Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana, the provost at Johns Hopkins University, was named Tuesday the next president of Caltech, saying he is committed to preserving the university’s vital research ...

Sri Lankan American scientist vows to empower ‘brilliant minds’ at the elite Pasadena university amid research funding cuts ...

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

After a short speech, the next president of Caltech greeted faculty, staff and students along the path outside the Athenaeum, the Pasadena institute’s dining club that for a century is where legendary ...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — California Institute of Technology President Jean-Lou Chameau plans to step down from the top job at the prestigious institute to lead a new Saudi Arabian university. Caltech ...

Some students who signed up for an online cloud computing boot camp at prestigious Caltech university, of “Big Bang Theory” fame, were disappointed to learn the university had largely outsourced the ...

After decades of mounting tension between scientists and Native Hawaiians, Caltech has completed its removal of a telescope from the summit of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano that is revered by the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Caltech president and pioneering physicist Thomas Rosenbaum, an expert in the promising field of quantum physics, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang in April for ...