Slideshow Photography by John Blackstock On February 17, Mrs.Chija Bauer’s honors physics class at La Salle High School got to put what they were learning in class about energy and momentum into practice. The students worked in teams of two to build a catapult... More »
Motorists need to be extra cautious around Pasadena’s public schools and police will be watching to make sure they are. That’s the simple but important message the Pasadena Department of Transportation and Pasadena Police want to communicate with part of... More »
Pasadena Hiking Pacers co-founders Dr. Kevin Cressey and his wife Debbie Yeh pose on a hike to Mount Baldy. The next time someone tells you to “take a hike†join Dr. Kevin Cressey and members of the Pasadena Hiking Pacers. The Pacers are a free hiking orga... More »
Ralph McQuarrie, the “man behind the Darth Vader mask†and graduate of Pasadena’s world famous Art Center College of Design, died March 3 at the age of 82. McQuarrie is the illustrator whose designs gave birth to Star Wars’ Darth Vader, R2-D2, and C-3P... More »
Nobel Laureate Renato Dulbecco, who spent nearly 15 years as a biology researcher at Caltech, passed away on February 19. He was 97. Dulbecco, who studied virology, won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “discoveries concerning the interaction ... More »
The Pasadena City Council is expected to vote tonight to award a half million dollar contract to a Pasadena company to upgrade fire department communications to use the same high-tech digital system employed by the police department – but unlike police, the fi... More »
The Mayfield Senior School’s Student Arts Council hosted the inaugural event in their new Speaker Series, featuring artists Maria Karras and Ann Gauldin, who were pioneers of the feminist art movement in Southern California, in February. Karras (mother of Zo... More »
Stephen To on his way to winning the 100 butterfly during PCC’s double dual meet Friday at the Aquatic Center, image by Richard Quinton. The Pasadena City College men’s and women’s swim teams each scored a victory over El Camino College while suffering a def... More »
The suspect in the 1995 slaying of a Caltech custodian was extradited from Mexico and booked in the Pasadena City Jail on Friday, police say. Raul Alcazar Romero, 56, who was hiding in Jalisco, Mexico, is the suspect in the murder of Francisco Mora, a Pasadena... More »
California Assembly District 41 candidate Victoria Rusnak California Assembly District 41 candidate Victoria Rusnak today said she has raised more than $100,000 in the two weeks since announcing her intention to run for the State Assembly in the new 41st Assem... More »
An Orbital Sciences technician completes final checks of NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, inside the Orbital Sciences processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California before the Pegasus payload fairing is secured around it... More »
Students who participated in NASA’s National Community College and Aerospace Scholars program in 2011 planned simulated Mars rover missions. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Community college students will have the chance to design robotic rovers in cooperation... More »
