Edan Lepucki is the rare member of the Caltech community who is better known off-campus than on. Off-campus, she is a New York Times bestselling author who has published five books and counting. On-campus, she teaches Fiction Writing to a small group of passionate but frequently inexperienced students. This raises the question – why did a successful fiction author d
Trey’s review: TL;DR: Gus’s is a fantastic BBQ restaurant not far from campus. Upon arrival, I noticed that the place was lively and a bit noisy, with tables feeling somewhat cramped. However, the service was impressively fast, with waiters frequently checking in on us. There’s free parking available in the back, but it’s worth noting that the restaurant ten
Embedded in the story of food is the story of people: in modern society, the people who grow and harvest it, the people who distribute it, the people who cook it, and if we are at a restaurant, the people who serve it. Eventually, it reaches us. Cooking and eating together are essential parts of our days and lives. However, at one restaurant in Pasadena, food is the story of… a robot. CaliExpress by Flippy is a partnership between Miso Robotics, the Cali Group, and PopID. Miso Robotics was foun
“Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis,” an exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, opened on September 14. It explores how the environment was documented during a period of rapid industrialization and globalization. The name of the exhibition references a series of lectures from 1884 called “The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century” by John Ruskin, a writer and art critic. In these lectures, Ruskin was apprehensive about the effects of indus
When Laura Flower Kim, now Associate Director at International Student Programs at Caltech, took over the office on the second floor of the Center for Student Services sixteen years ago, most of it was occupied by one giant red file-cabinet filled to the brim with immigration paperwork for international undergraduate and graduate students.
ASCIT Board of Directors Announces New Student Life and Experience Conference (SLEC) alongside 2025 Student Faculty Conference (SFC) The Associated Students of the California Institute of Technology (ASCIT) Board of Directors (BoD) has announced that, for the first time, both the Student Faculty Conference (SFC) and the newly established Student Life and Experience Conference (SLEC) will take place in April 2025. These two conferences, scheduled back-to-back on April 10 and April 11, 2025,
Man Edition By Unknown TL;DR: Gus’s is a fantastic BBQ restaurant not far from campus. Upon arrival, I noticed that the place was lively and a bit noisy, with tables feeling somewhat cramped. However, the service was impressively fast, with waiters frequently checking in on us. There’s free parking available in the back, but it’s worth noting that the restaurant tends to get very crowded, so making a reservation is definitely recommended. Appetizers: Cast Iron Cornbread: This d