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VFC News:Aspen Elementary Has Highest Participation Rate In Summer Reading Challenge In New Mexico
LAPS News:
- Reading Challenge Success
Aspen Elementary School students have reason to celebrate. They students logged more than 22,300 reading minutes this summer, earning Aspen the title as the number one New Mexico school in the 2015 Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge. The school will be listed in the 2016 Scholastic Book of World Record.
Aspen’s librarian, Mr. Lloyd, knew students would get excited if offered the chance to “read for a world record” and registered all Aspen students for the summer challenge in May before school let out. Congratulations Tigers! Your parents, teachers, Read More
LANL Looks To Community For Next Generation Workforce
Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan talks with Los Alamos County Council Chair Kristin Henderson at Wednesday’s Community Leaders Breakfast at Ohkay Owingeh Conference Center. Courtesy/LANL
Ohkay Owingeh – An implicit theme of a community breakfast meeting at the pueblo conference center Wednesday had to do with work, workers and the variables that make employment attractive and possible at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Current concerns include the federal budget, the pace of laboratory projects and priorities, the Read More
AFT New Mexico Celebrates Introduction Of Senate Bill To Repeal Healthcare ‘Cadillac Tax’
AFTNM President Stephanie Ly
AFTNM News:
ALBUQUERQUE – American Federation of Teachers New Mexico President Stephanie Ly released the following statement:
“Working New Mexicans can be proud of Sen. Heinrich and his bi-partisan efforts to repeal the regressive healthcare ‘Cadillac Tax’ from the Affordable Care Act.
“As a union who represents thousands of educators across New Mexico, and often negotiates aspects of healthcare coverage, we’re intimately familiar with the fight to ensure all New Mexicans have the best healthcare access possible at the lowest out-of-pocket Read More
New Valles Caldera Superintendent Is Leadership Los Alamos Graduate Jorge Silva-Banuelos
2015 Leadership Los Alamos graduate Jorge Silva-Banuelos, left, with fellow participants during a youth session in January. Photo by Martha Katko
Staff Report
Jorge Silva-Bañuelos has been named the new superintendent of Valles Caldera National Preserve. He graduated in May from the Leadership Los Alamos program.
Jorge Silva-Bañuelos
National Park Service (NPS) Intermountain Region Director Sue Masica announced the appointment of Silva-Bañuelos to the top post.
“Jorge brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the Park Service,” Masica said. “His background and leadership skills, Read More
LANL: New Insights Into HIV-1 Design
An HIV virus attacking a T cell. Courtesy/LANL
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Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have created a computational model that could change the way that researchers look at possibilities for an HIV-1 vaccine.
“An effective HIV-1 vaccine has proven elusive, partly due to the difficulty of causing an immune response that can neutralize the diverse viral strains circulating in the human population,” said Alan Perelson, of Los Alamos’ Theoretical Biology and Biophysics group. “Harnessing the power of broadly neutralizing antibodies, which emerge years into a chronic HIV Read More
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