Alumni News

Caltech at AIChE San Diego

Chemical Engineering alumni gathered in San Diego at Baja Rick's Cantina on October 28, 2024 as part of Caltech at AIChE. Attendees caught up with former colleagues, met new faces and learned more about new ChE faculty.

Forbes 30 Under 30 | Science

Rachel Baker, a former postdoc from the Manthiram lab, was selected as part of Forbes 30 Under 30 North America | Science.

Rachel is developing processes for manufacturing industrial and consumer chemicals in a sustainable way. One project uses biomass from trees and plants and electrochemical reactions to create a sustainable green production of hydrocarbons, alcohols and aldehydes - which are commonly found in both bulk and fine chemicals.

Alumnus Martin Karplus (PhD '54), Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist, Dies at 94

Karplus was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013 for work that laid the foundations for the field of computational chemistry, which uses advanced software to predict chemical processes using quantum mechanics.