Caltech Magazine, Volume 88:2, Fall 2025

Editors: Oliwenstein, Lori; Shamout, Omar

Published in: Caltech Magazine, Volume 88, Number 2, 2025

Item Category: Complete Issues

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Table of Contents

Letters
Fall 2025 letters to the editor.

SoCaltech
Bon appétit, Techers; Amplifying a 75-year radio career; Cruising campus on a couch; and more.

Where Perseverance Meets Discovery
On the power of persistence and building ‘cathedrals’ in science.

A Conversation with President Rosenbaum
Caltech’s leader reflects on questions big and small; past, present, and future.

Inside Look: President Thomas F. Rosenbaum
Caltech’s president takes pride in the importance of ideas and objects within his office.

The Ice at the Far Ends of the Earth
now, they are uncovering what that will mean for all of us.

Meet Caltech's 2025 Distinguished Alumni
Caltech’s annual Distinguished Alumni Awards—the highest honor the Institute bestows upon its graduates—recognize “a particular achievement of noteworthy value, a series of such achievements, or a career of noteworthy accomplishment.” The 2025 luminaries include a trailblazer who helped launch the field of multifunctional structural materials and was one of the first women to graduate from the Institute; a multihyphenate mathematician and medical doctor whose contributions have advanced mathematical physics, biomedical sciences, and science communication; a biochemist whose breakthroughs in sequencing bacteriophage DNA led to technologies that extended millions of lives worldwide; and an influential theoretical and computational chemist whose work has established foundational methods for analyzing chemical interactions.

Insulin Innovator
Caltech alum Alborz Mahdavi (PhD ’15) aims to revolutionize type 1 diabetes treatment in the heart of Pasadena.

In Memoriam
Sunney Chan, John E. Bryson, David Baltimore.

Endnotes
What has perseverance looked like in your field or career?