Just over 20 years ago, Caltech was a rarity among top research institutions: it had innovative ideas pouring out of its labs, but it lacked a dedicated team to help scientists and engineers transfer their big ideas to the marketplace. Tech transfer was nothin... More »
The Caltech community is holding a series of events in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and particularly commemorates this year’s 59th anniversary of the slain civil rights leader’s visit to its campus. King was only 29 when he visited Caltech in the... More »
A series of atmospheric rivers that brought drought-relieving rains, heavy snowfall and flooding to California last week is highlighted in a new movie created with satellite data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA/JPL’s Aqua sate... More »
Caltech’s Evan Kirby, assistant professor of astronomy, has won the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy, an annual award presented by the American Astronomical Society, or AAS, to astronomers 35 years old or younger. Kirby specializes in the study of dwarf g... More »
An instrument designed to image the vast web of gas that connects galaxies in the universe shipped early this morning, Jan. 12, from Los Angeles to Hawaii, where it will be integrated into the W. M. Keck Observatory. The instrument, called the Keck Cosmic Web ... More »
Discovering thousands of new planets throughout the universe has become the new norm for scientists who say that increases the possibility of finding habitable worlds similar to our own, and that along with these discoveries comes recent evidence suggesting th... More »
Richard Marsh (BS ’43), senior research associate in chemistry, emeritus, at Caltech, passed away on January 3, 2017, at the age of 94. Marsh, who went by the name Dick, was a crystallographer, and a colleague, mentor, and friend to generations of scientists. ... More »
Last Sunday, January 8, the CBS television program 60 Minutes included a segment called “The Hunt for Planet 9,” featuring Caltech’s Mike Brown, the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor and professor of planetary astronomy, and Konstantin Batygin, assistant... More »
Punk rock band Green Day has decided to expand their Revolution Radio tour and added 24 summer dates – including their first-ever appearance at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena – in support of their latest album. The exact dates of their Pasadena performances have no... More »
Palghat P. Vaidyanathan, professor of electrical engineering in the Caltech Division of Engineering and Applied Science, has been awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing Society’s highest honor: the Society Award,... More »
Like anthropologists piecing together the human family tree, astronomers have found that a misfit “skeleton” of a star may link two different kinds of stellar remains. The mysterious object, called PSR J1119-6127, has been caught behaving like two distinct obj... More »
Jewel Plummer Cobb, a life member of the Caltech Board of Trustees and president and professor of biology, emerita, of California State University, Fullerton, passed away on January 1, 2017. She was 92 years old. Cobb was elected to the Caltech Board of Truste... More »
