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Announcing the Caltech Alumni Oral History Project

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A Message from the Caltech Alumni Association

Dear Caltech Alumni— I am writing to all Caltech graduates to share news about a recent decision made by the Institute’s Board of Trustees and leadership. It is essential that I write, as I, too, am a graduate of the school and, in my role as Chair of the Caltech...
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Archiving Communities of Resilience and Resistance in Caltech’s Present & Past

This panel marked the end of the first quarter of my 2020 Chang Prize project, “Intersections” – a project that I imagined would explore the ways that recording and remembering community histories could inform, ground, and inspire new forms of solidarity building. I...
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Alumna Nivetha Karthikeyan (BS ’20) Awarded Third Annual Chang Career Exploration Prize

November 13, 2020 Caltech has awarded the third annual Milton and Rosalind Chang Career Exploration Prize to alumna Nivetha (Niv) Karthikeyan (BS ’20) for her proposed project “Intersections: Building Solidarity Through Community Archives,” which intends to construct...
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The Stack

The Stack

Endowed Support Zone The latest Stack, a puzzle for alumni. See if you can unscramble the names of these extraordinary...

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2018 Year in Review

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2018 Year in Review Chemistry Professor Harry Gray Receives Feynman Teaching Prize FEBRUARY 19 Harry Gray, the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry, was awarded Caltech’s Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching in honor of his six-decade career at the...

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Wilton Wells Webster, Jr. (BS ’49), 1928–2018

Wilton Wells (“Will”) Webster, Jr. (BS ’49), a pioneering inventor of cardiac catheters, passed away on November 10. He was 90. Curing patients with heart arrhythmias by radio-frequency ablation using catheters was a novel approach until Will Webster, together with...

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A Celebration of Caltech Alumnus Frank Capra

A Celebration of Caltech Alumnus Frank Capra and Screening of It’s a Wonderful Life Join CaltechLive! for a free, holiday screening of It’s a Wonderful Life on Saturday, December 1 in Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium. The screening is part of a broader tribute to Caltech...

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Dr. Carel Otte, Jr. (PhD ’54) 1922-2018

It is with great sadness that we announce Distinguished Alumnus Dr. Carel Otte, Jr. (MS '50, PhD '54) passed away on July 21. He was 96 years old. A native of the Netherlands, Dr. Otte came to the United States in 1948 to attend Caltech after earning a bachelor's...

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