Heroes Honor Heroes At Los Alamos Public Safety Association’s Dinner and Awards Banquet
2013 Public Safety First Responder of the Year award recipients Dena Edwards, left, and Debbi Miller. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
DOE’s John Mitsunaga, second from left, Los Alamos Public Schools teacher Jodi Hughes, center, with her husband Los Alamos Fire Chief Troy Hughes who recently had his hair shaved for charity, sitting with Mike and Lisa Wismer of LANL and UNM-LA respectively. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.comSaturday was a special night as local public safety and security officials who spend their careers
ATHENA Desktop Human ‘Body’ Could Reduce Need for Animal Drug Tests
The ATHENA organ project combines heart, liver, kidney and lung features in a desktop toxicity testing platform. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- Surrogate Organ System Developed for Toxicity Testing
Creating surrogate human organs, coupled with insights from highly sensitive mass spectrometry technologies, a new project is on the brink of revolutionizing the way we screen new drugs and toxic agents.
ATHENA, the Advanced Tissue-engineered Human Ectypal Network Analyzer project team, is developing four human organ constructs – liver, heart, lung and kidney – that are based on a significantly Read More
New Mexico Consortium Offers Monthly Public Tours of New Bio Lab and Greenhouse
Dr. Richard Sayre guides a recent tour for LAHS students. Courtesy NMC
Monthly tours of the NMC’s Biological Laboratory and Greenhouse are now being offered. Courtesy/NMC
NMC News:
- Guided tours of the NMC’s Biological Laboratory and Greenhouse will be offered the 4th Saturday of each month.
The New Mexico Consortium (NMC) is now offering tours of its new, state-of-the-art Biological Laboratory and Greenhouse to the public 11 a.m. to noon the fourth Saturday of each month.
The next tour is scheduled for Saturday, April 26.
The deadline to register is the 4th Thursday of the month. Read More
LANL Updates Community Leaders Over Breakfast
Several hundred attendees from around northern New Mexico listened to speakers, including LANL Director Charlie McMillian, at Wednesday’s LANL Community Leaders Breakfast at Buffalo Thunder. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
LANL Director Charlie McMillan and Los Alamos NNSA Field Office Manager Kimberly Lebak take questions from the audience at the Community Leaders Breakfast. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.comSeveral hundred community leaders from business, government and nonprofits in northern Read More
LANL: Flipping the Switch on Magnetism in Strontium Titanate
Los Alamos postdoctoral fellow William Rice holds a crystal of strontium titanate up to the light. This crystal, previously thought to be nonmagnetic, turns out to have surprising magnetic features when treated with special “circularly polarized” light. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- Semiconductor material can be magnetized with light, suggesting new technology opportunities
LOS ALAMOS—Interest in oxide-based semiconductor electronics has exploded in recent years, fueled largely by the ability to grow atomically precise layers of various oxide materials.
One of the most important Read More
Innovation Celebration Recognizes 10 New Mexico Small Businesses
Molly Cernicek of SportXast. Courtesy/LANLTen New Mexico small businesses participating in projects using the technical expertise and assistance of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) will be recognized at the 13th annual Innovation Celebration April 3 at Balloon Fiesta Park in Albuquerque.
Duncan McBranch, Chief Technology Officer at LANL, is keynote speaker at the Innovation Celebration, which is part of Technology Venture Corporation’s Innovation Summit.
“The technical expertise Los Alamos and Sandia principal investigators Read More
SFI Seminar: The Emergence of Organizations and Markets
John Padgett. Courtesy/SFI
SFI News:
Tuesday, April 1 • 3:30 p.m. • Noyce Conference Room • 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe
John Padgett, University of Chicago; SFI external professor presents “The Emergence of Organizations and Markets.”
Abstract. The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and new types of people come from?
Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically oriented social network analyses, Read More
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