LANL: ‘Fore!’ Heads Up, Wide Use of More Flexible Metallic Glass Coming Your Way
A piece of metallic glass that has been bent around onto itself with a 1mm radius and glued into place. It would spring back to a flat piece if the glue were removed. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- Advances in Glass Alloys Lead to Strength, Flexibility
What do some high-end golf clubs and your living room window have in common? The answer is glass, but in the golf clubs’ case it’s a specialized glass product, called metallic glass, with the ability to be bent considerably and spring back into its original form.
Your windows, as you know, aren’t quite as forgiving of a sudden impact, and they shatter – they Read More
LANL’s Director Emeritus Sig Hecker Presents Comparative Look at Four Nuclear Hot Spots
Siegfried S. Hecker
CIR News:
Santa Fe Council on International Relations World Affairs Discussion Event – A Comparative Look at Four Nuclear Hot Spots: India, Pakistan, North Korea and Iran.
Speaker: Siegfried S. Hecker, Director Emeritus, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Stanford University research professor
Thursday, March 20, 5 p.m.
Location: Santa Fe Woman’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail
$20 Non-members; $15 CIR Members – Qualified Students may attend for Free
Whereas North Korea and Iran are in the global spotlight today, South Asia remains the most dangerous Read More
LANL’s Roger Wiens Addresses Engineering Council
Roger Wiens, principal investigator for the ChemCam instrument carried aboard the Mars rover Curiosity, was the speaker at Thursday’s Los Alamos Engineering Council dinner meeting at Fuller Lodge. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Technical professionals gathered for Thursday’s Los Alamos Engineering Council meeting. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com The Los Alamos Engineering Council held a dinner meeting Thursday at Fuller Lodge. The Council is an umbrella group for a number of engineering and Read More
LANL Foundation Scholarship Winners Announced
LANLF News:
Fourteen Northern New Mexicans have received $1,000 Returning Student/Regional College scholarships from the Los Alamos National Laboratory Employees’ Scholarship Fund.
These awards help students returning to a formal education for certification or a two-year degree at an accredited regional college. Many of the students receiving these awards are pursuing new careers.
Funding comes from donations by LANL employees and a matching amount from Los Alamos National Security, LLC. The scholarships are administered by the LANL Foundation.
Awards go to:
- Catrina Garcia, Santa
United Way Recognizes Contributors
LANB President Steve Wells accepts the Philanthropist of the Year Award on behalf of the bank from United Way Executive Director Kristy Ortega for the generosity and support the bank provides to the community. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
LANL Deputy Director Beth Sellers accepts the Regional Partnership Award on behalf of the Lab and LANS from United Way Executive Director Kristy Ortega for its million dollar match campaign. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
United Way Youth Team from left, Kaylie Burk, Emma Haines, Soumyo Lahiri-Gupta, Youth Team Advisor Morrie Read More
LANL’s Kurt Steinhaus Speaking at TEDxABQED Friday
LANL News:Community Programs Office Director Kurt Steinhaus provides his perspective on what schools, teachers, administrators, parents and communities can do singly and collectively to improve education in New Mexico’s and the nation’s schools during a TEDxABQED talk 1-5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28 in the African American Performing Arts Center, 310 San Pedro N.E., in Albuquerque.
As a former teacher and educational administrator, Steinhaus is passionate about education. Steinhaus manages the Community Commitment Plan,
SFI Colloquium: ‘Early Hunters and Extinctions in Northern Madagascar…
Henry T. Wright/Courtesy SFI
SFI News:
3:30 p.m • Thursday, Feb. 27 • Noyce Conference Room • 1399 Hyde Park Road • Santa Fe
Henry T. Wright of the University of Michigan and an SFI external professor will present an SFI Colloquium, “Early Hunters and Extinctions in Northern Madagascar: Research on the Newly Found Stone Age Peoples of Madagascar.”
Abstract. The idea that Ice Age hunters armed with tools of wood and stone drove major elements of their prey to extinction is nowhere resolved. Madagascar was thought to be a case of iron-using herders and farmers, arriving about 2,000 years ago Read More
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