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Please join us as we celebrate 60 remarkable years since Caltech established the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences in 1966, renaming its original Division of Humanities founded in 1926. Saturday, November 7, will offer a full day of presentations by HSS alumni followed by conversations with current HSS faculty, organized around four themes showcasing the reach and relevance of our expertise. VIEW THE COMPLETE PROGRAM ON THE HSS WEBSITERegistration is now closed.

Abstract A period of 0.487821 days is computed for AA Comae Berenices from magnitude estimates on plates in the collection of the Maria Mitchell Observatory. Copyright and License © American Association of Variable Star Observers. Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System.

Published November 1967 | Version Published Journal Article Open 1. California Institute of Technology Nearly 20 years ago Engineering and Science (February 1948) published an issue devoted solely to articles by the staff of the Caltech geology division. Those 11 articles by 9 authors provided a representative cross section of interests and activities within the geology division in the late 1940's.

Stephanie Shea, a seasoned legal and higher education leader with extensive experience advising academic and research institutions, has been named Caltech's next general counsel. Shea, who currently serves as senior vice president, general counsel, and chief of staff to the president at Towson University, will begin her tenure on January 6, 2027.

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Published June 2026 | Version Published Journal Article Metadata-only Bryan, Sean1 Bock, James2, 3 Burk, Thomas2 Chang, Tzu-Ching2, 3 Crill, Brendan P.2, 3 Cukierman, Ari3 Doré, Olivier2, 3 Dowell, C.

Published November 14, 2026 | Version Published Journal Article Open Lecoeuche, Yannick1 McIver, Jess1 Knee, Alan Matthew2 Udall, Rhiannon1 Rink, Katie3 Hourihane, Sophie4 Miller, Simona4 Chatziioannou, Katerina4 Massinger, Thomas4 Davis, Derek4 1. University of British Columbia 2. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor 3. The University of Texas at Austin 4.

"This is the first time that a structure has been autonomously constructed in space," says Sergio Pellegrino, the Joyce and Krent Kresa Professor of Aerospace and Civil Engineering, the Lynn Booth and Kent Kresa Department of Aerospace Leadership Chair, the executive officer for aerospace, and a senior research scientist at JPL, which Caltech manages for NASA.

Called "the weird Thoreau" by The New Yorker, Jeff VanderMeer has reshaped contemporary environmental fiction with the strange ecologies and uncanny terrain of his Southern Reach series and Borne novels. His latest work, Absolution (part four of the Southern Reach series), is a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. VanderMeer has also written environmental nonfiction for Time, , the , , and other publications.

Published November 5, 2026 | Version Published Journal Article Open Exoplanet imaging is the main method for detailed characterization of planets orbiting beyond 1 au (ref. 1) but it requires suppressing the bright glare of the star to see the faint planet light. As well as sophisticated instrumentation2,3, effective image processing is necessary for starlight suppression, which continues to be a substantial limitation4.