Bet on Young People
Caltech senior trustee John Bryson and his wife, Louise, have created the John E. Bryson Fellow endowment at Caltech.
Announcements
Announcements
A Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton
Caltech researchers have received a grant to begin work on a brain-machine interface to control an exoskeleton that could enable paraplegics to walk again.
Caltech Trustee Establishes a Professorship in Theoretical Physics
Growing up in rural Alabama, Caltech trustee Taylor Lawrence (BS ’86) was a self-professed “geeky, physics-and-math-loving kid” who thought of scientists—people like Richard Feynman—as rock stars and Caltech as the stage where they performed thrilling acts of science.
Building the Artificially Intelligent Future
Kortschak Scholars Program Created at Caltech
The Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage Tracing
The center is a collaboration that aims to develop new in-cell recording technologies to produce genomic maps of multi-cellular development.
Caltech Faculty Receive Named Professorships
Twenty-five professors are recognized with the Institute’s highest honor.
Break Through Prospers
Break Through, publicly launched just over a year ago, is already the most successful campaign in Caltech’s history. In the first year of the public phase alone, gifts exceeded $400 million. And total contributions—over $1.4 billion—have surpassed the goal of Caltech’s last campaign.
Caltech Extends a Heartfelt Thank-You to Scholarship Donors
Each year, Caltech celebrates donors who provide support for undergraduate scholarships by hosting a special reception where they can mingle with the students who have benefited from their generosity. This year’s event was held on May 21, 2017.
Caltech’s Keck Center Rededicated to Honor Former Trustee W. M. Keck Jr.
On May 12, 2017, President Thomas F. Rosenbaum hosted a luncheon and a ceremony renaming Caltech’s Keck Center to celebrate the legacy of W. M. “Bill” Keck Jr. and Caltech’s longstanding partnership with the W. M. Keck Foundation and Superior Oil Company, both founded by Keck Jr.’s father. Keck Jr. served on the Caltech Board of Trustees from 1961 until his death in 1982 and was a key member of the Investment Committee during most of his tenure on the board.