Caltech names new president, an astrophysicist who vows to empower 'brilliant minds'

Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana will become Caltech's next president. He joins the campus from Johns Hopkins University, ...
Yahoo

Letters to the Editor: I was a rare female student at Caltech in the 1960s. It's come a long way

Incoming students and others are seen at the Caltech campus in Pasadena on Aug. 8. (Ringo Chiu / For The Times) To the editor: When I arrived at Caltech in Pasadena as a graduate student in chemistry ...
Los Angeles Times

Caltech’s latest STEM breakthrough: Most of its new students are women

The auditorium was packed with hundreds of high school girls from across the nation fangirling a YouTube idol they dream to emulate. There before them stood Katie Bouman, an associate professor of ...