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Shocking Upset

In 1968, Wally Rippel, BS (BS ’68) and his Caltech team challenged MIT students to a cross-country race of electric cars Courtesy of Caltech Archives Rippel’s personally modified Volkswagen bus was the scrappy underdog, its floor covered with 20 lead-cobalt batteries,...

Walter John Jr.

Dr. Walter John Jr., 99, of San Francisco, California, passed away April 14, 2023. A distinguished aerosol physicist, he conducted groundbreaking air pollution research, studying airborne particles and designing instruments to measure air pollution. A Research...

Paper Trails

This grizzly bear is made from a single sheet of handmade paper Courtesy of Robert J. Lang For Robert Lang, PhD (BS ’82, PhD ’86), the principles of mathematics and engineering have proven essential to his standing as one of the world’s leading masters of origami....

David Jackson

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See Who’s Attending

See Who’s Attending (In-Person) Returning to campus for Seminar Day? See who’s attending in-person.See Who’s Attending...

Featured Speakers

Zhen Chen is currently an Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at Caltech. He earned his PhD in...

Scholarship Gift Affirms the Power of Education

Scholarship Gift Affirms the Power of Education

On Break Through

Kirk M. Dawson

BS ’61 | MS ’62

Fernando Corbató

DAA, BS ’50

James Q. Denton

BS ’51

Richard N. Jacobson

PhD ’70

Edward Harris Perry

BS ’66 | MS ’67 | PhD ’70

May Gray and June Gloom: a Front-Row Seat for Legislative Challenges and Disappointment

May Gray and June Gloom: a Front-Row Seat for Legislative Challenges and Disappointment

In May and June, I got a taste for the state legislative process. I’m more convinced that state policy changes, via legislation, are the necessary route for implementing a plurality of proposed housing crisis solutions.

Neighborhoods for Neurons: A community approach for early childhood development in San Francisco

Neighborhoods for Neurons: A community approach for early childhood development in San Francisco

To start off, I would like to announce a change in our platform’s name. Perhaps it may simply be a marker of my generation, but I am a millennial…

Gomplemenatry

Gomplemenatry

2019 Issue, The Stack

Oh no! Something escaped from one of the campus labs and made some changes to the Gene Pool. Can you arrange the contents as they were and identify the type of prankster that would do this?