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Torchbearers, students, faculty, and staff came together at the Athenaeum on April 26 for the annual Torchbearers Legacy Society Appreciation Luncheon to celebrate the Caltech community.
“What you do as Torchbearers is going to light the future for Caltech,” said President Thomas F. Rosenbaum, holder of the Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and professor of physics, who hosted the event with Katherine T. Faber, the Simon Ramo Professor of Materials Science.
Senior Michael Sowell, a planetary science major and Dabney House resident, thanked those in attendance for their “incredible kindness, generosity, and support of young scientists.”
Dean of Undergraduate Students and Professor of English Jennifer A. Jahner gave a presentation entitled “Uncertainty Lessons: What the Deep Past Teaches Us About Living Now.” Jahner, whose research includes working with classical and medieval tools and texts, spoke of how the quest for meaningful data science has shaped Western scientific thought.
Of Caltech, Jahner said, it is “…involved in a really special project about the future. It’s about shaping not just the tools, the technologies, the models, but the minds that are going to be thinking in new ways, in really innovative ways about the challenges that we face.”
From top: Toni Perpall, David Drake (BS ’74), President Thomas F. Rosenbaum; Sylvia Nielsen, Don Pinkerton (BS ’57); Lanny Harrison, Carver Mead (BS ’56, MS ’57, PhD ’60), Reid Harrison (PhD ’00); Gordon Glattenberg (BS ’58), Elyse Ruth, Evan Portnoi. Credit: Chris Flynn/Caltech