Streaming and downloading services are video devices contemplated by the parties when Bill Nye signed a 1993 agreement with Walt Disney Co. subsidiary Buena Vista Television to deliver episodes of “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” a judge ruled. Los Angeles Superior... More »
Looking back on his seven years of leadership, retiring Friends in Deed Board Chair Richard Cheung has learned a few things about management. As he told Pasadena Now in a recent interview, “When you lead an organization, make sure you surround yourself with t... More »
George Rossman (PhD ’71), professor of mineralogy, has been awarded the 2021 Roebling Medal by the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA). The Roebling Medal is the MSA’s highest award, recognizing “scientific eminence as represented primarily by scientific pu... More »
Los Angeles native Amanda Gorman, who became a national sensation after her acclaimed poetry reading at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, will be back in the spotlight Sunday as she reads another work at the Super Bowl. Gorman, 22, will read a poem before th... More »
Pasadena native and Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts graduate Michael Lewis has been appointed to the position of executive chef at Dry Creek Kitchen in Healdsburg. With Lewis at the helm, the restaurant, located next to the Hotel Healdsburg, reopens on... More »
Adolfo Gonzales began work Monday as Los Angeles County’s chief probation officer, overseeing a system that supervises more than 40,000 juveniles and adults and managing an annual budget of over $1 billion. The county operates a Pasadena probation office in th... More »
Jean-Paul Revel, the Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology, Emeritus, died on December 4 at the age of 89. Revel served as dean of students at Caltech from 1996 to 2005. Born in France, Revel graduated in 1949 from the University of Strasbourg where he ... More »
After nearly 17 years of leading the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) as project manager, Gary Sanders retired at the beginning of 2021. He had been responsible for managing the design and construction of the telescope since its inception in 2004. An accomplished ... More »
Brandon Lew, DO, medical director of emergency department, has been elected chief of medical staff at Huntington Hospital, effective January 28, 2021. Dr. Lew now leads a medical staff of more than 990 active physicians in serving the residents of the greater ... More »
Film, stage and television star Cloris Leachman, a former Rose Parade grand marshal, has died. She was 94. Leachman, best known for her role as Phyllis Lindstrom on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and its short-lived spinoff “Phyllis,” died in her sleep of natural... More »
Union Station Homeless Services announced today the promotion of Shawn Morrissey, to Senior Director of Advocacy and Community Engagement, as a senior member of the organization’s Executive Team reporting directly to CEO Anne Miskey. In this role, Shawn contin... More »
Ward Whaling, professor of physics, emeritus, at Caltech, passed away on December 15, 2020. He was 97 years old. Whaling was an experimental nuclear physicist who taught for many years at Caltech, and served as secretary of the faculty for 16 years. “I had an ... More »
