WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Caltech president and pioneering physicist Thomas Rosenbaum, an expert in the promising field of quantum physics, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang in April for ...

In a major shift for one of the nation's most prestigious universities, Caltech announced Thursday it is dropping its longstanding admissions requirement for applicants to have completed calculus, ...

Caltech professor Jared Leadbetter meets with university admissions ambassadors, from left, Emily Hu, Jj Jones and Miles Jones. Leadbetter helped develop an alternative path to admissions, dropping ...

Caltech and Princeton emeritus professor John Hopfield received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday, Oct. 8, for his work — much of it developed early on at the Pasadena campus – in the ...

Edward C. Stone, a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, has been named the new director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Stone succeeds current director Lew Allen, Jr ...

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PASADENA — In a major shift for one of the nation’s most prestigious universities, Caltech announced Thursday, Aug. 31, it is dropping its longstanding admissions requirement for applicants to have ...

Researcher David Politzer, a professor from Caltech, just won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics. Politzer and two other American scientists studied a phenomenon called the “strong force,” an energy that ...

Kimberly Miranda is the brainy daughter of Guatemalan immigrants and the first in her family to attend college. But she almost didn't make it to the California Institute of Technology. Her Redwood ...

Professor John Hopfield, left, of Princeton University, and professor Geoffrey Hinton, of the University of Toronto, won the 2024 Nobel Prize winners in Physics. (Associated Press) On Tuesday morning, ...