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View MoreTorres qualifies, giving PUSD District 7 voters a choice
Cynthia Torres qualified for the PUSD District 7 school board race before the Aug. 12 deadline, turning what would have been an uncontested appointment for Dennis McNamara into a two-candidate contest on the Nov. 3 ballot.
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View MoreFree vaccination clinic open for PUSD students ahead of Aug. 17 school start
PUSD's free immunization clinic runs Aug. 12-14 at the Education Center on Hudson Avenue, giving uninsured and underinsured families a narrow window to meet California's vaccination requirements before the Aug. 17 first day of school.
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View MoreCaltech maps Antarctic glacier's rapid decline in new study
A Caltech geophysics team led by Professor Brent Minchew published research showing how a 2017 Antarctic calving event accelerated the Pine Island Glacier by 20% and severed it from its stabilizing margins, sharpening global sea-level rise predictions.
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View MoreCaltech earns No. 31 spot on LinkedIn's national career-outcomes ranking
Caltech ranked No. 31 on LinkedIn's second annual Top Colleges list for career outcomes, ahead of USC and among five California schools honored for positioning graduates for long-term professional success.
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View MoreCaltech opens its doors Friday night for free lecture on NASA's next great space telescope
Caltech hosts a free public lecture Friday evening on NASA's Roman Space Telescope, presented by IPAC lead scientist Lee Armus at the Cahill Center, with guided stargazing to follow weeks before the mission's August launch.
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View MoreNew federal earnings test could cut PCC cosmetology students off from loans by 2029
A new federal law requires college programs to prove graduates earn at least $36,000 a year or risk losing students' federal loan eligibility, with PCC's cosmetology program in a category where more than 90% of programs nationally are expected to fail. ArtCenter and Caltech appear unaffected.
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View MorePolytechnic students race solar car across 631 miles of Texas highway
Ten Polytechnic School students are racing their solar-powered car Perihelion across 631 miles of Texas highway starting Sunday, July 19, after adapting the vehicle's suspension for open-road conditions in the team's third year competing in the Solar Car Challenge.
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View MoreNearly 100 adults earn high school diplomas through PCC's free program
Nearly 100 adults graduated from Pasadena City College's tuition-free Adult High School Diploma program at its 39th commencement on June 5, with graduates including a grandmother planning to study speech-language pathology and a woman who waited 26 years to finish.
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View MoreCaltech students building payloads bound for the International Space Station
Caltech undergraduates in Andy Klesh's EE 154ab course are building scientific instruments that will launch to the International Space Station in spring 2027, partnering with the National Geographic Society to study microscopic organisms in microgravity.
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View MoreCaltech physicist Mark B. Wise, a pioneer of heavy quark theory, dies at 72
Mark B. Wise, Caltech's John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics and a co-developer of heavy quark effective theory, died July 10, 2026, at age 72 after 44 years on the Pasadena campus.
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View MoreRosebud Academy heads into second year in temporary classrooms as enrollment hits record high
Pasadena Rosebud Academy, destroyed by the Eaton Fire in January 2025, is heading into its second year in modular classrooms at Don Benito Fundamental while expecting a record 215 students this fall; founder Shawn Brown held a comedy fundraiser Sunday at the Alex Theatre as the school pursues a $50 million rebuild.
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View MoreCaltech scientist launches free dance-and-neuroscience program for Pasadena teen girls
Caltech postdoctoral scholar Dr. Jess Kanwal launched a free four-session program at Pasadena's Jefferson Branch Library on July 9, teaching girls ages 13 to 17 how to build AI tools that recognize dance moves and measure muscle electrical signals.
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