The Pasadena-based Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) today announced the appointment of Walter E. Massey, PhD, and Taft Armandroff, PhD, to the positions of Board Chair and Vice Chair, respectively. Continuing their involvement in new leadership cap... More »
It was just four weeks into the 2016 season that restless USC fans wanted coach Clay Helton fired. The Trojans were 1-3 and headed into the heart of their Pacific-12 South Division schedule. Things have certainly changed for the better. USC (7-3 overall, 6-2 i... More »
[Updated November 17, 2016 | 9:30 a.m.] Pasadena’s 2017 municipal election campaign took its first steps Wednesday evening as a handful of candidates and election observers met with City Clerk Mark Jomsky in a conference room at City Hall for the second of ... More »
Pasadena City Councilmember Andy Wilson pulled nomination papers on Monday to run for a full term on the Council in the municipal election to be held on March 7th. “I’ve been encouraged to run by many friends, neighbors and city leaders whom I respect,” said W... More »
A new helper in the fight against cancer and other diseases of the gut may be genetically altered bacteria that release medicines to tumors or the gut. Now, a new study performed using mice demonstrates how doctors might one day better regulate those therapeut... More »
On Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump reiterated his promise to deport millions of undocumented immigrants who have criminal records. Following this assertion, Pasadena area Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-27) is calling on the Obama Administration to take all le... More »
The City of Pasadena was ranked as a top digital city this year by a judging panel for the 2016 Digital Cities Survey, undertaken every summer by the Center for Digital Government, a national research and advisory institute on information technology policies a... More »
Pasadena Police officers succeeded in talking a 45-year-old man down from the dangerous outer ledge of the Colorado Street Bridge past midnight last night, preventing what could have been another tragic suicide. Lt. Pete Hettema said the police department rece... More »
The Pasadena City Council Monday, with barely a whisper of discussion, unanimously approved a Planning and Community Development Department recommendation for a resolution for a single-family Mediterranean Renaissance Revival property at 1600 San Pasqual Stree... More »
With $547,000 left unspent in the City’s Annual Action Plan for Community Development Block Grant funds submitted to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the City Council Monday unanimously approved the reprogramming of the Community Developm... More »
Following an October 17 meeting in which the City Council deleted two of the most “punitive” subsections relating to camping and other activities within commercial corridors, the final reading of the City’s “aggressive panhandling” ordinance led to its unanimo... More »
Dean Mobbs, a new assistant professor of cognitive neuroscience, studies what happens in our brains when we interact with others and when we are under threat. Mobbs, a native of Kettering, England, received his PhD from University College London and was an ass... More »
