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LANL Foundation Honors 16 Area Teachers Receiving National Board Certification

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Local NBCT teachers honored May 13 at the LANL Foundation office in Española. Courtesy/LANL Foundation

LANL Foundation News:

ESPAÑOLA — The LANL Foundation honored 16 teachers from Northern New Mexico who have achieved their National Board Certification, alongside their coaches and other support providers, at a luncheon Saturday, May 13, at its Española office.

The 16 teachers have achieved their certification over the past several years, with Saturday’s event being the first time the group has been able to gather to celebrate due to pandemic-era restrictions.

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LANL Foundation Announces Eight Excellence In Teaching Award Recipients In Rio Arriba County And Pojoaque

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LANL Foundation News:

ESPAÑOLA — Eight teachers in Rio Arriba County and Pojoaque received surprise visits at their schools this month when they were presented with the 2023 Excellence in Teaching Award.

The award, a partnership between the LANL Foundation and Northern New Mexico Integrated Security (N2MIS), honors teachers and celebrates the education profession in Rio Arriba County and Pojoaque.

This year’s winners:

  • Diane Chavarria, Kha’p’o Community School (3rd Grade)
  • Laura McCormack, Pojoaque Valley Middle School (6th, 7th, 8th Grade Family and Consumer Science)
  • Ana Neighbor,
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Lunch With A Leader To Feature Sen. Leo Jaramillo May 18

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Sen. Leo Jaramillo

LWV News:

Lunch with a Leader, the Los Alamos League of Women Voters (LWV) monthly community event, is noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, May 18, via Zoom. State Sen. Leo Jaramillo is the guest speaker.

Sen. Jaramillo was elected in November 2020 and serves as vice chair of the Rules Committee and a member of the tax, business and transportation committees in the New Mexico Senate.  He represents Los Alamos but works for the entire county.

Sen. Jaramillo is a native son of the Española Valley and proud alumnus of Española Valley High School. A sense of dedication to public service was instilled Read More

On The Job In Los Alamos: At DOE’s EM-LA Field Office

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On the job in Los Alamos at the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Environmental Management – Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) Wednesday is analyst Allison Scott Majure, left, speaking with EM-LA’s Acting Director of Cleanup Execution Cheryl Rodriguez. When EM was first established in 1989 it was responsible for the cleanup of 107 sites in 35 states. Today, only 16 sites remain including Los Alamos National Laboratory.  Locally, EM-LA oversees cleanup contractor N3B to investigate hazardous contamination that resulted from the Manhattan Era/Cold War period of LANL operations and then remediate sites Read More

Triad Collaborates With Bilingual Montessori And UNM-Los Alamos To Expand Local Child Care Options

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An architect’s drawing of the exterior of the new child care center, which will be located at 3500 Trinity Drive in Los Alamos, near Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy/Columbus Capital and John Padilla, architect

LANL News:

Triad National Security LLC announced today that it has negotiated an operating agreement with an expert local child care provider and small business, Bilingual Montessori School of White Rock, to enhance the child care options for Los Alamos National Laboratory employees and others in the region.

Additionally, Triad and the Regional Development Corporation

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LANL: Request For Information On FY-22 Nonconformance Report Added To Los Alamos Electronic Public Reading Room

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LANL News:

Per regulatory requirements, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)  announces new documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.

All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.

For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room:

  • Request for Additional Information Fiscal Year 2022 Nonconformance Report (Link);
  • Notice of Completion of Off-Site Waste Shipment for Final Disposal, Activity
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LANL 2023 First Quarter Beryllium Emissions Report Added To Los Alamos Electronic Public Reading Room

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LANL News:

Per regulatory requirements, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) announces new documents have been added to the Electronic Reading Room.

The document(s) have been submitted to fulfill one or more requirements of the Los Alamos National Laboratory:

IDEA ID 856 – Los Alamos National Laboratory 2023 First Quarter Beryllium Emissions Report January 1-March 31, 2023, Air Quality Permit No. 634-M2

Members of the public may view these documents and many others at LANL’s Electronic Public Reading Room. Read More

LANL: Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission From Electrically Driven Colloidal Quantum Dots Finally Achieved

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In a result decades in the making, Los Alamos scientists have achieved light amplification with electrically driven devices based on solution-cast semiconductor nanocrystals — tiny specs of semiconductor matter made via chemical synthesis and often called colloidal quantum dots. This demonstration, reported in the scientific journal Nature, opens the door to a completely new class of electrically pumped lasing devices — highly flexible, solution-processable laser diodes that can be prepared on any crystalline or non-crystalline substrate without the need for sophisticated vacuum-based Read More

LANL: Strings Of Magnetic Energy Shown To Flex, Wiggle And Reconnect

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A microscopy snapshot of a lattice of frustrated nanomagnets. The red lines connect dynamic points of high energy at the vertices of the lattice, which are indicated by the yellow dots. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Arrays of nanomagnets have string structures with complex topological processes

A multi-institutional team exploring the physics of collective behavior has developed and measured a model nanomagnetic array in which the behavior can be best understood as that of a set of wiggling strings. The strings, which are composed of connected points of high energy among the lattice, can stretch Read More

Los Alamos Research Examines Key Factors Related To COVID-19 Variant Dynamics

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The COVID-19 virus continues to evolve, and global transitions to new variants can generate waves of disease spread. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News: 
  • The study is the most comprehensive characterization of global COVID-19 variant transitions to date

A team of researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently published the most comprehensive study of global COVID-19 variant transitions, which showed significant diversity in variant spread around the globe related to vaccination rates, number of co-circulating variants and immunity from previous infection. The paper was published

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