To the editor: When I arrived at Caltech in Pasadena as a graduate student in chemistry in 1966, there were no female undergraduates, no tenure-track women faculty, and only a handful of women ...

Harvard College will require applicants to submit standardized test scores once again, becoming the latest highly selective school to reinstate the requirement after making the choice optional ...

Caltech professor Christian Ott has resigned after claims he sexually harassed two of his students. • Ott had been suspended from campus since the fall of 2015. • His resignation came as the ...

Caltech also did not respond to a request for further comment. In order to begin teaching at the school again, he "must undergo professional coaching and training in how to mentor students ...

Social and academic life at Caltech centers on 11 student residences and houses. Student houses incorporate an admired Caltech tradition: dinners served by student waiters. First-year students are ...

Wood recalled one professor who told him as a freshman that the goal of many Caltech professors was to make it the hardest school on the planet. “I think it works out. Something as a student you ...