Caltech offers 24 majors ( called " options ") and six minors across all six academic divisions.

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 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.

Nearly half of the funds went into the support of Caltech programs and projects.

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

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.

In a 2008 ranking of undergraduate programs by Forbes Magazine, Swarthmore was ranked fourth after Princeton, Caltech, and Harvard, respectively.

Exchange programs are possible during the third semester with universities such as ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ), University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore ( NUS ), Tokyo Tech, Seoul National University ...)

Some graduate programs such as those offered at Stanford, Caltech and the Naval Postgraduate School require a thesis for the engineer's degree but the research requirements are generally less than those of Ph. D. candidates and more comparable to those of master of science students.

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

In 2010, Caltech, in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and headed by Professor Nathan Lewis, established a DOE Energy Innovation Hub aimed at developing revolutionary methods to generate fuels directly from sunlight.

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.

U. S. News & World Report ranked Caltech as the 5th best university in the United States in their 2012 national college rankings, together with MIT, Stanford University, University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania.

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.

" 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.

In January 2011, Caltech students in conjunction with MIT students helped put the TARDIS on top of Baxter.

Other distinguished researchers have been affiliated with Caltech as postdoctoral scholars ( for example, Barbara McClintock, James D. Watson and Sheldon Glashow ) or visiting professors ( for example, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Edward Witten ).

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.

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.

Conversely, JPL, through the Caltech lawyers representing the laboratory, allege that Coppedge's termination was simply due to budget cuts and his demotion from team lead was because of harassment complaints and from on-going conflicts with his co-workers.

At Caltech Lipscomb intended to study theoretical quantum mechanics with Prof. W. V. Houston in the Physics Department, but after one semester switched to the Chemistry Department under the

* October – The Caltech Department of Physics Faculty and graduate students meet with Albert Einstein as a guest.

After considering the problem, two students at Caltech ( where Thorne taught ), Fernando Echeverria and Gunnar Klinkhammer, were able to find a solution beginning with the original billiard ball trajectory proposed by Polchinski which managed to avoid any inconsistencies.

Castable composite solid rocket motors were invented by John Whiteside Parsons at Caltech in 1942 when he replaced double base propellant with roofing asphalt and potassium perchlorate.

Article based on his 1974 Caltech Commencement address, with pictures, as originally published in Engineering and Science, Volume 37: 7, June 1974.

In 1954, he accepted a position as a professor at the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ) where he performed his most famous experiments with his then student Michael Gazzaniga.

Only Caltech, at number one, and Harvey Mudd, in second, outranked Swarthmore, with Reed, MIT, Carleton, Oberlin, Bryn Mawr, University of Chicago, and Grinnell rounding out the top ten, respectively.

Upon graduation, Caltech alumni have the highest median starting salary among graduates of other colleges or universities in 2010 – 2011, of $ 69, 900, according to PayScale.

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 receives more invention disclosures per faculty member than any other university in the nation.

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.

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.

* Caltech Tutorial on Relativity — A nice discussion of how observers moving relatively to each other see different slices of time.

One driven out of Caltech and NASA JPL, the other from the German scientists that developed the early V2 rocket guidance and MIT.

It was shortly after arriving at Caltech in 1936 that Qian was attracted to the rocketry ideas of Frank Malina, other students of von Kármán, and their associates, including Jack Parsons.

In the 1930s a Caltech astronomer named Fritz Zwicky discovered over 100 supernovae ( exploding stars ) in other galaxies with this telescope and gathered the first evidence for dark matter.

Old Pasadena began as the center of an enlightened " Athens of the West " that gave rise to Caltech, JPL, as well as Beckman Instruments, Aerojet and numerous other industrial giants.

The pioneers of split-brain research, Michael Gazzaniga and Roger Sperry, worked together at Caltech testing the functioning of each hemisphere independently of the other in split-brain patients.

* Master Plan, the Physics Building, Dabney Hall, and other campus buildings for the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ), Pasadena, California, 1924

*" No member of the Caltech community shall take unfair advantage of any other member of the Caltech community.

While studying at Caltech, Lang came into contact with other origami masters such as Michael LaFosse

The first two machines were shipped to Caltech and the University of Colorado at Boulder in November 1989, but there were no other immediate sales.

A list of other US Newman Centers has been kept up to date by the Newman Center at Caltech

Funded by generous donors, Went constructed a series of greenhouses at Caltech in which he could vary light conditions, humidity, temperature, air quality and other variables.

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.