The Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) Board of Education seeks applicants to fill four vacant seats on the Measure TT Citizens’ Oversight Committee. The volunteer committee is responsible for monitoring project management and expenditures for the $350 mi... More »
A strange new kind of galactic beast has been spotted in the cosmic wilderness. Dubbed “super spirals,” these unprecedented galaxies dwarf our own spiral galaxy, the Milky Way, and compete in size and brightness with the largest galaxies in the universe. Super... More »
On Saturday, March 19th, the Los Angeles County Office of Education hosted the 2016 Los Angeles County Science Fair at the Pasadena Convention Center. More than 800 students participated in this year’s event. Pasadena High School had four students enter this y... More »
A fund advised by CBRE Global Investors based in Los Angeles has acquired Pasadena Towers, a 477,051 square foot, two-tower Class A+ office campus in Pasadena. The investment firm did not say how much was the acquisition price, but a report on the San Gabriel ... More »
Sophomore Erin Wang (Auburn, Calif. / Del Oro) and freshman Kana Moriyama (Redmond, Wash. / Redmond) battled through a pair of three-setters to complete an epic rally for Caltech women’s tennis against West Region No. 20 Pacific (Ore.) University, 5-4, on Mond... More »
In the months leading up to the first detection of gravitational waves by LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory), announced on February 11, Caltech postdoctoral scholar Sheila Dwyer and graduate student Evan Hall spent most of their wak... More »
Two school principals from the Pasadena Unified School District have won top honors for their educational leadership from the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) Region XV, which includes Pasadena, Glendale, Alhambra, and the West San Gabrie... More »
A team of researchers led by Caltech scientists has shown that nanoparticles can function to target tumors while avoiding adjacent healthy tissue in human cancer patients. “Our work shows that this specificity, as previously demonstrated in preclinical animal ... More »
There were lots of surprises at Pasadena Community Gardens Conservancy’s Garden Party on Sunday afternoon at the Villa-Parke Community Garden. One of the biggest was the transformation by Susan Osen, Jill Hotvet, Sheridan Link, and Julie Byrne Rweyemamu o... More »
Head coach Pat McGee needed one of his sophomores to step up Saturday if the Pasadena City College baseball team was going to snap a 7-game losing streak and give the team some hope after a 0-5 start to South Coast Conference play. Letterman first baseman Joe ... More »
Tetra Tech Inc., a Pasadena-based consulting and engineering services provider, has acquired INDUS Corporation of Vienna, Virginia, the company announced. INDUS is an IT solutions firm focused on data analytics, geospatial analysis, secure infrastructure, and ... More »
Monday night will be partly cloudy in Pasadena, with a low around 53, as winds of five to 10 miles per hour blow from the southwest becoming west northwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 15 mph tonight. The National Weather Service says another we... More »
