Articles tagged with "student_life"

04/19/2013 09:27:06
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.

08/23/2011 07:00:00
Techer Representing the United States at International Youth Bridge Competition
Kimm Fesenmaier

Ruddock House junior Dan Emmons is representing the United States in the under-21 age division at the second World Youth Bridge Congress in Croatia. The computer science major describes bridge as a giant logic puzzle played out with cards. Alumnus Roger Lee ('09) is also competing, as a member of the under-26 U.S. team. 

 

08/03/2011 07:00:00
Metamorphose Now!
Michael Farquhar

On Friday, August 5, at 7:30 p.m., and weekend nights thereafter through Saturday the 13th, the courtyard of the Lloyd House undergraduate residence at Caltech will transform into a theater with a pool of water for center stage. That pool will become by turns primal chaos, a washing basin, a swimming pool, the sea, and the Underworld's River Styx. 

06/17/2011 07:00:00
Caltech Students Win National and International Prizes
Kathy Svitil

Students from Caltech won a large number of awards this spring, including a Fulbright grant, a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, three Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, two Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, a Xerox Technical Minority Scholarship, and 36 National Science Foundation Fellowships. 

05/20/2011 07:00:00
What Is Ditch Day?
Allison Benter

Ditch Day is one of Caltech's oldest traditions—a cross between Animal House and a science fair. One day each spring, kept secret until the last minute, seniors ditch their classes and vanish from campus, leaving behind complex, imaginative scavenger hunts, mazes, puzzles, and other challenges that are carefully planned out to occupy the underclassmen—preventing them from wreaking havoc in the seniors' rooms. 

05/20/2011 07:00:00
Ditch Day!
Allison Benter

Ditch Day, that annual day of quirky college pranks and games at Caltech, is today! On one fateful day each spring—kept secret until the last minute—Caltech seniors ditch their classes and vanish from campus. The rooms of the absent students are vulnerable to all sorts of mischievous goings-on, so the seniors have devised elaborate mazes, scavenger hunts, and other challenging adventures to keep the underclassmen at bay.

 

05/06/2011 07:00:00
Comedy Tonight!
Michael Farquhar

With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and based on the plays of the Roman farceur Plautus, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is coming to Ramo Auditorium on the Caltech campus.

04/26/2011 07:00:00
Kitto Named to SCIAC First Team
Marcus Woo

Caltech freshman Rebekah Kitto has been named to the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletics Conference (SCIAC) First Team for women's tennis. She's the first Techer to earn the honor in four years. Kitto and the rest of the women's tennis team ended conference play last Friday and Saturday at the SCIAC Championship Tournament, which was hosted by Caltech.

04/22/2011 07:00:00
Working Toward a Greener Future
Katie Neith

Celebrate Earth Day with the Caltech community on April 22 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. along San Pasqual Walk in front of Chandler and the Red Door.

04/18/2011 07:00:00
Caltech Kicks Off World Fest
Marcus Woo

Today kicks off Caltech World Fest, a weeklong celebration of international diversity with special events every day. For more information, click here.

04/13/2011 07:00:00
Caltech's (Science) Olympians Give Back
Marcus Woo

For many Techers, high-school activities included the Science Olympiad, an academic track meet of sorts that tests knowledge in all areas of science and engineering, from forestry and ornithology to physics and biology. But even though they've now retired from competition, former Science Olympians at Caltech have been giving back, helping to run the contest for today's high schoolers. Last Saturday, April 9, 43 students from Caltech traveled to Canyon High School in Anaheim for the Southern California State Science Olympiad.

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