Barr Leadership Chair Boosts Caltech Center for Comparative Planetary Evolution
Gift from alumnus and family offers flexible funding for multidisciplinary studies of planets familiar and far away.
Campaign Priorities
Break Through: The Caltech Campaign will ensure the ability to explore and innovate for Caltech, its researchers, and the students who represent the future. For more information, read the stories below or use the drop-down menu to explore campaign priority areas.
A Boost for Caltech’s Outreach to Students Across Los Angeles and Orange Counties
A gift that allows for a new hybrid approach to a longstanding program will help the Institute connect with more students across Southern California and enhance graduate student engagement in educational endeavors.
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Student Experience
Thanks a Million
A group that began as a student social support network has raised more than $1 million to endow a fellowship fund for graduate students at Caltech.
Out-of-This-World Research Gets a Philanthropic Boost
Members of the Space Innovation Council support astronomy and planetary science research at Caltech and JPL.
The Value of a Good Question
Caltech young alumni trustee Mason Smith (BS ’09) knows the value of a good question.
A Gift to Celebrate How We Learn and Remember
Mark Gurney (PhD ’80) has endowed a fellowship at Caltech to honor his former mentor Mark Konishi, who inspired him to explore the mechanisms of learning and memory.
How Zoom Supported the New Virtual Society and Then Adapted to the World It Created
Eric Yuan, Zoom founder and CEO, spoke with Caltech president Thomas F. Rosenbaum for the Breakthrough Insights series.
How the Space Race Powered a Caltech Scholarship
Bob Gardner Jr. and Mardi Gardner Sossaman are following in their parents’ footsteps with a new $5 million gift to endow the Gardner Family Scholarships.
Earlier Help for Anorexia
The most life-threatening of all psychiatric disorders is anorexia nervosa. Caltech neuroscientist Cindy Hagan is searching for detectable differences in brain structure and function that could help doctors identify early warning signs of the disorder, and help patients sustain or regain health.
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Neuroscience