New Caltech faculty member Soon-Jo Chung splits his time between Caltech’s campus, where he is a Bren Scholar and an associate professor of aerospace in the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT), and NASA’s Jet Prop... More »
Thin, blade-like walls, some as tall as a 16-story building, dominate a previously undocumented network of intersecting ridges on Mars, found in images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The simplest explanation for these impressive ridges is that lava f... More »
The UNC School of Medicine has awarded the 17th Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize to David Anderson, PhD, the Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology for “his discovery of neural circuit mechanisms controlling emotional behavior... More »
Anatol Roshko (MS ’47, PhD ’52), Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus, at Caltech, passed away on January 23, 2017. He was 93 years old. Known for his research in several areas of gas dynamics and fluid mechanics, Roshko made contributions to... More »
JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, recipient of this year’s Condé Nast Traveler’s Top Hotels in Los Angeles: Best Reader’s Choice Award, debuts the results of its collaboration with four ArtCenter College of Design film students to create fresh in-house video ... More »
For the twelfth entry in its Off the Page series of staged readings, Sierra Madre Playhouse will present A Lesson From Aloes. From Tony Award –winning playwright Athol Fugard comes this story, set in 1963 during South Africa’s apartheid, which looks at the con... More »
The Sierra Madre Playhouse received two Ovation Awards from the Los Angeles Stage Alliance earlier this week. The prestigious awards are among the most significant recognitions bestowed on Los Angeles-area theatre. Sierra Madre Playhouse’s winners include Stan... More »
The annual Empty House Party for the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts was held at a stunning 1916 English Tudor home. This party provided a preview of the designer’s visions for the home’s makeover. This year’s house featured a minty green interior, origin... More »
How do you find, track, and quantify the release of a colorless and odorless gas? Methane is less prevalent in the atmosphere than fellow greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2), but it presents more difficult challenges for researchers attempting to study it. Mos... More »
Accomplished violinist and Pasadena resident Lisa Sutton will lead Grammy-winning musicians out from the depths of the dark orchestra pits and onto center stage at local venues in a season of chamber concerts that will give audiences an intimate world class mu... More »
U2 has added another date for its The Joshua Tree Tour concert at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena as tickets quickly sold out for the May 20 performance. They will be performing the next day as well, May 21, starting at 6:30 p.m. Pre-sale tickets for the second and ... More »
Scientists used NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover in recent weeks to examine slabs of rock cross-hatched with shallow ridges that likely originated as cracks in drying mud. “Mud cracks are the most likely scenario here,” said Curiosity science team member Nathan Ste... More »
