Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana will become Caltech's next president. He joins the campus from Johns Hopkins University, ...

The name of Robert A. Millikan, shown here in 1930 with a device he used to determine the source of cosmic rays, is being removed from the Caltech campus. His cosmic ray theory was proved wrong, by ...

At first blush, the California Institute of Technology seemed to respond promptly and well to the uproar sparked this summer over its apparent complicity with the racist eugenics movement of a century ...

Having traveled the difficult road of coming to terms with racism in its own past, Caltech on Friday said it would remove the names of Robert A. Millikan and five other important figures in its ...

Caltech names Ray Jayawardhana, Johns Hopkins provost and exoplanet expert, as its next president starting July 2026 to lead ...

From left, physicists A.A. Michelson and Albert Einstein and former Caltech President Robert A. Millikan meet on the Caltech campus in 1931. (Smithsonian Archives) At first blush, the California ...

The first U.S. Secretary of Education. A 1995 Nobel Prize winner. The first Black student to graduate from Caltech. An educator who spent years trying to diversify the university's student population.