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It’s in the DNA

At 23andMe, Jennifer Low MD, PhD (BS ‘90), helps put the precision into precision medicine by Wayne LewisPhoto by Mitch TobiasAfter successfully working in cancer drug development since the turn of the millennium, Jennifer Low, MD, PhD (BS ’90), made what was a rare...

L. Willard “Will” Richards

L. Willard (Will) Richards died Sunday at his home in Santa Rosa at the age of 89, with his wife Nancy by his side. He was born July 11, 1932, in Provo, Utah to Ren and Zilla Richards. He grew up in Riverside, CA, was an Eagle Scout, received a BS from Caltech, and...

Vicki Peterson

Arsine Victoria Avakian, my wife, died in May, three months before her 81st birthday. Vicki was one of those exceptional people who enrich the lives ofeveryone they know. Vicki and I married at the end of summer in 1963, after receiving our SB degrees in physics from...
Groundbreakers

Groundbreakers

On the 50th anniversary of their graduation, the first women to earn bachelor’s degrees at Caltech reflect on the experience

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