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.

Caltech will scrub the names of six eugenicists, including its founding president Robert A. Millikan, from campus buildings and other dedications, according to a university announcement. “The decision ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Caltech announced Friday that it would ...

If you’re anywhere near Pasadena today, you might want to stop by the California Institute of Technology for the Olive Harvest Festival, during which volunteers gather olives from about 130 trees ...