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05/15/2017

Origami … in Space!

Manan Arya (PhD ’16) had a space problem with a novel solution.

05/05/2017

Shining Light Deep into the Brain

Whitney Clavin

Caltech researchers have developed a new type of brain probe based on optical communication technology.

12/20/2016

Caltech Computes

Robert Perkins

Now a decade old, Caltech's Information Science and Technology initiative is uniting disciplines across campus by offering new and more effective ways of tackling previously intractable challenges.

10/24/2016

Third Round of BRAIN Funding

Lorinda Dajose

The National Institutes of Health has awarded grants to six Caltech professors as part of the BRAIN Initiative.

03/22/2016

Students and Postdocs Helped Make Sure LIGO Was Listening

Kimm Fesenmaier

A number of Caltech graduate students and postdocs played pivotal roles in getting the twin LIGO interferometers operating with the sensitivity to detect the first signals of gravitational waves.

04/06/2015

Two Caltech Seniors Win Hertz Fellowships

Douglas Smith

Caltech seniors Adam Jermyn and Charles Tschirhart have been named 2015 Hertz Fellowship winners. Selected from a pool of approximately 800 applicants, the awardees will receive up to five years of support for their graduate studies.

2015 Hertz Foundation Fellows Charles Tschirhart (left) and Adam Jermyn (right)

10/08/2014

Alumnus Eric Betzig Wins 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Kathy Svitil

Eric Betzig (BS '83) has been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

08/12/2014

Quantum Information Meets Condensed Matter

Cynthia Eller

Xie Chen comes to Caltech after a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley. She recently discussed with us her research interests and ambitions for her Caltech career.

05/15/2014

Tricking the Uncertainty Principle

Jessica Stoller-Conrad

Researchers at Caltech find a way to sidestep the quantum "noise" that limits the precision of ultrasensitive position measurements.

04/08/2013

Mission to a Martian Moon

Marcus Woo

The mission: travel to one of Mars's two moons, explore its surface, collect some rocks, and return to Earth in one piece. Now plan it—in five days. Dozens of students from Caltech and around the world converged on campus recently to do just that.

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