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Intersections: From My ‘Personal Archive’
Niv Karthikeyan discusses the second quarter of her 2020 Chang Prize project, “Intersections”
Submit Nominations for the 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award
The Stack
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Announcing the Caltech Alumni Oral History Project
Alumni: Be on the lookout for an interview invitation via email and postcard soon!
Watch: A Conversation with Distinguished Alumnus Charles T. Munger (CERT ’44, CAVU)
Join Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum as we celebrate 2020 Distinguished Alumnus Charles T. Munger (CERT ’44, CAVU) for his accomplished career as an investor, businessman, and attorney.
A Message from the Caltech Alumni Association
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Past Articles
Watson Lecture: Omer Tamuz
Distinguished Alumnus Donald Knuth (PhD ’63) Featured in New York Times
Caltech Mourns the Passing of Fiona Cowie
Learning from Mistakes
A Celebration of Caltech Alumnus Frank Capra
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Caltech Fund Launches New Texting Platform
Caltech Awards Millikan Medal to Ben Rosen (BS ’54)
The Caltech Board of Trustees has presented the Institute’s highest honor, the Robert A. Millikan Medal, to Board of Trustees Life Member Ben Rosen (BS ’54). Rosen is the chairman emeritus of the board for Compaq Computer Corporation.
Sarah Stewart (PhD ’02) Named MacArthur Fellow
Caltech Mourns the Passing of Wilhelmus A. J. Luxemburg
Caltech Mourns the Passing of Harold Brown
The 2018 Distinguished Alumni Awards
Read the Caltech Effect, Nov. 2018 Issue
Watson Lecture: Lihong Wang
Is Science In Trouble?
Watson Lecture: Sergio Pellegrino
Dying Star Emits a Whisper
A Conversation with Alumnus Bill Hutchinson (MS ’57, PhD ’60)
When Congressman John Lewis visited Caltech last spring to speak at the Institute’s 124th commencement exercises, the words of the renowned civil rights leader had special resonance for one audience member.
Film screening: “The Most Unknown”
2018 Year in Review
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NASA’s Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space
Two Recent Alumni Win the Inaugural Milton and Rosalind Chang Career Exploration Prize
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Wilton Wells Webster, Jr. (BS ’49), 1928–2018
Wilton...
Fei-Fei Li (PhD ’05) and her Quest to make AI Better for Humanity
Two Alumni Selected for Forbes 30 Under 30 2019
Doris Tsao (BS ’96) Named MacArthur Fellow
Frances Arnold Wins 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Scientists Uncover Why You Can’t Decide What to Order for Lunch
If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a lengthy restaurant menu and been completely unable to decide what to order for lunch, you have experienced what psychologists call choice overload. The brain, faced with an overwhelming number of similar options, struggles to make a decision.