What's it like to build an entire research program from scratch? It's all about becoming part of a community, according to three brand-new professors:
"It's very important to generate an environment where people help each other." —André Hoelz
"I have two challenges getting started here. One is bringing in students and postdocs, and the other is fostering a connection between economics and computer science." —Katrina Ligett
"It is not traditionally a field Caltech has done. . . . So when I was looking at coming to Caltech, the idea of being 'the oceanographer' was an exciting prospect.' —Andrew Thompson
Read "From the Ground Up" in the Spring 2012 issue of Caltech's Engineering & Science magazine.
