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.
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.
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
Something in the Air
Jonas Peters, Bren Professor of Chemistry, explains how fundamental discoveries can have global impacts.
Caltech’s Kortschak Scholars Program Builds a New Community
Established by businessman Walter Kortschak (MS ’82) in 2017, the program gives students from the computing and mathematical sciences the freedom to explore bold new ideas.
Freedom to Explore
Caltech alumnus and telecommunications pioneer Ronald Willens and his wife, JoAnne, support early-career faculty working across traditional boundaries.
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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Faculty Support
Mathematician in Motion
For as long as he can remember, David Ignacio Fager has adored mathematics. In high school, he lived for Mu Alpha Theta competitions and skipped ahead in math textbooks the way impatient readers sometimes peek at the last page of a mystery novel.