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Caltech’s 127th Commencement Ceremony
Caltech will hold a virtual degree conferral and graduation ceremony on Friday, June 11, 2021.
Touchdown! NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Planet
The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles. Confirmation of the successful touchdown was announced in mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech manages for NASA, at 3:55 p.m. EST (12:55 p.m. PST).
Rossman Awarded Roebling Medal
George Rossman (PhD ’71), professor of mineralogy, has been awarded the 2021 Roebling Medal by the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA).
Caltech Alumnus Embeds with the California Office of Emergency Services
Caltech alumnus Alistair Hayden (PhD ’20) has been named a Science Fellow by the California Council on Science and Technology for the program’s 2021 class.
Dr. Lindsey Malcolm-Piqueux (MS ’03) Named Assistant Vice President at Caltech
Caltech Mourns the Passing of Professor Kim Border (1952 – 2020)
Past Articles
Satellite Data Shows SoCal “Breathing” Water
Spacecraft to Speed Through Sun’s Atmosphere
Dr. Carel Otte, Jr. (PhD ’54) 1922-2018
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Celebrating Caltech Founder George Ellery Hale
Circles of Thought
Linus Pauling (PhD 1925) had a simple idea: pictures
Chang Career Exploration Prize
Unhackable Rights
John Sarapata and Google’s Jigsaw project are using technology to defend free speech and fight terrorism.
Why Caltech?
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Moonshot
Last year, Caltech’s Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST)—an interdisciplinary research center that is developing the next generation of autonomous robots—announced five ambitious goals to guide its work.
Ten Thousand Bursting Genes
There’s Waldo!
Kai Chang (BS ’17) Joins the Los Angeles Dodgers
Collisions of Dead Stars Spray Heavy Elements Through Small Galaxies
Celebrating 50 Years of Service
Seismometer Readings Could Offer Debris Flow Early Warning
Looking Back on the Birth of the Information Age
Moving Magnetic Fields Disrupt Ice Nucleation
How Social Isolation Transforms the Brain
Caltech Magazine Offers Fascinating Features
The Milton (PhD ’69) and Rosalind Chang Career Exploration Prize
Caltech Students and Alumni Receive 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
The Invisible Living Networks That Shape Our Oceans
Our First Four Alumnae
Caltech Mourns the Loss of Stephen Hawking
In Grueling Combat, The Riveters Emerge Victorious
Robots Duke It Out in “Tank Wars”
