Call this a joyful Christmas lift: patients at Huntington Health, a Cedars-Sinai affiliate, today welcomed the Pasadena Police Air Operations Section and the Foothill Air Support Team (FAST) for “Operation Polar Wind” – a very special visit to Huntington’s pediatric and NICU patients. Pasadena Police Chief Eugene Harris escorted Santa Claus to Huntington Hospital via his sleigh (helicopter), beari... More »
The UC Regents are asking a judge to quash deposition notices issued by the Rose Bowl Operating Committee’s and to halt all discovery pending a January hearing on its bid to compel arbitration of the case. The RBOC and the city of Pasadena contend in their three contractual claims that UCLA is wrongfully exploring options for a new home football venue, specifically SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. In co... More »
Pasadena’s Design Commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to continue review of a proposed four-story Caltech Innovation Center at 1364 East Green Street, asking developers to reduce the building’s mass along its southern edge where it borders St. Philip the Apostle School’s playground. The decision came after nearly two hours of public testimony that revealed deep divisions between parents fea... More »
Hundreds of different types of neurons make up the neural circuits in our brains. Over the years, scientists have discovered many details about those different cell types, including their electrical properties and the early genetic indicators that dictate what type of neuron they will eventually become. Yet combining all of that varied information into a clear model that accurately reflects how ne... More »
Mansi Kasliwal (PhD ’11), a Caltech professor of astronomy, has been named the new director of Caltech’s Palomar Observatory, while Dimitri Mawet, the David Morrisroe Professor of Astronomy at Caltech, has been named the new director of instrumentation of the Caltech Optical Observatories (COO), which includes Palomar as well as the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawai’i, in which Caltech is a partner.... More »
A bright morning sun cut sharp lines across The Paseo on Wednesday as a small delegation of state and local officials threaded its walkways, stopping frequently to peer into storefronts and survey the open-air mall’s refreshed plazas. The stroll was part of a broader fact-finding swing through California’s commercial corridors led by Assemblymember Matt Haney, chair of the State Legislature’s Down... More »
Tetra Tech Inc., based in Pasadena, announced it has been awarded a $500 million multiple-award contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District to provide environmental remediation services across the United States. The five-year contract covers projects in the North Atlantic Division, including the contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Tetra Tech will provide a... More »
A document that is part of Pasadena’s ongoing lawsuit against the Regents of the University of California details a series of conversations, missed commitments and behind-the-scenes developments that the City argues show UCLA was actively planning to break the contract without proper notice and relocate its home games from the Rose Bowl to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood despite a long-term agreement th... More »
Pasadena will shift from unseasonably warm weather to cooler conditions starting Friday, according to the National Weather Service. Highs near 85 degrees on Thursday will drop into the upper 70s Saturday and lower 70s Sunday, as offshore winds weaken and fog develops. Forecasters said the cooling follows several days of temperatures 15 to 20 degrees above normal. Morning fog is possible Friday thr... More »
The Venture Valley video game, developed by the Pasadena-based Singleton Foundation for Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship, has won the General Audience Game Award at the Serious Games Showcase & Challenge, organizers announced. The award was presented during the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), held Dec. 1 to Dec. 4 at the Orange County Conventi... More »
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