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.
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News and Events
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.
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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.
A Sustained History of Leadership
The Resnick Sustainability Institute will continue to build on the pioneering work Caltech researchers have been doing over many decades.
Stewart and Lynda Resnick Pledge $750 Million to Caltech to Support Environmental Sustainability Research
Commitment will bring together experts across campus, and provide shared facilities with unparalleled instrumentation, to advance bold new solutions to energy and sustainability challenges
Amgen Foundation Honors David Baltimore with Gift to Caltech
The Amgen Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the biotechnology company, has committed $7.5 million for a suite of graduate fellowships in biochemistry and molecular biophysics that will provide Caltech students exceptional latitude in their studies of the molecular basis of life. The fellowship program is in the name of Caltech president emeritus and Nobel laureate David Baltimore.
Scholarship Gift Affirms the Power of Education
When Max J. Kay (BS ’73) and Naida Shaw created the Dr. Stanley E. Whitcomb Scholarship at Caltech, they fulfilled two personal goals.
Philanthropy Accelerates Research into the Microbiome
Behind almost every discovery, there is a team. Breakthroughs grow out of scientific collaborations among extraordinary investigators. And another type of partnership can drive new knowledge: backing from generous supporters. Such is the case for Sarkis Mazmanian, the Luis B. and Nelly Soux Professor of Microbiology and a Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator at Caltech.
Carver Mead New Adventures Fund Empowers Early-Stage Research
Wearable biosensors to monitor depression. Algorithms to accelerate directed evolution. More accurate climate predictions. These are just a few of the advances Caltech’s Carver Mead New Adventures Fund has helped launch.