Student Life Stories

01/08/2015 13:32:06
Learning While Leading
Jessica Stoller-Conrad
The leaders of Caltech's student organizations have the opportunity to both represent their peers and "peek behind the curtain" of academia.
08/19/2014 13:54:39
SURF Students Present Research
Kathy Svitil
The SURF program supports students from Caltech and other universities while they participate in real laboratory research on campus. Since the program's inception in 1979, more than 6,200 students have SURFed.
07/29/2014 15:27:48
Sink or Swim: Students Prep for RoboSub Competition
Jessica Stoller-Conrad
Students on the Caltech Robotics Team have created a robotic submarine that will compete in the 17th Annual International RoboSub Competition in San Diego.
06/18/2014 11:37:50
A Taste of Weightlessness
Kimm Fesenmaier
Recently, senior physics major Lisa Lee had an opportunity to conduct a medical technology experiment aboard NASA's reduced gravity aircraft at Johnson Space Center's Ellington Field in Houston, Texas.We asked Lee to fill us in on her unique experience.
06/13/2014 09:18:49
Caltech’s Student Leaders
Cynthia Eller
In keeping with Caltech’s long tradition of student self-governance, student leaders are elected by their peers to guide almost every aspect of student life at Caltech. We asked three student leaders to reflect on their experiences over the past year.
06/13/2014 05:40:14
Students Win National and International Prizes
Kathy Svitil
Caltech students have collected an array of awards this spring, including two Fulbright grants, a Watson Fellowship, three Goldwater Scholarships, an American-Scandinavian Fellowship, six DOD graduate fellowships, Caltech's San Pietro and Bishop Prizes, and 34 NSF Fellowships.
06/13/2014 05:40:52
Seniors Named Fulbright Scholars
Kathy Svitil
Two graduating Caltech seniors, Stephanie Laga and Katja Luxem, have been selected to receive 2014–2015 Fulbright scholarships to pursue graduate studies abroad.
06/13/2014 05:39:05
Friends of the Caltech Library Award Prize to Two Senior Theses
Cynthia Eller
The Senior Thesis Prize is intended to encourage undergraduates to complete a formal work of scholarship as a capstone project for their undergraduate career.
06/04/2014 10:06:30
Science & Engineering Policy at Caltech
Cynthia Eller
For proof that Caltech students are indeed motivated to emerge from their labs and classrooms to interact with the rest of the world, look no further than Science & Engineering Policy at Caltech (SEPAC), a student organization founded in February 2013.
05/15/2014 08:02:42
Ditch Day? It’s Today, Frosh!
Andrew Allan
During this annual spring rite seniors ditch their classes and vanish from campus, leaving behind complex, carefully planned out puzzles and challenges—known as “stacks”—designed to occupy the underclass students and prevent them from wreaking havoc on the seniors’ rooms.
04/22/2014 07:44:51
Spring Break in the Galápagos
Kimm Fesenmaier
As the final element of Evolution, Caltech's new Bi/Ge 105 course, a dozen students spent their spring break snorkeling with penguins and sharks, hiking a volcano, and otherwise taking in the natural laboratory for evolution that is the Galápagos Islands.
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