Pasadena parking authorities rolled out reverse angle parking on the west side of Garfield Avenue on Saturday, June 4, converting what used to be parallel parking between Walnut Street and Thurgood Marshall/Ramona Street. Those reverse parking spaces located a... More »
Caltech undergraduate and graduate students have collected an impressive array of awards this year, including three Fulbright grants, two Goldwater Scholarships, two Watson Fellowships, two Hertz Fellowships, a Soros Fellowship, a Marshall Scholarship, a Gates... More »
All Saints Church announced Sunday that the Reverend Mike Kinman will be the Eighth Rector of the 133-year-old Pasadena congregation. The official announcement was made at a special Forum on Sunday, June 12, following a unanimous vote by the church’s governing... More »
Former Pasadena Police Chief Robert Harrison McGowan died last Tuesday, June 7, in Pasadena. He was 88. McGowan, “Bob” to friends, served with the Pasadena Police Department for over 31 years. He was Pasadena Chief of Police from November, 1968 until June, 198... More »
Pasadena City College baseball coach Pat McGee announced that six players or 75 percent from his 2016 Lancers sophomore class have committed to 4-year universities. The two remaining sophomores are still mulling scholarship offers from a few institutions, acco... More »
The Editors of Pasadena Now go through over 100 articles published this week on our site and cull the top 46 most newsworthy, informative, and readable. Top Story: Mayor Tornek to Recommend Special Election to Repeal Pro-710 Freeway Completion Measure Police... More »
Mexico advanced on to the Copa America Centenario Quarterfinals Thursday after defeating Jamaica, 2-0, in front of 83,263 fans at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. The last time Mexico played in Pasadena was last October, when tens of thousands of locals roared for t... More »
Senior Ayush Gupta has been named as the winner of this year’s Caltech Library Friends’ Senior Thesis Prize. The Thesis Prize, established in 2010, is intended to encourage undergraduates to complete a formal work of scholarship as a capstone project for their... More »
The Shakespeare Club of Pasadena hosted its 62nd annual scholarship luncheon May 17th. The Villa on South Grand Ave was festively adorned in the colors of the Pasadena High schools to celebrate the event. Students from John Marshall, Blair, Pasadena and John M... More »
Determining the chemical formula of a protein is fairly straightforward, because all proteins are essentially long chains of molecules called amino acids. Each chain, however, folds into a unique three-dimensional shape that helps produce the characteristic pr... More »
Caltech’s Mikhail Shapiro, assistant professor of chemical engineering, has been selected as a 2016 Pew scholar by the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. As a Pew Scholar, Shapiro will receive $240,000 over the next four years in support of his r... More »
The Pasadena City College football program is hosting its first fundraiser for the 2016 season, “A Day At The Races” on Saturday, June 11 at Santa Anita Park. Gates open at 10:30 a.m. at Santa Anita with horse racing and other fun activities continuing to 5 p.... More »
