CalTech's Movement for Racial Justice

@caltechedu’s founding fathers were leaders in American eugenics. I shot the activists who pushed the university to change names of key buildings and programs — for @nature_the_journal. Photo editor @photoprofamelia. Read it here.

Evan Haze Nuñez (left), Jean Badroos (centre) and Daniel Mukasa (right) are members of Black Scientists and Engineers of Caltech, the student group that led the call for change.

Ruddock House, a student residence hall at Caltech, has been renamed to honour Grant Venerable, the first Black student to graduate from the university.

Graduate student Jane Panangaden was horrified to learn about Caltech’s links to eugenics.

The Robert A. Millikan Memorial Library was this week renamed Caltech Hall.

Caltech alumnus Michael Chwe stands in front of the institution’s Kerckhoff Laboratories, where the Human Betterment Foundation used to have an office.

Sarah Sam was the only graduate student on Caltech’s Committee on Naming and Recognition.

Caltech renamed the Linde + Robinson Laboratory in August to remove the association with eugenics supporter Henry Robinson.

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