Members of Blacker Hovse are known as moles. 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. The SAT Math Level 2 middle 50% range was 800800. There are dining halls, lounges, kitchens and other house-specific common spaces throughout the buildings. A repeating pattern of swirling vortices is named after him, the von Krmn vortex street. At a time when scientific research in the United States was still in its infancy, George Ellery Hale, a solar astronomer from the University of Chicago, founded the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1904. 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. It was known as the house of gentlemen and the house of captains, but underwent a dramatic change in personality during the 1960s. But people at other schools might find this interesting or useful. Students also are invited to hour-long receptions during the week. There is a dining hall, lounges, kitchens and other common spaces throughout the building. There are currently eight undergraduate houses at CaltechAvery, Blacker, Dabney, Fleming, Lloyd, Page, Ricketts, and Ruddockand three undergraduate residences, Bechtel, Marks, and Braun. Newspapers and T-shirts were distributed, and door labels and fliers in the infinite corridor were put up in accordance with the "curriculum change. In engineering, Theodore von Krmn made many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization. Each group of seniors designs a "stack" to be solved by a handful of underclassmen. The rumor goes that it was one of the largest sources of LSD at the time. The security muttered, "God damn Blacker gang", and the phrase stuck. Approximately 160 Caltech undergraduates are members of the house and approximately 80 reside in the house. Over the years, moles have posted thousands of quotes. Jean-Lou Chameau, the eighth president, announced on February 19, 2013, that he would be stepping down to accept the presidency at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. 11(1): 167. During my undergrad days, I did not have a word for what we now call microaggressions, but the concept was ever present, Carroll says. Since then, Coffee House has become a part of Caltech's Dining Services and is now managed by CDS. It is impossible to know everything that you will need., As for Carroll, she wishes she could go back and be a student again. Courtesy of Deanna Hunt. It was built in 1927. [102] The graduate student to faculty ratio is 4:1. Page. The North Houses were built in 1960 to accommodate the growing student population. Residents in this community can build connections with peers through shared interests in nature and sustainability efforts and can explore the local area as well as learn and develop skills for partaking in outdoor adventures. Caltech taught me that knowledge is readily available; you dont have to carry it around with you, she says. With the onset of World War I, Hale organized the National Research Council to coordinate and support scientific work on military problems. Residents in this community will also build connections across shared identities with campus faculty, staff, and student organizations. Identical mugs continue to be sold at the Caltech campus store. The housing options available are single, double, and triple capacity bedrooms, with the majority of rooms being singles. Elliot, David C. (January 1, 1986) "Project Vista and Nuclear Weapons in Europe." Avery House All undergraduate rooms are furnished with a desk, desk chair, drawers, closet space, and a bed (with a twin XL mattress) for each resident. In 2013, President Obama announced the nomination of France Cordova (PhD 1979) as the director of the National Science Foundation and Ellen Williams (PhD 1982) as the director for ARPA-E.[169], Nobel laureate Carl David Anderson, BS 1927, PhD 1930, discoverer of the positron and the muon, Nobel laureate Douglas D. Osheroff, BS 1967, Nobel laureate William Shockley, BS 1932, co-inventor of the solid state transistor, father of Silicon Valley, Nobel laureate Edwin McMillan, BS 1928, MS 1929, Turing Award laureate Fernando J. Corbat, BS 1950, Turing Award laureate Donald Knuth, PhD 1963, "father" of the analysis of algorithms, creator of TeX typesetting system, Turing Award laureate John McCarthy, BS 1948, inventor of the Lisp programming language, Astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton, BS 1957, MS 1958, Astronaut and United States Senator Harrison Schmitt, BS 1957, the only geologist to have walked on the moon, Libyan Deputy Prime Minister & Libyan Prime Minister-Elect Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, PhD 1984, Qian Xuesen, PhD 1939, co-founder of JPL, "Father" of Chinese rocketry, Arnold Orville Beckman, PhD 1928, inventor of the pH meter, founder of Beckman Instruments and the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, Gordon Moore, PhD 1954, co-founder of Intel, National Medal of Technology laureate Carver Mead, BS 1956, MS 1957, PhD 1960, Benoit Mandelbrot, MS 1948, Engineering 1949, father of fractal geometry, namesake of the Mandelbrot set, Charlie Munger, studied meteorology at Caltech, investor, Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, Frank Capra, BS Chemical Engineering 1918 (when Caltech was known as the "Throop Institute");[170] winner of six Academy Awards in directing and producing; producer and director of It's a Wonderful Life, Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, BS 1962, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and co-founding of LIGO, France A. Crdova, PhD 1978, Astrophysicist and 14th Director of the National Science Foundation, Stephen Wolfram, PhD 1979, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha; one of the first MacArthur Fellows in 1981, Stanislav Smirnov, PhD 1996, 2010 Fields Medal winner for his work on the mathematical foundations of statistical physics, particularly finite lattice models, Carolyn Porco, PhD 1983, planetary scientist who led the imaging team on the Cassini mission in orbit around Saturn, Nobel laureate Eric Betzig, BS 1983, known for his work on fluorescence microscopy and photoactivated localization microscopy, Regina E. Dugan, PhD 1993, businesswoman and inventor, first female director of the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Ardem Patapoutian, PhD 1996, 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, known for his work in characterizing receptors that detect pressure, menthol, and temperature, John Clauser, BS 1964, 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, known for the ClauserHorneShimonyHolt inequality in quantum physics. 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. You may have noticed the Quotes tab on the Blacker website. Engineers who evaluated the damage found that two historic buildings dating from the early days of the InstituteThroop Hall and the Goodhue-designed Culbertson Auditoriumhad cracked. But Owen, Mapless mentor, supported her decision. Click here to open the "Residential Experience" Submenu, Click here to open the "Student Engagement" Submenu, Click here to open the "The Hameetman Center" Submenu, Click here to open the "Student Financial Hub" Submenu. More than a fourth of Caltech's faculty and a group of outside scientists staffed the project. The house system is the basis of undergraduate student residence at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Deanna Hunt in 2022. Blacker House Officers: 1963 . McCRAY, W. PATRICK, (January 1, 2004) "Project Vista, Caltech, and the dilemmas of Lee DuBridge Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. The Place used to exist on the corner of Michigan Ave and Lura St; it was removed around 1988 and is now a parking lot. Blacker Hovse is one of the eight undergraduate houses at Caltech. We are here to help! ft. 6-Bedroom Suites: There are four 6-Bedroom Suites throughout Bechtel (1 on the first floor, 2 on the second floor, and1 on the third floor). . One day a bunch of us taco regulars got together and decided that we wanted something more for a change. The suite hassix private bedrooms, each with a bed, desk, chair, a closet and two dressers. The marking was subsequently visible on national television behind Peter Lupus as he paused in one shot, unaware of this Caltech contribution to spy drama. This . Maples held a litany of positions during her student days: she was president of the Caltech Y, the head usher at Beckman Auditorium, a salesperson at the Caltech Ticket Office, scorekeeper for the Caltech track and field team, a lab technician at Huntington Memorial Hospital, and a two-time summer research fellow at JPL. The total number of Nobel Prizes is 47 because Pauling received prizes in both Chemistry and Peace. Transportation and Grounds Operations. [39] The portion of female undergraduates has been increasing since then. While the traditional motto of Dabney House (Fidelis et gratus "Faithfulness and thankfulness") still stands on the Dabney crest, Dabney House has instituted a new, changeable motto. Reach out to your mentors, make use of the alumni. As a mentor, she says, I would encourage you that you can make it.. He was at best paranoid. I was so irritated that there was no textbook that I dropped the class. ft. [3][4] The fraternities were as follows: Expanding student population was accommodated in 1960 with the new houses, or north houses: Lloyd House, Page House, and Ruddock House. [134], In December 2011, Caltech students went to New York and pulled a prank in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Follow her on Twitter @lyndie_chiou. The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)[8] is a private research university in Pasadena, California. The 8 Houses (Avery, Blacker, Dabney, Fleming, Lloyd, Page, Ricketts, Venerable) will . According to a 2018[update] PayScale study, Caltech graduates earn a median early career salary of $83,400 and $143,100 mid-career, placing them in the top 5 among graduates of US colleges and universities. A few years later Rusty Schweickart Jr. (whose father walked in space on Apollo 9) was elected house president. Ricketts House was known for athletics and student government in the 1950s, but soon after that they became known less for these activities and more for activities that pushed the motto "Take me as I am" to the limit. The 20th director for DARPA, Arati Prabhakar, is also a Caltech alumna (PhD 1984) as well as Charles Elachi (Phd 1971), former director of the Jet Propulsion Lab. About 80% of the class of 2010 did research through the annual Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) program at least once during their stay, and many continued during the school year. On November 29, 1921, the trustees declared it to be the express policy of the institute to pursue scientific research of the greatest importance and at the same time "to continue to conduct thorough courses in engineering and pure science, basing the work of these courses on exceptionally strong instruction in the fundamental sciences of mathematics, physics, and chemistry; broadening and enriching the curriculum by a liberal amount of instruction in such subjects as English, history, and economics; and vitalizing all the work of the Institute by the infusion in generous measure of the spirit of research". The clock was replaced during 1997-1998, but tragically it did not run Blackerwise. There are some gendered and some gender-neutral bathrooms in Avery. B. Scherer, a literary scholar untutored in science but a capable administrator and fund-raiser, to Throop's presidency in 1908. Bechtel offers students the chance to live on campus while offering space and resources for developing new community experiences, such as our new Theme Living Communities. We found our own space at Caltech, while respecting each others space.. Students also enjoy fashioning their own community experiences in the Marks/Braun and Bechtel residences. [47] Thomas F. Rosenbaum was announced to be the ninth president of Caltech on October 24, 2013, and his term began on July 1, 2014. Several of the names have been changes since the 1970s when the names were: Headquarters (now purple), Penthouse (now Kaos), Virgin Islands, Cave (though Fingal still lived in this alley), Valhalla, Inferno and Creek (now Tropic). [76] U.S. News & World Report also ranked the graduate programs in chemistry and earth sciences first among national universities. The two most famous in recent history are the changing of the Hollywood Sign to read "Caltech", by judiciously covering up certain parts of the letters, and the changing of the scoreboard to read Caltech 38, MIT 9 during the 1984 Rose Bowl Game. There are seven on-campus houses: Blacker, Dabney, Fleming, Lloyd, Page, Ricketts, and Ruddock. The house color is gold, and its motto is "I live and die for those I love", popularly corrupted by mis-reading the banner as "I live for those I love and die.". She organized Caltech's trip to the 2019 and 2020 SHPE conferences. Marks and Braun are two small, conjoined residences located just south of the Center for Student Services (CSS) on campus. Office hours: Wednesday 7-8pm in Bridge B157. Who is Melany Hunt? Members of Blacker Hovse are known as moles. In the 1960s the house slogan was "Blacker House for gracious living" which became "the house of gracious living" by the 1990s. [13] Joseph B. Dabney, owner of the Dabney Oil Syndicate,[14] was a trustee of California Institute of Technology. The product of their project, was dubbed "Lloyd-grade" LSD, to denote its extraordinary purity. But I managed to get through.. Blacker Hovse is one of the eight undergraduate houses at Caltech. The FU was formerly a triple, and before that was the RA apartment, which is now located downstairs. Adriano Testa (atesta@caltech). [38], Caltech opened its doors to female undergraduates during the presidency of Harold Brown in 1970, and they made up 14% of the entering class. Page, former vice president of the First National Bank in Los Angeles, and chairman of the Caltech board of trustees from 1943 to 1954. The Bechtel Residence started construction in late 2016, and began housing undergraduates in Fall 2018. Caltech operates several TCCON stations as part of an international collaborative effort of measuring greenhouse gases globally. Blacker House. [9][10][11] The university is known for its strength in science and engineering, and is among a small group of institutes of technology in the United States which is primarily devoted to the instruction of pure and applied sciences. Caltech pranks have been documented in three Legends of Caltech books, the most recent of which was edited by alumni Autumn Looijen '99 and Mason Porter '98 and published in May 2007. I just pushed forward with the notion that I belonged. It was nothing she had not already experienced, she adds. The Intersectional Identities theme suite is open to students with an interest in building an inclusive community that celebrates diversity and honors how our multiple, dynamic identities shape how we experience and make meaning of the world. [115] Students write and submit SURF proposals for research projects in collaboration with professors, and about 70 percent of applicants are awarded SURFs. Here are some of Caltech students' better-known pranks: 1961: Altered the University of Washington's card stunts during the Rose Bowl Game to display "Caltech." 1987: Changed the Hollywood sign to read "Caltech." [118], During the early 20th century, a Caltech committee visited several universities and decided to transform the undergraduate housing system from fraternities to a house system. The women had the common experience, however, of encountering the isms, including racism. 505 S Wilson (Tyson House/Caltech Y) 128 A4 Auditorium (Lees . In response to the war in Korea and the pressure from the Soviet Union, the project was Caltech's way of assisting the federal government in its effort to increase national security. The Corona house was donated to a minister (for free) who restored it at 1792 Newport Ave, Pasadena, CA. [87], For the Class of 2025 (enrolled Fall 2021), Caltech received approximately 17,000 applications and accepted 2% of applicants; 270 enrolled. The faculty have been drawn into the event as well, and cancel all classes on Ditch Day so the underclassmen can participate in what has become a highlight of the academic year. The Compton native was accepted to both Caltech and MIT with full-scholarship offers. This event is now referred to as the Great Rose Bowl Hoax. Students may now apply for and obtain Fleming House social membership. But lo and behold, the people teaching that class were the same folks Im reading about now.. Fleming House was built with funds donated by a number of people, and the name Fleming was chosen to honor Arthur H. Fleming, then the chairman of Caltech's Board of Trustees. 4 of them spent a term . Members of Lloyd House are called Lloydies. [51]:275 Over the next few years, as Caltech's president emeritus David Baltimore describes it, Arnold Beckman and his wife Mabel "shaped the destiny of Caltech". (The name is a double pun: When substituting "and" for the ampersand, it reads "how we answer", while substituting the Latin et for the ampersand gives "Howitzer".) , Name the home state of each veep. While Carroll worked hard to keep her head above water in her first year, Maples and Hunt had a smoother transition to college life. Braun House. It was their first Division III victory since 1996. The Caltech administration ordered its return in 1975, but negotiations began for an official transfer of the cannon back to Caltech in 1980, and in 1981 it was returned on a permanent basis to the Caltech campus. The average size of the room is 135 sq. The prank of the 1961 Rose Bowl was pulled off by the "Fiendish Fourteen," members of Lloyd House. Administration members called for its removal as it was a symbol that may have offended the general public who viewed the house during tours. Flashcards that were intended to cheer for the Washington Huskies football team were changed to read Caltech. [27] In 1923, Millikan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Members of Fleming House are called Flems. Arnold Beckman (PhD 1928) invented the pH meter and commercialized it with the founding of Beckman Instruments. That day, I went to the career office and asked if they would show me the starting salaries of all the disciplines. [183], Given its Los Angeles-area location, the grounds of the Institute are often host to short scenes in movies and television. According to house bylaws, the newly elected Page House president may choose to reside in any room as a single. Attached to another tree was another wooden swing, but that was cut down in 2019. "That taught me a few lessons in political maneuvering that helped in my corporate . Everyone starts out in math or physics, she explains. In high school, Maples had tried to get a summer job at an oil company that recruited male interns from her chemistry class. [14][25] The vocational school was disbanded and the preparatory program was split off to form the independent Polytechnic School in 1907. Theodore Roosevelt delivered an address at Throop Institute on March 21, 1911, and he declared: I want to see institutions like Throop turn out perhaps ninety-nine of every hundred students as men who are to do given pieces of industrial work better than any one else can do them; I want to see those men do the kind of work that is now being done on the Panama Canal and on the great irrigation projects in the interior of this countryand the one-hundredth man I want to see with the kind of cultural scientific training that will make him and his fellows the matrix out of which you can occasionally develop a man like your great astronomer, George Ellery Hale.[27]. The suite also includes private shower/bathroom facilities and a storage closet. A Caltech education is notable for its rigorous curriculum, close collaborations with [86] In June 2020, Caltech announced a test-blind policy where they would not require nor consider test scores for the next two years; in July 2021, the moratorium was extended by another year. Seismologist Charles Richter, also an alumnus, developed the magnitude scale that bears his name, the Richter magnitude scale for measuring the power of earthquakes. She received a scholarship from Hughes to do postgraduate studies at Cornell, where she went on to receive a masters degree in electrical engineering in 1979. 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". Blacker House was built with the help of funds donated by Robert Roe Blacker, a trustee of Caltech. (Thats what happens when you can paint murals on the walls). Dabney House, as part of the complex that makes up the four south houses, was constructed in 1930 and 1931. All three womenKaren Maples, MD (BS 76); Deanna Hunt (BS 76); and Lauretta Carroll (BS 77)had taken different paths to Caltech and, afterward, went on to lead distinct and distinctive lives. [42] The project was established in 1986 to assemble, preserve, translate, and publish papers selected from the literary estate of Albert Einstein and from other collections. This is the formal, algorithm-driven process for initial house affiliation. To include links to printable maps here, please add Documents titled "Printable Map.pdf" and A new state-of-the-art residential facility named Avery House, was opened in 1996, touted as a facility that allowed undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty to not only mingle, but live together. During the renovations from 2004 to 2006, the mural was painted over, and a new mural policy was put in place. Caltech's 124-acre (50ha) primary campus is located in Pasadena, California, approximately 11 miles (18km) northeast of downtown Los Angeles. [95] This is achievable since the humanities and social sciences majors have been designed to be done in conjunction with a science major. 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. SAT Biology Subject Tests was 760800. The average size of the lounge/study area is 700 sq. Conflicts regarding the new mural policy continued until the early 2010s, when the policy was relaxed. Each bedroom is just under 100 square feet. This process has rules associated with it to try to give freshmen a chance to choose among the houses in an unbiased way.[2]. She has also rekindled an early passion for biology, enrolling in biology classes at a community college. Dabney. In a 1999 Caltech oral history, Browne noted that expanding access to and awareness of Caltech and STEM studies for all students was the focus of his job: I believe that anybody that wanted to do science and mathematics and engineering should be able to go wherever they wanted to go to school, he said. Every Halloween, Dabney House conducts the infamous "Millikan pumpkin-drop experiment" from the top of Millikan Library, the highest point on campus. Nearly half of the funds went into the support of Caltech programs and projects. [111] Active funding from the National Science Foundation Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Science (MPS) for Caltech stands at $343million as of 2011[update], the highest for any educational institution in the nation, and higher than the total funds allocated to any state except California and New York. DuBridge, unlike his predecessors, welcomed federal funding of science. Our system is made up of eight distinct houses (Avery, Blacker, Dabney, Fleming, Lloyd, Page, Ricketts, Venerable) that all are part of the important social and cultural fabric of the undergraduate experience. The track and field team's home venue is at the South Athletic Field in Tournament Park, the site of the first Rose Bowl Game. Throop. TLCs are available for the entire year. Peter Richard Korn Haderlein, Blacker House, Mechanical Engineering, BS 2008 George Isaac Hagstrom, Dr., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Physics, BS 2006 Susanne Hall, Teaching Professor of Writing and Director of the Hixon Writing Center, HSS, Caltech We were highly motivated and self-confident. At the demands of both college administrations, the cannon was returned to Fleming House approximately 8 weeks after the prank. After the end of a campus-wide undergraduate party tradition, Interhouse, Venerable began the tradition of OPI. Although Blacker Hovse as an entity is really the moles themselves, the building does tend to reflect a bit about our identity. Naval Activities World War II by State", "DuBridge, Lee A. The suite also includes private shower/bathroom facilities and a storage closet. The middle 50% range ACT Composite score was 3536. Besides naming the house's recreation room after it and spreading it all across campus, Dabney alumni have made DEI a hidden code in the outside world. After hunting around for a while (Blacker [], Copyright 20052015 Blacker HouseCalifornia Institute of TechnologyWebsite design by DT|Contact. Caltech 38, MIT 9 The 1984 Rose Bowl game featured Illinois against UCLA. Some have concentrated their studies on the very small universe of atoms and molecules. It was originally cast for use in the Franco-Prussian War but eventually found its way to the then-military themed Southwestern Academy in San Marino, California, where it remained on the front lawn between 1925 and 1972. Members of Dabney House are referred to as Darbs, a combination of the name of the house with a 1920s slang term darb, meaning something or someone very handsome, valuable, attractive, or otherwise excellent. For Mapless classmate Hunt, the choice to attend Caltech was simple. The courtyard originally featured a large Italian marble well head (historically attributed to and named "Millikan's Pot"). [140], In April 2014, during MIT's Campus Preview Weekend, a group of Caltech students handed out mugs emblazoned with the MIT logo on the front and the words "The Institute of Technology" on the back. Procedures for admitting new members vary depending upon house bylaws and type of membership. Finally, owing to a policy said to have been put in place by R. Stanton Avery himself[citation needed], Avery members are not allowed to place anything "nonremovable" on the walls, though the true origins of this policy are unclear. Every morning during finals week, at 7 a.m. on the dot, Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" is played at an ear . [110], The institute was awarded an all-time high funding of $357million in 2009. Lauretta Carroll, center, in 2013 with her oldest son, Joseph Van Valen, left, and youngest son, David Van Valen (PhD 11), right, a Caltech assistant professor of biology and biological engineering, and a Heritage Medical Research Institute investigator. Bechtel additionally has apartments for various live-in staff and faculty, specifically a professional staff member called a residential life coordinator, six graduate students employed as Residential Associates (RAs), and two faculty-in-residence.[25]. Grant D. Venerable House,[19] formerly known as Ruddock House, was constructed in 1960 in honor of Albert Billings Ruddock, then the Chairman of the Caltech Board of Trustees. A folklore that has been passed down throughout the years is that of the Purple LSD lab. Millikan served as "Chairman of the Executive Council" (effectively Caltech's president) from 1921 to 1945, and his influence was such that the institute was occasionally referred to as "Millikan's School." That experience stayed with me, she says. Anyone who rotates into a house is automatically a full member; individuals who would like to become members afterward can choose between full and social membership. [4] In the same year, the Institute concluded a six-year-long fund-raising campaign. In 2005, a group of Caltech students pulled a string of pranks during MIT's Campus Preview Weekend for admitted students. This ultimately resulted in the publication of the Abell Catalogue of Clusters of Galaxies, the definitive work in the field. Ricketts. They ranged from RAs to members of my house, to faculty and grad students, she says. Crippling Depression, a satirical comic strip that was published regularly in the California Tech, the student newspaper, was drawn and written by Lloydies. She says she found mentors everywhere during her Caltech years. There was something wrong with him. Rotation is the process by which incoming freshmen choose (and are chosen by) the house they will be affiliated with. The cannon was stolen by Harvey Mudd students in 1986 (as detailed in this article). Undergraduates at Caltech are also encouraged to participate in research.