Mar 19, 2021 | 2021 Issue, Enriching
A New Mission NASA/JPL-Caltech On February 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater on Mars. The team identified Jezero Crater as an ancient lakebed, illustrated here—as it may have been billions of years ago—filled with water. “The crater is one of...
Mar 15, 2021 | 2021 Issue, Enriching
Fueling Research by Marisa Demers Illustrations by Craigio Hopson Ernie Mercado spent 34 years serving flavorful Mexican street fare to a crew of Caltech customers. Yet the 71-year-old proprietor of Ernie’s Al Fresco food truck needed only a day to decide that he...
Mar 14, 2021 | 2021 Issue, Featured, Transforming
Memory Bank The Milton and Rosalind Chang Career Exploration Prize empowers alumna to bring tales of social justice back to the collective consciousness. by Marisa Demers Photography by Webb Chappell Nivetha Karthikeyan’s (BS ’20) time at Caltech was spent following...
