PASADENA, California - Sarah studies observational cosmology, Glenn experiments with fluid dynamics and Marlena is making a computer tablet. But these students at Caltech, one of the most challenging universities in the world, struggle with a recipe for corn pudding.
Such is the irony of "Cooking Basics" -- one of the most popular classes at the California Institute of Technology, in which the final exam-meal is judged by a Nobel laureate, one of the six on the faculty and 30 in the history of the university, located in the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena.