the 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award
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...
Archiving Communities of Resilience and Resistance in Caltech’s Present & Past
This panel marked the end of the first quarter of my 2020 Chang Prize project, “Intersections” – a project that I imagined would explore the ways that recording and remembering community histories could inform, ground, and inspire new forms of solidarity building.
Caltech Mourns the Passing of Professor Clarence Allen (MS ’51, PhD ’54)
Clarence Allen (MS ’51, PhD ’54), professor of geology and geophysics, emeritus, and a prominent seismologist, passed away on January 21, 2021. He was 96 years old.
Past Articles
2018 Year in Review
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Distinguished Alumnus Donald Knuth (PhD ’63) Featured in New York Times
The 2018 Distinguished Alumni Awards
NASA’s Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space
Caltech Mourns the Passing of Fiona Cowie
Read the Caltech Effect, Nov. 2018 Issue
Two Recent Alumni Win the Inaugural Milton and Rosalind Chang Career Exploration Prize
November...
Learning from Mistakes
Watson Lecture: Lihong Wang
Wilton Wells Webster, Jr. (BS ’49), 1928–2018
Wilton...
A Celebration of Caltech Alumnus Frank Capra
A...
Is Science In Trouble?
Fei-Fei Li (PhD ’05) and her Quest to make AI Better for Humanity
Caltech Fund Launches New Texting Platform
Watson Lecture: Sergio Pellegrino
Two Alumni Selected for Forbes 30 Under 30 2019
Caltech Awards Millikan Medal to Ben Rosen (BS ’54)
The Caltech Board of Trustees has presented the Institute’s highest honor, the Robert A. Millikan Medal, to Board of Trustees Life Member Ben Rosen (BS ’54). Rosen is the chairman emeritus of the board for Compaq Computer Corporation.
Dying Star Emits a Whisper
Doris Tsao (BS ’96) Named MacArthur Fellow
Sarah Stewart (PhD ’02) Named MacArthur Fellow
A Conversation with Alumnus Bill Hutchinson (MS ’57, PhD ’60)
When Congressman John Lewis visited Caltech last spring to speak at the Institute’s 124th commencement exercises, the words of the renowned civil rights leader had special resonance for one audience member.
Frances Arnold Wins 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Caltech Mourns the Passing of Wilhelmus A. J. Luxemburg
Film screening: “The Most Unknown”
Scientists Uncover Why You Can’t Decide What to Order for Lunch
If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a lengthy restaurant menu and been completely unable to decide what to order for lunch, you have experienced what psychologists call choice overload. The brain, faced with an overwhelming number of similar options, struggles to make a decision.
Von Kármán Lecture: “NASA@60: The Role of the Robots”
