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The Science of Art

Disney/Pixar Until A Few Years Ago, the total number of satellites in orbit was just a few thousand. In the next decade, experts expect 100,000 satellites to be launched—the vast majority into low earth orbits. That sounds great, but today’s rockets are not well...

Charles T. Munger

Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Charles T. Munger, the longtime vice chairman of investment firm Berkshire Hathaway widely referred to as the “Oracle of Pasadena,” died in California on November 28. He was 99. “Berkshire Hathaway could not have been built to its...

Samuel E. Moskowitz

Prof. Moskowitz grew up in the Bronx and studied at the High School of Music and Art (having inherited his father’s love of opera and talent for creating fine art). Truly multi-gifted, he also loved science and math and chose to pursue instead his BS in Civil...

Klavdia Zemlianova

BS ’14 | Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy As part of filmmaking career exploration, Zemlianova will create a film...

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Two Recent Alumnae Win the Second Annual Chang Career Exploration Prize

Two Recent Alumnae Win the Second Annual Chang Career Exploration Prize

Caltech has awarded the second annual Milton and Rosalind Chang Career Exploration Prize to one undergraduate alumna, Preethi Periyakoil (BS ’18, Computer Science) and one graduate alumna, Nicole Tetreault (PhD ’13, Biology). Periyakoil received the Chang Prize for her proposed project “University Support Text Line,” and Tetreault received the prize to work on her project “Beyond the Cell.”

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