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Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana appointed president of Caltech University
The Los Angeles Times - Ray Jayawardhana, an astrophysicist and provost of Johns Hopkins University, will become the next president of Caltech — one of the nation’s wealthiest and most elite universities — as it enters a second year of challenging terrain amid Trump administration cuts to scientific research.
The campus’ board of trustees announced the appointment Tuesday morning after a months-long search to replace President Thomas F. Rosenbaum, who said in April that he would step down.
Jayawardhana will take the helm of the 134-year-old campus, which has produced numerous scientific breakthroughs and dozens of Nobel laureates, on July 1. The 124-acre Pasadena university has more than 300 faculty and roughly 2,400 students.
Caltech also operates NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, which struggled with hundreds of layoffs last year.
In his first remarks to more than 500 staff and faculty Tuesday, Jayawardhana shared a story about how, when he was a child growing up in the 1980s in Sri Lanka, a JPL viewbook with images of Jupiter and Saturn sparked his desire to learn about outer space.
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