Community Encouraged To Attend Tourism Secretary’s Presentation About Los Alamos 9-11 A.M. Friday
COUNTY News:
The public is enthusiastically invited to hear the New Mexico’s Tourism Cabinet Secretary at a presentation 9-11 a.m., Friday, June 12 at the Los Alamos County Municipal Building, 1000 Central Ave.
Secretary Rebecca Latham and her New Mexico True Team will present their impressions from their tours of Los Alamos today.and discuss how Los Alamos can effectively tie into the Tourism Department’s international advertising campaign.
Officials from Los Alamos County in Los Alamos, New Mexico are preparing to showcase the area’s historical, recreational and scenic offerings Read More
Aquatic Center Hosts World’s Largest Swimming Lesson
COUNTY News:
- Walkup Aquatic Center is serving as an Official Host Location
Largest Swim Lesson in 24 Hours Sends the Message: Swimming Lessons Save Lives™ to millions around the globe.
Thursday, June 18, tens of thousands of kids and adults at aquatic facilities around the world will unite for the sixth year in a row to set a new Guinness World Record™.
The global record attempt for The World’s Largest Swimming Lesson™ (WLSL), is 10 a.m. wherever you are. Team WLSL holds the current Guinness World Record™ for the largest simultaneous swimming lesson, which stands at 36,564 participants representing Read More
Udall Calls On Commerce, Agriculture Secretaries To Prioritize Broadband Access For Rural New Mexicans
SENATE News:UPDATE: LANL Approximates WIPP Explosion
Drum 68660 at Panel 7 Room 7, Row 16, Column 4 in the WIPP underground photographed after the radiological release. Courtesy/DOE
UPDATE:
In response to a query by the Los Alamos Daily Post, Los Alamos National Laboratory provided the following clarification of the experiments related to the breached LANL container at the Waste Isolation Pilot Project, noting that the experiment on an unvented drum at elevated temperatures was expected to cause a reaction. Yet to be determined is whether a drum that is vented, like the one that came open at WIPP, and at a significantly lower temperature, as that Read More
LAHS Graduate Barbara Hopkins Of Wright State University To Receive Georgina M. Smith Award
Barbara Hopkins
EDUCATION News:
Washington, D.C.—Barbara Hopkins, professor of economics at Wright State University, has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the AAUP’s Georgina M. Smith Award.
Hopkins is a 1981 graduate of Los Alamos High School and the daughter of retired Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist John C. Hopkins.
During her time as grievance officer at Wright State, Hopkins has worked tirelessly to document, report, and remedy troubling patterns of racial bias in promotion and tenure in Wright State’s College of Nursing and Health (CoNH). Through Hopkins’s efforts, Read More
Martian Glass: Window Into Possible Past Life?
Spectral signals: Researchers have found deposits of impact glass preserved in Martian craters like Alga (above) using data from NASA’s Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM). Green indicates the presence of glass. (Blues are pyroxene; reds are olivine.) Such deposits could be a good place to look for signs of past life. Courtesy/NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHUAPL/University of Arizona
The search for impact glass: A possible Martian site (white circle) is the Nili Fossae trough. The blue-tinted Hargraves crater at the right (blue indicates a low topography) is known Read More
State Police Checkpoints And Saturation Patrols Underway In Rio Arriba County Through June
NMSP News:Senators Unveil Pragmatic Foreign Policy Principles
SENATE News:Regional Coalition Of LANL Communities Meets June 12
RCLC News:Discussion/Action Items (1hr 20 min.) 9:15-10:40 a.m.
NM Businesses Wanted For Trade Mission To Israel
ACI News:- Israel is New Mexico’s second largest international trading partner
