Campaign Highlights: Campaign Surpasses $1 Billion Mark
Just after the holidays, Caltech's "There's only one. Caltech" campaign crossed the $1 billion threshold. To mark this important milestone, the campus community was invited to a special presentation about the campaign's progress from campaign chairman Wally Weisman and Caltech president David Baltimore. Also featured at the January event were Anneila Sargent, Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Astronomy and director of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory, sophomore Ben Golub, and alumnus Carl Larson:
Anneila Sargent explained how the campaign is supporting faculty research initiatives. "We are encouraged to dream," she says. And benefactors are helping her in realizing her own dream, the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA). Once complete, CARMA's instrumentation will be 10 times more sensitive than present radio telescope arrays, enabling studies that will address some of the most important questions in astrophysics today.
As the 2004 beneficiary of The Associates SURF fellowship, Ben Golub had the opportunity to pursue a summer research project in pure mathematics. "At the deepest level, you are funding a feeling of freedom, and a knowledge of the nature of science at its best," he says.
Caltech benefactor Carl Larson (BS '52) says that for him and his wife, Shirley, supporting the Institute is an investment. In return, he said, "we are allowed to feel we're part of this great institution." Like a good investment, "you give us back more than we put in."
As of March 31, Caltech's campaign total stood at $1,018,793,377, helping to build our endowment, launch major research initiatives, and seed a variety of capital projects.
Just after the holidays, Caltech's "There's only one. Caltech" campaign crossed the $1 billion threshold. To mark this important milestone, the campus community was invited to a special presentation about the campaign's progress from campaign chairman Wally Weisman and Caltech president David Baltimore. Also featured at the January event were Anneila Sargent, Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Astronomy and director of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory, sophomore Ben Golub, and alumnus Carl Larson:
Anneila Sargent explained how the campaign is supporting faculty research initiatives. "We are encouraged to dream," she says. And benefactors are helping her in realizing her own dream, the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA). Once complete, CARMA's instrumentation will be 10 times more sensitive than present radio telescope arrays, enabling studies that will address some of the most important questions in astrophysics today.
As the 2004 beneficiary of The Associates SURF fellowship, Ben Golub had the opportunity to pursue a summer research project in pure mathematics. "At the deepest level, you are funding a feeling of freedom, and a knowledge of the nature of science at its best," he says.
Caltech benefactor Carl Larson (BS '52) says that for him and his wife, Shirley, supporting the Institute is an investment. In return, he said, "we are allowed to feel we're part of this great institution." Like a good investment, "you give us back more than we put in."