Caltech is small and prizes excellence and ambition. Its size creates an unparalleled environment where 323 extraordinary professorial faculty and approximately 2,400 exceptional students -- with research interests from quantum science and engineering to bioinformatics, from human behavior and economics to energy and sustainability -- expand their understanding of the universe, invent the technologies of the future and ultimately, reveal the nature of life itself. Caltech offers its students extraordinary opportunities in research and STEM leadership, as well as classroom learning. This results in one of the most rigorous and intense educational experiences in the American academy. The Caltech department of Athletics, Recreation and Instruction provides a robust and engaging program