Education

PEEC Awarded Outdoor Equity Fund Grant To Expand Outdoor Access For Northern New Mexico Youth

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Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

The Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is proud to be named a recipient of the New Mexico Outdoor Recreation Division’s Outdoor Equity Fund (OEF). Through this grant, PEEC will support both in-school and out-of-school programming for K–12 students across five counties, including Rio Arriba and Los Alamos Counties, increasing access to meaningful outdoor learning experiences for youth. These programs connect young people to the outdoors through accessible, hands-on, place-based learning experiences that support academic learning, social-emotional Read More

Los Alamos Middle School Students Explore Engineering And Technology At UNM College Of Engineering Field Trip

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Los Alamos Middle School student Cassie Salazar on the tour of the UNM College of Engineering. Courtesy photo

LAMS students Gabriel Hamilton, Daniel Yampolsky and Witness Awuzing on the UNM College of Engineering tour. Courtesy photo

LAPS News: 

Forty students from Los Alamos Middle School (LAMS) recently had a hands-on opportunity to explore the frontiers of science and engineering during a field trip to the University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Engineering. The trip was designed to connect the concepts taught in LAMS’s computer science, robotics, and engineering classes with Read More

Explore New Mexico’s French Connection At Brown Bag Lecture April 15

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NMOAS News:

James Bruseth, author of From a Watery Grave, the Discovery & Excavation of La Salle’s Shipwreck, La Belle, presents details of 22-year-long analysis and conservation of the recovered 1.8 million artifacts—representing an explorer’s “kit” for building a colony in the seventeenth-century New World

In 1686, the ill-fated La Salle expedition found itself stranded on a Texas beach. What followed was years of desperation, starvation, and the murder of La Salle by his own crew.

Two of those crew members, Jean L’Archeveque and Jacques Grollet, settled in New Mexico under the names Read More

UNM-Los Alamos To Host My Favorite Lecture: The Continuing Relevance Of The Federalist Papers

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UNMLA News:

The UNM-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) My Favorite Lecture Series 2026 is hosting The Continuing Relevance of the Federalist Papers: The Science (and Art) of Politics from 4:30-6 p.m., Monday, April 13. at SALA Event Center in Los Alamos. The lecture will be presented by Brent Pickett, Ph.D., who is dean of instruction at UNM-LA.

Pickett attended Wichita State University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. Then, he attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, earning a master’s and Ph.D., also in political science. He served as assistant professor at Chadron State College Read More

Three Candidates Participate In LAPS School Board Forum

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LAPS Board candidates Elisa Baker. left, and Stephanie Galvez listen as LAPS Superintendent Jennifer Guy speaks during Monday night’s school board forum. Candidate Katie Mussack attended virtually. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

From left, LAPS Board President Sondra Wyman, Vice President Lauren Coupland, Secretary Melanie Colgan and member Antonio Jaurigue ask questions to applicants seeking the open board seat in District 1 during a forum Monday night in the board meeting room. Applicants for the seat previously held by Margie Serrato, include Elisa Baker, right, Stephanie Read More

UNM-Los Alamos Advisory Board To Meet April 13

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View of the UNM-Los Alamos campus at 4000 University Drive. Courtesy/UNM/LA

UNM-LA News:

The UNM-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) Advisory Board is holding a board meeting at 5:30 p.m., Monday, April 13, in the Building 2 Lecture Hall (Room 230) on the UNM-LA campus at 4000 University Drive.

The meeting will also be virtual via Zoom. To join the meeting, follow this link: https://unm.zoom.us/j/93628197575.

Agenda items include review and adoption of the upcoming year’s budget.

The board generally meets on the Monday preceding the second Tuesday of each odd calendar month except in July, unless otherwise Read More

State Parks Expand Student Transportation Grants—More Than 170,000 Students Have Participated Since 2007

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Kids in Parks at Rio Grande Nature Center State Park. Courtesy photo

EMNRD News:

SANTA FE — New Mexico State Parks has increased funding for its Kids in Parks transportation grant program after school requests surpassed available funds for the 2025–2026 school year. 

The program reimburses teachers for transportation costs to bring students to state parks for curriculum-based outdoor learning. For the current 2025-2026 school year, total funding increased to $34,199—a roughly 128% increase over the program’s   original $15,00 allocation, with State Parks providing an additional $19,199.   Read More

Film Series ‘Indigenous Cinema’ Hosted By St. John’s College With IAIA July 20-24

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Filmmaker Chris Eyre

From St. John’s College:

For years, St. John’s College has opened its doors to lifelong learners.  There are in-person and online seminars throughout the year. The pinnacle of this program is Summer Classics, which takes place on the beautiful Santa Fe campus, as well as online.

For the most part, these classes, which are beloved by all the people who attend every year, deepen attendees’ knowledge of and delight in classic works. 

But the seminars are not confined to the written word, and this year the college is highlighting an examination of Indigenous Cinema, July 20-24, Read More

Jemez Valley High School Marks Six Months Of Success With Wellness Room

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Comfortable seating areas in the Wellness Room at Jemez Valley High School gives students a place to step away from class, reset, and refocus during the school day. Courtesy/Jemez Valley Public Schools.

Wall art, tables, and seating create space for reflection in the Wellness Room at Jemez Valley High School, which is designed to support student self-regulation and stress management during the school day. Courtesy/Jemez Valley Public Schools.

JVHS News:

Six months after opening in October, Jemez Valley High School is marking early success with its Wellness Room, which has provided more Read More