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Wireless Access on Campus

There are three campus-wide wireless networks: BeaverNet, Registered, and Caltech Guest. Alumni visiting campus should connect to the Caltech Guest network. No password is required. Access to the Caltech Guest wireless network is provided at the discretion of the...

2025 CAA Board Slate Announcement

August 13, 2024 Update: Read the Caltech Alumni Association’s Board of Directors and Officers Election Letter from the CAA Board Chair, How to Vote, and 2025 Candidate List. We are pleased to announce the 2025 slate of directors for the Caltech Alumni Association...

Thomas Banwell

Thomas Banwell, 67, peacefully succumbed to SCA at his Howell home on May 26, 2024. He was predeceased by his parents Thomas J. and Mildred Banwell; sister Cidny Fox. He is survived by siblings Carrie Gronwald, Marilyn Stanley and James Banwell; wife Elizabeth...
Silicon Valley August Seminar

Silicon Valley August Seminar

Big-data-driven health employs the tools of genomics and phenomics (blood analyses, gut microbiome, and digital health of body and brain, genome sequence) on individuals to follow and optimize their health trajectory

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Krystal Vasquez

Krystal Vasquez created this piece in the hope that one day all these barriers are finally torn down and the disabled scientists that come after her can feel proud of their identities

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Caltech Analemmatic Sundial

In 2007, supported by the Caltech Alumni Association, Bob Kieckhefer, BS (BS ’74) and Ponzy Lu, PhD (BS ’64) collaborated to give the current students a landmark that would maintain its place on the Caltech campus forever in stone.

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Bringing Germany Home

Tyson Mao (BS ’06), co-owner of Wursthall, a German restaurant and bierhaus in San Mateo, California, serves up a recipe—courtesy of Wursthall’s chef Kenji López-Alt—for a modern take on a traditional comfort food.

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Delicious. Now, What to Drink?

Diego Benitez (PhD ’05), founder of Progress Brewing in South El Monte, California, knows a good meal is never complete without a complementary beverage. “I try to figure out the intricate and complicated relationship of physiological and psychological factors that determine taste preferences in people,” says Benitez, who has 10 years of professional pairing experience. Here are his thoughts on the perfect pairings for this German meal.

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