Five exceptional students from across the Coachella Valley have won full-ride scholarships to attend prestigious universities across the United States from Caltech in Pasadena to MIT in Boston. They ...

Caltech and MIT have carried on a keen competition for years as top technological institutes, and a key element of the rivalry has been the trading of pranks, or “hacks,” as they’re sometimes called.

During Florida’s ballot crisis in 2000, two prominent research universities offered to help repair the nation’s voting process so that Americans would not have to go through another fiasco requiring ...