disbanded and spun off in college assumed its present name in was elected to the Association of American Universities, and the antecedents of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to manage and operate, were established between Theodore The university is one among a small group of Institutes of Technology in the United States which tends to be primarily devoted to the instruction of technical arts and applied sciences.
Although founded as a preparatory and vocational school by Amos attracted influential scientists such as George Ellery Hale, Arthur Amos Noyes, and Robert Andrews Millikan in the early The vocational and preparatory schools were
house system. strong tradition of practical jokes and e is governed by an honor code which allows faculty to assign take-home examinations. 13 intercollegiate sports in the California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
has six academic divisions with strong emphasis on science and engineering, managing $332 million in 2011 in sponsored campus is located Los Angeles.students are required to live on campus, and 95% of undergraduates remain in the
is frequently cited as one of the world's best universities. Despite its small size, 33alumni and faculty have won a total of 34 Nobel Pauling being the only individual in history to1 have won the United States National Medal of Science or Technology.There are
members who have been elected to the National Academies. In addition, numerous faculty members are associated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as well as NASA.
scientific research-oriented education institute in southern California, public or private, until the onset of the World War II necessitated the broader development of research-based science promise attracted physical chemist Arthur Amos Noyes from MIT to develop the institution and assist in establishing it as a center for science and technology.
In the same year, a bill was introduced in the California Legislature calling for the establishment of a publicly funded "California Institute of Technology", with an initial budget of a million dollars, ten times the budget of t the time. The board of trustees offered to turn over to the state, but the presidents of Stanford University and the University of California successfully lobbied to defeat the bill, which allowed to develop as the only
With the onset of World War I, Hale organized the National Research Council to coordinate and support scientific work on military problems. While he supported the idea of federal appropriations for science, he took exception to a federal bill that would have funded engineering
research at land-grant colleges, and instead sought to raise a $1 million national research fund entirely from private sources. To that end, as Hale wrote in
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