In a nod to extraterrestrial mountaineers of the future, scientists working on NASA’s Cassini mission have identified the highest point on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Titan’s tallest peak is 10,948 feet (3,337 meters) high and is found within a trio of mou... More »
Michael Wrona, the colorful and seasoned Australian race caller, has been named the full-time track announcer at Santa Anita Park. A 49-year-old native of Queensland, Australia, Wrona began his announcing career at age 17 in his homeland. He has spent 25 years... More »
The Caltech Athletics program is adding a women’s soccer team to its roster, beginning in fall 2017. The move is both in response to direct requests from the community and a desire to further enhance the programming and services provided to an ever-more divers... More »
Pasadena City College softball player Holly Riker-Sloan is the 2016 recipient of the CCCAA 3CFA Achievement Award. The prestigious annual state award is generated by the California Community College Counselors/Advisors Academic Association to go to a student-a... More »
HireLive, a national career service company specializing in sales, retail and management career fairs, is sponsoring a Job Fair and Career Fair in Pasadena on Wednesday, April 6, 2016, at the Hilton Pasadena, 168 S. Los Robles Avenue. The event is free for job... More »
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 »
