Caltech Announces the 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award Winners
Four alumni are this year’s recipients of the highest honor the Institute bestows upon a graduate.
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Melany Hunt Awarded Caltech’s Top Teaching Award
Engineering’s Melany Hunt will receive the annual Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Freedom to Explore
Caltech alumnus and telecommunications pioneer Ronald Willens and his wife, JoAnne, support early-career faculty working across traditional boundaries.
Ultrasound Can Selectively Kill Cancer Cells
Proof-of-concept study specifically targets cancer cells with sound waves
Ralph Amos Appointed to Lead Caltech’s Alumni Association
Ralph Amos has been named as Caltech’s assistant vice president for alumni relations and executive director of the Caltech Alumni Association (CAA).
Decade of Discovery
As December winds down, we mark not just the end of another year of discovery at Caltech but the conclusion of a decade of remarkable accomplishments and research breakthroughs.
Barbara Wold Appointed Director of the Merkin Institute for Translational Research
The Richard N. Merkin Institute for Translational Research was established this year with a gift from trustee Richard Merkin to Caltech’s Break Through Campaign.
Alvarez Professorships Promote the Power of Great Teaching at Caltech
When Richard Alvarez (BS ’57) worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, he helped a team fire an electron beam down 10,000 feet of three-quarter-inch tube to probe elementary particle physics. He was one of the people in the lab, he recalls, who understood the whole machine.
Industry Standard-Bearer
Chevron executive Barbara Burger backs Caltech women in chemistry.
Caltech Announces the Schmidt Academy for Software Engineering
New opportunity for graduates of Caltech will train science-focused software engineers.