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.

Caltech students have been known for the many pranks ( also known as " RFs ").

In 2005, a group of Caltech students pulled a string of pranks during MIT's Campus Preview Weekend for admitted students.

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 undergraduates have historically been so apathetic to politics that there has been only one organized student protest in January 1968 outside the Burbank studios of NBC, in response to rumors that NBC was to cancel Star Trek.

Caltech was also found to have the highest score for per-capita performance in that ranking.

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 grand old days of pranking have gone away at Caltech, and that's what we are trying to bring back ," reported the Boston Globe, which noted that " security has orders not to intervene in a prank unless officers get Mannion's approval beforehand.

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 ).

From time to time, Mudders have been known to amuse themselves by pranking Caltech.

In October 2005, Baltimore resigned the office of the president, saying, " This is not a decision that I have made easily, but I am convinced that the interests of the Institute will be best served by a presidential transition at this particular time in its history ..." Former Georgia Tech Provost Jean-Lou Chameau succeeded Baltimore as president of Caltech.

Approximately 50 physicists have received Ph. D. s at Caltech under Thorne's personal mentorship.

In addition, Caltech researchers have created a circuit made from 130 unique DNA strands, which is able to calculate the square root of numbers up to 15.

Other laboratories which have developed BCIs and algorithms that decode neuron signals include those run by John Donoghue at Brown University, Andrew Schwartz at the University of Pittsburgh and Richard Andersen at Caltech.

A March 2010 experimental demonstration of a design by a Caltech group led by Harry Atwater which has an absorption efficiency of 85 % in sunlight and 95 % at certain wavelengths is claimed to have near perfect quantum efficiency.

He received his Ph. D. in 1959 from Manchester University before coming to work at Caltech where he has worked ever since ( excepting an absence of four years during which he claims to have had to go back to England to find himself a wife, Anneila Sargent ).

A diketopiperazine was the first peptide to have its complete three-dimensional structure described, in work undertaken at Caltech by Robert Corey in the 1930s.

Visiting tutors have included faculty and researchers from the Universities of McMaster, Dalhousie, Toronto, Ottawa, and British Columbia and the Canadian Center for Human Health, as well as from Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, Yale, Caltech and Colorado College in the United States and the Open University in the United Kingdom.

TJC students have been admitted to universities including MIT, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Duke, LSE, University of Toronto, McGill, UCLA, Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, Peking University and Amherst.

In 2007, researchers at JPL / Caltech have also discovered Raman lasing with fluorite resonators, demonstrating record low threshold and high efficiency.

In Kenosha, Wisconsin, Darcy, editor at her high school paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their final year of high school and already have been accepted at good colleges ; before Darcy goes to college to study journalism, she'll go on a trip to Paris with her mother for her graduation present, while Stan will go to Caltech to study architecture.

Since 2000, the Einstein Papers Project has been located at Caltech.

In December 2009, some Caltech students declared that MIT had been sold and had become the Caltech East campus.

He has been chosen as the commencement speaker at Caltech, MIT, and Harvard School of Public Health.

He has been on the faculties of MIT in Computer Science, Caltech and Boston University in Physics.

Douglas received the 2000 Sackler Prize in theoretical physics, holds a Louis Michel Visiting Professorship at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, and has been a Gordon Moore Visiting Scholar at Caltech, and a Clay Mathematics Institute Mathematical Emissary.

Since 2000 he has been the Director of the Institute for Quantum Information at Caltech.

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.

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.

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

Research on the Actor model has been carried out at Caltech Computer Science, Kyoto University Tokoro Laboratory, MCC, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, SRI, Stanford University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Open Systems Laboratory, Pierre and Marie Curie University ( University of Paris 6 ), University of Pisa, University of Tokyo Yonezawa Laboratory and elsewhere.

Michael E. Brown and his team at Caltech had also been observing Haumea, and for a longer period of time than Ortiz, but had withheld publication pending securing its orbital parameters.

He has been a visiting professor at Stanford, Caltech, and Cornell.

The orchestra gives three pairs of concerts annually, at both Caltech and Occidental College.

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 ).

* Caltech / NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory had three 7094s in the Space Flight Operations Facility ( SFOF, building 230 ), fed via tape using several 1401s, and two 7094 / 7044 direct-couple systems ( in buildings 125 and 156 ).

Before the Rose Bowl was built for the January 1, 1923, match, games were played in Pasadena's Tournament Park, approximately three miles southeast of the current Rose Bowl stadium near the campus of Caltech.

After three years at Riverside, Chester transferred to the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech — his ambition since high school.

After three years as a junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, Preskill became Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech in 1983, rising to full professorship in 1990.

The two most famous in recent history are the changing of the Hollywood Sign to read " Caltech ", by judiciously covering up certain parts of the letters, and the changing of the scoreboard to read Caltech 38, MIT 9 during the 1984 Rose Bowl Game.

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.

Also in supernovae further nucleosynthesis processes can occur, especially the r process described by the B2FH paper and first calculated at Caltech by Seeger, Fowler and Clayton, in which the most neutron-rich isotopes of elements heavier than nickel are produced by rapid absorption of free neutrons created during the explosions.

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

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.

The Earth's atmosphere is opaque over most of the far-infrared, so that ground-based observations are limited to submillimetre wavelengths using high-altitude telescopes such as the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, and the Submillimeter Array.

He was appointed Professor of Astronomy at Caltech in 1942 and also worked as a research director / consultant for Aerojet Engineering Corporation ( 1943 – 1961 ) and staff member of Mount Wilson Observatory and Palomar Observatory for most of his career.