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Life at Caltech
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A New Plan for Keeping NASA's Oldest Explorers Going
Mission engineers are implementing a new plan to manage the Voyager spacecraft.
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Undergraduate Student
Yeorgia Kafkoulis
Even our most reliable ideas about how the universe works break down in certain domains. They can’t account for the weirdness of quantum mechanics or the recursive chaos of fractals. Hungry for answers, many researchers—including one Caltech undergraduate and her faculty mentor—aim to come up with a better explanation.
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Harold Brown Professor of Physics, Emeritus; Director, Spitzer Science Center
Tom Soifer
After nearly five decades at Caltech, Tom Soifer is still smiling. The former Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair of the division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy continues to advance our understanding of the universe by hunting for dust-obscured galaxies—DOGs—where others can’t see.
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Graduate Student in Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Manuel Razo Mejia
Caltech graduate student Manuel Razo Mejia wants to predict how evolution occurs in organisms ranging from microbes to humans. Until recently, evolution has been considered a random process, but Razo Mejia believes we might detect certain patterns by applying the principles of physics and mathematics.
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Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry
Linda Hsieh-Wilson
Caltech surprised chemist and neurobiologist Linda Hsieh-Wilson when she arrived as a new professor in 2000. The unusually interactive campus felt like a community, even a family.
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Undergraduate Student
Damien Bérubé
Like many who come to Caltech to learn and explore, undergraduate Damien Bérubé dreams of changing the world with science and engineering. But his personal vision—the force that drives him in the classroom, the lab, and beyond—is an uncommon one.
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The more Caltech biochemist Shu-ou Shan learns about how proteins are made, the more she marvels that life exists a… https://t.co/Lhunyxl5ZG
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The Rubik's Cube has a special place in our hearts at Caltech - how could we not, when there's a move named for us?… https://t.co/vNFT8r2xFa
