Visit Pasadena, the official destination marketing organization for the City of Pasadena, announced Wednesday the appointment of Mandi Prince as its new Communications Manager. In this role, Prince will be responsible for developing and executing the organization’s public relations strategies, as well as managing media relations and content creation. Prince joins Visit Pasadena with almost 10 year... More »
William M. (Bil) Clemons, Jr., the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Biochemistry, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary society founded in 1780 by John Adams, John Hancock, and others. Clemons has been on the faculty at Caltech since 2005, specializing in structural biology. He earned his PhD from the University of Utah in 2000, researching under... More »
On Father’s Day 2007, 100 years after Nishan Paparian of Kharpet in Turkish-occupied Armenia arrived at Ellis Island, his descendants returned to Armenia. It is a trip that we had talked about doing for years, we finally made the pilgrimage home. It was a long flight for our family from Los Angeles to Yerevan with a stopover in Munich, Germany. When we arrived at Zvartnots airport we were taken b... More »
Senator Anthony J. Portantino, who represents Pasadena, amplified the urgency for international recognition and intervention in response to the ongoing aggression faced by Armenians, marking the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. In a statement released from Sacramento, Portantino stressed the need for collective action in the face of what he described as “repeated and regular genocidal ... More »
Octavia E. Butler Magnet has been named a Nationally Certified Demonstration School by Magnet Schools of America (MSA), one of only 33 in the country and the only California school selected this year. OEB also received the Merit School of Excellence Award at the MSA conference in New York last week. The Pasadena Unified School District is now home to two of only three nationally certified demonst... More »
Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who represents Pasadena on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, has praised the Los Angeles County Chief Executive Officer’s unveiling of a $45.4 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year, particularly applauding the allocation of over $728 million for the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. In a statement released Tuesday, Barger emphasized the si... More »
Armenians call it the Great Crime. More than 1.5 million Armenians were hanged, poisoned, drowned or marched into the desert to die from 1915 to 1923 by soldiers with the Turkish Ottoman Empire. The Armenian Genocide was the first Genocide of the twentieth century. Of course, the Turkish government has historically still denied the events that occurred. And for a long time, the United States co-... More »
Editor: On April 15 the Pasadena City Council agenda voted to continue an item on the agenda that would have renamed a portion of Dayton Street in honor of a Pasadena R&B group. Under the proposal, Dayton Street would have been changed to Troop Way. Councilmember Justin Jones asked that the item be held so that more outreach can be conducted. It will come back on May 20. All members of Troop – Ro... More »
After 17 years of pioneering observations, NASA’s CloudSat mission, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena has come to an end. Launched in 2006, CloudSat’s Cloud Profiling Radar instrument was developed by JPL with important hardware contributions from the Canadian Space Agency, providing unprecedented insights into the inner workings of clouds and their influence on weather and cli... More »
The City of Roses will experience cooler-than-normal weather conditions through the end of the week due to strong onshore winds and a deep marine layer, National Weather Service forecasters said. Residents can expect significantly cooler temperatures, with daily highs in the 60s — as much as 6 to 12 degrees below average. The city will see a pattern of low clouds and patchy morning fog, which may ... More »
