Ray Jayawardhana, the incoming president, is an astrophysicist, but leaders at the California Institute of Technology also ...

Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana will become Caltech's next president. He joins the campus from Johns Hopkins University, ...

Current provost of Johns Hopkins University, who has an asteroid named for him, will lead the prestigious Pasadena ...

Why now: In April, current Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum announced he'd retire after the 2025-26 academic year.

Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana, the provost at Johns Hopkins University, was named Tuesday the next president of Caltech, ...

An accomplished astrophysicist and academic leader, Jayawardhana has served as provost at Johns Hopkins since 2023 ...

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Caltech, one of the nation's premier institutions for scientific research and education, has appointed Ray Jayawardhana as its new president, effective July 1. This transition comes at a critical time ...

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In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

Researchers at Caltech have revealed two illusions illustrating how our brain can be tricked into seeing something that isn't really there. The phenomenon is known as postdiction, and highlights how ...