Education

Two Los Alamos High School Students Selected For 2019 Irene Boone Memorial Scholarship

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 12, 2019

Meghan Romero and Tianna McNiel-White, winners of the 2019 Irene Boone Memorial Scholarship. Courtesy/Jessica Booton Photography, www.jessicabootonphotography.com/

EDUCATION News:

The Los Alamos Public Schools (LAPS) and Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation have announced that Tianna McNiel-White and Meghan Romero are the winners of the 2019 Irene Boone Memorial Scholarship.

The scholarship is awarded to students pursuing a two or four-year degree at a college, university or technical-vocational program. It is made possible through the generosity of long-time resident and Read More

PEEC: Meet Cowboys And Horses 6:30 P.M. Today

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 12, 2019
Learn about cowboys and their horses at 6:30 p.m. today at the Los Alamos Nature Center. Courtesy/PEEC
 
PEEC News:
 
The Summer Family Evening at 6:30 p.m. today at the Los Alamos Nature Center features a talk about cowboys and horses of Northern New Mexico.
 
Gene McCracken will be at this event with two horses and discuss what role horses play in a cowboy’s life. This is a great opportunity to see these beautiful creatures up close and ask an expert any questions about horses.
 
Del Norte Credit Union is sponsoring this event and all of PEEC’s Summer Family Evenings in 2019,
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MRM Free Summer Drawing Classes For Teens

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 12, 2019
 
MRM News:
 
The Millicent Rogers Museum is hosting a Taos Arts Club/Teen Art Studio summer drawing classes.
 
The classes are available for free to all youth ages 12-19, and complimentary materials will be available if needed thanks to a generous grant from the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation.  
 
Join the Millicent Rogers Museum as a member and receive great benefits. Memberships are tax-deductible and come with a variety of perks based on your member level.
 
All memberships come with free admission to the museum, a 10 percent discount in the store,
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Tiny Light Box Opens New Doors Into Nanoworld

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 12, 2019
Using a box of stacked atomically thin layers of tungsten disulphide, Chalmers researchers have succeeded in creating a type of feedback loop in which light and matter become one. Courtesy/Denis Baranov/Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology
 
Chalmers University of Technology News:
 
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a completely new way of capturing, amplifying and linking light to matter at the nanolevel.
 
Using a tiny box, built from stacked atomically thin material, they have succeeded in creating a type of
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Los Alamos Jazz Project Summer Camp June 17-21

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 11, 2019

The Los Alamos Jazz Project is hosting its first ever Summer Jazz Camp at Los Alamos High School June 17-21. Courtesy photo

 

 
By LINDSAY ALEXANDER
LAMS
Los Alamos Jazz Project
 

During the week of June 17-21, the Los Alamos Jazz Project will be hosting its first ever Summer Jazz Camp at Los Alamos High School.

 

As the camp kicks off on Monday, June 17, Mariano Morales and Friends, a seven-piece salsa jazz group from Albuquerque, headed by pianist Mariano Morales, will be performing 7-8:30 p.m., at Duane Smith Auditorium. 

 

This event is open to the public, and concert Read More

Learn Spanish At BSLI’s Innovative Immersive Retreat At Northern New Mexico College July 14-19

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 11, 2019
NNMC News:
 
ESPANOLA — The Bilingual Strategies Language Institute (BSLI) and Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) Continuing Education announce an innovative Spanish Immersion Retreat in the beautiful Española Valley in Northern New Mexico, July 14-19.
 
How many times have you thought about polishing your Spanish language skills?
 
Immerse yourself in this five (and one half) day, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., class, that uses a common sense, communicative approach to language instruction.
 
This ‘whole-language’ methodology — learning Spanish like we learned our first language,
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What’s At The Bradbury This Month

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 11, 2019
BSM News:
 
Night with a Nerd
 
Each summer, monsoon season arrives in New Mexico, bringing torrential rains, intense thunderstorms, damaging hail storms, and deadly tornados with it. In spite of these extreme and intimidating weather events, locals are generally glad to see the start of the monsoon. As the source of over half the year’s precipitation, the monsoon brings life-giving water to a state which is often parched.
 
The Bradbury’s National Outreach Traveling Exhibits Program (NOTEs)
 
Over the course of 4 months, Building Immunityguided over 200,000 visitors
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New Award: Exhibit On Display At Jemez Historic Site

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 11, 2019
New Mexico Highlands PICT Program students with Historic Site Staff. Photo by Richard Loffredo

Jemez Pueblo First Lt Gov. Galvan prepares to cut the ribbon at Jemez Historic Site. Photo by Richard Loffredo

 
NMHS News:
 
SANTA FE ― New Mexico Historic Sites and the Pueblo of Jemez won the Archaeology Heritage Preservation Award, by New Mexico Historic Preservation Division and the New Mexico Cultural Properties Review Committee.
 
The award was presented May 17 at the 2019 New Mexico Historic Preservation Awards for collaboration during the “Dig Giusewa” Project. (*media
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LAPSF: Three Outstanding Students Awarded The 2019 Jim Sims Memorial Engineering Scholarship

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 10, 2019

2019 Jim Sims Memorial Engineering Scholarship recipients Aaron Lauritzen, left, Leah Wolfsberg and Jonathan Doorn pose with Becky Sims. Courtesy/Jessica Booton Photography, www.jessicabootonphotography.com

LAPS FOUNDATION News:

The 2019 Jim Sims Memorial Engineering Scholarship has been awarded to Jonathan Doorn, Aaron Lauritzen and Leah Wolfsberg.

The scholarship was created to honor long time Los Alamos resident and LANL engineer Jim Sims.

Sims worked for 34 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a design engineer and leader of project engineering teams. He was a gifted Read More

SFCC Paramedic Program Accepting Applications

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 10, 2019

SFCC News:

  • Earn a Paramedicine Certificate in one year. Applications accepted until 5 p.m. July 31

SANTA FE – Santa Fe Community College’s Emergency Medical Services Institute is accepting Paramedic Training Program applications until 5 p.m. July 31 for the year-long certificate program that starts Oct. 14.

Applicants must be a currently licensed New Mexico Emergency Medical Technician – Basic or Intermediate and up-to-date with their certifications. The application fee is $30 and is non-refundable.

Entrance to the program is competitive. All applications will be reviewed and applicants Read More

LAHS Practice Field Landscaping Begins Monday

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 7, 2019

It may look like a safe place to practice, but the Los Alamos High School practice field is filled with holes and bare patches. Starting Monday, these unsafe conditions will be remedied. Los Alamos Public Schools has contracted with Los Alamos Landscaping & More, LLC for work on this field adjacent to Griffith Gymnasium. The project is scheduled to take 75 days or longer. The scope of work will include top dressing, reseeding and installing sod in areas of the field that are safety concerns, according to Tommy Castillo, director of facilities. ‘Over the past several years, erosion and gophers Read More

LANL Experts To discuss ‘The Science Of Vintage Space’ On Santa Fe Institute Panel 4:15-5:15 P.M. June 15

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 7, 2019

Norris Bradbury, left, in front of the Kiwi B4-A reactor used to power a nuclear rocket in the 1960s as part of Project Rover. Courtesy/LANL

 

LANL News:

 

Los Alamos National Laboratory will host a panel at the Santa Fe Institute’s InterPlanetary Festival about the Science of Vintage Space June 15 in Santa Fe.

 

The event is free and open to the public.

 

Both current and retired experts from the Laboratory will talk about the critical role LANL played in the early days of the space race, such as developing sensors for satellites to detect nuclear explosions in Read More

American Red Cross New Mexico Volunteers Needed … All Training Provided … Open House June 18

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 7, 2019
American Red Cross News:
 
AZTEC ― The American Red Cross of New Mexico will be recruiting for much needed Disaster Action Team members and disaster responders in northern New Mexico counties.
 
Our team of dedicated disaster volunteers respond to numerous house fire calls, along with displacements due to flooding and other disasters. We need community members with a passion to help others at their greatest time of need. No experience is necessary, and all training is provided.
 
An open house event is 3-6 p.m., June 18 at the Santa Fe American Red Cross office at 1213 Mercantile
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Chartwells: Free Food At Aspen June 10-Aug. 3

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 7, 2019
By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Los Alamos

Chef Laurence Pena, hopes to demonstrate love through service during the summer, to the young people of our community and it all begins Monday.

Aspen Elementary School will be the home of free food, for children under the age of 18, with the help of Chartwells Food Services.

Chartwells provides year-long service to LAPS, and will launch the second annual Summer Food Service Program, Monday through Friday, with some new things in store. The daily opportunity also will include an option for parents to purchase a meal for just $5.

“I want to have Chartwells more Read More

LAPS Free Summer Lunch Program June 10-Aug. 3

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 7, 2019
LAPS News:
 
Los Alamos Public Schools is hosting a free Summer Food Service Program June 10 to Aug. 3 at Aspen Elementary School.
 
This free lunch program provides nutritious meals to children 18 and under during the summer when school is not in session.
 
A full lunch will be provided 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday through Friday. All meals will be served on a first-come, first-served basis, and daily menus include a hot protein, fruit, vegetable and milk.
 
“We are pleased to be able to offer this program for the 2nd year in a row at LAPS,” Superintendent Kurt Steinhaus said.
 
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Museum Hosts Additional Programming Related To Drug: Cost & Consequences Exhibition

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 7, 2019
Courtesy photo
 
NMMNHS News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science is hosting another roster of events related to Drugs: Costs & Consequences, Opening Eyes to the Damage Drugs Cause, the US Drug Enforcement Administration exhibition extended through Dec. 8, 2019.
 
Addiction: 10 a.m. – Noon, Saturday, June 29
Snehal Bhatt, MD, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences UNM,
(NM-PBS /Museum Science Café)
 
Substance abuse disorders represent the single most profound public health crisis of our generation. Watch a segment of NOVA Addiction
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Dr. Irina Alvestad Earns Quality Matters Certificate

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on June 6, 2019
UNM-LA: A student accesses an online class offered by Dr. Irina Alvestad in the UNM-Los Alamos Library. Photo by Nancy Coombs
 
UNM-LA News:
 
University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) faculty member Dr. Irina Alvestad received the “Teaching Online Certificate” from Quality Matters (QM), an international non-profit organization that provides tools and professional development for quality assurance in online learning.
 
Dr. Alvestad, who is Division Chair for Math, Engineering, and Science and an Associate Professor of Mathematics, began developing online courses
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