Keck adds new dean to BioPharmacy school

Kathy D. Webster, PharmD and PhD, has been appointed founding dean of Keck Graduate Institute’s new School of BioPharmacy. The school, which is scheduled to admit its first class in fall 2014 pending accreditation, is being designed to meet future needs in the...

Keeping fit at 100 years

Ask Laura Johnson, 100, the secret to her longevity and she’s got a no-nonsense answer: hard work. Ask her how people stayed in shape before exercise classes became common and she’ll give a similar reply. “They worked hard.” The same recipe for...

Readers comments 1.9.13

Coates Cyclery a treasure Dear Editor: I was so pleased to read the article extolling the virtues of the bicycle shop we’ve had in Claremont/Pomona for so many years. Wes Roth and now Corey McCroskey of Coates Cyclery have been honorable businessmen and it has...

What it takes to make, and read, a statement

by John Pixley When I was in high school and college, and for many years afterward, my dad would see my hair and what I was wearing and ask, “Are you making a statement?” For years, I would adamantly deny it. “No!” I would proclaim hotly, both...