Gharib Addresses Youths at U.S. Citizenship Ceremony

On Wednesday, August 26, 2015, Caltech Vice Provost Mory Gharib welcomed 80 mostly high school-age young people who were at Caltech for a U.S. citizenship ceremony. The ceremony, which was organized by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and hosted by Caltech, recognized young people who obtained citizenship through their parents.

Gharib, the Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Bio-Inspired Engineering, shared with the audience his own story of becoming a naturalized U.S. Citizen. He also talked about the importance of having people from different backgrounds who can bring their own unique perspectives and ideas to a place like Caltech.

"Like this country itself, Caltech is a place where people have come together from many different parts of the globe—on any given day on this campus, you would find students, faculty, and staff from more than 80 countries," Gharib said during his remarks. "We all come together here to find ways to not only to better understand our world, but to make it better."