On September 23, fourteen Caltech faculty and staff members led roundtable discussion groups with the incoming freshman class of 2019 about this year’s freshman summer reading, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The book, written by Rebecca Skloot, tells th... More »
On Sunday, September 20, Caltech extended a formal welcome to new undergraduate students, graduate students, parents of new students, and postdoctoral scholars at its 2015 Convocation at Beckman Auditorium. Joseph E. Shepherd, vice president for student affair... More »
Saying “We are poised to do great things,” Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) Superintendent Dr. Brian McDonald delivered an optimistic assessment of the District, but admitted that the District still faces some challenges. McDonald said that nearly 36 pe... More »
Jack Larson, a Pasadena City College alumnus and actor best known for his portrayal of cub reporter Jimmy Olsen in Adventures of Superman, died this Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 87. Raised in Montebello, Calif., Larson enrolled at Pasadena Junior ... More »
Caltech Releases Results of AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct In Spring 2015, Caltech, along with 26 other colleges and universities, participated in the Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct organized by... More »
On a scorching hot Sunday afternoon at Levitt Pavilion, 13 bands came out to play. Only two were left standing—the eclectic, violin-laced rock rap of Grey Goo, and the pop stylings of Not Exactly Monday. The afternoon, part of the 2015 “Rock4PEF” music event, ... More »
Second-year student Shannon Yong represented Pasadena City College this past Saturday, Sept.19 at the Pacific Southwest Collegiate Forensics Association Seminar, more commonly known as Demo Day. This seminar is an established yearly tradition for the organizat... More »
“We recently picked up an account at Whole Foods Market,” said Facilities Grounds Coordinator for Pasadena Unified School District, Shirley Barrett, “These kids are going to actually be doing the floral arrangement for the bouquets that we are going to be se... More »
Kristen Luna, a Pasadena City College student and editor-in-chief of The Courier, has been named the recipient of the Emerging Reporters national scholarship from ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonprofit investigative reporting organization. A second-ye... More »
Fresh from seeing a few of the sights in California, including Yosemite National Park, 56 happy and eager Chinese fifth-graders from Beijing, began the first day of their six-week attendance at the Aveson School for Leaders in Altadena yesterday. It is the sec... More »
USC Adjunct Professor James Osterling announced today that he had received the endorsements of Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich, Pasadena City Council Member Andy Wilson, Pasadena City Council Member John Kennedy, Sierra Madre City Council Memb... More »
Two Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) students are among only three California students selected by the HOSA-Future Health Professionals to attend a national leadership academy in Washington, D.C., Sept. 19-22, 2015. Tyler Ramirez and Daniel Lopez, both ... More »
