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Caltech Alumni Association’s Board of Directors and Officers Election – Overview & How to Vote
An overview and details on how to vote in the 2025 Caltech Alumni Association’s Board of Directors and Officers Election
Caltech Alumni Association’s Board of Directors and Officers Election – Letter from the CAA Chair
A letter from the Caltech Alumni Association’s Board Chair on the Board of Directors and Officers Election
2025 Candidates for the Caltech Alumni Association’s Board of Directors and Officers
The Caltech Alumni Association is pleased to announce the 2025 candidates for the Caltech Alumni Association’s Board of Directors and Officers.
2025 CAA Board Slate Announcement
We are pleased to announce the 2025 slate of directors for the Caltech Alumni Association board of directors and executive committee.
Ronald and Maxine Linde Support Center for Science, Society, and Policy
A lead naming gift from the Lindes endows The Ronald and Maxine Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy.
Mario Peraza Appointed to Lead Alumni Engagement Efforts
In this joint appointment between the Institute and the Caltech Alumni Association (CAA), an independent 501c3 organization, Peraza will lead efforts to nurture relationships with 25,000 Techers worldwide.
Past Articles
Break Through on the Road Brings Campaign Impact to San Jose
Break Through on the Road Brings Campaign Impact to San Jose
Winding Back the Clock
Grad Students and Postdocs Vote in Favor of Union Representation
The National Labor Relations Board has announced results of voting from the graduate student and postdoctoral unionization elections.
Caltech by the Numbers
The Caltech Alumni Association (CAA) was founded in 1920. Today, CAA serves a growing community of 25,500 Caltech alumni around the world, including some of the brightest minds in science, engineering, and business.
Shifting Approaches to a Timeless Injustice
I dove into the second quarter of my environmental justice project by delving into the history of the movement and examining the timelessness of environmental racism.
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.
Caltech Names Its Three Newest Distinguished Alumni
The Distinguished Alumni Award (DAA) is Caltech’s highest honor, presented each year to a small number of alumni in recognition of personal and professional accomplishments that have made a noteworthy impact in a field, on the community, or in society more broadly.
The Grid Gets Smart
Adaptive electric vehicle chargers and advanced battery designs are some of the ways Caltech researchers are building a more sustainable electric grid.
A Centennial Celebration for Richard Feynman
On May 11, 2018, Richard Feynman—beloved Caltech physicist, Nobel Prize-winner, and masterful storyteller—would have turned 100 years old.
Tara Gomez-Hampton (PhD ’11) Joins CAA Board
The 15-member volunteer board currently comprises graduates from 1974 to 2014.
A Toolkit for Telling an Alternate Institutional History
This third quarter of my Chang Prize project has been both preparatory and reflective.
Intersections: From My ‘Personal Archive’
Niv Karthikeyan discusses the second quarter of her 2020 Chang Prize project, “Intersections”
The Stack
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Watch: A Conversation with Distinguished Alumnus Charles T. Munger (CERT ’44, CAVU)
Join Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum as we celebrate 2020 Distinguished Alumnus Charles T. Munger (CERT ’44, CAVU) for his accomplished career as an investor, businessman, and attorney.
Submit Nominations for the 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award
Announcing the Caltech Alumni Oral History Project
Alumni: Be on the lookout for an interview invitation via email and postcard soon!
A Message from the Caltech Alumni Association
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Archiving Communities of Resilience and Resistance in Caltech’s Present & Past
This panel marked the end of the first quarter of my 2020 Chang Prize project, “Intersections” – a project that I imagined would explore the ways that recording and remembering community histories could inform, ground, and inspire new forms of solidarity building.
Caltech Mourns the Passing of Professor Clarence Allen (MS ’51, PhD ’54)
Clarence Allen (MS ’51, PhD ’54), professor of geology and geophysics, emeritus, and a prominent seismologist, passed away on January 21, 2021. He was 96 years old.
Caltech’s 127th Commencement Ceremony
Caltech will hold a virtual degree conferral and graduation ceremony on Friday, June 11, 2021.
Touchdown! NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Planet
The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles. Confirmation of the successful touchdown was announced in mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech manages for NASA, at 3:55 p.m. EST (12:55 p.m. PST).
Rossman Awarded Roebling Medal
George Rossman (PhD ’71), professor of mineralogy, has been awarded the 2021 Roebling Medal by the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA).
Caltech Alumnus Embeds with the California Office of Emergency Services
Caltech alumnus Alistair Hayden (PhD ’20) has been named a Science Fellow by the California Council on Science and Technology for the program’s 2021 class.
Dr. Lindsey Malcolm-Piqueux (MS ’03) Named Assistant Vice President at Caltech
Caltech Mourns the Passing of Professor Kim Border (1952 – 2020)
Alumna Nivetha Karthikeyan (BS ’20) Awarded Third Annual Chang Career Exploration Prize
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