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

Ray Jayawardhana, an astrophysicist and provost of Johns Hopkins University, will become the next president of Caltech — one of the nation's wealthiest and most elite universities — as it enters a ...

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.

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

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

Applicants are not supposed to use AI to write college essays. But colleges are using AI to help assess applications. At ...

Maharashtra-born astronomer Shrinivas Kulkarni wins the Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal for groundbreaking ...

Backstory: From being out of town the day the Palisades fire started to reports her fire department glossed over serious ...

The auditorium was packed with hundreds of high school girls from across the nation fangirling a YouTube idol they dream to emulate. There before them stood Katie Bouman, an associate professor of ...

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