UNM-LA, JJAB’s Parenting Workshop Big Success
Workshop participants listen to keynote speaker Jonathan Catherman with Franklin Covey Education. Courtesy/UNM-LA
UNM-LA News:
The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos and the Juvenile Justice Advisory Board (JJAB) hosted a parenting workshop, Raising Children in a Challenging World, Saturday, May 2 at UNM- LA.
Fifty-seven adults participated in the half-day workshop, highlighted by keynote speaker Jonathan Catherman, a Senior Consultant with Franklin Covey Education. Catherman’s talk was based on Stephen R. Covey’s New York Times bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Read More
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EDUCATION News:LAPS Appoints Interim Principal At LAHS
LAPS News:
Effective today, Mr. Brad Parker has been appointed interim Principal at Los Alamos High School. Dr. Debbie Belew-Nyquist will not be returning as Principal for the 2015-16 school year.
Parker’s background in education is extensive. His teaching experience includes biology and physical science instruction as well as leading at-risk tutoring at Santa Fe High School. He also taught life science at Los Alamos Middle School.
In the area of school administration, Parker has served as Principal at Capshaw Middle School in Santa Fe, Assistant Principal at Vista Grande Elementary Read More
LAHS Graduate Barbara Hopkins Of Wright State University To Receive Georgina M. Smith Award
Barbara Hopkins
EDUCATION News:
Washington, D.C.—Barbara Hopkins, professor of economics at Wright State University, has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the AAUP’s Georgina M. Smith Award.
Hopkins is a 1981 graduate of Los Alamos High School and the daughter of retired Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist John C. Hopkins.
During her time as grievance officer at Wright State, Hopkins has worked tirelessly to document, report, and remedy troubling patterns of racial bias in promotion and tenure in Wright State’s College of Nursing and Health (CoNH). Through Hopkins’s efforts, Read More
Martian Glass: Window Into Possible Past Life?
Spectral signals: Researchers have found deposits of impact glass preserved in Martian craters like Alga (above) using data from NASA’s Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM). Green indicates the presence of glass. (Blues are pyroxene; reds are olivine.) Such deposits could be a good place to look for signs of past life. Courtesy/NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHUAPL/University of Arizona
The search for impact glass: A possible Martian site (white circle) is the Nili Fossae trough. The blue-tinted Hargraves crater at the right (blue indicates a low topography) is known Read More
Sample ‘A Taste of Knowledge’ June 20
Wine and beer tasting will fund LAPS Foundation’s Great Ideas Grants available to teachers each fall and spring. Courtesy photo
LAPSF News:
Looking for a chance to see the new Community Golf Building and enjoy a libation? The Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation will host a beer and wine tasting event, A Taste of Knowledge 6-9 p.m. June 20 at the new Golf Course Community Building and patio.
Participants will sample a wide variety of specially selected wines and beers, choosing eight tastes from among 12 offerings.
All proceeds from the event benefit the Great Ideas Grants available Read More
SFI: Identity And Social Preferences… June 15
Seth SandersCivil Rights And Education Advocates Release Reports On Massive Resource Inequities In Public Schools
LCEF News:
WASHINGTON ― Monday June 8, two civil rights and education organizations released major reports documenting the massive resource disparities in public schools nationwide.
The Leadership Conference Education Fund released its new report on resource inequity in public schools across the nation. The Education Law Center released its fourth National Report Card on how the states fund public education.
Cheating our Future: How Decades of Disinvestment by States Jeopardizes Equal Educational Opportunity examines in-depth how a lack of resources helps to Read More
LANL Scholarship Helps Taos Student Achieve Goals
Dawn Penso met AESF’s rigorous merit-based requirements to earn the $10,000 John and Marti Browne Endowed Leadership Scholarship. Courtesy/LANLF
LANLF News:
For Dawn Penso, the word “goal” has important significance both on and off the soccer field. From an early age, the accomplished athlete and Taos High School graduate has used her personal drive to stay focused on her aspirations.
A tumultuous upbringing led Penso to seek comfort outside her home environment. At the age of seven, she discovered soccer as a positive outlet to “get in the zone” and clear her head of challenges she faced with Read More
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Los Alamos Kiwanis Awards Scholarship To Jenna Erickson
From left, Kiwanis President, Steve Boerigter, Key Club Sponsor Morrie Pongratz, Jenna Erickson and her mom Gillian. Courtesy/Kiwanis
KIWANIS News:
The Los Alamos Kiwanis Club presented Los Alamos High School senior Jenna Erickson with a scholarship Tuesday during the group’s weekly meeting.
Erickson was recognized for her active community participation as a youth leader in the United Way Youth Team, Los Alamos Youth Leadership Project manager, and a member of the Los Alamos Heart Council. She plans to attend the University of Utah to study ballet and humanitarian aid.
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Los Alamos High School Graduate Studying At WTAMU Receives Gilman Scholarship For Study In Brazil
Shalee Britton of Los Alamos
EDUCATION News:
CANYON, Texas—It’s been Shalee Britton’s lifelong dream to study the fauna and flora of tropical regions, and that dream will come true for the West Texas A&M University student when she travels to Brazil in the fall as the recipient of the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship.
Britton, a junior wildlife biology major and Attebury Honors student from Los Alamos is one of 860 American undergraduate students from 332 colleges and universities across the United States selected to receive the award, Read More
Camp Invention At Barranca Elementary June 22-26
BARRANCA News:LANL’s VISIBLE Team Teaches Los Alamos Teens The Art And Science Of Creating Video Games
Travis Burkett, right, and other members of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s ‘VISIBLE Team’ (Virtual Simulation BaseLine Experience) were at the Los Alamos Teen Center Friday to teach the art and science of creating video games. ‘It’s for serious purposes but we basically make video games at the Lab,’ Burkett said. ‘We’re trying to get kids interested in artistic careers. This is a field that is only going to grow.’ Team members not in photo include Giovanni Sabella, David Dunn, Elise Elfman and Adan Patino. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.comWild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary Kicks Off PEEC’s Summer Family Evenings At Nature Center
Kids enjoy a visit from Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary. Courtesy/PEECPEEC’s Summer Family Evenings kicks off with a bang this year with a visit from Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday at the Nature Center, thanks to new sponsorship from Del Norte Credit Union.
Kids can visit with an ambassador wolf. The Sanctuary’s staff will teach all about wolves, including their diet, hunting strategies, family life, physical adaptations, pack structure and more.
Summer Family Evenings have always been a popular program at PEEC, and now, with the Del Norte Credit Union’s support, Read More
PEEC Holds First Planetarium Show Tuesday
Gazing at Saturn at a planetarium. Courtesy/PEECPEEC News:
The Los Alamos Nature Center will host its first planetarium show at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 9 at 2600 Canyon Road.
The presentation will introduce beginning stargazers to the planets that can be seen throughout June, and to selected objects of interest that can be viewed using binoculars and asterisms (star patterns) during spring and summer nights. Particular emphasis will be given to the closest approach of Venus with Jupiter that occurs later this month, a conjunction that will not reoccur until August 27, 2016.
It’s important Read More
Los Alamos School Board Meets Tuesday
LAPS News:
The Los Alamos School Board will meet at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday in the School Board Conference Room at the Administration Building on Trinity Drive.
The agenda includes:
- Intel International Science and Engineering Winners – presented by Dawn Brown
- Foreign Language Lab – presented by Louise Gentile and Anita Boshie
- Statewide Reading Challenge – presented by Jim Hall
- Student Assessment Report – presented by Pam Miller
- Technology Innovation Group Update – presented by Kurt Steinhaus and Debbie Smith
When the regular meeting has ended, President Jim Hall will call for an Executive Session Read More
Los Alamos Genealogical Association Meets June 11
LAGA News:The traditional no-host dinner before the meeting will start at 5:30 p.m. at China Moon.
Gov. Susana Martinez To Announce New Program To Train Future School Leaders
New Mexico Gov. Susana MartinezCafé Scientifique Teen Leadership Team Information Night At Time Out Pizza 6:30 P.M. Monday, June 8
Café Scientifique Teen Leaders in action from a previous café where there alway is plenty of fun and food and crazy interesting science topics. Teens interested in joining the Café Scientifique Teen Leaders Team are invited to attend an informational meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 8 at Time Out Pizzeria in downtown Los Alamos. Coming? Sign up at bit.do/cafela. Courtesy/Café Scientifique
Teen Leaders in action from a previous café. Courtesy/Café Scientifique
Teen Leaders in action from a previous café. Courtesy/Café Scientifique
Teen Leaders in action from a previous café. Courtesy/Café Read More
