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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 a small four-year, highly residential research university with a slight majority in graduate programs.
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.

Caltech and on
Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering.
Under the leadership of Hale, Noyes and Millikan ( aided by the booming economy of Southern California ), Caltech grew to national prominence in the 1920s and concentrated on the development of Roosevelt's " Hundredth Man ".
Albert Einstein arrived on the Caltech campus for the first time in 1931 to polish up his Theory of General Relativity, and he returned to Caltech subsequently as a visiting professor in 1932 and 1933.
Former Georgia Tech provost Jean-Lou Chameau became the eighth president of Caltech on September 1, 2006, replacing David Baltimore who had served since 1997.
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.
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.
In December 2011, Caltech students went to New York and pulled a prank on Manhattan's Greenwich Village.
" Caltech students also passed out T-shirts to MIT's incoming freshman class that had MIT written on the front and "... because not everyone can go to Caltech " along with an image of a palm tree on the back.
A " sold " banner was hung on front of the MIT dome building and a " Welcome to Caltech East: School of the Humanities " banner over the Massachusetts Avenue Entrance.
In January 2011, Caltech students in conjunction with MIT students helped put the TARDIS on top of Baxter.
By 1952, at the age of 55, Capra effectively retired from Hollywood filmmaking and spent his later years working with Caltech, his alma mater, to produce educational films on science topics.
For example, in 1986, students from Mudd stole a memorial cannon from Fleming House at Caltech ( originally from the National Guard ) by dressing as maintenance people and carting it off on a flatbed truck for " cleaning.
There are approximately 5, 000 full-time Caltech employees, and typically a few thousand additional contractors working on any given day.
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom is the title of a lecture given by physicist Richard Feynman at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959.
Heath went on to become a professor at Caltech and O ' Brien joined Texas Instruments and is now at MEMtronics.
His early work was done on mainframes at III, JPL, and Caltech.
He went on to earn his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ) in 1946.
In 1928-1929 during a stay at the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ), he carried out experiments on the Raman effect.

Caltech and system
During the early 20th century, a Caltech committee visited several universities and decided to transform the undergraduate housing system from regular fraternities to a house system.
LeTourneau has a housing system similar to the House System with the use of numerous ( roughly 30 ) individual floor assignments as opposed to four houses ( which is closer to the House System at Caltech ).
In 2007 astronomers at Caltech and the University of Cambridge announced the first results from a new hybrid Lucky Imaging and Adaptive Optics ( AO ) system.
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.
* Lloyd House, Pasadena, California, a dormitory in the House system at Caltech
The Caltech mission would be similar in design to previous NASA outer solar system missions.
The propulsion system was developed in consultation with Victor Wouk, then an electrical engineer at Caltech.

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