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The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) [a] is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States.The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes of technology in the United States that are devoted to the instruction of pure and applied sciences.
The history of the house system at the California Institute of Technology encompasses both the history of the physical houses and of the student self-governance and culture associated with them. The Caltech house system currently encompasses eight houses: the South Houses constructed in 1931 hosts four houses, the North Houses constructed in ...
Welcome to Undergraduate Housing at Caltech – from Caltech's housing department; A History of Undergraduate Self-Governance at Caltech; Part II, A History of the Undergraduate Houses (1930-2002) Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine; Task force on Undergraduate Residence Life Initiatives (TURLI) report
The Beckman Institute at Caltech is a multi-disciplinary center for research in the chemical and biological sciences. Founding of the Beckman Institute at Caltech was supported by a major philanthropic gift from the Arnold Orville Beckman and his wife Mabel, through the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Beckman had a long-term relationship ...
Parsons (dark vest) and GALCIT colleagues in the Arroyo Seco, Halloween 1936.JPL marks this experiment as its foundation. [22] [23]In hopes of gaining access to the state-of-the-art resources of Caltech for their rocketry research, Parsons and Forman attended a lecture on the work of Austrian rocket engineer Eugen Sänger and hypothetical above-stratospheric aircraft by the institute's William ...
From 1945 until his retirement in 1959, Earnest Watson was dean of the Caltech faculty, and he served as acting chairman of Caltech's division of physics, mathematics and astronomy from 1946 to 1946. During World War II , he was a member of the National Defense Research Committee established by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940, and ...
The California Institute of Technology, long a bastion of male STEM students, enrolls an undergraduate class of majority women this fall, the first time in its 133-year history.
Pages in category "California Institute of Technology" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. ... History of the Caltech house system;