Caltech Magazine, Volume 85:3, Fall 2022

Table of Contents

Letters
Fall 2022.

SoCaltech
Grant D. Venerable House celebrates a new era; Hustle and bustle as students return to campus; Tales of Caltech’s trees.

Reflections on '72
Fifty years later, the first three Black women to enter Caltech as students look back on their experiences.

The 2022 Distinguished Alumni Awards
Caltech’s annual Distinguished Alumni Awards recognize “a particular achievement of noteworthy value, a series of such achievements, or a career of noteworthy accomplishment.” The 2022 luminaries include India’s preeminent earthquake engineer, who helped improve his country’s seismic codes; a vaccine designer who first identified the SARS-CoV-2 virus’s evolution; and an electrical engineer whose work ushered in the era of broadband cable and wireless internet.

Dr. Watson and the Amazing Liquid-Air Show
How Earnest C. Watson wowed crowds with his liquid-air extravaganza and turned a demonstration series into an iconic Caltech showpiece that has lasted 100 years.

Life on Mars?
Samples taken by the Perseverance rover show the presence of organic material.

Points of View
With a wave of new and improved technologies, Caltech researchers continue to change the way we visualize the worlds both in and around us.

Truth in Numbers
The Human Impacts Database seeks to catalog our relationship with Earth.

In Memoriam
Fall 2022

Endnotes
This year, the Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series turns 100. If you were to give a Watson Lecture, what would the title be, and why should people attend?