One anecdote describes Thomas Hunt Morgan banning the Friden calculator from his department at Caltech, saying " Well, I am like a guy who is prospecting for gold along the banks of the Sacramento River in 1849.

The California Institute of Technology ( commonly referred to as Caltech ) is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States.

Although Caltech has a strong tradition of practical jokes and pranks, student life is governed by an honor code which allows faculty to assign take-home examinations.

It is within walking distance of Old Town Pasadena and the Pasadena Playhouse District and therefore the two locations are frequent getaways for Caltech students.

Caltech is incorporated as a non-profit corporation and is governed by a privately appointed 46-member board of trustees who serve five year terms of office and retire at the age of 72.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) is a federally funded research and development center ( FFRDC ) owned by NASA and operated as a division of Caltech through a contract between NASA and Caltech.

The JPL Director also serves as a Caltech Vice President and is responsible to the President of the Institute for the management of the Laboratory.

Caltech is on the quarter system: the fall term starts in late September and ends before Christmas, the second term starts after New Years Day and ends in mid-March, and the third term starts in late March or early April and ends in early June.

The Institute launched the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech in 2006, the Keck Institute for Space Studies in 2008, and is also the current home for the Einstein Papers Project.

The Spitzer Science Center ( SSC ), part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center located on the Caltech campus, is the data analysis and community support center for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

The program is open to both Caltech and non-Caltech undergraduate students.

Caltech's mascot is the Beaver, and its teams ( with the exception of the fencing team ) play in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, which Caltech co-founded in 1915.

The Caltech / Occidental College Orchestra is a full seventy-piece orchestra composed of students, faculty, and staff at Caltech and nearby Occidental College.

The theater program at Caltech is known as TACIT, or Theater Arts at the California Institute of Technology.

The playing of the Ride is such a strong tradition that the music was used during Apollo 17 to awaken Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a Caltech alumnus.

Life in the Caltech community is governed by the Honor Code, which simply states: " No member of the Caltech community shall take unfair advantage of any other member of the Caltech community.

This was initially termed " splat cooling " by doctoral student W. Klement at Caltech, who showed that cooling rates on the order of millions of degrees per second is sufficient to impede the formation of crystals, and the metallic atoms become " locked into " a glassy state.

JPL is managed by the nearby California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ) for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

JPL is a federally funded research and development center ( FFRDC ) managed and operated by Caltech under a contract from NASA.

Despite its small size, 31 Caltech alumni and faculty have won the Nobel Prize and 66 have won the National Medal of Science or Technology.

Caltech graduate students Frank Malina, Weld Arnold, Apollo M. O. Smith, and Tsien Hsue-shen, along with Jack Parsons and Edward S. Forman, tested a small, alcohol-fueled motor to gather data for Malina's graduate thesis.

The term " house system " is also used to refer to the residential college systems found in some colleges and universities, such as Caltech, Yale College, Harvard College, and University of Chicago.

At Caltech, Geneticist Beadle has stuck close to his research as head of the school's famous biology division since 1946.

Caltech managed $ 332 million in sponsored research and $ 1. 77 billion for its endowment in 2011.

The voting faculty of Caltech include all professors, instructors, research associates and fellows, and the University Librarian.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities, a ranking with an emphasis on bibliometric data and scientific research, ranked Caltech 6th in the world and 5th in the U. S. for 2011.

The research facilities at Caltech are available to graduate students, but there are opportunities for students to work in facilities of other universities, research centers as well as private industries.

Caltech manages research expenditures of $ 270 million annually, 66th among all universities in the U. S. and 17th among private institutions without medical schools for 2008.

In 2005, Caltech had dedicated to research: to physical sciences, to engineering, and to biological sciences.

Undergraduates at Caltech are also encouraged to participate in research.

Caltech and JPL jointly offer research opportunities for students, such as the SURF program ( Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship ).

Peer institutions of Carnegie Mellon's institutional research and analysis program include Caltech, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Georgia Tech, MIT, Northwestern, Princeton, Rice, RPI, Stanford, Penn and Washington University.

At Caltech most of his scientific research focused on the study of " cosmic rays " ( a term which he coined ).

* 1976-1979: concept of Teradata grows from research at California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ) and from the discussions of Citibank ’ s advanced technology group.

Concluding in March 2007, the Caltech investigation found van Parijs alone committed research misconduct and that four papers co-authored by Baltimore, van Parijs, and others required correction.

In 1944 he and others affiliated with GALCIT founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is now a Federally funded research and development center managed and operated by Caltech under a contract from NASA.

He said that he wants the gift to be used to keep Caltech at the forefront of research and technology.

In the early 1990s the filing cabinets containing Qian's research work were offered to him by Caltech.

The research in Tohoku University and Caltech yielded multicomponent alloys based on lanthanum, magnesium, zirconium, palladium, iron, copper, and titanium, with critical cooling rate between 1 K / s to 100 K / s, comparable to oxide glasses.

In 1992, the commercial amorphous alloy, Vitreloy 1 ( 41. 2 % Zr, 13. 8 % Ti, 12. 5 % Cu, 10 % Ni, and 22. 5 % Be ), was developed at Caltech, as a part of Department of Energy and NASA research of new aerospace materials.

Research time is granted to Caltech and its research partners, which includes the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) and Cornell University.