JROMC Hosts Dinner For Scholarship Recipients & Lecturer
Harvard University Professor and speaker at the JROMC lecture held Monday Jennifer Lewis chats with JROMC Chair David Izraelevitz during the dinner Sunday. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Some of the recipients of the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee (JROMC) scholarships attended at JROMC dinner Sunday at the Blue Window Bistro. Pictured here are, counter-clockwise from the left, Los Alamos High School (LAHS) graduates Isaac Gao, Quinton Geller, Ming-Yuan Lo, Santa Fe High School (SFHS) graduate Lucas Blakeslee and LAHS graduate Yeanwoo Park. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com Read More
Community Conversations: Fentanyl Awareness – Harm Reduction
Community News:
The community is invited to attend a free event to discuss harm reduction 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 29 at Fuller Lodge.
Los Alamos Police Drug Recognition Experts will explain signs of an overdose and substance abuse. Kelly Mytinger, Harm Reduction Program Manager from the Mountain Center will provide training on how to administer NARCAN and provide answers to questions listed in the registration form.
Register at www.losalamosjjab.com/events.
Community Conversations is an ongoing community collaboration program designed to build community, create connections Read More
Zia Credit Union Hosts Kasasa Team Building Event
Zia Credit Union President and CEO Dwayne Herrera addresses employees from his branches in Española, Santa Fe and Los Alamos gathered for a training June 12 at SALA. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Standing from left, Zia President and CEO Dwayne Herrera, Kasasa’s Retail Experience Consultant Shannon Head and Client Director Haley Thieblot and Zia Vice President Marketing/Business Development Laura Loy at the June 12 training at SALA. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Zia Credit Union employees from Española, Santa Fe and Los Alamos branches gather for a training June 12 at SALA Read More
LAHS 2023 Graduate Fayrouz Mourad Awarded 2023 Scholarship From New Mexico Boards Of Education
Outstanding Los Alamos High School 2023 graduating senior Fayrouz Mourad has received a $1,000 scholarship from the New Mexico School Boards Association. Courtesy/LAPS
LAPS News:
Los Alamos High School 2023 graduate Fayrouz Mourad has been selected to receive a $1,000 scholarship from the New Mexico School Boards Association. She is one of 22 outstanding high school graduating seniors to receive this award.
Nominations for this scholarship were submitted by New Mexico Boards of Education representing eight regions.
Selections were based on criteria including demonstrated leadership, Read More
SFCC, Kids Campus & Santa Fe Higher Education Center To Observe Independence Day July 4
SFCC News:
Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) and the Santa Fe Higher Education Center will observe Independence Day Tuesday, July 4.
No classes will be held and no student services will be available. SFCC’s child development center, Kids Campus will be closed.
Summer credit and noncredit classes will resume Wednesday, July 5, after the holiday. Staff at SFCC main campus (6401 Richards Ave.) and the Santa Fe HEC (1950 Siringo Road) will resume services beginning at 8 a.m. Wednesday, July 5. Kids Campus is closed July 3-7 in observance of Independence Day and the rest of the week for Summer Break. Read More
Los Alamos Public School Students Honored With Devi Raju Citizenship Award For Demonstrating Exceptional Kindness And Generosity Of Spirit Toward Fellow Students
Devi Raju Citizenship Award recipients from Los Alamos Middle School. Each student was selected by their classroom teachers based upon demonstrated exceptional kindness and generosity of spirit toward their fellow students and service to the community. Courtesy/LAPS
Kay’son Grant holds the Devi Raju Citizenship Award he received for demonstrating exceptional kindness and generosity of spirit toward his fellow students at Mountain Elementary School. Courtesy/LAPS
LAPS News:
More than 100 Los Alamos elementary and middle school students are the first recipients of the Devi Raju Citizenship Read More
NHCC Hosts Acclaimed Corazón Collective For Two-Day Writing Event June 22-24
NHCC News:
ALBUQUERQUE — The National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) is thrilled to welcome the award-winning Corazón Collective to the Center for a two-day reading, book-signing, and workshop event June 22 and 24 through its El Arte de la Palabra program!
“With recent appearances by authors like Ana Castillo, Carmen Tafolla, and Leticia Urieta, the NHCC has solidified itself as a destination for writers working in a variety of mediums and genres,” NHCC Interim Executive Director Zack Quintero said. “And the arrival of the Corazón Collective, which includes a current state Poet Laureate, Read More
Innovative Chicana/o Studies Program Intends To Improve New Mexico’s Low Education Rankings
UNM News:
Decades of research confirm that a college education greatly contributes to the economic and social well-being of our communities. Yet for years, New Mexico has routinely earned low rankings placing the state at the bottom of the list for its quality of education, coming in at #50 for education in US News & World Report’s 2023 Best States Rankings and the 2023 Kids Count Data Book’s child well-being rankings. Now, an innovative new program hopes to rectify that.
Since 2016, The Chicana/o Studies Department (CCS) at the University of New Mexico (UNM) has steadily been working to Read More
Leadership Los Alamos Board Now Accepting Applications For 2023-24 Program Year September 2023 To May 2024
LLA News:
The Leadership Los Alamos (LLA) Board is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 program year, which runs September 2023 to May 2024.
Program information along with the program and scholarship application forms can be found here: https://leadershiplosalamos.com/documents-links/.
The deadline for submitting applications is July 15, 2023. Completed applications and questions should be sent to leadershiplosalamos@gmail.com.
About Leadership Los Alamos:
Leadership Los Alamos was founded in 2003 to identify current and emerging leaders in the Los Alamos area, enhance Read More
St. John’s Welcomes New Deans In Santa Fe & Annapolis
New St. John’s College Dean Sarah Davis
SJC News:
St. John’s College is welcoming new academic leadership at its campuses in Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe.
Sarah Davis will be dean in Santa Fe and Susan Paalman will be dean in Annapolis, each overseeing the college’s distinctive program of instruction with its focus on Great Books and small, discussion-based classes on their respective campuses.
Brendan Boyle will serve as associate dean for graduate programs on the Annapolis campus, overseeing the St. John’s College Graduate Institute.
Boyle’s term began June 1; Davis and Paalman will Read More
Troop 71 Honors New Eagle Scouts: Reuben Goettee, Liam Hooks, Tommy Oldham, Naveen Velappan, Leeson Weaver
Five members of Boy Scout Troop 71 in White Rock earned the rank of Eagle Scout. They were honored recently during the Eagle Scout Court of Honor. Pictured from left, Scoutmaster Kane Fisher, Scouts Reuben Goettee, Liam Hooks, Tommy Oldham, Naveen Velappan and Leeson Weaver and U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján and Assistant Scoutmaster Ray Flesner. Courtesy photo
COMMUNITY News:
Boy Scouts of America Troop 71 in White Rock has announced that five troop members earned the rank of Eagle Scout. The scouts were honored at an Eagle Scout Court of Honor attended June 3 by family and friends.
Reuben Goettee, Liam Read More
LAPS Board To Meet Thursday June 22, 2023
LAPS News:
A Los Alamos Public Schools (LAPS) board meeting will be held 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 22 in Administration Offices, School Board Room at 2101 Trinity Drive, Suite V and virtually on Zoom.
This meeting is open to the public.
Find the agenda to this meeting here.
Find the link to this meeting here.
Meeting ID: 505 663 2222
Passcode: j45K8H Read More
Robinson: Christine Trujillo, A Woman Warrior, Steps Down
State Rep. Christine Trujillo. Photo by Sherry Robinson/© 2023 New Mexico News Services
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2023 New Mexico News Services
“Mom, you’re president of the AFL-CIO!”
Not many women ever heard that sentence. In 2001 Christine Trujillo had been teaching for 21 years, served on the state school board, and was president of the 6,500-member American Federation of Teachers-New Mexico. That December she became the first woman and the first teacher to lead the New Mexico Federation of Labor AFL-CIO.
Trujillo routinely juggled so many responsibilities that it took her daughter’s Read More
Military Order Of The World Wars To Host Featured Speaker LANL Director Emeritus Dr. Sig Hecker June 20
Dr. Sig Hecker
MOWW News:
This month’s Military Order of the World Wars Chapter 229 (MOWW) speaker will be LANL Director Emeritus Dr. Sig Hecker on “How Putin’s invasion of Ukraine destroys the Global Nuclear Order”.
Although we still don’t know how the war in Ukraine will end, we know that the suffering inflicted on Ukraine’s people by Putin’s war is horrific. We also don’t know if Putin will resort to tactical nuclear weapons in desperation, but we know that the war has destroyed the global nuclear order established over the years since World War II.
Although there are many critics of that nuclear Read More
Los Alamos Little Theatre Acting Classes Begin June 26
Acting classes begin Monday, June 26 at the Performing Arts Center at 1670 Nectar St. Courtesy/LALT
LALT News:
Los Alamos Little Theatre (LALT) announces a series of acting classes taught by local actor and director (and all-around theatre nerd) Jazmine Torres.
The classes begin June 26 and will be held 5:30-7 p.m. Mondays at the Performing Arts Center, 1670 Nectar St.
The classes will be a mixture of games and exercises, acting theory and scene work. Participants can come to one or all classes as their schedule and interest permits. Suggested donation of $10 per class, but whatever floats your Read More
Los Alamos Faith & Science Forum Presents: Islamic Bioethics Lecture By Victoria Erhart June 20 At SALA
Los Alamos Faith And Science Forum News:
Pizza will be available in the lobby at 6 p.m. and the lecture begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Roxy Movie Theater.
This talk is based on a course on Islamic Bioethics from the Hamad bin Khalifa Medical College in Qatar. The talk will cover a discussion on Islamic bioethics, with specific reference to how religious authorities and medical authorities in the Middle East Islamic world construct policies regarding the beginning of human life (a two stage process) and how to determine the end of human life.
Time permitting, those attending may also discuss the Islamic Read More
Juneteenth New Mexico Celebration At Northern New Mexico College Today
NNMC News:
ESPAÑOLA, NM — Juneteenth New Mexico invites the community to attend a Juneteenth commemoration at Northern New Mexico College at 12 p.m. today, June 17, 2023.
The New Mexico Department of Veterans Affairs Color Guard will open the event by raising the Juneteenth Flag. That will be followed by a luncheon and networking hour honoring New Mexico Veterans in Northern’s Event Center. Read More
Seventy Two New Mexico Schools In Literacy Spotlight
Education Secretary Arsenio Romero
NMPED News:
SANTA FE — Eight schools across the state have been named Structured Literacy Model Schools by the New Mexico Public Education Department.
“It is so invigorating to celebrate these Model Schools for their dedication to the Science of Reading and their efforts to ensure literacy instruction is in the spotlight,” Education Secretary Arsenio Romero said. “We are at a pivotal moment in New Mexico, one in which student outcomes are about to surpass past performances, all because the teaching of reading is our unwavering focus.”
8 Structured Literacy Read More
Scenes From PAC 8 Summer Media Classes
Scene of PAC 8 students enjoying learning in the summer media classes. Space is still available in some sessions: https:////pac8cmc.com/classes.
Scene of PAC 8 students enjoying learning how to use the green screen in the summer media classes. Space is still available in some sessions: https:////pac8cmc.com/classes.
LAHS Students Graduate From MASH Program At LAMC
Mara Heaton, RN, speaks with MASH students Megan Brown, Isabel Griffith, Moorea Montano and Rebecca Beaux. Courtesy/LAMC
LAMC CEO Tracie Stratton congratulates MASH program graduates from left, Rebecca Beaux, Lizeth Garcia, Isabel Griffith, Megan Brown and Moorea Montano. Courtesy/LAMC
LAMC News:
Los Alamos Medical Center (LAMC) and Los Alamos High School again offered the Multiple Avenues for Successful Healthcare (MASH) program to interested and eligible sophomores, juniors and seniors.
The goal of this program is to expose local students to the multiple career opportunities Read More
