Antoine Lavoisier

2 months ago | pasadenanow.com | Omar Shamout |Antoine Lavoisier

Although she went to graduate school more than 2,000 miles away, Kayane Dingilian (BS ’16) felt like she was back in her undergraduate days in Pasadena when she defended her doctoral thesis in chemical engineering at The Ohio State University. That is because three members of her PhD committee were fellow Caltech alums. “My lab mates were telling me, ‘You’re not going to have an exam. You’re going to talk about what it was like at Caltech.’ I kept saying ‘No, you don’t understand.