AI is scoring college essays and conducting interviews, a new layer in admissions stress

Applicants are not supposed to use AI to write college essays. But colleges are using AI to help assess applications. At ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Caltech Names a New President; Engineer Will Lead Cal State-East Bay; Cornell Lures Cell Biologist

TECH SWITCH: Jean-Lou Chameau, provost and vice president for academic affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will return to the Golden State to become the new president of the California ...
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Couple commits $50M to Caltech’s aerospace department

The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena has received a $50 million commitment from Caltech trustees Lynn Booth and ...
autoevolution

Caltech’s Groundbreaking Satellite Is Off to Space to Harvest Solar Power

Decades ago, space was only a mystery that needed to be explored in order to be understood. The puzzle is still far from being “solved” (if it ever will be) but a whole new dimension was added within ...
LAist

Caltech wasn’t the only SoCal school helping discover gravitational waves

It was a Thursday and Caltech students and staff were partying with food, a photo booth and lots of smiling faces, but this wasn't a late night mixer. It was an early morning press conference. Scores ...
ABC7

Caltech among 16 universities accused of cheating students out of financial aid in new lawsuit

PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- The California Institute of Technology is among 16 elite universities accused of cheating students out of financial aid in a new antitrust lawsuit. The proposed class-action ...
Los Angeles Daily News

Let’s build a public Caltech at University of California we already have: Editorial

A state assemblyman proposes building a public university version of Caltech, a fine idea in principle that runs into several big problems when the facts are considered. First off, California already ...
Los Angeles Times

Caltech to remove name of founding president, a eugenics supporter, from buildings

Caltech announced Friday that it would remove the name of its founding president and first Nobel laureate, Robert A. Millikan, from campus buildings because he supported eugenics — joining ...