associates.caltech.edu Your Portal into Caltech Membership dues provide unrestricted support to priority initiatives and allow Caltech researchers to take smart risksfocused on making meaningful breakthroughs in science, engineering, technology, and medicineto improve the lives of people all over the world. To verify membership eligibility and purchase: Caltech Student, Staff, Faculty, Guest, Caltech External Affiliate memberships and their spouses/dependents can typically be verified by front desk staff at time of purchase. Be the first to get information and updates about the day. [155], Undergraduate alumni founded, or co-founded, companies such as LCD manufacturer Varitronix,[156] Hotmail,[157] Compaq,[158] MathWorks (which created Matlab),[159] and database provider Imply,[160] while graduate students founded, or co-founded, companies such as Intel,[161] TRW,[162] and the non-profit educational organization, the Exploratorium.[163]. One station is on campus. ", Evangelos Simoudis (BS '83)"The Associates offers a unique and singularly effective venue to contribute and be part of the Institute's journey at the same time. Caltech alumni and their spouse/dependents, either individually or as a family. Federally insured by NCUA. [9][10] Due to its history of technological innovation, Caltech is widely considered to be one of the world's most prestigious universities. [105][106] The largest federal agencies contributing to research are NASA, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense, and Department of Energy. [183], Given its Los Angeles-area location, the grounds of the Institute are often host to short scenes in movies and television. One of the founders of the geochemistry department, Clair Patterson was the first to accurately determine the age of the Earth via lead:uranium ratio in meteorites. It is not affiliated with the house system. Nobel laureate Carl D. Anderson (BS 1927, PhD 1930) proved the existence of positrons and muons, Nobel laureate Edwin McMillan (BS 1928, MS 1929) synthesized the first transuranium element, Nobel laureate Leo James Rainwater (BS 1939) investigated the non-spherical shapes of atomic nuclei, and Nobel laureate Douglas D. Osheroff (BS 1967) studied the superfluid nature of helium-3. Take part in the revolutionary science, engineering, and technology underway at Caltech. [107] Caltech received $144million in federal funding for the physical sciences, $40.8million for the life sciences, $33.5million for engineering, $14.4million for environmental sciences, $7.16million for computer sciences, and $1.97million for mathematical sciences in 2008. Your giving sustains Caltechs jazz and concert bands, chamber music groups, and orchestra, providing vital funds for new music, instruments, and regular performances. There are also two Caltech Jazz Bands and a Concert Band, as well as an active chamber music program. Oops! [115] As of 2008[update], 1891 patents were granted to Caltech researchers since 1969. Warehouse Associate Positions: Full- time weekends: 5am to 5:30pm Friday-Sunday $17 plus $2 shift differential for a total of $19 per hour Part-time . [124][125] The documentary film Quantum Hoops concerns the events of the Beavers' 200506 season. From the 1950s to 1980s, Caltech was the home of Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman, whose work was central to the establishment of the Standard Model of particle physics. [172], The average salary for assistant professors at Caltech is $111,300, associate professors $121,300, and full professors $172,800. It's always inspiring to get an insider's look into the groundbreaking, leading edge projects and to hear directly from the researchers with marvelous, lively Q&A sessions. In January 2011, Caltech students in conjunction with MIT students helped put the TARDIS on top of Baxter. In addition to exclusive events and travel invitations, Caltech Associates are afforded access to several other aspects of the Caltech Community. [54] Thomas F. Rosenbaum became the ninth president of Caltech in 2014. [38] The earliest was a 1968 protest outside the NBC Burbank studios, in response to rumors that NBC was to cancel Star Trek. Membership may be paid in installments. [4] One alumnus, Stanislav Smirnov, won the Fields Medal in 2010. In recent years, pranking has been officially encouraged by Tom Mannion, Caltech's Assistant VP for Student Affairs and Campus Life. The following week, Ross McCollum, president of the National Oil Company, wrote an open letter to Dabney House stating that in light of their actions he had decided not to donate one million dollars to Caltech. The Spitzer Science Center (SSC), part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center located on the Caltech campus, is the data analysis and community support center for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. In 1973, the students from Dabney House protested a presidential visit with a sign on the library bearing the simple phrase "Impeach Nixon". In 1928, construction of the Palomar Observatory began. Through its Office of Technology Transfer & Corporate Partnerships,[175] scientific breakthroughs have led to the transfer of numerous technologies in a wide variety of scientific-related fields such as photovoltaic, radio-frequency identification (RFID), semiconductors, hyperspectral imaging, electronic devices, protein design, solid state amplifiers and many more. 1200 East California Boulevard [36], Caltech opened its doors to female undergraduates during the presidency of Harold Brown in 1970, and they made up 14% of the entering class. Be part of changing the world The selection of Caltech as host for the project was based on the university's expertise in rocketry and nuclear physics. [97] A joint program between Caltech and the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, and the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine grants MD/PhD degrees. The campaign raised more than $1.4billion from about 16,000 donors. Nearly a century after its founding, the Associates continue to provide the valuable unrestricted support that fuels the early stages of innovative research projects, a hallmark of the Institute. Caltech Retirees Katherine Mason katmason@caltech.edu, JPL Employees AskHR 818-354-4447 (or via AskHR portal), JPL Retirees AskHR 818-354-4447, Caltech Alumni regis@caltech.edu For example, the honor code allows professors to make the majority of exams as take-home, allowing students to take them on their own schedule and in their preferred environment. Participants in von Krmn's GALCIT project included Frank Malina, who helped develop the WAC Corporal, which was the first U.S. rocket to reach the edge of space, Jack Parsons, a pioneer in the development of liquid and solid rocket fuels who designed the first castable composite-based rocket motor, and Qian Xuesen, who was dubbed the "Father of Chinese Rocketry". Caltech partnered with UCLA to establish a Joint Center for Translational Medicine (UCLA-Caltech JCTM), which conducts experimental research into clinical applications, including the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer. In engineering, Theodore von Krmn made many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization. Corporate Partners By joining the Associates, you can take part in the discovery and innovation that will change the world. William A. Fowler, a professor at Caltech, was selected as research director. We also love the travel program: Rafting down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon was a trip of a lifetime. The voting faculty of Caltech include all professors, instructors, research associates and fellows, and the University Librarian. Graduate students are bound by the honor code, as are the undergraduates, and the Graduate Honor Council oversees any violations of the code. For vocal music, Caltech has a mixed-voice Glee Club and the smaller Chamber Singers. [96], Caltech offers Army and Air Force ROTC in cooperation with the University of Southern California. *Fees entitle all members to use the facilities and attend fitness classes at no additional charge. Caltech is also the inspiration, and frequent film location, for the California Institute of Science in Numb3rs. Support the people of Caltech as they make beautiful music. Head to Horseshoe Bay, designated as an IDA International Dark Sky Community, near Austin, Texas to experience a total solar eclipse. It serves as preparation for graduate school and helps to explain why Caltech has the highest percentage of alumni who go on to receive a PhD of all the major universities. Membership fees may be paid with Visa, Discover, and MasterCard. Alumni Association In the 1960s, three North Houses were built: Lloyd House, Page House, and Ruddock House, and during the 1990s, Avery House. People work better and achieve more together. The Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award is the highest honor the Institute bestows upon a graduate. Throop. To register, complete and submit the form within the brochure, call (888) 773-9007, fax (646) 390-2050, or email groups@expeditions.com. Make a one-time gift In fall 2008, the freshman class was 42% female, a record for Caltech's undergraduate enrollment. In 1917 Hale hired architect Bertram Goodhue to produce a master plan for the 22 acres (8.9ha) campus. [128], On February 2, 2013, the Caltech baseball team ended a 228-game losing streak, the team's first win in nearly 10 years.[129]. The Caltech/Occidental College Orchestra is a full seventy-piece orchestra composed of students, faculty, and staff at Caltech and nearby Occidental College. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphasis on science and engineering, managing $332 million in 2011 in sponsored research. [92] Approximately 20 percent of students double-major. On January 13, 2007, the Caltech women's basketball team snapped a 50-game losing streak, defeating the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens 5553. The study operated under a committee with the supervision of President Lee A. DuBridge. [58] The most popular options are Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Electrical Engineering and Chemical Engineering. The Caltech ID will double as the athletic center membership card for employees. Caltech alumni also held public offices, with Mustafa A.G. Abushagur (PhD 1984) the Deputy Prime Minister of Libya and Prime Minister-Elect of Libya, James Fletcher (PhD 1948) the 4th and 7th Administrator of NASA, Steven Koonin (PhD 1972) the Undersecretary of Energy for Science, and Regina Dugan (PhD 1993) the 19th director of DARPA. CAAs award-winning magazine, Techer, celebrates the diverse lives and achievements of Caltech alumni and their impact locally, globally and astronomically. Caltech Associates Member Lelia Marshall lelia@caltech.edu Huntington FT Staff Chad Mata cmata@huntington.org Huntington Fellows (select) Catherine cwehrey@huntington.org Poly FT Staff & Retirees Sean Dwyer sdwyer@polytechnic.org Carnegie Observatory FT Staff Heather Morgan hmorgans@caltech.edu Thirty Meter Telescope voe@tmt.org FEE SCHEDULE GUESTS It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. Caltech's extraordinary faculty and students are expanding our understanding of the universe . This special expedition features special curriculum before departure and during the trip guided by Caltech's Rob Phillips, Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics, Biology, and Physics. MIT retaliated in April 2006, when students posing as the Howe & Ser (Howitzer) Moving Company stole the 130-year-old, 1.7-ton Fleming House cannon and moved it over 3,000 miles to their campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts for their 2006 Campus Preview Weekend, repeating a similar prank performed by nearby Harvey Mudd College in 1986. Recipients of the Chang Career Exploration Prize are exploring new professional opportunities while working to make the world better. Our community is here to help you live your best life while making your best contribution to the world. [61], The full-time, four-year undergraduate program emphasizes instruction in the arts and sciences and has high graduate coexistence. [182] In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Bruno Carrelli (Kamala Khan's best friend and love interest) attends Caltech in the miniseries Ms. On April 13, 2007 (Friday the 13th), a group of students from The California Tech, Caltech's campus newspaper, arrived and distributed fake copies of The Tech, MIT's campus newspaper, while prospective students were visiting for their Campus Preview Weekend. Many alumni have participated in scientific research. [57], Caltech is a small four-year, highly residential research university with slightly more students in graduate programs than undergraduate. The prank involved making The Cube sculpture look like the Aperture Science Weighted Companion Cube from the video game Portal.[135]. Once verified, all membership sales will be made at the front desk during regular open hours. [15][10][16] As of October2022[update], there are 79 Nobel laureates who have been affiliated with Caltech, making it the institution with the highest number of Nobelists per capita in America. During the 1960s, Caltech underwent considerable expansion, in part due to the philanthropy of alumnus Arnold O. Beckman. In 1928, a division of biology was established under the leadership of Thomas Hunt Morgan, the most distinguished biologist in the United States at the time, and discoverer of the role of genes and the chromosome in heredity. Caltech enrolled 987 undergraduate students and 1,410 graduate students for the 20212022 school year. If you are already registered, please log in with your information below. More than a fourth of Caltech's faculty and a group of outside scientists staffed the project. Until their win over Occidental College on February 22, 2011[123] the team had not won a game in SCIAC play since 1985. Another long-standing tradition is the playing of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" at 7:00 each morning during finals week with the largest, loudest speakers available. Bruce Reznick (BS 1973) is a mathematician noted for his contributions to number theory and the combinatorial-algebraic-analytic investigations ofpolynomials. Under the leadership of Hale, Noyes, and Millikan (aided by the booming economy of Southern California), Caltech grew to national prominence in the 1920s and concentrated on the development of Roosevelt's "Hundredth Man". give@caltech.edu Thank you for your support of Caltech through membership in the Caltech Associates. New research fields flourished, including chemical biology, planetary science, nuclear astrophysics, and geochemistry. [89], Prior to the entering class of 2013, Caltech required students to take a core curriculum of five terms of mathematics, five terms of physics, two terms of chemistry, one term of biology, two terms of lab courses, one term of scientific communication, three terms of physical education, and 12 terms of humanities and social science. Caltech Fund $10,000 - President's Circle $ 4,000 - Ambassador Since dependent children 17 and younger must be accompanied by a parent or responsible adult, they may not sponsor a guest. Immediate Family includes: Student/Employee, spouse, and up to seven dependent children living in the same household, age 25 & younger. Millikan initiated a visiting-scholars program soon after joining Caltech. Pondering the pandemic with 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients, As Anthony Bourdain once said, Travel isnt always pretty. NASA called the memorial "a special honor for a special human being. Founded in 1926, the Associates of the California Institute of Technology is a philanthropic organization for Caltech with over 1,400 memberships throughout the United States and abroad--a diverse cross section of entrepreneurs, community leaders, alumni, philanthropists, and faculty. In the first quarter of my project, Understanding and Alleviating Environmental Inequality in Underprivileged Communities, I was able to explore different facets of the fight for environmental justice while contributing to the efforts in my local community. [42], Since 2012, Caltech began to offer classes through massive open online courses (MOOCs) under Coursera, from 2013, edX. 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Moore", "Electronics Pioneer William Shockley's Legacy", "Electronics Pioneer William Shockley's Legacy Transcript", "Ellen Williams (PhD '82) Nominated as Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy", "Distinguished Alumni Award Frank Capra", "Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index California Institute of Technology", "Office of Technology Transfer & Corporate Partnerships", Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic: Science, Religion, and, "Documentary Focuses on Caltech Researchers", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California_Institute_of_Technology&oldid=1151294456, This page was last edited on 23 April 2023, at 03:42. [52] The institute also concluded an upgrading of the South Houses in 2006. [153] Astronomer Eugene Merle Shoemaker (BS 1947, MS 1948) co-discovered Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (a comet which crashed into the planet Jupiter) and was the first person buried on the Moon (by having his ashes crashed into the Moon). Seismologist Charles Richter, also an alumnus, developed the magnitude scale that bears his name, the Richter magnitude scale for measuring the power of earthquakes. First-year students are enrolled in first-term classes based upon results of placement exams in math, physics, chemistry, and writing and take all classes in their first two terms on a Pass/Fail basis. The board of trustees offered to turn Throop over to the state, but the presidents of Stanford University and the University of California successfully lobbied to defeat the bill, which allowed Throop to develop as the only scientific research-oriented education institute in southern California, public or private, until the onset of the World War II necessitated the broader development of research-based science education. Select Caltech external affiliates and Caltech guests and their spouse. Corporate Partners Payment may be credit/debit card at the front desk once verification is confirmed. In the same year, a bill was introduced in the California Legislature calling for the establishment of a publicly funded "California Institute of Technology", with an initial budget of a million dollars, ten times the budget of Throop at the time. For questions, please contact Lelia Marshall at 626-395-4858 or, $ 1,500 - Young Ambassador (under the age of 40), To make an additional gift to the Associates or to Caltech, please see the, The remaining payments will be placed between, To support the Caltech Associates Endowed Graduate Fellowship, please enter. For nearly 100 years, the Caltech Associates have helped propel Caltech's mission of discoverywhile forging lifelong connections with like-minded scholars and friends. Sign up to receive our the Caltech Alumni Association newsletter. In 2007, supported by the Caltech Alumni Association, Bob Kieckhefer, BS (BS 74) and Ponzy Lu, PhD (BS 64) collaborated to give the current students a landmark that would maintain its place on the Caltech campus forever in stone. To make an additional gift to the Associates or to Caltech, please see the Associates fund options or Caltech's other priority initiatives in need of support. Caltech is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities Very High Research Activity". On Ditch Day, the seniors ditch school, leaving behind elaborately designed tasks and traps at the doors of their rooms to prevent underclassmen from entering. Ryan Elmquist's free throw with 3.3 seconds in regulation gave the Beavers the victory. Please submit application either via email (athdesk@caltech.edu), campus mail (MC 1-61), US mail (Membership The Athenaeum 551 S. Hill Ave. Pasadena, CA 91106), or fax: 626-356-0784 ATH 06/14 The Athenaeum Membership Agreement We welcome your request for membership to The Athenaeum. The following groups may purchase annual/semi-annual memberships at posted rates: Caltech current student spouse/dependents, either individually or as a family, Caltech current faculty and staff and their spouse/dependents, either individually or as a family. The Caltech Associates is a philanthropic membership organization dedicated to supporting groundbreaking discoveries at Caltech. Caltech alumni around the world know that advancing humanity through science and technology is a team effort. The Athenaeum is a membership club that first opened its doors on the campus of the California Institute of Technology in 1930. [93] This is achievable since the humanities and social sciences majors have been designed to be done in conjunction with a science major. Powering Progress [176] Companies such as Contour Energy Systems, Impinj, Fulcrum Microsystems, Nanosys, Inc., Photon etc., Xencor, and Wavestream Wireless[177] have emerged from Caltech. To that end, as Hale wrote in The New York Times: Throop College of Technology, in Pasadena California has recently afforded a striking illustration of one way in which the Research Council can secure co-operation and advance scientific investigation. [92] There is little competition; collaboration on homework is encouraged and the honor system encourages take-home tests and flexible homework schedules. Connect and engage with Techers around the world on the Caltech Alumni Portal - available exclusively to Caltech graduates. More recently, Michael Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy, discovered many trans-Neptunian objects, most notably the dwarf planet Eris, which prompted the International Astronomical Union to redefine the term "planet". Your Caltech Associates membership dues provide unrestricted support to priority initiatives and allow Caltech researchers to take smart risksfocused on making meaningful breakthroughs in science, engineering, technology, and medicineto improve the lives of people all over the world.