Skip to main content

Caltech by the Numbers

Caltech by the Numbers NOTES ABOUT THE DATA:• Data is current as of January 10, 2023.• Of Caltech’s 25,500 living alumni, the Institute has verified contact information for 24,593 alumni. Numbers included on these pages are subsets of the Contactable Alumni data.•...

Electric Avenue

Electric Avenue With Brian Sisk, PhD (PhD ’04) helming battery design, Rivian is taking the electric revolution off-road by Wayne Lewis Illustrated by Marian F. Moratinos When the electric-vehicle company Rivian Automotive first reached out to him in 2019, Brian Sisk,...

Shocking Upset

Shocking Upset In 1968, Wally Rippel, BS (BS ’68) and his Caltech team challenged MIT students to a cross-country race of electric cars Courtesy of Caltech Archives Rippel’s personally modified Volkswagen bus was the scrappy underdog, its floor covered with 20...

Walter John Jr.

Walter John Jr. Dr. Walter John Jr., 99, of San Francisco, California, passed away April 14, 2023. A distinguished aerosol physicist, he conducted groundbreaking air pollution research, studying airborne particles and designing instruments to measure air pollution. A...