Pasadena City College students Shannon Yong, Alicia Batice, and Thomas Morgenroth won $500 each in prize money for entering an online Speech Video Contest hosted by a well-renowned textbook company, Cengage Publishing. All three are members of PCC’s Speech and... More »
Editor’s Note: In response to this story, a spokesperson for the Pasadena Unified School District said this morning that the District is not “considering” monitoring students’ social media accounts but rather that “staff is discussing” monitoring students’ soc... More »
Pasadena Unified School District High School students plan to spend their summer interning within the culinary arts, law & public service and health sectors. These upcoming seniors are eager to explore careers of interest while applying their transferable skil... More »
Local educators, business leaders and philanthropists joined a discussion about education reform at a book launch at Caltech’s Athenaeum Thursday co-hosted by an extended learning organization which serves over 100,000 children in 38 school districts. Centered... More »
Spring Ahead Academy, an entrepreneurship training school based in Pasadena, is offering three more learning events this month to upgrade skills in sales, professional networking and social media. With these events, the Academy launches a new project-based cur... More »
Joseph Shepherd (PhD ’81), the C. L. “Kelly” Johnson Professor of Aeronautics and professor of mechanical engineering, is leaving his post as dean of graduate studies to succeed Anneila Sargent (MS ’67, PhD ’78), the Ira S. Bowen Professor of Astronomy, as vic... More »
Since its inception five years ago, Pasadena City College’s Anesthesiology Technology program has managed to accomplish what only a few academic programs of its kind can boast: a perfect record. In May, the entire 2015 Anesthesiology Technology class graduated... More »
Bill Thomson, who ran for Mayor and lost earlier this year, announced Monday that he will seek a third term to the Pasadena Area Community College District Board of Trustees for Area 4, which covers most of Pasadena. Thomson says he wants to build on advances ... More »
Caltech professor of mathematics Nets Katz has received the 2015 Clay Research Award from the Clay Mathematics Institute. The award was given jointly to Katz and his collaborator, MIT professor of mathematics Larry Guth, for their solution of the Erd?s distanc... More »
From Aug. 3 to Sept. 11, Pasadena City College presents a sampling of the varied and skillfull works of professor emeritus Norman Abbey. An opening reception will be held Aug. 21, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Throughout the many stages of his art career, Abbey has ex... More »
Once again God blessed Ramona Convent with a beautiful day for graduation. After all of the rehearsals and preparations, everything fell into place perfectly. Graduates walked down the aisle in the Rose Heath Garden in gorgeous white gowns on Saturday, May 30,... More »
Pasadena Unified School District Superintendent Brian McDonald has named Kathleen Sanchez as Chief Human Resources Officer and Bernadette Griggs as Chief Business Officer for the district. “Kathleen Sanchez and Bernadette Griggs are two very important members ... More »
