The Junior League of Pasadena, Inc. (JLP) is proud to announce the recipient of this year’s Volunteer Award for Excellence. Each year, this award is given to one JLP member who has made an exceptional contribution to the JLP and the community during her career... More »
Elaine Hsiao (PhD ’13) has been honored as an Emerging Explorer by the National Geographic Society. Each of this year’s 14 awardees, described by the society as “uniquely gifted and inspiring scientists, conservationists and innovators who are at the forefront... More »
Dale Miller, a former Ventura County Fire Department battalion chief who attended John Muir High School School and graduated from Pasadena City College in 1957, died July 20 after a fight with cancer. He was 78. Miller more recently served as president of th... More »
The Association of Junior Leagues International today announced that Carol Scott has been named President-Elect of the 114-year-old women’s volunteer organization, which has more than 150,000 members in 292 independent Junior Leagues in the US, Canada, Mexico ... More »
The City of Pasadena appointed Ross S. Selvidge, Ph.D., to the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority on July 13, 2015. Dr. Selvidge, who was of I y sworn i n on July 22, joins Steve M adi son and Terry Tornek as one of the Authority’s three Pasadena repr... More »
Parsons announced that its Chairman and CEO, Charles L. “Chuck” Harrington, will speak at the UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Anderson School of Management’s 2015 Executive Master’s in Business Administration (EMBA) commencement tomorrow. The cere... More »
James Rothenberg, an admired member of the Board of Trustees at the California Institute of Technology and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, has died of a heart attack. He was 69. The Los Angeles-based mutual fund ... More »
Tes Baradas, CPA, and Jennifer Lorenzen, CPA, have been named tax managers at the accounting and consulting firm Lucas Horsfall, it was announced today by Mike Amerio, managing partner. Born in the Philippines, Baradas holds a Bachelor of Science in Accountanc... More »
Huntington Medical Research Institutes (HMRI), a leading biomedical research institute based in Pasadena, has recruited Orest Boyko, MD, PhD to be its new Director of Imaging Research. Dr. Boyko was selected for the position after an extensive, international s... More »
On May 26, 2015, the Junior League of Pasadena, Inc. (JLP) held its Annual Meeting to honor member achievements, reveal its new community focus area, and install its new 2015-2016 Board of Directors. This meeting was full of organizational pride and excitement... More »
JPL is mourning the death of Claudia Alexander, an admired scientist who helped lead both the Galileo mission and the international Rosetta comet mission. Alexander passed away last Saturday after a 10 year battle with breast cancer. She was 56. “The passing o... More »
Pasadena’s Peter Dills, second-generation food critic and host of the popular TV and radio show “Dining with Dills,” says he is not at all threatened by the internet and the array of mobile apps that now help diners find great restaurants just by clicking a bu... More »
