Caltech also offers interdisciplinary programs in Applied Physics, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Computation and Neural Systems, Control and Dynamical Systems, Environmental Science and Engineering, Geobiology and Astrobiology, Geochemistry, and Planetary Astronomy.

Caltech offers co-operative programs with other schools, such as the Pasadena Art Center College of Design and Occidental College.

Caltech offers Army and Air Force ROTC in cooperation with the University of Southern California.

Robertson's papers are at the Caltech archives ; there, in a letter Robertson offers Roe an interview within the first three months of 1949 ( as noted by Goranson on American Dialect Society list 5 / 9 / 2009 ).

In addition, the group organizes the Caltech Lecture Series which offers speakers on a wide range of topics relating to science, psychology, social issues, religion / atheism, skepticism, etc.

The Caltech Lecture Series offers speakers on a wide range of topics relating to science, psychology, social issues, religion / atheism, skepticism, etc.

The United States National Research Council released its latest Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs in 2010, and 23 of the 24 graduate programs of Caltech were ranked within the top four programs in the nation in their size quartile as determined by both the R95 and S95 rankings.

For example, in 2010, MIT had two of the top five scorers on the examination and seven of the top 24, while Caltech had just one student in the top five and only four in the top 24 ; yet Caltech took first place among teams while MIT took second.

Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on Engineering Aspects of Magneto-Hydrodynamics, Caltech, Pasadena, Cal., 24 .– 26. 3.

The result was shown at the Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on Engineering Aspects of Magneto-Hydrodynamics, Caltech, Pasadena, Cal., 24 .– 26. 3.

This story was called " Instantané pour Caltech ".

At his retirement party, a group of colleagues at Caltech, called the " Quidnuncs ," played and sang a ditty titled " Richter Scale ," which gave examples of earthquakes in American history, told in ballad style.

* California Institute of Technology, also called " Caltech ", a university in Pasadena, California

This effect is called PHIP (" Parahydrogen Induced Polarisation ") or PASADENA (" Parahydrogen and Synthesis allow dramatically enhanced nuclear alignment "-named this way as the first recognition of the effect was done by Bowers and Weitekamp of Caltech in Pasadena ) and has been utilized to study the mechanism of hydrogenation reactions, e. g.

The name " Pacific Tech " (" Pacific Institute of Technology ") used in the three-part opening episode " Galactica Discovers Earth " is a name used several times in films and television when directors / writers / producers wanted to depict a science-oriented university without using a real institution's name, as also was earlier done in The War of the Worlds and later in Real Genius ; an earlier draft of the script used the real-world name " Caltech ".

Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering.

The regional finals are held in cooperation with six partner universities: MIT, Georgia Tech, Caltech, University of Texas at Austin, the University of Notre Dame, and Carnegie Mellon.

In addition, from the pool of outstanding research reports, 30 individuals and 30 teams ( 2-3 students ) are selected from across the nation to compete for college scholarships at one of six regional partner universities ( GA Tech, Caltech, Notre Dame, UT Austin, Carnegie Mellon and MIT ).

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

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.

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.

But the most famous of all occurred during the 1961 Rose Bowl Game, where Caltech students altered the flip-cards that were raised by the stadium attendees to display " Caltech ", and several other " unintended " messages.

Harvey Mudd today still maintains the highest rate of science and engineering Ph. D. production among all undergraduate colleges and second highest ( Caltech ranks second and MIT third ) compared to all universities and colleges, according to a 2008 report by the National Science Foundation.

Though it has convened at various locations ( including two years, 1990 and 2004, when the program was held concurrently on both coasts-at UC San Diego and The George Washington University in 1989-1991, and Caltech and MIT in 2004 ), the Institute is most often linked to MIT, where it has been held every summer since 1992, for various reasons including availability of local mentorships ( with Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, and Harvard Medical School all within a few minutes of central campus ) and convenience of facilities.

Christy joined the University of Chicago Physics department briefly after leaving Los Alamos before being recruited to join the Caltech faculty in 1946 when Oppenheimer decided it was not practical for him to resume his academic activities.

He stayed at Caltech for his academic career, serving as Department Chair, Provost and Acting President.

Stakkato is the alias of the perpetrator or perpetrators of a worldwide cyber attack known to occur from at least December 2003 until May 2005, launched against a large number of sites on the Internet including the US Military, White Sands Missile Range, NASA, a number of US academic institutions ( known to include Caltech, Stanford University, San Diego Supercomputer Center, and UIUC ), and a number of non-US academic institutions ( known to include Uppsala University in Sweden and University College Cork in Ireland ) and several other Internet locations.

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

* http :// www. gps. caltech. edu /~ mbrown Mike Brown's Caltech Home Page

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.

This move began with Burrough's purchase, in June 1956, of the ElectroData Corporation in Pasadena, California, a spinoff of the Consolidated Engineering Corporation which had designed test instruments and had a cooperative relationship with Caltech in Pasadena.

In 2005, Michael Dickinson and his Caltech colleagues studied honey bee flight with the assistance of high-speed cinematography and a giant robotic mock-up of a bee wing.

Caltech and Carnegie.

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

In 1934, Caltech was elected to the Association of American Universities, and the antecedents of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech continues to manage and operate, were established between 1936 and 1943 under Theodore von Kármán.

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

Caltech was ranked first in the 2011 – 2012 Times Higher Education worldwide rankings of universities as well as ranking first in physical science and engineering.

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.

The Caltech Beavers compete in 13 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA Division III's Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Caltech began as a vocational school founded in Pasadena in 1891 by local businessman and politician Amos G. Throop.

Subsequently, they continued their partnership in developing Caltech.

In 1925, the school established a department of geology and hired William Bennett Munro, then chairman of the division of History, Government, and Economics at Harvard University, to create a division of humanities and social sciences at Caltech.

Kármán later helped create the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and played an integral part in establishing Caltech as one of the world's centers for rocket science.

" Millikan initiated a visiting-scholars program soon after joining Caltech.

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.