Effective January 3, 2017, Rabbi Joshua Grater will become the new Friends In Deed Executive Director, following the retirement of Rev. Donna Byrns. The Board of Directors released a statement in which it said it is excited for the future of Friends In Deed un... More »
Pasadena Fire Chief Bertral Washington lead an intimate badge pinning ceremony at City Hall’s Council Chambers Thursday afternoon as four PFD personnel were promoted to new ranks within the department. The ceremony was attended by city officials, police and fi... More »
Sherri Ginsberg, the librarian for Hillsides, a Los Angeles County foster care charity headquartered in Pasadena, has been named one of the top 10 librarians in the country by the American Library Association. Ginsberg will receive the 2016 I Love My Librarian... More »
Many self-organized systems in nature exploit a sophisticated blend of deterministic and random processes. No two trees are exactly alike because growth is random, but a Redwood can be readily distinguished from a Jacaranda as the two species follow different ... More »
Throw a baseball, and you might say it’s all in the wrist. For robots, it’s all in the gears. Gears are essential for precision robotics. They allow limbs to turn smoothly and stop on command; low-quality gears cause limbs to jerk or shake. If you’re designing... More »
A new study is the first to show that living organisms can be persuaded to make silicon-carbon bonds—something only chemists had done before. Scientists at Caltech “bred” a bacterial protein to have the ability to make the man-made bonds, a finding that h... More »
The Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority Board of Directors has appointed Doug Tessitor, who represents the City of Pasadena on the Board, as Chairman, and Sam Pedroza, representing the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments, as Vice Chairman. Tessitor... More »
In the final round of the premier global academic competition for high school students, Zachary Damir ’16, Bettina Lee ’16, and Japhet Quitzon ’16 of La Salle High School represented the United States of America and finished as the top team in the Americas, an... More »
Caltech senior trustee Charles Trimble (BS ’63, MS ’64), founder and former chief executive officer of Trimble Navigation, Ltd., is the 2016 recipient of the International von Kármán Wings Award. The honor—administered by the Aerospace Historical Society and t... More »
The views in guest opinion pieces do not necessarily reflect the views of Pasadena Now. Pasadena City Manager Steve Mermell and Police Chief Phillip Sanchez stuck their thumbs in the eyes of Pasadena’s African-American political leadership on November 7. Bla... More »
The views in guest opinion pieces do not necessarily reflect the views of Pasadena Now. In our op-ed last Sunday entitled “The Science Deniers on Body Camera Policy”, we discussed the cognitive science basis for the best policing practice of allowing officer... More »
The prosperity of Pasadena is dependent on the financial health of the local business community. One simple way everyone who lives, works or does business in Pasadena can aid in the continued recovery of the local economy is to spend money with Pasadena busine... More »
