Caltech's newest condensed matter physicist Linda Ye, who grew up in Sichuan, China, specializes in inventing and characterizing new quantum materials that have applications in quantum computer science, materials science, and the development of robust electronics. "If you twist, elongate, and push on materials, you can create entirely new exotic states of matter," she says. […]

The 2024 election season has come upon us with a wide variety of claims, counterclaims, and misinformation that leave ordinary voters struggling to tell truth from fiction. Especially worrying are assertions that the voting system is rigged through fraudulent votes and election workers tampering with the system. These false claims lead citizens to believe that […]

This fall, Caltech is opening doors and crossing over into blended worlds where art and science merge. As part of Getty's PST ART: Art & Science Collide event, Caltech is spearheading three projects, one of which is Opening Doors, a performing arts series on campus highlighting world-renowned performers and stories of science and engineering.Organized by […]

When US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was creating her advisory board, she tapped John Dabiri, the Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Engineering at Caltech. With his expertise in technologies of sustainability and his interest in AI (Dabiri has been on the board of NVIDIA for four years), Dabiri joined the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board […]

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has selected Joe Parker, assistant professor of biology and biological engineering, Chen Scholar, and director of Caltech's Center for Evolutionary Science, as a 2024 MacArthur Fellow. The MacArthur Fellowship is an $800,000, "no strings attached" grant awarded to individuals in a variety of fields who have shown […]

When physicians want to know more about a patient's risk of cardiovascular disease, they can order a cardiac stress test. But when it comes to risk of stroke, there is no equivalent scalable and cost-effective test of the brain's function to help physicians counsel patients on their potential risk. A questionnaire that asks patients about […]

This fall, Caltech is participating in Getty's landmark event, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, with three projects exploring the interconnections between art and science. One of those projects is Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020, a campuswide public exhibition presented by Caltech Library that opens on September 27 and runs through December […]

On Monday, September 23, Caltech marked the beginning of the academic year with its annual Convocation ceremony held in Beckman Auditorium. The event brought together faculty, staff, and students to welcome the Institute's incoming cohort of 221 undergraduate students, 251 graduate students, and 99 postdoctoral scholars.Welcome ActivitiesSeveral days of welcome activities are also helping new […]

Details of combustion—the chemical reactions that take place when, for example, a flame is lit—are fleeting and, therefore, difficult to study. But scientists would like to better understand the complex processes that occur in those billionths of seconds, not only to make engines more efficient but also to shed light on how candle flames, cars, […]

Aditya Nair, a graduate scholar in Caltech's Computation and Neural Systems program, has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award from the Society for Neuroscience. The award, supported by The Gruber Foundation and established in 2005, recognizes up to three early career neuroscientists for outstanding research and […]