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Meet Ray Jayawardhana: Catching Up With Caltech’s Tenth President

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By Omar Shamout Verified
| Caltech
Ray Jayawardhana has spent his career exploring other worlds. Now, he has begun a new adventure in Pasadena. Ray Jayawardhana, a renowned astrophysicist, award-winning communicator, and transformative academic leader who has held senior roles at two of the country’s preeminent research universities, joined Caltech as the Institute’s 10th president on July 1, 2026. Jayawardhana’s ties to Caltech and JPL trace back decades.
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Inside Look: Step Into the Office of Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum

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By Omar Shamout Verified
| Pasadena Now Verified
All image credits: Bill Youngblood The life of a university leader involves meeting people. Lots of people. For Thomas F. Rosenbaum, a schedule of eight meetings a day is not unusual. Most take place in his office in the Parsons-Gates Hall of Administration, home to the Office of the President since 1983. When Rosenbaum arrived at Caltech in 2014, his first order of business was to ascertain what makes Caltech tick.
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The Caltech Associates Turns 100

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By Omar Shamout Verified
| Pasadena Now Verified
The Caltech Athenaeum. Credit: Caltech Archives On March 9, 1926, retired railroad magnate and art collector Henry E. Huntington invited 100 of Southern California’s most influential men and women to his home in San Marino. Although he had hosted many gatherings of the area’s social and business leaders, this one would prove to be historically significant for a nearby institution—and the world.
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