LAPS News:
The Los Alamos School Board will hold a Special School Board Meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10 at the District Office, 2101 Trinity Dr., Suite V.
The agenda items for the Special School Board Meeting will be for the Board to receive construction updates on Los Alamos Middle School and Aspen Elementary School and take action as needed. Read More
Computer & Information Systems Manager Andree Jacobson of the New Mexico Consortium discussed the PROBE project during Tuesday’s taping of ‘Behind the White Coat’ at the PAC 8 Studio in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Los Alamos High School student interns assist in assembling, testing and installing hundreds of computers at the PROBE Center in the Los Alamos Research Park. Courtesy photo
SuFong Milonni, left, and Barbara Yarnell collaborated on the UNM-LA pottery exhibit. Photo by Vint Miller
Examples of the pottery exhibit demonstrating alternative firing methods now showing at the UNM-LA library. Photo by Barbara Yarnell
UNM-LA faculty member Barbara Yarnell along with longtime friend and student, SuFong Milonni, are exhibiting 27 pieces of their pottery featuring alternative firing techniques, through Oct. 18 at the UNM-LA library. An additional 20 pieces also are on display at the UNM-LA Student Union.
The pair has been working together Read More
Oppenheimer and Groves show Topper spirit. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com
Friday, Oct. 4
LAHS Homecoming Parade 2:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 4 downtown Los Alamos
Homecoming Football Game 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 4 at Sullivan Field (Varsity Boys vs. Albuquerque Academy)
Los Alamos Visiting Nurses Birthday Barbeque 4-6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4 LAVN (2202 Canyon Road)
Admission is free! All donations go to the organ fund. Forty years of community caring. More information at 662-2525
Expressions in Book Art Exhibit Read More
By LOWELL CHRISTENSENI’m very concerned about the effect of the government shutdown on education. Some of us look back on school and remember our favorite teacher, but today’s youth will look back with fond memories of their favorite bureaucrats, who tragically today are not at work; they’re out on their boats.
For example, I recently asked young Rupert Johnson down the street, “Who has had the biggest impact on your education?” Without hesitation he thought of Mylford Peabody, acting-assistant-under-secretary-director of the Office-of-Thinking-Up-Stuff. Mylford qualified Read More
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UNM-LA News:
The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) will present the documentary Home, Oct. 10 as the third feature in the Composition Cinema I: A Film and Lecture Series, which will run through Nov. 14.
The visually stunning film by French photographer and environmentalist, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, is shot almost entirely from an aerial perspective and makes a compelling case that man has neglected the mystery and miracle of life on earth and that he has plundered the planet, disturbing the delicate balance that sustains so much of the earth’s life.
Christopher Strauss, Read More
UNM-LA News:
The previously scheduled UNM-Los Alamos GED Orientation meeting has been changed to 1 p.m., Oct. 17 in the Adult Learning Center, Room B17. The meeting was formerly scheduled for Oct. 16.
Attendance at the orientation is mandatory because the staff walks the students through the enrollment process and administers pretests.
Classwork for the next session will begin Oct. 22.
Call Marlene Gray at 505.662.0338 for more information. Read More
LAPS News:
The Los Alamos School Board will hold a regular School Board Meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8 at the Los Alamos High School Topper Speech Theater.
A briefing on the new New Mexico Teacher Evaluation System by Gerry Washburn and Pam Miller is on the agenda, along with other matters.
The agenda for the meeting will be posted at the district office the Thursday before the meeting. If special accommodations are required, notify the secretary to the superintendent 72 hours before the meeting at 505-663-2230. Read More
LAHS News:
Eight Los Alamos High School students have been named Commended Students in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program:
A letter of Commendation from the school and National Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which conducts the program, will be presented by the principal to these scholastically talented seniors.
About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Commended Read More
RDC News:
What: SFCC, LANL, Sen. Tom Udall, the RDC, the City of Santa Fe and others have come together to present a community forum: “Local Response to Climate Change.” The forum will focus on strategies that communities can use to deal with this all-important issue.
The event will include an introduction from SFCC President, Dr. Ana M. Guzman, leading climate researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory, as well as a recorded speech from Sen. Tom Udall. The keynote speech will be given by Søren Hermansen, to be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A moderated by Santa Fe Read More