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06/17/2015

Caltech, JPL Team Up to Take On Big-Data Projects

Kimm Fesenmaier

The new Joint Initiative on Data Science and Technology strives to boost intellectual infrastructure and expertise for data-driven discoveries.

06/16/2015

Building a Program: Financial Economics

Elizabeth Hamilton

Financing is done in much more flexible and efficient ways today than it was 30 years ago due to innovations in financial economics. Recognizing this area's importance to both academia and society, Caltech is developing a curriculum around the study of finance.

06/12/2015

Senior Spotlight: Phoebe Ann

Kathy Svitil

Caltech's class of 2015 is group of smart, creative, and curious individuals. We talked to two of these graduates, Phoebe Ann and Justin Koch, about their years at Caltech and what will come next.

06/11/2015

Diversity Retreat at Caltech

Kathy Svitil

We recently spoke with Joseph E. Shepherd (PhD '81), dean of graduate studies and the C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics and professor of mechanical engineering, about AGEP, the recent retreat, and Caltech's diversity initiatives.

06/10/2015

Behavior Matters: Redesigning the Clinical Trial

Jessica Stoller-Conrad

Clinical trials are used to test the latest drugs and treatments, but few of these trials track how human behavior influences the effectiveness of these therapeutics. In a new study, Caltech's Erik Snowberg suggests an approach to tracking such influences.

05/22/2015

Ditch Day? It’s Today, Frosh!

On May 22, students celebrated Ditch Day, one of Caltech's oldest traditions.

05/13/2015

At the Intersection of Art and Science

Larry Wilson’s Pasadena Star-News column covers “At the Intersection of Art and Science: A Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates and Charles Gross” co-organized by Caltech’s Divisions of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Biology and Biological Engineering.

04/28/2015

Switching on One-Shot Learning in the Brain

Kimm Fesenmaier

Caltech researchers find the brain regions responsible for making snap decisions about cause and effect.

04/21/2015

Voting Rights, by the Numbers

Professor J. Morgan Kousser's recent study—featured prominently in the New York Times lead editorial, “Voting Rights, by the Numbers,”—provides a groundbreaking overview of the history of U.S. voting rights from 1957 through 2013.

04/16/2015

More Money, Same Bankruptcy Risk