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03/16/2015

Kresa Leadership Chair Opens Door for Opportunity

Ann Motrunich

The unrestricted $10 million gift for Caltech's Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy will help back-of-the-napkin ideas become groundbreaking science.

02/24/2015

Caltech Professors Named Fellows of the American Physical Society

Lorinda Dajose

John Dabiri and Maria Spiropulu have been named fellows of the American Physical Society (APS) for their exceptional contributions to physics.

02/23/2015

Caltech Professors Awarded 2015 Sloan Fellowships

Lorinda Dajose

Five Caltech faculty members have been awarded the fellowships, honoring them as "early-career scientists whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders."

02/19/2015

NASA, ESA Telescopes Give Shape to Furious Black Hole Winds

Discovery shows that fierce winds from a supermassive black hole blow outward in all directions—a phenomenon that had been suspected, but difficult to prove until now.

02/19/2015

Walter Burke Institute Dedication

When: February 23,2015 at 2:30 p.m.Where: Hameetman Auditorium, CahillAn Invitation from the...

01/30/2015

Gravitational Waves from Early Universe Remain Elusive

A joint analysis of data from the Planck space mission and the ground-based experiment BICEP2 has found no conclusive evidence of gravitational waves from the birth of our universe.

01/28/2015

Knutson Receives AAS Award for Outstanding Research

Lorinda Dajose

Heather Knutson, assistant professor of planetary science at Caltech, has been awarded the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).

01/28/2015

Charles H. Townes (1915-2015)

Kathy Svitil

Laser pioneer Charles H. Townes (PhD '39), a life member of the Caltech Board of Trustees and a recipient of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics, died on Tuesday, January 27. He was 99 years old.

01/23/2015

Batygin Named to Forbes's "30 Under 30" List

Lorinda Dajose

Konstantin Batygin (MS '10, PhD '12), an assistant professor of planetary science at Caltech, was recently included in Forbes's "30 Under 30" list in the science category, and described by the editors as being "the next physics rock star."

01/21/2015

SPIDER Experiment Touches Down in Antarctica

Kimm Fesenmaier

SPIDER, an instrument carrying six Caltech-made telescopes, just landed after 16 days drifting in the wind above Antarctica searching for signs of inflation in the earliest moments of the universe.

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