LAHS Sophomore Parent Night April 29
LAHS News:
Parents of current Los Alamos High School sophomores are invited to attend Sophomore Parent Night at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 29 in the Speech Theater.
“Sophomore Parent Night is about reinforcing what the counselors are doing in the classroom with the sophomores in the month of April,” explains Cindy Black, one of the guidance counselors at the high school. “It focuses on getting ready for life after high school. It is never too early for students to start learning about the college admission process, and other options available after high school.”
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Los Alamos Nursing PhD Student Takes Top Awards
Neil E. Peterson grew up in Los Alamos and has won top university awards. Courtesy photo
Special to the Los Alamos Daily Post
Neil E. Peterson grew up in Los Alamos and the longtime nurse, PhD `14, knows how to make pathophysiology fun. He presides over nursing labs with aplomb.
It’s why he’s earned the University of Virginia School of Nursing’s graduate teaching award again in 2013 and why he’s taken top prize in the all-University award in Math, Engineering and Nursing for 2013.
“Neil knows how to turn complex and dry concepts fun and translatable,” said Associate Dean Janie Heath, one of Read More
Students Descend on LANL for Supercomputing Challenge Expo
Melrose High School students react to being named as the winning team at a recent New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge awards ceremony. Their research project modeled behavior of wildfires. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
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Research by student teams to be showcased
More than 200 New Mexico students and their teachers will be at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) April 21-23 for the 23rd annual New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge expo and awards ceremony.
More than 60 teams of students from elementary, middle, and high school are expected at the event, said David Kratzer of the Laboratory’s High Read More
PEEC Earth Day Series: Wild Plants Group Greets Dry Spring
PEEC’s new Yahoo group, PEECWildPlants, is desperately trying to find the signs of spring that are eluding us after our feeble winter snows.
Up until the end of March, there were practically no sightings of the usual suspects: Pasque flowers, golden smoke, verbena, though Craig Martin found a surprise Arabis (probably fendleri) in Upper Rendija Canyon with a single bloom.
Henbit is a new discovery for Los Alamos County. Photo by Terry Foxx
But despite the record-dry season, citizen science made a great new find on March: Terry Read More
Dr. Momchilo Vuyisich to Speak at Phi Beta Kappa Banquet Honoring High School Scholars
Dr. Momchilo (Momo) Vuyisich
On Sunday evening, April 28, the Los Alamos Phi Beta Kappa Association will hold its 57th annual banquet to honor the top graduates of Los Alamos High School.
Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest undergraduate honor society in the United States and has about 255 members in Los Alamos County (1.5 percent of the county’s population.)
The banquet for the honor graduates, Phi Beta Kappa Members and their guests, will be held at Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos starting at 5:30 Read More
PEEC Earth Day Series: Composting Returns to Los Alamos County
Composting Returns to Los Alamos CountyThe new Los Alamos County composting facility at the old wastewater treatment plant in Bayo Canyon is set to be complete in fall 2013.
The County composting program was discontinued in 2011 due to closure of the County landfill and odor issues.
The County has been working over the past few years to find the best location and process to resume the composting program.
The new facility will enable the County to create higher quality compost in a cost-effective manner and Read More
Earn $2,500 for LAHS Through ‘Rally4Rewards’
LAHS News:
U.S Bank is a supporter of high school athletics/activities and has been a major sponsor of the NMAA for many years now.
In addition to serving as the title sponsor of the State Football, Basketball and Track Championships, U.S. Bank has also served as a large contributor to the NMAA Foundation.
Now, they are taking this even further with Monday’s launch of the “Rally4Rewards” program.
Through this program, U.S. Bank will be donating $2,500 to six different NMAA member schools. One school from each classification (B-5A) will be rewarded with a piece of this special $15,000 Read More
PEEC Earth Day Series: Kids Discover Spiders on the Pajarito Plateau
Aspen Elementary School 1st graders’ black widow spider. Photo by Angelique Harshman/
The Aspen Elementary School students didn’t know what they would find on their outdoor excursion to the Homestead Trail, but they were all excited.
As part of PEEC’s Pajarito Plateau Field Science curriculum, the first graders were investigating spiders and insects, turning over rocks, looking closely at tree bark, and inspecting rotting logs.
We were finding lots of evidence of spiders – old Read More
Los Alamos Students Shine at Chemistry Olympiad
ACS News:
The Central New Mexico Section of the American Chemical Society has announced the names of four outstanding high school chemistry students in the 2013 New Mexico Chemistry Olympiad competition:
- Kevin Gao of Los Alamos High School
- Alexander Wang of Los Alamos High School
- Aaron Geelon So of Albuquerque Academy
- Andrew Chen
PEEC Earth Day Series: Shop Locally—Reduce Your Environmental Impact
Shop Locally—Reduce Your Environmental ImpactWe have all been guilty of saying that Los Alamos does not have any shopping. I have grieved the loss of the book store, Hallmark store, and kitchen store, as well as restaurants.
But if we persistently don’t shop Los Alamos, how can we expect there to be businesses? Imagine a town with 100 percent boarded up stores. Only we can prevent this from happening.
I was recently bemoaning the loss of businesses and discovered that some local businesses have picked up the slack for losses in the closing of other stores.
I believe Read More
Authors Speak Series Presents David Grant Noble
David Grant Noble
MPL News:
Mesa Public Library’s Authors Speak Series presents David Grant Noble, Author, Archaeologist, Photographer of the Southwest, at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 25 in the Upstairs Rotunda.
In Noble’s most recent book, In the Places of the Spirits, he combines eloquent text and equally eloquent images, photographs of the earth and humanity’s places on it, a moving record of the Southwest.
Rendered with grace and capturing the ineffable spirit of the landscape, petroglyphs and archaeological sites of New Mexico, Utah and Arizona, Noble brings together all of his gifts Read More
Los Alamos Nets 19 State Science and Engineering Fair Awards
LAPS News:
This year, 22 Los Alamos projects qualified for the 2013 New Mexico Science and Engineering Fair held April 4-5 at the New Mexico Tech Campus in Socorro.
Of those 22 projects, 19 received state awards – a tremendous accomplishment as the students competed against 300 students from across the state.
In addition to the category and special awards, Los Alamos Public School students took home three of the eight Grand Awards in the Junior and Senior Divisions.
Los Alamos Grand Award winners include los Alamos Middle School student Colin Hehlen and Los Alamos High School students Read More
Pikas and Pixels on PEEC’s Tuesday Agenda!
Pikas harvest vegetation in the summer to survive the winter in mountain rock piles. Photo by Sally King
PEEC News:
Pikas, pixels, pine-planting: these are all aspects of citizen science that you can learn about from 7-8 p.m. Tuesday, April 16 at PEEC.
Representatives from Bandelier and Santa Fe National Forest will talk about their work and how you can get involved.
Bandelier rangers Claudia Brookshire and Sally King will discuss upcoming events and citizen science projects at the monument.
King will discuss the pika monitoring project and how these little critters can help us study Read More
‘UNM-LA on Display’ Highlights Faculty Innovations
Dr. Kate Massengale will give her ‘last lecture’ at UNM-LA on Display. Courtesy/UNM-LA
UNM-LA News:
The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos is inviting the community to attend “UNM-LA on Display,” which will highlight its faculty.
Approximately 15 faculty members will share their academic projects and innovations currently being used at UNM-LA.
“UNM-LA on Display” takes place 4-6:30 p.m .Thursday, April 25 in the Building 2 Lecture Hall and café area at UNM-LA and refreshments will be provided.
At 5:45 pm, the evening will end with retiring Dean Read More
PEEC Amateutur Naturalist: Turkey Vultures Return to Los Alamos Ice Rink
PEEC Amateutur NaturalistThe Mission of San Juan Capistrano is known for swallows returning each year.
There even is a website dedicated to this event.
Turkey Vultures are one of Los Alamos’s earliest returning birds, but they’re not quite as endearing as the swallows.
Turkey Vulture. Photo by Bob Dryja
Four Turkey Vultures were seen migrating through the area or returning to their roost high in a tree near the Los Alamos Canyon ice rink on March 16, 2013.
The road by the ice rink forms a loop and heads up the north side of the canyon. A parking area at the top of the canyon Read More
Roger Wiens, Elizabeth MacDonald Join Great Conversations!
Roger Wiens will guide a Great Conversation April 28. Courtesy photo
LAPSF News:
Great Conversations is an afternoon of delicious appetizers and desserts and an in-depth conversation with a subject area expert.
This is the 4th Annual Great Conversations hosted by the Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation.
It will take place 2-5 p.m., April 28 at Los Alamos High School in the new building.
This is the fifth in a series about the conversations that will take place.
Roger Wiens: Satisfy your “Curiosity” about Mars!
Roger Wiens is the principal investigator of the ChemCam instrument Read More
Toppers Band Marches in Disneyland Parade
Los Alamos High School Toppers Band marching at Disneyland. Courtesy photo
LAHS TOPPERS BAND News:
It's Spring Break and the Los Alamos High School Toppers Band is out and about marching in the Disneyland Parade.
They also got a chance to work with one of Disney’s directors in their recording studios laying down three tracks, one of which was the classic “When You Wish Upon a Star.“
Besides their adventures at Disney, they are touring museums, movies studios, going to the beach and taking in a performance of West Side Story.
Plaque presented to the Los Alamos High School Read More
Los Alamos Students Tour Washington, D.C.
Students from Los Alamos Middle School are visiting Washington, D.C. over Spring Break on an educational trip organized by former Los Alamos teacher Roberta Geoffrion Cocking. Courtesy photo 
Los Alamos students at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiier at Arlington Cemetery. Courtesy photo
Los Alamos Middle School students visit historic sites in Washington, D.C. this week. Courtesy photo
Gautier and Ham Join ‘Great Conversations’ Lineup
LAPSF News:
The community is invited to attend the 4th Annual Great Conversations hosted by the Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation.
Great Conversations is an afternoon of delicious appetizers and desserts and an in-depth conversation with a subject area expert.
The event is set for 2-5 p.m., April 28 at Los Alamos High School in the new building.
This is the fourth in a series about the conversations that will take place:
What’s Cookin’ in the Caldera: Environmental Restoration
Peggy Gautier
Vice-Chair of Los Amigos de Valles Caldera, the official friends organization of the Read More
