The Caltech Effect: Training Ground

Newly minted PhDs Jessica Hinojosa and Abigail "Abby" Crites (BS '06) are traveling to far-flung corners of the world to advance their research and learning how to be leaders in their fields—from running a laboratory to searching for new questions to explore. In addition to pursuing their investigations, Hinojosa and Crites are committed to helping future generations of scientists.

If they're not offering guidance to Caltech students in the lab or dispensing advice at the campus's popular Red Door Café, you might find Hinojosa, a geologist, and Crites, an experimental physicist, in Pasadena's public schools, inspiring children to see themselves as scientists.

Read more on the Break Through campaign website.