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Last week, our SURF-the-WAVE and QuantumSURF Fellows presented at @Caltech's KNI x IQIM Summer Poster Session. Congrats to Yiting Zhao, People's Choice winner, and thanks to all who cheered the fellows on. Science is always more fun as a community!
Congratulations to the three winners of the 2026 Vodopia-Hasson SURF Summer Poster Competition: Gabriella Giampietro (WAVE Fellows, @BrownUniversity), Adam Janik (SURF, @UCLA), and Nikhita Penugonda (SURF, @Caltech)! What a great way to close out another summer of research.
@Caltech and @NASAJPL are linked by history and by current collaboration. This summer, three Caltech undergraduates carried that forward—researching extreme weather, atmospheric carcinogens, and how clouds form on other worlds.
Read their stories here:
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magazine.caltech.edu The Explorer Class | Space Exploration's Next Generation Starts Here — Caltech Magazine By Sabrina Pirzada For hundreds of students from Caltech and universities around the country, a summer internship at Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers more than a glimpse of science and engineering.... Read their stories here:
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SFP mourns the passing of Yuk Yung, @Caltech professor of planetary science and @NASAJPL senior research scientist — a founding figure in planetary atmospheric chemistry and a beloved mentor to scores of SURF & WAVE Fellows since 1982.
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www.caltech.edu Caltech Mourns the Passing of Planetary Scientist Yuk Yung Yuk Yung, professor of planetary science and JPL senior research scientist, passed away on March 16.