Pioneering

Highlights the revolutionary research, groundbreaking discoveries, and ambitious explorations of Caltech alumni in the professional world. This section also features alumni who have received significant honors and includes their impressive achievements.

Caltech Alumni Association's magazine celebrating our alumni

An X-ray’d Supernova

Numbers Game

From Moon to Mars

Groundbreakers

Touching the Sun

The Grand Finale

Solving the Equation

From Moon to Mars

The Hole Picture

The Artistry of Medicine

Place of Honor

Ripple Effect

Mint Green

The Crucible of Covid

Mining the Skies

Groundbreakers

Numbers Game

Commercial Flight

Technology for All

The Price of Pixels

Etched in Your Mind

Ghez Becomes Latest Techer Nobel Laureate

Krystal Vasquez

Ready to Rumble

What Innovation Will Define the Next Generation?

An X-ray’d Supernova

A Retrofuturistic Approach to Quantum Physics

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Mint Green

How Ethan Frey is using cryptocurrency to address climate change

Spring 2023
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Solving the Equation

Lorraine Lois Foster (PhD ‘64) demonstrates her skill at dissecting mathematical matrices

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Ripple Effect

How a revolutionary solar-powered water pump is transforming the lives of small-plot farmers in India How a revolutionary solar-powered water pump is transforming the lives of small-plot farmers in India

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The Price of Pixels

NFT platform founder Matt Lim, BS (BS ’17) on the future of the form

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Mining the Skies

Have Joel Sercel, PhD (MS ’87, PhD ’93) and TransAstra finally figured out how to unlock the promise of asteroid mining?

Fall 2022
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The Hole Picture

The first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way

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Place of Honor

Grant Delbert Venerable, Jr., BS (BS ’32), was the first Black undergraduate student to graduate from the California Institute of Technology

2022 Issue
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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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Technology for All

Google’s Eve Andersson, MS (BS ’96), on how accessible design can foster both inclusion and innovation

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The Crucible of Covid

Famed researcher David Ho, MD (BS ’74), on what we learned about science and society during the pandemic — and how those lessons could help prevent the next one.

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A Retrofuturistic Approach to Quantum Physics

Nicole Yunger Halpern, PhD (PhD ’18) delivers a steampunk adventure guide to how mind-blowing quantum physics is in transforming our understanding of information and energy.

2022 Issue
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The Artistry of Medicine

2021 Issue
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Commercial Flight

Behnken’s Historic Return to Space

2021 Issue
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Ghez Becomes Latest Techer Nobel Laureate

2021 Issue
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Ready to Rumble

How Andrea Donnellan brings fault lines into sharper focus

2020 Issue
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Etched in Your Mind

The key to lasting memories, Caltech researchers have determined, is teamwork.

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Touching the Sun

On August 12 at 3:31 a.m., NASA’s Parker Solar Probe left Earth on a mission to touch the sun.

2019 Issue
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What Innovation Will Define the Next Generation?

Techers share their thoughts on the ideas and inventions that will shape our world over the coming decades.

2019 Issue
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The Grand Finale

Cassini has revealed sights and never-before-seen phenomena that are changing our understanding of how planetary systems develop and evolve, and the extent of those environmental conditions that could create habitats for life.

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