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. The campaign will raise funds to support three key objectives:
1) Enable Caltech to Take Smart Risks
2) Provide an Exceptional Educational Experience
3) Seed and Support High-Impact Research Areas
Use the drop-down menu to explore campaign priority areas and view stories of impact.
Order from Chaos
The more Caltech biochemist Shu-ou Shan learns about how proteins are made, the more she marvels that life exists at all.
Thinking Outside the Toolbox
Entrepreneur and Caltech engineering alumnus Gary Clinard (BS ’65, MS ’66) has created an innovation fund to advance interdisciplinary research in engineering and applied science at Caltech.
In Situ and Out of Context
In search of inspiration for a senior research project on the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Caltech junior and biology major Jade Livingston assembled an ad hoc think tank of physics and engineering students.
The Well-Connected Theorist
“In networks,” says economic theorist Teddy Mekonnen, “how you connect one person to another really matters.” When he came to Caltech as a Linde Postdoctoral Fellow, Mekonnen joined a network designed in a way he had never seen.
Caltech Dedicates Hameetman Center, New Campus Hub for Entire Community
The Caltech community formally dedicated the long-awaited Hameetman Center on Thursday, February 28.
Caltech’s Ronald and Maxine Linde Hall of Mathematics and Physics Opens
Caltech dedicated the newly renovated Ronald and Maxine Linde Hall of Mathematics and Physics on January 31, 2019.
What’s in a Name?
In the case of Caltech’s Theodore Y. Wu Professorship, established with a generous gift from Li-San and Anne Hwang, the answer is 55 years of friendship.