Member Spotlight
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Warren Goda (BS '86)
I went on the trip to Chile last year and had a blast! Seeing a total solar eclipse is a bucket list moment. Being able to experience that with the Associates was awesome. I made great memories and met great people.
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Shiyan Cao (PhD ’04)
The Caltech Associates is an integral part of the Caltech community. Together with the Caltech Alumni Association, they help support campus life as well as form alumni networks.
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Bert Wells (BS ’78)
The opportunity Caltech offers for fostering continued economic and social transformation through research and education is hugely compelling.
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Guanghua Gao (PhD ’98)
The Associates helps us to briefly step outside of our daily work and bring us back to the wonder of scientific discovery.
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Grace Yang (BS ’98)
Given the relatively small alumni population, I believe the Associates helps to broaden the Caltech network and inform those outside the alumni community of its ever-growing accomplishments and goals.
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Chris and Rob Holo
Being involved with the Caltech Associates provides a really amazing learning experience that we probably couldn’t get anywhere else. For those potential members who are parents of Caltech students, being an Associate is a great way to get a sense of what your child is learning and stay in touch, at least a bit.
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Evangelos Simoudis (BS ’83)
The Associates offers a unique and singularly effective venue to contribute and be part of the Institute's journey at the same time.
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Peter Clark (PhD ’64)
It is more than an organization that raises money for Caltech. It is a group of people, both alumni and non-alumni, the majority of whom have the same interest—to ensure that Caltech continues as the preeminent institution of its kind in the United States and the world.
- Trustee and Associates Member
Ted Jenkins (BS ’65, MS ’66)
Caltech produces amazing technical and scientific achievements that are even more impressive considering its size. The faculty, alumni, and supporters are fun to engage with both socially and intellectually.
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Clay Englar (BS '49)
My Caltech education was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I needed to give back whatever I could. Joining the Associates has been rewarding, especially the travel opportunities. My late wife and I went on many great trips and were guided by wonderful and fascinating people, like Bob Sharp and Lee Silver.
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Joseph Yang (BS ’86, MS ’87, PhD ’91)
I wanted to give back to Caltech because it played such an integral role in shaping who I am and my career. I spent nine years there and in the process, I learned—sometimes not entirely voluntarily—perseverance, discipline, and how to think about and analyze problems at a fundamental level.
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Beata Stylianos
As members, we openly discuss and debate real-world topics when we meet for lectures and events, which allow for open communication as well as higher learning opportunities.
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Janice Ohta
I have come to greatly appreciate not only the personal benefit to learning about the amazing research at Caltech, but also Caltech’s role on the world stage as a source of leading-edge science and excellence in education.
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C. Joseph Chang
Membership in the Caltech Associates is an unlimited resource. Depending on your interests, you can explore different fields of cutting-edge science, participate in programs, and interact with faculty and students at the best university in the world.
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Susan Murakami (BS ’75)
Being a Caltech Associate leads to learning a lot about what is going on at the cutting edge of science, as well as building connections that can be helpful in multiple fields outside of academia, and to meeting some really interesting people.
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Bill Bogaard
Caltech is recognized as a leading institution that, time and again, produces findings in science and technology that dramatically affect the entire world. The Associates must be complimented for making the knowledge, the personalities, and the excitement of Caltech available to the community.
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Charles Fairchild
Caltech is important to me because it gives the public access to its groundbreaking research and discoveries in almost real time.
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Bill Leflang
I continue to be awed by the Caltech researchers, from the ‘small’ dimensions of understanding the cause of a disease to the ‘large’ dimensions of the history of our universe.
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Erich Kreidler
Contributing to Caltech provides me with a venue to support the creation of new science and to participate in, even if in a small degree, its translation into applications that can benefit society.