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September 15, 2026 10:00 am

New Faculty Institute - Hosted by the CTLO

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
September 15, 2026 11:00 am

Set your retirement date: Understand the factors to get you to your goal

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September 15, 2026 3:00 pm

Strengthening Assessments and Assigning Grades

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
September 16, 2026 10:00 am

2026 First-Year Success Research Institute (FSRI) Lightning Talks

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September 16, 2026 10:00 am

New Faculty Institute - Hosted by the CTLO

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
September 16, 2026 1:00 pm

2026 First-Year Success Research Institute (FSRI) Poster Presentations

Chen Breezeway
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Where does carbon enter and where does it leave? Check out what our students have been testing over at the Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory this Summer. #Caltech #FutureOfSTEM
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What happens when you play table tennis with a legendary Caltech scientist during the #USOpen? You get a masterclass in spin. 🎾 Andy Ingersoll has spent a career thinking about the physics of planets, atmospheres, and motion—and it turns out that same curiosity has followed him onto the tennis court (and to the ping-pong table). In this #AskCaltech, Andy breaks down the physics of spin and puts it into practice. Watch all the way to the end for his chop shot. It’s lethal. 🏓
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Professor of Astronomy Vikram Ravi talks about fast radio bursts, or FRBs, and how these intense flashes of radio waves can be used to map out the distribution of ordinary matter in our universe. In a new Nature Astronomy study, Ravi and his team show how these FRB measurements can be used to help study some of the biggest questions about the universe, including the nature of dark energy, dark matter, and ghostly particles called neutrinos. In the future, Caltech's Deep Synoptic Array (DSA), a powerful radio telescope scheduled to be built by 2029 in a remote valley in Nevada, is expected to find tens of thousands of FRBs, vastly enhancing the cosmic events' power to improve cosmological measurements.
What does it take for a robot to be useful in the real world? 🤖 A humanoid robot recently clocked the 100-meter dash in 8.64 seconds—faster than Usain Bolt’s 9.58-second human world record. But some of the robots competing at the same event struggled with stopping safely at the finish line, highlighting a much bigger challenge in robotics. At Caltech, researchers in Aaron Ames’ lab study safety-critical robotics: how to enable autonomous robots to move through complex environments while staying safe around people, walls, obstacles, and the unexpected. The goal isn’t just to make robots faster—it’s to make them capable of navigating the real world reliably. That could eventually mean robots that can safely navigate busy workplaces, assist with physically demanding tasks, operate in environments that are dangerous for humans, or move through everyday spaces alongside us. #AskCaltech
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