Caltech and MIT have carried on a keen competition for years as top technological institutes, and a key element of the rivalry has been the trading of pranks, or “hacks,” as they’re sometimes called.

Five exceptional students from across the Coachella Valley have won full-ride scholarships to attend prestigious universities across the United States from Caltech in Pasadena to MIT in Boston. They ...

PASADENA, Calif.—California Institute of Technology (Caltech) graduate student Guoan Zheng is the recipient of the 2011 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Caltech Student Prize. Zheng was among the four $30,000 ...