Caltech Announces Breakthrough $100 Million Gift to Fund Space-based Solar Power Project
Caltech is announcing that Donald Bren, chairman of Irvine Company and a lifetime member of the Caltech Board of Trustees, donated over $100 million to form the Space-based Solar Power Project (SSPP), which is developing technology capable of generating solar power in space and beaming it back to Earth.
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Caltech Distinguished Alumnus Fuels Long-term Success
Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award winner and senior trustee Milton Chang (PhD ’69) has endowed a professorship with a linked research fund to foster creative thinking and big ideas.
The Long View
Caltech has a new professorship in the social sciences, courtesy of retired anthropology professor Thayer “Ted” Scudder and his wife, Eliza Scudder.
