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06/15/2022

Caltech Introduces New Named Professors and Leadership Chairs

Since the start of the 2022 calendar year, Caltech has recognized five faculty members with the Institute's most distinguished award for individual faculty—named professorships for early career and tenured faculty—and awarded two faculty members with leadership chairs associated with administrative positions.

photo of Parsons-Gates Hall of Administration

06/14/2022

Physicists Move Closer to Finding Elusive Higgs Boson Self-Coupling

Whitney Clavin

Caltech researchers and their colleagues report new results on the hunt for not one but two Higgs bosons.

06/14/2022

Thousands of Galaxies Shine in Ultraviolet Light in New Hubble Image

Whitney Clavin

Caltech researchers have produced new images that may help reveal how the first stars ended our universe's dark ages.

06/13/2022

NuSTAR Celebrates 10 Years in Space

Whitney Clavin

Ten years ago, NASA's NuSTAR blasted into space on a mission to uncover extreme cosmic objects.

06/09/2022

Native Americans Name Asteroid 'Ayló'chaxnim or 'Venus Girl'

Whitney Clavin

The Pauma band of San Diego has named an asteroid that orbits close to the sun 'Ayló'chaxnim or "Venus Girl."

Pauma band members walk up to the 200-inch Hale Telescope

06/07/2022

LIGO Hanford's New 13,000-Square-Foot Educational Center is Open

Whitney Clavin

Funded by $8.1-million in grants from the state of Washington, The LIGO Exploration Center aims to inspire curiosity in people of all backgrounds and ages.

Picture of Amber trunk cutting the blue ribbon in front of the LIGO Exploration Center.

06/03/2022

Conversations on the Quantum World: The Power of Quantum Materials

Ann Motrunich

Professor Nai-Chang Yeh discusses what quantum materials are and why we can expect to find them in future technologies.

06/01/2022

Four Faculty Members, Five Alums Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Emily Velasco

Caltech Faculty members elected to the Academy this year include Bil Clemons, Linda Hsieh-Wilson, Michael Elowitz, and Nicholas Scoville.

06/01/2022

Recognizing America's Leading Innovative Scientists, The 2022 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists Names 31 Finalists

The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences announced 31 finalists today for the 2022 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists, the world’s largest unrestricted prize honoring early-career scientists and engineers.