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Julie Messersmith joined Caltech as vice president for institute initiatives on July 1, 2026, bringing more than a decade in senior administrative leadership at Johns Hopkins University to advance cross-institutional initiatives, deepen collaboration, and purs... More »
Former Caltech professor Erin Schuman has been named a recipient of the 2026 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Schuman, who is now director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Germany, shares the prize w... More »
Royce Y.C. Hong left ArtCenter College of Design in 1994 with a degree in graphic and packaging design. Three decades later, he runs three companies across three industries on two continents — and now he is coming back. ArtCenter, the Pasadena art and design c... More »
Michael Allen has three minutes Wednesday afternoon to convince a panel of Verizon judges that the yoga breathing techniques he turned to during a difficult stretch in a corporate job belong in the hands — and on the mats — of elementary schoolers in Pasadena,... More »
For more than four decades, Bill Ukropina has measured Pasadena in square footage — the office floors, retail frontage and industrial space that change hands across the city. When he looks at the city now, roughly a year and a half after the Eaton Fire tore th... More »
The Pasadena City Council adjourned its June 15 meeting in memory of Betsy Nathane, a dedicated community advocate whose efforts helped transformed a closed elementary school into Linda Vista Park. Councilmember Steve Madison requested the adjournment, noting ... More »
A storyteller who built an award-winning solo show around a subzero outhouse, Kona Morris has won Moth SLAMs in New York City, Los Angeles and Boston, according to her biography. On Wednesday, June 17, she brings “Your Story Matters” to the Rotary Club of Pasa... More »
A Pasadena Media executive has been selected to support transportation operations for the FIFA World Cup 2026, one of the largest sporting events ever held. Jasiri Jenkins-Glenn, the organization’s director of community engagement, has been chosen to serve on ... More »
Thomas F. Rosenbaum, the Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and professor of physics, is in his 12th and final year as Caltech’s ninth president. Rosenbaum’s time as president has encompassed two full terms and part of a third—the longest anyone has ... More »
On Friday, May 29, 2026, Pasadena Police Chief Gene Harris has been recognized as a recipient of the prestigious Who’s Who in America’s Neighborhoods Award in the Government category by Neighborhoods, USA (NUSA), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to ... More »
Mandel was born on August 24, 1926, in Antwerp, Belgium, to a German-speaking Polish Jewish family and educated in French schools until the Nazis invaded Belgium in May 1940. His family fled to New York City when he was 14 and lived in Forest Hills, Queens, wh... More »
Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo has often referred to the roughly 1,000 Marines and Sailors of the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment — some of whom are stationed locally on city-owned land at the corner of Paloma Street and Sierra Madre Boulevard — as “our sons ... More »
