AFTNM/ATF Lawsuit Against NMPED Concludes With Motion For Preliminary Injunction Today
AFTNM/AFT News:Senator Moores and Rep. Steinborn Join APV And SWEC In Calling For Ban On Killing Contests
APV News:
- New Mexico should end repulsive killing contests that celebrate killing for killing’s sake … next coyote killing-contest is Oct. 9-11
LAS CRUCES – Animal Protection Voters (APV) and Southwest Environmental Center (SWEC) renew calls for a statewide ban on the cruel and dangerous practice of animal-killing contests.
Contests began last month and will continue throughout the fall of 2015 and into winter of 2016. The next killing contest, which promotes and rewards indiscriminate killing of native wildlife, is set for the weekend of Oct. 9. Hundreds of Read More
LANL’s Dee Magnoni New President Elect Of Special Libraries Association
LANL Research Library Director Dee Magnoni
LANL News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Research Library (SRO-RL) Director Dee Magnoni is the new president elect of the Special Libraries Association beginning in January 2016.
She will serve one year as president-elect, followed by a year as president (2017) and a year as past president. Additionally, Magnoni will serve a three-year-term on the association’s Board of Directors.
Magnoni became Los Alamos’ Research Library director in January 2014. Magnoni is a Fellow of the Special Library Association, Read More
Kajita And McDonald Receive Nobel Prize In Physics
SCIENCE News:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2015 “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass” to:
Takaaki Kajita, Super-Kamiokande Collaboration University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan; and
Arthur B. McDonald, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada.
Metamorphosis in the particle world
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 recognises Takaaki Kajita in Japan and Arthur B. McDonald in Canada, for their key contributions to the experiments, Read More
2015 Saint Bernard Club of America National Specialty Show Crowns ‘Big Winners’ In Santa Fe
Best of Breed Winner Blissful’s Armani took home the big prize at Saturday’s Saint Bernard Club of America National Specialty Show in Santa Fe. Owner Tricia Kenworthy Gingerich is on the right. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Judy and Roger Goldie of Los Alamos (in hats) are long-time St. Bernard fanciers. They’ve owned two St. Bernards, have been members of the St. Bernard Club of America since 1995 and enjoy seeing the breed on display. They are pictured with Blissful’s Armani, Best of Breed winner. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Udall, Heinrich Welcome $5.7 Million To Build Veterans Cemetery At Fort Stanton
SENATE News:Ojo Caliente Do-It Yourself Solar Air Heating Collector Workshop Oct. 10
LANL EM Support Contract Goes To Sigma Science
DOE News:
CINCINNATI – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract to Sigma Science Inc. (SSI) of Los Alamos.
SSI is a Small Business Administration (SBA) Certified 8(a) Program Participant. The contract will have a maximum value of $4 million with a five year ordering period. Firm-fixed-price and time-and-material task orders may be issued from the basic contract.
SSI has 18 years of experience providing nuclear safety, operations, maintenance, engineering, environmental management, project Read More
Nobel Prize In Medicine Announced Today
Youyou Tu searched ancient literature on herbal medicine in her quest to develop novel malaria therapies. The plant Artemisia annua turned out to be an interesting candidate, and Tu developed a purification procedure, which rendered the active agent, Artemisinin, a drug that is remarkably effective against Malaria. Courtesy/nobelprize.org
SCIENCE News:
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with one half jointly to
- William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against
