Transforming

Discusses how Caltech alumni continue to mold the world and their local communities through the implementation and application of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Caltech Alumni Association's magazine celebrating our alumni

The Right Fit

Electric Avenue

Shocking Upset

My Own Devices

Attention to Detail

Timely Partnership

Shocking Upset

Science In Action

Back to the Future

Sorting It Out

The Sustainable City

Electric Avenue

Lure of the Rings

Memory Bank

Distinguished Alumni Panel Ponders the New Normal

My Own Devices

The Right Fit

Discovery Channels

Neuro-Uniqueness

Making A Federal Case for Climate Action

Transformative Instrumentation

Brain Gains

Corporations Could Be the Best Weapon in Combating Climate Change

Turning the Tide

Caltech Analemmatic Sundial

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Science In Action

Caltech’s campus is getting a sustainable upgrade from Yazdani Studios

Fall 2022
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The Sustainable City

The United Nations predicts that 70% of the world’s population will live in urban centers in the next 30 years. The city of the future will need to function differently than it does today, and the change over the next three decades will be rapid.

Fall 2022
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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.

2022 Issue
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Timely Partnership

In 2021, the northeast corner of the Caltech campus received a new addition

2022 Issue
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Distinguished Alumni Panel Ponders the New Normal

Pondering the pandemic with 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients

2022 Issue
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Sorting It Out

How Matanya Horowitz's Revolutionary Recycling System Could Kick-Start A Global Renaissance

2022 Issue
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Making A Federal Case for Climate Action

How John Dabiri, PhD (MS ’03, PhD ’05), is helping shape the Biden administration’s plans for addressing climate change

2022 Issue
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Attention to Detail

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2021 Issue
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Back to the Future

Stephen Mayo reflects on his unique perspective as a Caltech alumnus serving his alma mater as an administrator, and returning to his research program.

2021 Issue
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Memory Bank

The Milton and Rosalind Chang Career Exploration Prize empowers alumna to bring tales of social justice back to the collective consciousness.

2021 Issue
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Neuro-Uniqueness

Every person has a different brain signature. Nicole Tetreault (PhD ’13) is helping misunderstood communities embrace their neurodiversity.

2021 Issue
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Discovery Channels

How Arati Prabhakar Aims to Transform Our Innovation Ecosystem

2020 Issue
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Lure of the Rings

A new hyper-realistic simulation of underwater bubble rings may shed light on the forces that govern such phenomena.

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Transformative Instrumentation

Built close to the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the W.M. Keck Observatory—powered by twin 10-meter optical telescopes, the largest of their kind—is one of the most influential ground-based observatories operating today.

2019 Issue
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Space
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Corporations Could Be the Best Weapon in Combating Climate Change

An essay by Nicola Peill-Moelter (PhD ’97), Director of Sustainability Innovation at VMware.

2019 Issue
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Brain Gains

Understanding the brain is one of the great frontiers in all of science.

2018 Issue
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Turning the Tide

Oil spill expert CJ Beegle-Krause on her circuitous academic career, responding to Deepwater Horizon, and the art of predicting spills.

2018 Issue
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