In a major shift for one of the nation's most prestigious universities, Caltech announced Thursday it is dropping its longstanding admissions requirement for applicants to have completed calculus, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Caltech president and pioneering physicist Thomas Rosenbaum, an expert in the promising field of quantum physics, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang in April for ...

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three key players in the development and ultimate success of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). One half of the prize ...

Caltech professor Jared Leadbetter meets with university admissions ambassadors, from left, Emily Hu, Jj Jones and Miles Jones. Leadbetter helped develop an alternative path to admissions, dropping ...

Edward C. Stone, a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, has been named the new director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Stone succeeds current director Lew Allen, Jr ...

PASADENA — In a major shift for one of the nation’s most prestigious universities, Caltech announced Thursday, Aug. 31, it is dropping its longstanding admissions requirement for applicants to have ...

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Caltech and Princeton emeritus professor John Hopfield received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday, Oct. 8, for his work — much of it developed early on at the Pasadena campus – in the ...

Kent Kresa, who worked for Northrop Grumman for 28 years, served 21 years as a Caltech trustee, chairing the board from 2005 to 2012, and cofounded the institute's new Space Innovation Council. Kent ...

MELVILLE, N.Y., Nov. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP), published by AIP Publishing, and the Division of Chemical Physics (DCP) of the American Physical Society have named ...

Professor John Hopfield, left, of Princeton University, and professor Geoffrey Hinton, of the University of Toronto, won the 2024 Nobel Prize winners in Physics. (Associated Press) On Tuesday morning, ...