Magazine
Kitt Hodsden and the Art of Being Efficiently Lazy
How the software engineer turned a distaste for tedious tasks into a career building smarter workflows, scaling tech giants, and conquering personal summits.
The Olives of Caltech
In an excerpt from a 2022 oral history, former president Jean-Lou Chameau recalls how a chance encounter with students grew into a campus-wide harvest, and eventually, a $5 million bottle of olive oil.
Her PhD Advisor Died of a Heart Attack. Now She’s Teaching Hearts to Heal Themselves.
How the death of Miao Cui’s mentor, Caltech professor Eric Davidson, led her to a research pivot that is yielding promising results.
Caltech and Sophia Space Receive Patent for Passive-Cooling Orbital Data Centers
Caltech has patented a passive, solar-powered cooling system for running AI data centers in orbit, technology that traces to its Space-Based Solar Power Project.
News
Around the Table, Around the World: Tables for Techers 2026
761 Techers shared meals, stories, and photos from a weekend of Caltech community.
At CAMP West LA, Techers Share Career Lessons Across Generations
Alumni mentors and Caltech students met in West Los Angeles for an afternoon of career conversations, shared experience, and perspective on life after Caltech.
Suzanne Dodd (BS ’84) and the Team Keeping the Voyager Missions Alive
Dodd joined Voyager as a sequence engineer in 1984 and has run the mission since 2010. A New York Times report goes inside the power gamble her team just pulled off on Voyager 2.
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Techer Live

Future Prospects for American Science
Thomas F. Rosenbaum and Holden Thorp joined Sandra Tsing
Loh to tackle trust, funding, and the future of the research
enterprise.

Einstein: beyond the Myth
APRIL 15, 2026 | ALUMNI NEWS, TECHER LIVE
A conversation with Caltech’s Diana Kormos-Buchwald and the LA Times’ Patt Morrison on Einstein’s Pasadena years and what his example might offer scientists today.

AI in the Wild: What Actually Works
FEB 12, 2026 | ALUMNI NEWS, TECHER LIVE
Caltech alumni cut through the hype to share which tools are delivering real results, and where human expertise remains irreplaceable.