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June 6, 2024
MIT physicist Nuh Gedik has won a 2024 Ross Brown Investigator award to develop a new kind of microscopy that images electrons photo-emitted from a surface while also measuring their energy and momentum.
May 30, 2024
The Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech has named the 2024 Ross Brown Investigators. Each awardee will receive $2 million in research support over five years.
January 18, 2024
Recent higher ed headlines have focused on stories about donors pulling their gifts from Ivy League schools. Yet, many colleges are still receiving record-setting gifts.
January 11, 2024
When entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Caltech alumnus Ross M. Brown (BS' 56, MS '57) established the Brown Investigator Awards in 2020, one of the first honorees was Caltech physics professor David Hsieh. It was a natural fit. Hsieh's research, whic
November 20, 2023
OpenAI makes Altmans removal final with new interim CEO; ad execs urge X CEO Linda Yaccarino to resign; valuing the Ophir Collection, a priceless trove of gemstones; and more
November 17, 2023
Engineer Ross M. Brown, who built and sold an industrial conglomerate for more than $400 million, is donating nearly all his wealth to promising mid-career chemistry and physics professors at a range of universities.
November 17, 2023
Caltech receives one of the largest gifts in its history - $400 million from Ross M. Brown. Caltech will use the gift to establish the Brown Institute for Basic Science.
March 14, 2021
Apr 9, 2021 Irvine’s research spans soft condensed matter, optics and topological fluid mechanics, with an interest in geometry and advanced optical techniques. Many phenomena in nature, from complex flows to the ways materials self-assemble and break, are underpinned by elegant geometric and topological mechanisms; a focus of the lab’s research is to seek and unravel the presence of these powerful interpretative keys. “I am humbled and grateful to be among the first recipients of this pr...
March 11, 2021
The Brown Science Foundation has bestowed one of two inaugural Brown Investigator Awards, each of which includes research funding of $2 million over five years, to David Hsieh, professor of physics at Caltech. The other award goes to William Irvine o