25 Sustainable Textile Innovations

Spruce recently announced their partnership with Munich Re to lower title insurance costs up to 20% in some states via automation. Munich Re joins their existing relationships with leading underwriters First American, Fidelity, and WFG.

Pondering the pandemic with 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients…  Amid the return of in-person interactions at Caltech’s 2021 Reunion Weekend, one event brought together three of the four 2021 winners of the Distinguished Alumni Award: NASA astronaut Bob Behnken, PhD (MS ’93, PhD ’97); Barbara Burger, PhD (PhD ’87), president of technology ventures and vice president of innovation at Chevron; and Laurie Leshin, PhD (MS ’89, PhD ’95), president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (DAA winner Charles Elachi, PhD [MS ’69, PhD ’71], Caltech professor emeritus of electrical engineering and planetary science and former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was unable to attend.)