Barr Leadership Chair Boosts Caltech Center for Comparative Planetary Evolution
Gift from alumnus and family offers flexible funding for multidisciplinary studies of planets familiar and far away.
Flexible Funding
Doors of discovery open when Caltech has funds at the ready to advance scholars’ best ideas. Discretionary resources empower leadership to nimbly and efficiently support researchers who ask the most difficult and important questions. They allow Caltech to make smart bets by investing in areas where there is potential for high reward. And, most important, they create an environment where faculty and students know they have the support of the entire institution—which inspires even more creativity and courage.
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#CaltechTogether Boosts Student Emergency Fund
On April 2, 2020, the Caltech community rallied under the banner #CaltechTogether to express solidarity and help replenish the Student Emergency Fund.
Intrinsically Quantum
Garnet Chan appreciates a good challenge. A Caltech theorist who works at the interface of theoretical chemistry, condensed matter physics, and quantum information theory, Chan says he is drawn to scientific problems that have long resisted theoretical study.
A Multifaceted Gift to Caltech Grows from Gratitude
When asked what makes his alma mater special, Roger Davisson (BS ’65, MS ’66) frames his thoughts with a literary allusion. “Walt Whitman wrote, ‘I contain multitudes,’” he says. “Well, Caltech contains multitudes. The Institute has some of the brightest and best minds, and they gather across disciplines in a way that I don’t think happens elsewhere. For a small school, the amount of stuff that’s going on is truly remarkable.”
Two Years In, the Campaign Continues to Create New Possibilities
Since its public launch in April 2016, Break Through: The Caltech Campaign has broken Institute fundraising records. While Break Through looks to secure Caltech’s future as a source of discovery for the world, the campaign already is making an imprint on campus and beyond by supporting Caltech people who are pursuing big questions and bold ideas.
Winding Back the Clock
Osman Kibar (BS ’93) wants to turn back time. His business, Samumed, makes drug therapies that may reboot the body’s capacity to renew damaged or diseased tissue. If these efforts pay off in full, society will see cures for everything from baldness to cancer. According to Kibar, this ambitious endeavor benefits from a little bit of Caltech thinking.
Building a Legacy in Engineering
Caltech alumnus Cecil “Cece” Drinkward (BS ’50) defined himself as a man who skirted life’s easy paths and forged his own, more challenging ones.