The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a small, private, research-oriented university located on a 124-acre campus in Pasadena, California. Caltech is home to some 1800 students, over half of which are graduate students and post-graduate fellows. The faculty numbers almost 300 professors, and about 500 research members. Caltech faculty and graduates are highly regarded in their fields; 26 Nobel prizes have been awarded to Caltech faculty and alumni. As an institution, Caltech is highly regarded, consistently ranking in the top 10 in the U.S. News & World Report rankings (and First in 1999). Caltech maintains strong programs in many areas of cutting-edge scientific interest, with a strong culture of interdisciplinary research and commercial start-ups.
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- California Institute of Technology Caltech Home Page. Highlights from research results and current events. Caltech news; admissions; alumni association; academic departments.
- Caltech Library Access Caltech library catalog, CaltechAUTHORS, CaltechTHESIS, ejournals, databases, and document requests
- The Mechanical Universe Highly acclaimed Caltech-produced videos for university freshman physics.
- Project MATHEMATICS! Videotape-and-workbook modules that explore basic topics in high school mathematics in ways that cannot be done at the chalkboard or in a textbook. The tapes use live action, music, special effects, and imaginative computer animation.
- UGCS The undergraduate computer science cluster. Contains links to personal home pages, house web pages, and student government sites, plus a statistics page.
- Caltech Admissions Information for prospective graduate and undergraduate students.
- Caltech Alumni Association Promotes the interests of Caltech as a world standard of academic excellence by strengthening the ties of goodwill and communication between the Institute, its alumni and current students, and by maintaining programs to serve their need.
- Steven Quartz group Uses fMRI to study in neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, statistical models of decision making, moral decision-making, non-pharmaceutical management of affective disorder, structural neural plasticity, and neural representations of probability and uncertainty.
- Caltech Earthquake Info Information and analysis of recent earthquakes in Southern California
- Public Events Arts and entertainment program hosted at Caltech.