Student Experience
Complementing and enhancing Caltech’s challenging academic and research curriculum is an array of programs that ensure a healthy, supportive, and inspiring learning environment. Your investment in the student experience fosters Caltech students’ intellectual as well as personal growth, emboldens them to think creatively, and encourages them to reach their full potential.
Caltech’s Center for Teaching, Learning, & Outreach (CTLO) helps faculty and students hone their skills in creatively teaching and learning complex material in the classroom and in the lab. The center also supports STEM education more broadly by fostering partnerships with local K-12 schools. Your investment in CTLO will inspire new generations of leaders in science and engineering.
Channeling Aristotle and Einstein
Philosopher, physicist, painter, and polyglot. At the age of 20, Camilla Ora is already all these things. And she’s eternally grateful to Caltech alumni—because, without their support, none of it would be possible.
The Synthesist
Like many who come to Caltech to learn and explore, undergraduate Damien Bérubé dreams of changing the world with science and engineering. But his personal vision—the force that drives him in the classroom, the lab, and beyond—is an uncommon one.
Alumnus Gives to Endow Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Dale Burger (BS ’53) knows from experience how much a wide range of knowledge matters, and this knowledge has fueled a lifelong passion for helping others learn to learn.
The Process of Discovery
“Whenever I see a new student standing alone during rotation, I remember how welcoming students were to me when I got here, and how it made me feel comfortable,” says Teresa Tran, a junior biology major at Caltech. “So I think to myself, ‘That’s how people are here—and I am part of this community now.’ I’ve sometimes surprised myself by initiating conversations with people I don’t know because that’s something I never really did before coming to Caltech.”
A Mathematical Universe
Even our most reliable ideas about how the universe works break down in certain domains. They can’t account for the weirdness of quantum mechanics or the recursive chaos of fractals. Hungry for answers, many researchers—including one Caltech undergraduate and her faculty mentor—aim to come up with a better explanation.
Writing Center Expands Tutoring to Include Assistance with STEM Assignments
With help from a donor, the Hixon Writing Center is running a pilot program that offers tutoring to students working on STEM projects like research proposals, theses, and peer-reviewed research papers.
Alumni Support Women in Computing
This month, 40 Techers traveled to the Grace Hopper Celebration—the world’s largest gathering of women in technology—thanks in part to donations from Caltech alumni who are members of Caltech’s Information Science and Technology (IST) Advisory Council. The donors covered the cost of attendance for many of the students who participated.