David Goodstein, the Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor, Emeritus, and professor of physics and applied physics, emeritus, passed away on April 10.
Unusually Lightweight Black Hole Candidate Spotted by LIGO
LIGO has detected a candidate black hole with a mass that falls within a so-called mass gap between the heaviest known neutron stars and the lightest black holes.
It has been more than six months since Caltech alumnus Ross Brockwell (MS ’01) left his life in Virginia Beach to serve as the flight engineer for NASA’s first Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) mission.
Brinson Exploration Hub Launches New Frontier for Science and Engineering
Seeded with a $100 million gift, the Brinson Hub will test new ways to do research in fields ranging from earth and planetary science to astrophysics to engineering