Caltech opened its doors to female undergraduates during the presidency of Harold Brown in 1970, and they made up 14 % of the entering class.

Though both policies are presented in the Honor Code Handbook given to new members of the Caltech Community, some undergraduates regard them as a slight against the Honor Code and the implicit trust and respect it represents within the community.

Approximately 175 Caltech undergraduates are members of the House and approximately 90 reside in the House.

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 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.

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

" 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.

Caltech pranks have been documented in three Legends of Caltech books, the most recent of which was edited by alumni Autumn Looijen ' 99 and Mason A. Porter ' 98 and published in May 2007.

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.

In addition to the top MBA schools, the firm has historically recruited heavily at Caltech and MIT.

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 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.

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.

According to David Goodstein of Caltech, there are motivators for scientists to commit misconduct, which are briefly summarised here.

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 ).

Its discoverer, Michael Brown of Caltech, noted in a Discover magazine article that Sedna's location seemed to defy reasoning: " Sedna shouldn't be there ," said Brown.

He currently holds the position of Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ), having taught there for over 40 years.

He received his PhD from Caltech in 1962, and moved to Harvard University that year, where he spent his entire career, meeting his wife Diana there in the late 1970s.

He was made Professor of Mathematics at Caltech in 1986, and was there from 1988 – 1992 and from 1995 to his death in a car accident on a Monday night in 2000.

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.

Without telling Darcy, Stan sacrifices his Caltech scholarship because there is no married housing.