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Write Your Health
There’s an introspection that occurs when you write and discover things about your past that start to combine into a complex tapestry of trauma, pain, but also humor and light. This is not what I set out to do initially when I began the MFA in Bilingual Creative Writing at UTEP, but it’s something that has emerged through my first two years in the program. I have more insight into my thought process, and the memories that are welling up don’t plague me as much.
Greening the Golden State
In the first quarter of my project, “Understanding and Alleviating Environmental Inequality in Underprivileged Communities,” I was able to explore different facets of the fight for environmental justice while contributing to the efforts in my local community.
Brig. Gen. Gilbert William Kirby, Jr.
MS ’56
Gregory P. Doyle
BS ’80
Cassini Retro Posters
Cassini’s 20th century technology has shaped the future of 21st century science. So maybe it’s not surprising artists have found inspiration both the past and the future in creating inspiring artwork to celebrate the mission.
Cassini’s Final Plunge
It ended with a bang and with a whisper. Closing out a chapter of the study of Saturn and its moons and rings, NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into the atmosphere of Saturn on September 15, burning up as it streaked across Saturn's sky—while back on Earth, the...
Sorting Molecules with DNA Robots
Imagine a robot that could help you tidy your home: roving about, sorting stray socks into the laundry and dirty dishes into the dishwasher. While such a practical helper may still be the stuff of science fiction, Caltech scientists have developed an autonomous...
The Giving Reflex
Peter Hung has seen Caltech from a variety of angles—as an undergraduate, a graduate student, an award-winning instructor, a research mentor, an alumnus, and a donor. His story is a case study in what Caltech gives to its community, and how that community gives back....
First On-chip Nanoscale Optical Quantum Memory Developed
For the first time, an international team led by engineers at Caltech has developed a computer chip with nanoscale optical quantum memory. Quantum memory stores information in a similar fashion to the way traditional computer memory does, but on individual quantum...
Caltech Alumnus Tapped for Infiniti Engineering Academy
Caltech Celebrates 30 Years of its Computation and Neural Systems Option
It began small, with a single class. For the 1981-82 school year, three giants on Caltech's faculty—Richard Feynman, Carver Mead (BS '56, MS '57, PhD '60), and John Hopfield—joined up to co-teach a yearlong course called "The Physics of Computation." The course was...