Caltech senior Arvind Kannan has been selected to receive a Churchill Scholarship, which will fund his graduate studies at the University of Cambridge for the next academic year. Kannan, a chemical engineering major and English minor, was one of only 14 studen... More »
From left to right: Christian Ott, Sarah Reisman, John Johnson, Theodor Agapie, and Yi Ni. Five Caltech assistant professors have been chosen as recipients of Sloan Research Fellowships for 2012. Awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a not-for-profit gran... More »
Researchers have built the first model that depicts precisely how chemoreceptors and the proteins around them are structured at the sensing tip of bacteria. The architecture, showing trimers of receptor dimers in purple, is based on ECT data (background) and n... More »
February is the month that Altadena Rotary gives money to local teachers to enhance their teaching experience and the learning experience of their students. This year Altadena Rotary gave $10,500 in grants to local teachers. This divides into thirty-five $300 ... More »
Real Food Daily, Los Angeles’ much loved organic vegan restaurant, has acquired a prime location in the South Lake Avenue. The 3,600 square foot restaurant will be Real Food Daily’s largest footprint and the perfect spot for the concept’s highly , full s... More »
Art and science come together as Magician Bob Friedhoffer performs one feat after another, and proves that our senses can truly be fooled. Obvious, but amazing, tricks our mind plays on us are revealed. Friedhoffer answers questions, such as: how are people ... More »
At Monday’s Pasadena City Council meeting, the council heard a pre-development plan of a 980,000 square foot mixed-use project proposed for construction at the Parsons Corporation headquarters parking lots at 100 West Walnut Street. The report was prepared by ... More »
The jury is still out on the best way to motivate your child to improve their grades, tests, or academic standing. There are a lot of resources in books, CDs, or the internet, but one local resource, Axia Learning, is one you may not have heard about. “My pa... More »
The Pasadena Police Department announced it will be conducting traffic enforcement at high collision intersections and speed enforcement throughout the entire City of Pasadena on Monday, February 27 in an operation running from 6:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. In a p... More »
The Postal Service announced this morning it has made the decision to move all mail processing operations from the Pasadena Processing & Distribution Center on Lincoln Ave. to Los Angeles. Once the transfer is completed, the mail processing operations in Pas... More »
Last minute cuts by the state seem to have affected Pasadena City College less than most colleges across the state, according to reports released by PCC officials. Since colleges operate on fiscal years that begin in July and end in June, the cuts have been ha... More »
Great Harvest Bread Co. is baking up something special for St. Patrick’s Day – fresh, warm, made-from-scratch Irish Soda Bread and Gouda and Stout bread, Mint Chocolate Bliss Cookies and Irish Coffee cake. These breads have an enthusiastic following among ... More »
