Lauriane Quenee, who served as the institute biosafety officer at Caltech for more than seven years, has been promoted to senior director of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S).

Laurie Leshin (MS '89, PhD '95), director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, delivered a keynote address to new undergraduate and graduate students about the passionate pursuit of discovery.

Case Bradford (PhD ’06), project manager for JPL’s Starshade Technology Development Activity, helps to build large-scale structures called starshades that could be used in tandem with other space telescopes to help take pictures of Earth-like planets around distant stars.