Student Life Stories

04/19/2013

Caltech Senior Wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship

Kimm Fesenmaier

Catherine Bingchan Xie, a senior bioengineering major and English minor at Caltech, has been selected to receive a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which will fund her graduate studies at the University of Cambridge for the next academic year.

05/14/2012

Caltech Students Continue Tradition at the Rose Bowl

Kimm Fesenmaier

The teams that took the field at the Rose Bowl last Friday afternoon were composed of none other than Caltech's own Fleming House denizens, past and present. Continuing a tradition started in 2001, the students took the afternoon off to socialize with their fellow Flems, get to know some alumni, and play a few games of touch football in Myron Hunt's famous stadium.

04/24/2012

Women's Tennis Team Snaps SCIAC Streak

Marcus Woo

Caltech's women's tennis team beat Occidental in dramatic fashion last Friday, snapping a 30-match conference losing streak. To read more and to watch a video of sophomore Rebekah Kitto and junior Stephanie Kwan discuss their victory, click here.

04/11/2012

Student Group Promotes Awareness of LGBTQ Issues

Andrew Allan

April Fool's Day, Passover, Easter, Tax Day, Earth Day … and Gaypril? Among the many events that take place in April, one of the lesser known is the month-long "Gaypril" celebration, dedicated to advancing awareness of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) issues at Caltech and other universities around the country.

03/14/2012

Cooking for Stephen Hawking

Marcus Woo

Last Thursday, Caltech students cooked up an Indian feast for famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. Click to watch an audio slideshow of the event.

03/13/2012

ME 72 Robots Prepared to Take Over Caltech's Millikan Pond

Kimm Fesenmaier

Robots designed and built by Caltech undergraduate students will battle in head-to-head competition on Thursday, March 8, in what has been dubbed "The Conquest of Millikan Islands," this year's ME 72 Engineering Design Contest. Setup for the contest, which has become a popular event in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, begins at 1 p.m. at Millikan Pond, and the competition is scheduled to begin around 2 p.m.

03/12/2012

Parachuting Eggs and Battling Boats Conquer Millikan Library

Marcus Woo

Last Thursday, the area around Millikan Library saw quite a bit of action. Parachuting eggs drifted down from the top of the nine-story building, and boats and bots battled it out in Millikan Pond. No, they weren't more legendary Caltech pranks—they were final projects for engineering classes.

02/22/2012

Run, Techers, Run

Marcus Woo

On Sunday, 19 Techers donned red shirts emblazoned with a lightning bolt—the symbol for the superhero speedster Flash—and joined roughly 7000 people running this year's Rock 'n' Roll Pasadena Half Marathon.

02/14/2012

Caltech Student Wins Churchill Scholarship

Kimm Fesenmaier

Caltech senior Arvind Kannan has been selected to receive a Churchill Scholarship, which will fund his graduate studies at the University of Cambridge for the next academic year. Kannan, a chemical engineering major and English minor, was one of only 14 students selected to receive the award this year.

02/09/2012

KISS Selects Student-led Rover Project for Funding

Kimm Fesenmaier

The Keck Institute for Space Studies has announced that it will fund a new student-led mini program, giving a handful of undergraduate students the opportunity to help develop instruments for an extreme-terrain rover called Axel, which could one day be used to explore the moon, Mars, or an asteroid.

01/20/2012

Winners of the Doris S. Perpall SURF Speaking Competition Announced

Allison Benter

Seven finalists, named the best speakers out of 290 who presented their research on SURF Seminar Day in October, competed in the third and final round of the Doris S. Perpall SURF Speaking Competition on January 19. Three juniors won the top honors, with Kevin Gu in first place, Anum Jang Sher in second, and Matthew Mayers in third.