REMOVE MILLIKAN’S NAME FROM CALTECH

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Press coverage of this petition

Caltech faces reckoning over its links to eugenics and sterilization movement, by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2020.

Caltech Alum and UCLA Professor Calls for Removal of Robert A. Millikan’s Name, Bust From Caltech Campus Over Eugenics Support, by Brian Day and André Coleman, Pasadena Now, July 7, 2020.

Neighborhood Council Pushing Street Name Change in Westwood Due to Racist Past, by Ted Chen, NBC 4 Los Angeles, July 8, 2020.

School names latest target in effort to account for racist legacies of historical figures, by David Rosenfeld, Pasadena Star-News, July 11, 2020.

Push On To Rename Schools, Including In Long Beach, by David Rosenfeld, The Grunion, Long Beach, July 12, 2020.

A Name Of Shame, by Elvis Diaz, The Grunion, Long Beach, California, August 14, 2020.

The ‘imbeciles’ haunting Caltech, by Robert Nelson, Pasadena Star-News, August 16, 2020.

Drop Millikan: Repudiating the Racism in Caltech’s Foundation, by Sophia Charan, Caltech Letters, October 6, 2020.

Caltech’s effort to confront its racist past hits a snag, by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, October 7, 2020.

Pomona to rename Millikan Laboratory, citing Robert A. Millikan’s eugenics promotion, by Jaimie Ding, Yasmin Elqutami and Anushe Engineer, The Student Life, October 7, 2020.

Confronting a racist past, Caltech will excise names of eugenics backers from campus, by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, January 15, 2021.

Caltech to remove name of founding president, a eugenics supporter, from buildings, by Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, January 16, 2021.

Caltech removes the names of six eugenicists from its campus, including founder, by Bradley Bermont and Linh Tat, San Jose Mercury News, January 19, 2021.

Good riddance to bad science of Caltech’s former eugenicists, by Larry Wilson, Pasadena Star News, January 21, 2021.

After admitting founder’s eugenics past, Caltech honors a diversity of campus figures, by Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, November 10, 2021.

Caltech confronted its racist past. Here’s what happened, by Nidhi Subbaraman, Nature, November 10, 2021, 599, 194-198 (2021). Print version (no paywall) here.

Public comments

Letter from John J. Kennedy, Councilmember, District 3, City of Pasadena, to Caltech President Thomas Rosenbaum, June 17, 2020.