Caltech coach found winning formula for losingest team

Published on March 8, 2011

Oliver Eslinger let out a primal scream amid the 387 fans who stormed the basketball court on Feb. 24. His players, unaccustomed to winning, drenched him near the Caltech bench (right tradition, wrong sport). Eslinger had coached the Caltech men's basketball team, one of the country's losingest basketball programs, to its first Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference win in 26 years and 310 games.

‘Hoops’ harder than rocket science

By Adam Wills
Published on June 19, 2008

Caltech has more Nobel laureates than any other university and is considered among the top five academic institutions in the world. The Pasadena campus' contributions to science and technology are vast. And then there's their basketball team, the Beavers.

Retiring Cal Tech Chief Reflects on Roots

By Tom Tugend
Published on October 13, 2005

During his nine-year tenure as Caltech president, 67-year old David Baltimore translated many of his family's principles into practice, on top of raising the university's already elite level of scientific research and education. He showed a keen interest in the quality of student life through improved housing and a multimillion dollar student activities fund, and raised the profile and number of women on the faculty and in the student body.

Community Briefs

By Journal Staff
Published on January 16, 2003

Community Briefs

Debunking the Bible Codes

By Julie G Fax
Published on October 1, 1998

A Caltech mathematician and a leading Orthodox educational institution teamed up recently to turn up the heat on a simmering controversy over what they say is a scientifically and religiously suspect tool used by Jewish outreach organizations -- the Bible codes