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Betye Saar, who grew up in Pasadena during the Great Depression and studied art and design at Pasadena City College before becoming a leading figure in the assemblage art movement, died Sunday in Los Angeles, four days before her 100th birthday. She was 99. Ro... More »
Huntington Health announced the appointment of Mariko Kita, MD, MBA, as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, effective September 29, 2026. Dr. Kita joins Huntington following a national search and was selected for her clinical expertise, and strong... More »
Rudolph A. (Rudy) Marcus, Caltech’s John G. Kirkwood and Arthur A. Noyes Professor of Chemistry, passed away on July 16, 2026. The prolific chemist, who approached theory with infinite curiosity and the background of an experimentalist, was five days shy of hi... More »
Nathan Wolford lost both legs below the knee in a 2017 work accident in Michigan. This month, the City of Pasadena named him the 2026 recipient of its Robert Gorski Access Award. The award, established by the city’s Accessibility and Disability Commission, is ... More »
Wise, a particle physicist whose research focused on the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions, played a key role in the development of the heavy quark effective theory (HQET), a formalism that has allowed physicists to make precise predict... More »
Alfred N. Fonteh spent more than two decades looking for traces of Alzheimer’s disease before it announces itself — early precursors in the fats moving through spinal fluid, blood and urine, where he believed the disease left its earliest traces. Fonteh, a res... More »
The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine has appointed Patricia A. Thomas, MD, FACP, to its board of directors, the Pasadena-based medical school announced in a statement July 8. Thomas is Professor of Medicine Emerita at the Johns Hopkins Uni... More »
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 »
