A magazine for the Caltech community and friends featuring a broad range of stories about the Institute, its people, and its impact on the world.
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Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here, an unassuming corner of the Charles Arms Laboratory of the Geological Sciences at @Caltech
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"rk. Community work and Caltech research have some common skillsets: They both require intrinsic motivation to manage your time, your workload, and all the working parts of a project and then see it through to completion."
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“Caltech students both live and work here in Pasadena. We are a vulnerable population. We don’t make much money and many of us are immigrants, so I think it’s important for us to speak up and for our city to consider our safety.”
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“I really love space... I remember getting my first telescope when I was in third grade. I was so excited, and my mom thought it was just a phase; like all kids have their dinosaur phase or astronaut phase. But I really stuck with it."
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“It was a culture shock being around other kids who loved STEM as much as I did. [Back home], I would talk about these big dreams and people would be like, ‘Uh, OK.’ But here, if I say I want to work at NASA, people are like, ‘Oh, yeah! That’s possible!’
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"The STARS College Network helped me figure out how to get there, and it gave me confidence that it was possible to attend a top 20 school even coming from such a tiny place. It gave me a mental boost and made me think, ‘Oh, I really should go for this.’” magazine.caltech.edu/post/so…
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This image of the Dumbbell Nebula (which resides more than 1,200 light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula) was taken by the Hale Telescope in 1961. It is one of the earliest color images of the cosmos. #Palomar
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In the Star Trek episode “The Naked Time,” the Enterprise crew becomes infected with an alien virus that causes them to go mad. During one of the episode’s frenzied moments, two photos taken at #Palomar Observatory can be seen on the ship’s bridge. magazine.caltech.edu/post/pa…
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"A digital calculator that I built in spring 1972. I had been an electronic hobbyist since junior high, and when the first Texas Instruments digital calculator chip became available, I bought one, along with eight Monsanto MAN-1 LED 7-segment displays."
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Sustainable #farming, wearable sensors, the 75th anniversary of Palomar Observatory, and lots more can be found in our new issue! #Spring2024
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This probe, which dates back to the early 1980s, was given to professor @RanaXAdhikari by the late LIGO co-founder Ronald Drever before he moved back to his native Scotland in 2010. “One of these days, I should open it up to see what’s inside.
#InsideLook
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In 2022, professor @ZhongwenZhan embarked on a monthlong research expedition to #Antarctica to explore an innovative method for investigating how the ice sheets behave. You can watch his full Watson Lecture about the transformative South Pole journey now.
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“I arrived at college planning to pursue a career in classical music. In my first year, the only required writing seminar that fit my schedule happened to be about environmental chemistry."
More of @hdkgeo's story:
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“I mean, who would think turbulence is beautiful? But then you look at something like the surface of Jupiter, and it’s just stunning. You see the swirling and the Great Red Spot, and it evokes a sense of awe.”
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A white dwarf star that's hydrogen on one side and helium on the other? Weird. Here's how Caltech scientists found it: piped.video/watch?v=y27GF03k…
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Our Spring 2023 issue is here! Student #entrepreneurs running their own #startups, new Caltech-affiliated companies innovating ways to capture carbon emissions, the Institute's proud history of studying the #Moon—find all that and plenty more: magazine.caltech.edu/
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Caltech Students and Alumni Took on the World’s Hardest Puzzle Hunt at MIT—and Won
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When @ZhongwenZhan saw the first readings from his Antarctic experiment, he had to run out into the blistering cold and sledgehammer the ice. Here's why.
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What does it mean to write in the language of #math? Find out in our new issue, out today at magazine.caltech.edu/
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Cora Went, PhD, physics
"In 2018, I co-chaired the first Future of Physics conference with physics professor Dave Hsieh. We brought 33 undergraduate women to campus for a workshop on applying to grad school and what the grad school experience is like." #Caltech2022
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Forrest Graham, BS, mechanical engineering
"The best relationships I've formed with my professors have been in the English department. It's much easier to build these relationships when you're in a class of five to 10 people." #Caltech2022
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Ella Watkins-Dulaney, PhD, bioengineering and biomedical engineering
"Having an in-person commencement means the world to me. ... I defended my thesis remotely in June of 2021. Defending your thesis in person is a rite of passage that we missed out on."
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Yanting Han, PhD, neurobiology
"I study human emotion experiences by evoking emotions using stories and videos. During the pandemic, I co-led the COVID-Dynamic Longitudinal Study, which tracks people’s psychological changes during the pandemic in multiple domains." #Caltech2022
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Shrikeshav Deshmukh, BS, mechanical engineering
“In-person commencement drives home a feeling of accomplishment, marking the end of my chapter here at Caltech. It means a lot to me, as it cements the feeling that I'm transitioning from one era of my life to another.” #Caltech2022
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Ayooluwa Odemuyiwa, BS, computer science
“The support I received from faculty, staff, and others really taught me the importance of giving back to my community through leadership service, and I went on to serve as ASCIT president.” #Caltech2022
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Spencer Schneider, BS, computer science; business and economics of management
“[The pandemic] made me a lot more reflective. I took a year off. I got to live on my own, work with the Washington Wizards as a software engineer, and get a taste of the adult world.” #Caltech 2022
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Isabell Yang, BS, biology
“Having more free time at home forced me to confront some mental health challenges that I had put off due to the rigor of Caltech studies. I am much better at understanding what I need to live a healthy and balanced lifestyle.” #Caltech2022
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Diego Olaya, BS, physics:
"Our class is the only class currently on campus that has ever had an in-person Ditch Day. Those are extremely valuable parts of the Caltech experience that we came very close to losing. Thankfully, we didn't." #Caltech2022
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Katherine Rinaldi, PhD, chemistry:
"I think the pandemic laid bare how important connections with other people are, and how important communities are. I got involved with the Graduate Student Council's effort to get affordable health care for graduate students."
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What can jellyfish tell us about our changing planet and the common properties underlying life itself? Find out in our newest issue: magazine.caltech.edu/
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Science #ThrowbackThursday: Why not watch David L. Goodstein explain the electric battery as part of The Mechanical Universe, the documentary series filmed at @Caltech in the 1980s piped.video/watch?v=zq9_KBJM…
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How the #Voyager missions inspired Ed Stone to support a @Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) magazine.caltech.edu/post/br…
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The Fall issue of Caltech magazine is coming soon, featuring our cover story on how water works and why it matters, the search for signatures of quantum gravity, a look inside the $3.4 billion Break Through campaign, and much more.
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The creation of new instruments to investigate captivating and pressing questions is part of Caltech’s DNA. Break Through-supported instrumentation aids in the hunt for Earth-like planets, the fight against COVID-19, and the creation of a quantum internet. breakthrough.caltech.edu/mag…
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A “playground for robots,” a neuroscience nexus, and a quantum-computing wonderland are just a few of the spaces and places through which Break Through: The Caltech Campaign has reshaped the Caltech campus.
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Here we have it, the release of the final issue of Caltech Effect. Each piece in this issue celebrates the catalytic impact of the Break Through campaign across the Caltech campus. Read the full issue:
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The Transformative Power of Failure
Behind any scientific success story can be found a researcher who persevered through failure and views it not only as inevitable, but necessary.
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The summer issue of Caltech magazine is coming soon, featuring our cover story on the transformative power of failure, along with stories on biology through the eyes of a physicist, sustainability solutions, fruit fly research in the desert, and much more.
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A Universe of Complexity
Artist and neuroscientist Greg Dunn discusses his quest to convey the grandeur and intricacy of the human brain. #CaltechImpact
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A Universe of Complexity: artist and neuroscientist Greg Dunn discusses his quest to convey the grandeur and intricacy of the human brain. #CaltechImpact Read more at breakthrough.caltech.edu/mag…
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From Caltech Effect:
Daniel Wagenaar (PhD ’06), director of Caltech’s Kevin Xu Neurotechnology Lab, recounts how the lab came into existence and describes some of the myriad projects he has worked on with Caltech scientists. #CaltechImpact piped.video/2KGhUD37Pb8
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The spring issue of Caltech magazine is coming soon, featuring our cover story on Caltech’s Center for Comparative Planetary Evolution as well as articles on the hunt for copies of Newton’s “Principia,” and the opening of the Chen Neuroscience Research Building.
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The Chen Institute for Neuroscience officially moved into its new building at Caltech in January. Since the institute was inaugurated in 2016, researchers from many disciplines have been affiliated with it Chen, including these five graduate students.
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Caltech's Bethany Ehlmann is a co-investigator on the Mastcam-Z, Perseverance's mast-mounted camera that can shoot 3D images, and SHERLOC, the arm-mounted spectrometer that will be used to search the Martian surface for organic molecules and other chemical compounds. #Mars2020
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From Caltech Effect magazine: Sleep with the Zebrafishes. Caltech’s David Prober is interested in how the brain regulates sleep. With zebrafish as his model, he has made several breakthrough discoveries about this still-mysterious state. ow.ly/laf450DAWrc
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Today is #WorldCancerDay, which aims to raise awareness and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment. See how two Caltech grad students in different disciplines joined forces to help invent a new approach to cancer treatment. ow.ly/Km7F50DqPe8
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The spring issue of Caltech Effect features the opening of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Neuroscience Research Building. Students & faculty studying the intricacies of the brain’s structure and function have a vital new hub for interdisciplinary research. ow.ly/X9w750DpG5O
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Scientists and engineers share their experiences and perspectives on how to create a more inclusive Caltech. ow.ly/FMkF50DaQgz
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