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06/01/2016

LIGO Founders Win Shaw Prize

Whitney Clavin

This year's Shaw Prize in Astronomy, worth $1.2 million, has been awarded to the trio of researchers who founded LIGO.

Aerial photograph of LIGO Livingston facility

05/12/2016

LIGO Team Receives Cosmology Prize

Lorinda Dajose

Caltech's Drever and Thorne receive the Gruber Cosmology Prize for their role in discovering gravitational waves.

05/11/2016

Ooguri Receives Chunichi Award

Robert Perkins

Hirosi Ooguri, the Fred Kavli Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics and founding director of the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, will be the 2016 recipient of the Chunichi Cultural Award.

04/25/2016

Glitz & Qubits

Marcus Woo

The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has put Caltech quantum computing and superstring theory experts in the spotlight.

04/21/2016

Two from Caltech Elected to AAAS

Lorinda Dajose

Hirosi Ooguri and Rob Phillips have been elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

03/01/2016

Caltech Names Six Distinguished Alumni

Ben Tomlin

Caltech has announced that Eric Betzig (BS '83), Janet C. Campagna (MS '85), Neil Gehrels (PhD '82), Carl V. Larson (BS '52), Thomas J. "Tim" Litle IV (BS '62), and Ellen D. Williams (PhD '82) are this year's recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award.