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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 by Dan MorrellFor farmers in the tribal belts of Jharkhand, in...
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Great and Small

Courtesy of Wellcome Leap, Caltech, and Merkin Institute A new type of vaccine provides protection against a variety of SARS-like betacoronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2 variants, in mice and monkeys, according to a study led by researchers in the laboratory of...
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Sorting It Out

How Tom Goreau’s, PhD (MS ’72) electrifying technology is helping local communities rebuild the world’s coral reefs   by Marisa DemersIllustration by Michelle ThompsonIn 2013, Matanya Horowitz, PhD (PhD ’14), realized that he had a solution in search of a...
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Distinguished Alumni Panel Ponders the New Normal

Pondering the pandemic with 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients by Wayne Lewis2021 DAA recipients Bob Behnken, Laurie Leshin, and Barbara Burger, share how they manage life and business through the pandemic with CAA Chair Satoshi Ohtake. Photo by Daniel...
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Wilton Wells Webster, Jr. (BS ’49), 1928–2018

Wilton Wells (“Will”) Webster, Jr. (BS ’49), a pioneering inventor of cardiac catheters, passed away on November 10. He was 90. Curing patients with heart arrhythmias by radio-frequency ablation using catheters was a novel approach until Will Webster, together with...

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A Celebration of Caltech Alumnus Frank Capra

A Celebration of Caltech Alumnus Frank Capra and Screening of It’s a Wonderful Life Join CaltechLive! for a free, holiday screening of It’s a Wonderful Life on Saturday, December 1 in Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium. The screening is part of a broader tribute to Caltech...

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