Caltech Leadership Transition Follows Scientific Funding Concerns
Caltech appointed Ray Jayawardhana as its next president amid declining public confidence in higher education and scientific research.Jayawardhana, currently the provost at Johns Hopkins University and an astrophysicist, will officially succeed Thomas Rosenbaum on July 1.The transition occurs as
Donald Trump criticizes university politics while the institution manages federal funding cuts and
NASA operations.
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