Omar Shamout

5 days ago | pasadenanow.com | Omar Shamout

Sometimes, only a 50-year-old laser will do. Nick Hutzler (BS ’07), an assistant professor of physics at Caltech, says the Coherent 599 tunable dye laser in this photograph, which was manufactured in 1977, is a surprisingly useful tool for an initial step in his lab’s analysis of electron excitations in three species of metal-containing molecules: ytterbium, strontium, and radium hydroxide.

1 month 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.

2 months ago | pasadenanow.com | Omar Shamout

[print-me target="#content"] Share When John Truong walked into his local donut shop seven years ago, he was not expecting to walk out on a path to Caltech.

Feb 7, 2025 | magazine.caltech.edu | Omar Shamout

John Truong, a research support technician in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, kept his passion for ant keeping a secret for most of his life. By Omar ShamoutWhen John Truong walked into his local donut shop seven years ago, he was not expecting to walk out on a path to Caltech.

Mar 22, 2024 | spacewatchafrica.com | Space Watch |Omar Shamout

Ten years ago, Caltech became the first institution in the country to launch a department with the name “medical engineering.” On its 10th anniversary, the department has become a leader in the development of micro/nano medical technologies and devices, medical nanoelectronics, biomedical materials and biomechanics, fluidics and bioinspired design, and medical imaging and sensing. Here, some of the department’s influential faculty members talk about how it began, and where it is going.