Caltech’s Resnick Sustainability Institute has once again come together with The Dow Chemical Company to award a number of exceptional young scientists and engineers the Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award (SISCA) for outstanding student achievem... More »
Updated 12-12-16 at 1:55 p.m. PST NASA’s Juno mission completed a close flyby of Jupiter on Sunday, Dec. 11, its latest science orbit of the mission. Seven instruments and the spacecraft’s JunoCam were operating during the flyby to collect data that is now bei... More »
Three Caltech faculty members—William L. Johnson, Yu-Chong Tai, and Amnon Yariv—have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). According to the NAI press release, NAI fellows are “academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit ... More »
Three distinguished alumni will be honored by ArtCenter College of Design at its fall commencement ceremony Saturday, December 18th. The trio, who influence how we live and learn through design innovation, represent the impact of an ArtCenter education on the ... More »
Next time you share an amazing GoPro video with a friend, consider that NASA made that technology possible. The image sensors that would later be used in GoPros — and in all modern digital cameras, including those in cell phones — were first developed in the e... More »
In the wake of the passing last Thursday of former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn, JPL issued the following statement: Senator and NASA astronaut John Glenn was, without question, an American hero. Many people remember, whether they are old enough to ha... More »
Caltech’s Harvey Newman, professor of physics, has been granted a lifetime achievement award by the Department of Energy (DOE), Office of High Energy Physics. Newman leads a team of Caltech researchers who work with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, S... More »
Many infectious pathogens are difficult to treat because they develop into biofilms, layers of metabolically active but slowly growing bacteria embedded in a protective layer of slime, which are inherently more resistant to antibiotics. Now, a group of researc... More »
Art Center presented two unique visual exhibits that showcased student work based on separate immersive trips to both Cuba and Berlin Wednesday evening in the form of interactive and multi sensory displays aimed to provide a snapshot into the daily lives of th... More »
A team of researchers at Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena are experimenting with robotic submersibles and trying to develop artificial intelligence that may help these instruments track signs of life below the waves. The effort is not just for ... More »
Aspiring designers travelled overseas to Havana and Berlin in an exclusive Art Center program that not only helped to broaden student knowledge, but also brought back an up close and personal look inside the culture of the school’s foreign counterparts in the ... More »
Spearheaded by a $115 million gift from visionary philanthropists Tianqiao Chen and Chrissy Luo, Caltech and the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute have announced the launch of a campus-wide neuroscience initiative to create a unique environment for interdisc... More »
