Ray Jayawardhana, the incoming president, is an astrophysicist, but leaders at the California Institute of Technology also ...

Ray Jayawardhana, an astrophysicist and provost of Johns Hopkins University, will become the next president of Caltech — one of the nation's wealthiest and most elite universities — as it enters a ...

Current provost of Johns Hopkins University, who has an asteroid named for him, will lead the prestigious Pasadena ...

Why now: In April, current Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum announced he'd retire after the 2025-26 academic year.

Caltech names Ray Jayawardhana, Johns Hopkins provost and exoplanet expert, as its next president starting July 2026 to lead ...

Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana, the provost at Johns Hopkins University, was named Tuesday the next president of Caltech, ...

An accomplished astrophysicist and academic leader, Jayawardhana has served as provost at Johns Hopkins since 2023 ...

Applicants are not supposed to use AI to write college essays. But colleges are using AI to help assess applications. At ...

Backstory: From being out of town the day the Palisades fire started to reports her fire department glossed over serious ...

In a significant move for the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Dr. Ray Jayawardhana has been appointed as the institution's tenth president. With a storied career as an astrophysicist and ...