PASADENA, CA – Viraj Karambelkar, a PhD candidate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), has been selected as a 2025 fellow in the esteemed NASA Hubble Fellowship Program. Out of over ...

Kenneth Alexander, mayor of Norfolk, Virginia, and vice chancellor for strategic partnerships at the Virginia Community College system, has been named interim president of Richard Bland College, ...

The Pasadena Design Commission on Tuesday, Jan. 27, is expected to face significant push back when it considers approving the concept design review of a four-story Caltech research building located ...

Pasadena’s Caltech is getting its next leader starting this summer. The venerated research institution announced last week that Ray Jayawardhana will become president effective July 1. He will replace ...

The California Institute of Technology is rebuilding its $5 billion investment office with new hires under chief investment officer Ken Lee. Conlon Garcia and Joon Yoo have joined Lee’s team at ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Incoming Caltech president Ray Jayawardhana speaks during an announcement ceremony on campus in Pasadena on Tuesday. (Christina ...

Former Dean of Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences, Ray Jayawardhana, has been named the next president of the California Institute of Technology, announced on Tuesday at a community-wide gathering ...

Ray Jayawardhana, the incoming president, is an astrophysicist, but leaders at the California Institute of Technology also praised his credentials as a communicator at a time when science is under ...

Google is testing a new lectures Audio Overview style in NotebookLM that can turn notes into a single-host, 30-minute explanation. The Lecture format would sit alongside existing modes, such as Deep ...

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, said climate change’s “doomsday scenario” is wrong, and advocated for continuing reductions in carbon emissions while accelerating aid to countries ...

Lectures on Tap series brings professors and other experts into Boston restaurants and bars for talks that mix big ideas with food and drink. Lectures on Tap, an event series, brings ticketed lectures ...