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Chamisa Students Participate In Electric Car Challenge

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LANL Employees Pledge $2.17 Million In 2015 Giving Campaign

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LANL News:

  • More than 250 nonprofits, social service providers will benefit

The work of more than 250 community and social service organizations will benefit from the more than $2.17 million pledged by Los Alamos National Laboratory employees to United Way and other nonprofits during the Laboratory’s 2015 Employee Giving Campaign.

“We are proud to help the many community focused non-profit organizations working hard to improve the lives of so many people in Northern New Mexico,” said Alan Bishop, Los Alamos’ principal associate director for Science, Technology and Engineering and this Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation Awards C’YA Grant

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Future Ph.Ds of Dixon: Dixon Elementary School students in Jeannie Cornelius’ class pose with the Sci Guy, Chad Lauritzen from C’YA. The local non-profit received grant from the LANL Foundation, which allows the science educator to buy supplies such as these safety glasses and lab coats and to teach fun free science at six elementary schools on his Fridays off from LANL. Courtesy photo

 

By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Champions of Youth Ambitions

Champions of Youth Ambitions (C’YA) has received its first grant from the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation.

The $1,500 grant allows volunteer Read More

Udall, Heinrich Seek Additional Resources For WIPP

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U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Congress finalizes its fiscal year 2015 spending bills, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced they are seeking continued support for funding for the recovery of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad.

In a letter to Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, the senators urged them to provide an additional $113 million above 2014 funding levels to ensure ongoing recovery efforts are maintained and the facility can safely resume operation.

WIPP has been closed Read More

Heinrich Introduces Bill To Boost Tech Transfer

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, introduced S. 2932, the Microlab Technology Commercialization Act of 2014, a bill to accelerate technology transfer by establishing off-campus microlabs that would serve as the “front-door” to national laboratories.

The microlabs would give academia, local government, businesses owners, and communities direct access to the equipment, facilities and personnel of our national labs. 

“If Read More

Significant Activities Resume At WIPP

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WIPP News:

Two functions that are vital to recovery operations resumed this week at the WIPP site. Over the weekend, crews resumed roof bolting operations necessary for ground control and continued safe access to many areas of the underground facility.

Roof bolts, sometimes as long as 12 feet, are inserted into predrilled holes and tightened to required specifications to help secure the roof and walls of the access routes in the underground facility. Under normal operations, roof bolts are added or replaced on a routine basis, as necessary. This is the first ground control activity to be performed Read More

Atomic Heritage Foundation Releases Audio Interview With Dorothy Scarritt McKibbin

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Dorothy Scarritt McKibbin. Courtesy/AHF
 
AHF News:
Washington, D.C. – The Atomic Heritage Foundation (AHF) is pleased to announce the release of a never-before-heard audio interview with Dorothy Scarritt McKibbin taken in 1965 on the “Voices of the Manhattan Project” website.
 
Known as the “Gatekeeper to Los Alamos,” McKibbin was the first reassuring face that fatigued Manhattan Project recruits saw upon arriving in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The rare, hour-long interview provides novel insight into the mind of the woman who became one of the most beloved figures on “The Hill.”
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Bradbury Science Museum Opens Saul Hertz Exhibit Tuesday

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BSM News:

 

The Bradbury Science Museum will display the Saul Hertz exhibit Tuesday – not Monday as previously stated here. Hertz was a pioneer in nuclear medicine.

 

“The importance of Dr. Hertz’s early work in nuclear medicine and his connection to the Manhattan Project convinced me this would be a wonderful Bradbury show,” Museum Director Linda Deck said. 

 

Hertz discovered that radioactive iodine could be used as a tracer and diagnostic tool, as a therapy for Graves’ disease and thyroid cancer; radioactive iodine is the first targeted Read More

SFI Seminar: Doomsday Machines: United Flight 232 And A Few Questions About Complicated Technology

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Laurence Gonzales
SFI Journalism Fellow

SFI News:

The Santa Fe Institute is hosting a seminar by Laurence Gonzales called Doomsday Machines: United Flight 232 and a Few Questions About Complicated Technology 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.  18 in the Noyce Conferance Room.

Abstract: As mechanical systems become more complicated, major accidents begin to emerge as part of their normal operation. In other words, it becomes 100 percent certain that a catastrophic accident will happen. (Catastrophic means that the accident results in the loss of the system and at least the potential for the loss Read More