As Nikita Sirohi explores new ways for people and AI agents to work together, she is navigating the uncertainty of founding a stealth startup in a field where a promising idea can become obsolete—or newly relevant—almost overnight.

How the software engineer turned a distaste for tedious tasks into a career building smarter workflows, scaling tech giants, and conquering personal summits.

Bill Dally has spent four decades designing the hardware behind modern AI. The instinct came from Caltech: don’t do little things.

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.

Tanmay Gupta (BS ’24) on why computing with light could let satellites process data in orbit instead of beaming terabytes back to Earth.

How four recent grads used their Prize to step away from established careers and into filmmaking, science journalism, immunotherapy, and energy policy.

Patt Morrison talks Einstein at Caltech with Diana Kormos-Buchwald, the Robert M. Abbey Professor of History who has run the Einstein Papers Project for 25 years.

How the death of Miao Cui’s mentor, Caltech professor Eric Davidson, led her to a research pivot that is yielding promising results.

The new Palomar Observatory director on commissioning next-generation instruments, hunting for the next Earth, and why there’s no place like the mountain.

Caltech alumni cut through the hype to share which tools are delivering real results, and where human expertise remains irreplaceable.

Volunteer-led alumni gatherings get a boost from a new CAA initiative designed to ease logistics and strengthen community.

How David Crocker (BS ’77) revolutionized drumstick manufacturing at Vic Firth.