Schools are the heart of the community, Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) Board President Renatta Cooper said in her first State of the School Address Thursday night. Ironically, she said, the government’s education policies are hurting schools. “We ... More »
Pacific Oaks College begins the fall semester with a new academic leadership team: Dr. Linda Clowers, the college’s new vice president of academic affairs; Dr. Carl Kalani Beyer, dean of the School of Education and School of Human Development and Family Studie... More »
The dedication of a permanent memorial to 9/11 along Pasadena’s New York Drive took place Sunday under a blazing sun and the roar F-18’s as over 500 listened to a program of government officials and two 9/11 survivors. Led by the Pasadena 911 committee and s... More »
Researchers at Caltech have produced the first high-resolution, three-dimensional images of a cell with a nucleus undergoing cell division. The observations were made using a powerful imaging technique in combination with a new method for slicing cell samples.... More »
Thursday night’s annual NAACP Ruby McKnight Williams Award dinner was a who’s who of important political and civic leaders in the West San Gabriel Valley as more than 400 turned out to celebrate the region’s diversity and outstanding people who have given muc... More »
Tournament of Roses President Rick Jackson today annouced that Executive Director P. Scott McKibben has resigned his post. “Tournament of Roses Executive Director P. Scott McKibben, citing personal reasons, has resigned his position effective today. William ... More »
Executives of Pasadena-based Avery Dennison Corporation, led by its chairman, president and chief executive officer Dean A. Scarborough and its IRO Eric M. Leeds, will present their ideas at the Credit Suisse Chemical & Ag Science Conference in New York on Sep... More »
A team of computer programmers at JPL is giving earthlings the power to journey through the solar system using a new interactive Web-based tool called “Eyes on the Solar System.” The “Eyes on the Solar System” interface combines video game technology and NASA ... More »
A JPL-led research team has confirmed what Walt Disney told us all along: Earth really is a small world, after all. Since Charles Darwin’s time, scientists have speculated that the solid Earth might be expanding or contracting. That was the prevailing belief... More »
A car was driven “approximately 20 feet†into a building on East Walnut Street near Raymond Avenue at about 8 p.m. Monday night, trapping the driver until Fire Dept. crews arrived, officials say. The driver was extricated and transported in stable condit... More »
A Pasadena firefighter suffered a severed fingertip during cleanup operations after fire crews extinguished an evening house fire in the 800 block of South Madison Ave. on Monday night, officials report. The firefighter was transported to Huntington Memorial H... More »
While many hotel rooms, recording studios, and even some homes are built with materials to help absorb or reflect sound, mechanisms to truly control the direction of sound waves are still in their infancy. However, researchers at Caltech have now created the f... More »
