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Special Preview Days: Caltech JPL Archival Exhibition

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October 29, 2026 10:00 am

Inauguration of Caltech's 10th President: Inauguration Ceremony

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October 29, 2026 12:00 pm

Inauguration of Caltech's 10th President: Campus Celebration Lunch

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Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman has been named Caltech associate vice president and deputy director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The emeritus astronaut and retired U.S. Navy captain begins his new role at NASA’s center of excellence for robotics and deep space exploration and at Caltech, which manages JPL for NASA, on Nov. 30, 2026. This video of Reid Wiseman accepting this role was shared at a Brave New Space Age event at Caltech on Oct. 28, 2026.
Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, welcome to Caltech and JPL!
The festivities have begun! 🎉 Caltech marks a historic milestone this week: the investiture of our 10th president Ray Jayawardhana. JPL colleagues gathered at the Lab this morning to kick-off the celebrations and honor our shared impact with Congresswoman Judy Chu. In President Jayawardhana’s words: “This is a time of celebration across our Caltech JPL community. With the inauguration and JPL’s 90th anniversary, we are honoring our history and looking ahead to the next era of discovery. It’s an occasion to reflect on the spirit that has propelled Caltech and JPL from one frontier to the next, fueled by ambitious curiosity and the daring to act on it.”
Urban fires are chemically different beasts than wildfires. New Caltech research takes a closer look at the chemical makeup of the smoke from the 2025 Eaton Fire, finding that it was nothing like the plume of a typical wildfire. Real-time monitoring by the ASCENT network, allowed scientists to watch the plume’s chemical signature shift as the flames moved into wild lands. All ASCENT data are now available to the public through both a long-term archive and near-real-time tools on the network’s database. #Caltech #EatonFires #Engineering #Chemistry
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