Leadership Los Alamos Session Targets Economic Development
Los Alamos Chamber Manager Katy Korkos leads a discussion on business funding at Friday’s Leadership Los Alamos session. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ldailypost.com
LANL Budget Officer Aaron Menefee discusses various aspects of the Lab’s budget at Friday’s LLA session. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ldailypost.com
David Pesiri, Division Leader, Technology Transfer at LANL gives a presentation Friday. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ldailypost.com
STAFF REPORT
Friday’s Leadership Los Alamos (LLA) session at the Research Park focused on Economic Development. Los Alamos Chamber Read More
High-Activity Radioactive Materials Removed From Mexico
Anne Harrington
NASA News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced that it recovered high-activity radioactive materials from an oncology clinic in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. NNSA’s Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) and the Mexican National Commission for Nuclear Security and Safeguards (CNSNS) jointly supported the removal and the device containing the source was packaged and securely transported to the U.S. for final disposition.
“This operation is part of NNSA’s broad strategy to strengthen both U.S. and global Read More
Bradbury Presents Lunchtime Lecture on History of the Elements
LANL Team Contributes to First Bionic Eye
Schematic of artificial retina system. Courtesy/DOELANL News:
As part of the multi-institutional Artificial Retina Project, Los Alamos researchers helped develop the first bionic eye.
Recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Argus II will help people blinded by the rare hereditary disease retinitis pigmentosa or seniors suffering from severe macular degeneration—diseases that destroy the light-sensing cell in the retina. Los Alamos scientists served as the Advanced Concepts team, focusing on fundamental issues and out-of the box ideas.
The Argus II operates Read More
SFI Lecture: Theoretical Neurobiologist Mark Changizi
Theoretical Neurobiologist Mark Changizi
SFI News:
The Santa Fe Institute presents a SFI Seminar with Mark Changizi of 2A1 Labs at 12:15 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18 in the Collins Conference Room at SFI (1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe). His talk is titled “The Omes That Matter: Teleone, Nature-ome and Culture-ome.” The public is invited to attend this free talk and bring a lunch if they wish.
Talk Abstract: To understand biology and brain we must have, in addition to comprehensive mechanistic inventories like the genome and connectome, a comprehensive account of all the functions the biology implements Read More
Innovators Invited to Register for Information Day Event
NMC News:
The New Mexico Consortium and Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation, partnering with High Desert Discovery District (HD3), is holding two events for innovators.
The first event is Information Day, which is an information briefing 2-3 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19. This pre-Discovery Day event will give innovators a chance to learn more from HD3 CEO, board members and advisors.
Those innovators who like what they hear and want to learn more are invited to the second event, Discovery Day, which will give them the chance to present their ideas and discoveries to a highly experienced Read More
LANL Celebrates Native American Heritage Month
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