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Stephen A. Ross, 1944–2017
03/04/2017

Stephen A. Ross, 1944–2017

Alumnus and senior trustee Stephen A. Ross (BS '65), whose work helped shape the development of the field of financial economics, passed away on March 3, 2017. He was 73 years old.
Stephen Ross, 1944–2017
Caltech Names Two Distinguished Alumni
03/02/2017

Caltech Names Two Distinguished Alumni

Caltech has announced that Regina E. Dugan (PhD '93) and Alexei V. Filippenko (PhD '84) are this year's recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award.
Distinguished Alumni Awards
Temperature Swings of Black Hole Winds
03/01/2017

Temperature Swings of Black Hole Winds

Lorinda Dajose
Rapidly varying temperatures have been measured on the ultrafast streams of gas emanating from around a black hole.
Artist rendition of a black hole with X-rays and winds.
Supersonic Gas Jets Blast Off
02/28/2017

Supersonic Gas Jets Blast Off

Lorinda Dajose
A new discovery about jets of gas bursting from the surface of moons throughout the solar system.
still image from YouTube video
NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star
02/22/2017

NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water.
Abstract Concept of TRAPPIST-1 System
Two Physicists Named Sloan Fellows
02/21/2017

Two Physicists Named Sloan Fellows

Lorinda Dajose
Xie Chen and Manuel Endres study the quantum properties of matter.
Sloan Foundation logo
Long Haul, Towering Discovery
02/14/2017

Long Haul, Towering Discovery

Kip Thorne talks about the years leading up to LIGO’s first detection of gravitational waves.
Kip Thorne
JPL News: Spitzer Hears Stellar "Heartbeat"
02/14/2017

JPL News: Spitzer Hears Stellar "Heartbeat"

A planet and a star are having a tumultuous romance that can be detected from 370 light-years away.
illustration of a blue planet orbiting a yellow sun
Graduate Students Peer into Cosmic Web
02/13/2017

Graduate Students Peer into Cosmic Web

Lorinda Dajose
The Keck Cosmic Web Imager will be used at the W. M. Keck Observatory to image the webs of matter between galaxies.
The Keck Cosmic Web Imager, under construction.
Caltech Astronomer Receives Dan David Prize
02/10/2017

Caltech Astronomer Receives Dan David Prize

Whitney Clavin
Caltech's Shri Kulkarni will share the 2017 Dan David Prize with the late Neil Gehrels (PhD '82) and Andrzej Udalski.
photo of Shrinivas (Shri) Kulkarni