John E. Bryson, former United States Secretary of Commerce, environmental advocate, and a life member of the Caltech community, passed away peacefully at his home in San Marino, California, on May 13, 2025. He was 81 years old. Bryson was named to the Caltech ... More »
Emmy Award-winning journalist Emily Chang will deliver a keynote address on the ethical and societal implications of artificial intelligence at Pasadena’s Distinguished Speaker Series. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, May 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Pasadena C... More »
Two Caltech faculty members—Dianne Newman, Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology and Merkin Institute Professor, and Barry Barish, Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus—were elected to membership in the American Philosophi... More »
The Pasadena City Council and Pasadena Unified School District Board adjourned their special joint meeting on Monday in memory of former state senator and Los Angeles City Council Member Nate Holden, who died at 95 on May 7. Holden’s son is Chris Holden, forme... More »
With sadness yet also deep gratitude for a life well-lived, Fuller Seminary announces the passing of Leslie C. Allen, senior professor of Old Testament. He joined Fuller’s faculty in 1983 and served as professor of Old Testament until 2004, continuing as senio... More »
Chan was born in San Francisco on October 5, 1936, to immigrant, working-class parents. He spent his early childhood in what he described as a “culturally disadvantaged” environment. “There was not a drop of academic blood in my body,” he once wrote. But he ev... More »
Nate Holden, a longtime Los Angeles political figure who played a central role in rebuilding the Crenshaw area after the 1992 Los Angeles riots and helped shape public policy in California for more than three decades, died Wednesday. He was 95. Holden is survi... More »
Ernest Posey and the Posey Family Foundation have been selected as the 2024 Bernard Osher Philanthropist of the Year by the Network of California Community College Foundations, an association of local community college foundation professionals dedicated to phi... More »
Were he still alive, the late Pasadena City Councilmember John J. Kennedy would turn 64 today. Kennedy passed away while in office on July 21, 2022. Nearly three years after his untimely death while serving on the City Council, Kennedy’s vision of “One Pasaden... More »
Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein, a condensed biography of the life and work of Einstein, was released on May 1, 2025, by Oxford University Press. The book, authored by Diana Kormos-Buchwald, director of the Einstein Papers Proje... More »
Dr. Howard S. Kaufman, regional medical director of Huntington Cancer Center, has been appointed to the American Cancer Society’s Trailblazers in Cancer Executive Leadership Committee, Huntington Health in Pasadena announced Thursday. The committee supports th... More »
Huntington Medical Research Institutes has appointed two new members to its Board of Directors, the biomedical research organization announced Wednesday. John H. Reith and Philip A. Swan, both with extensive backgrounds in finance and wealth management, joined... More »
