LWVNM: Legislative Process Training Saturday
Leadership Los Alamos Class Of 2020 Discuss Youth
Leadership Los Alamos participants Nathan Romero and Beverly Purtymun during the youth session Nov. 15 at the Los Alamos Teen Center. Courtesy/LLA
LLA Youth Session facilitators from left, LAPS Healthy Schools Program Director Kristine Coblentz, Los Alamos Teen Center Director George Marsden and Los Alamos Family Council Executive Director Jordan Redmond. Courtesy/LLAConsider The Gift Of Education On Giving Tuesday
Los Alamos High School chemistry students use virtual reality headsets made possible by a grant from the LAPS Foundation. Courtesy photoProjectY Cowork Hosts Interactive Round-Robin Event Connecting Entrepreneurs With Experts Wednesday
BUSINESS News:
projectY cowork is hosting a free Entrepreneurial Round-Robin event 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4.
This is a great opportunity for small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs to ask questions about resources available to them locally and statewide.
At the beginning of the event each guest speaker will introduce themselves and explain what resources and benefits they have to offer small businesses. After introductions, attendees will breakout with the speakers and have the opportunity to ask specific questions regarding their needs.
“We encourage all small Read More
LAPS: Transgender 101, 201 Presentations Canceled
LAPS News:
The Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico’s Transgender 101 presentation set for today, Monday, Dec. 2 and the Transgender 201 presentation set for Tuesday, Dec. 3 have been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Presentations will be rescheduled in the spring with information released to the public once dates are set.
LAPS apologizes for any inconvenience.
Direct questions to Kristine Coblentz at 505.663.2263 or k.coblentz@laschools.net. Read More
NASA Awards UbiQD Of Los Alamos Second, Larger Contract To ‘Tailor The Solar Spectrum For Enhanced Crop Yield For Space Missions’
UbiQD’s quantum dot-enabled retrofit greenhouse film, UbiGro™, deployed above rows of tomatoes in a research greenhouse in the Netherlands. Courtesy/UbiQD, Inc.
BUSINESS News:
- The Phase II STTR contract will fund further collaboration with the University of Arizona’s Controlled Environment Agriculture Center to develop new light recipes using UbiQD’s quantum dot technology
UbiQD, Inc., a New Mexico-based nanotechnology development company, announced today that it has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Read More
LANL And RDC Host REDI Summit On Workforce, Housing, Infrastructure Needed For Growing Economy
CEO Innovation+Educate Jamai Blivin moderates the education and workforce session for the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Regional Development Corporation hosted Community Conversation on Economic and Workforce Development and the annual Regional Economic Development Initiative (REDI) Summit Nov. 20 at Buffalo Thunder Resort. A couple of hundred attendees had the opportunity to engage in discussions with tribal leaders, college presidents, mayors, workforce experts and business leaders about the workforce, housing and infrastructure needed to support a growing economy. Read More
SFCC Fitness Center Opening Late Dec. 7
SFCC News:Water Main Leak At UNM-LA: Campus Closed Monday
News Alert:
The UNM-Los Alamos campus will be closed Monday, Dec. 2, due to a water main leak.
All on-campus classes and activities are canceled. Read More
Eighty-Eight LAHS Students Recognized At National Honors Society Annual Induction Ceremony
NHS Officer and Los Alamos High School Senior Steven Stravell leads the National Honors Society induction ceremony Monday evening at the Duane Smith Auditorium. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
LAHS Student Body Vice President Rebekah Lockhart speaks to the audience. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
LAHS News:
SFCC Announces Cabinet Secretary Bill McCamley To Keynote 2019 Commencement Dec. 7
Cabinet Secretary of Workforce Solutions Bill McCamleyLemonade Living Teams Up With Gifted Horse And Other Non-Profits To Serve Developmental Disabilities And Special Needs Community In Los Alamos And NNM
Lemonade Living is ‘making life sweet’ for others through its therapeutic horseback riding programs. Photo by Melissa Arias
A participant in the therapeutic horseback riding program at Lemonade Living. Photo by Melissa Arias‘Try Hockey Free Day’ At Los Alamos Ice Rink Dec. 1
World Futures: Education Part Four
By ANDY ANDREWS
Los Alamos World Futures Institute
In Part Three of this series we examined what students need to learn about Earth as they are progressing through primary and secondary school.
Secondary school seems to be the ending point of societal and governmental supported education for everyone and finishes after grade 12.
While one might argue that government and society should support post-secondary education fully, perhaps through grade 14, one can argue that we merely need to alter the 12-year curriculum.
Of course this becomes a major challenge with the rapid evolution of knowledge Read More
The Story Of A Book – ‘Homesteading On The Pajarito Plateau’
‘This book is dedicated to the memory of those original homesteaders who took the risks, made the effort, met the challenges, and gave up their land ‘for the good of the nation.’ —from Homesteading on the Pajarito PlateauStill Time To Sign Up For 8th Grade Washington Trip
Red Cross: 20 Tips To Help Have Safe Thanksgiving
American Red Cross News:- Keep an eye on what you fry. Stay in the kitchen and never leave cooking food unattended.
Silver City Museum Receives AAM Accreditation
Silver City Museum. Courtesy photoGoodnight, Los Alamos Author Visits Piñon School
Piñon Elementary School had the honor of hosting Whitney Spivey, author of Goodnight, Los Alamos, Wednesday, Nov. 20 in White Rock. She spoke to the first, second and third grade classes about writing, answered may eager questions, and shared her beautiful book. Spivey graciously signed books afterward with Scout, one of her daughters, in her lap. Goodnight, Los Alamos is available for checkout in the school library and for sale at local businesses in Los Alamos and White Rock. Courtesy photo
Goodnight, Los Alamos author Whitney Spivey speaks to the first, second and third grade classes Nov. Read More
NMHU Anthropology Partnership Produces First Drone Aerial Survey Of Anasazi Pueblo
Highlands anthropology faculty member Vick Evans, left, and Katie Withnall of the New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute hold a NMFWRI drone used to help develop the first aerial maps of a prehistoric Navajo site. Behind them is one of the geographic information system (GIS) site maps Withnall developed for the project. Courtesy/NMFWRI
