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Yi Xin
  • Assistant Professor of Economics

Yi Xin

Data are powerful. Understanding human behavior with real-world data provides important insights into policy design aimed at improving consumer welfare and market efficiency."

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  • Professor of Political Science

Alexander V. Hirsch

There are other institutions that are wonderful at teaching and wonderful at research. But at Caltech, it seems to me that to be wonderful at teaching means that you teach the students what the frontier of research is—that teaching and research are not different things."

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  • Kay Sugahara Professor of Social Sciences and Statistics

Jonathan N. Katz

Money is very important in politics, but all the previous studies about campaign finance were restricted to relatively large donors, leading to a skewed picture of this important political activity. Given changes in technology, smaller donors are becoming both more numerous and important."

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  • Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience; Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Caltech Brain Imaging Center; Director, Caltech Brain Imaging Center

Dean Mobbs

Caltech allows researchers to be risky. Risk is an important part of science. It's where discovery occurs."

Catherine Jurca
  • Professor of English and Visual Culture

Catherine Jurca

We live in a world of images and screens, and visual literacy is an important part of being an educated, thoughtful person in the world."

Jocelyn Holland
  • Professor of Comparative Literature

Jocelyn Holland

The humanities have the practical function of giving students something they wouldn't otherwise have. The humanities classroom is a space where they can take a step back from their scientific work and learn to think about the world in a different way."