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LANL Launches New Student App

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Student using an iPad. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Job searching tool for students, postdocs

Los Alamos National Laboratory recently launched its new student mobile app that students and postdoctoral candidates can use to learn about employment opportunities, science research, education programs and more. The Los Alamos Students mobile app is free and can be downloaded from iTunes and Google Play (for android platforms).

“The Laboratory’s new Student App is a great way for students and post-docs to make contact with the Lab and learn about all the exciting opportunities available and the Read More

Brown Bag Lecture Focuses on Renowned Nuclear Chemist’s Career and Linkages to Current Research

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LANL News:

Mary Neu of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Strategic Improvement Office will reflect on the career of Darleane Hoffman during a talk noon to 1 p.m., July 16 as part of the Bradbury Science Museum Brown Bag Lecture Series.

Hoffman is a renown nuclear chemist who helped discover Seaborgium and was awarded the National Medal of Science. Neu’s talk, titled “Radiochemistry with a Purpose! Reflections on the Technical Accomplishments, Career, and Personal Attributes of Darleane Hoffman,” will focus on Hoffman’s achievements in nuclear Read More

Hear Top Manhattan Project Leaders on Voices of the Manhattan Project Website

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J. Robert Oppenheimer, left and Gen. Leslie R. Groves. Courtesy/AHF

AHF News:

The Atomic Heritage Foundation (AHF) is releasing never-before-heard audio interviews with top Manhattan Project military leaders and scientists, including General Leslie R. Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer, on the Voices of the Manhattan Project website https:////www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/.

Sixty-nine years after the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945, the public can listen to the voices of those whose atomic achievements changed the course of world history, politics, science and society.

The interviews Read More

SFI Community Lecture: Lloyd to Speak on Possibility of Time Travel July 16

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Prof. Seth Lloyd

SFI News:

The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) will host a lecture by Seth Lloyd at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 16, at the James A. Little Theater, 1060 Cerillos Road in Santa Fe.

Lloyd is a science board and external professor at SFI and professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His talk is entitled, “Is Time Travel Possible? Testing the ‘Grandfather Paradox.'” Lloyd’s research area is the interplay of information with complex systems, especially quantum systems.

Time travel is a science fiction staple, inspiring Read More

SFI Seminar: ‘The Primordial Origins of Cellular Homeostasis and Balanced Growth’

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Sanjay Jain, External Professor, SFI

SFI News:

The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) will host a seminar at 12:15 p.m., July 14, in the Collins Conference Room, SFI, 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.

The featured speaker is Sanjay Jain, SFI University External Professor.

Abstract: A self-reproducing cell in an exponential phase steady state culture must double the population of each of its component molecular species between birth and division. Achieving this “balanced growth” wherein thousands of chemicals coordinate their doubling in the same time is a remarkable regulatory feat Read More

NNSA Recognizes Industry Partners for Efforts to Eliminate HEU in Medical Isotope Production

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NNSA News:

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today recognized two industry partners for their efforts to eliminate the use of weapons-useable highly enriched uranium (HEU) in the production of medical isotopes.

Presented on behalf of NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, Anne Harrington, the awards to United Pharmacy Partners, LLC., (UPPI) and Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., (LMI) are in recognition of their efforts to increase the use of non-HEU-based molybdenum-99 (Mo-99).

UPPI and LMI have made a significant contribution toward accomplishing

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Los Alamos Historical Society and Time Out Pizzeria Host ‘Manhattan’ Viewing Party July 27

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COMMUNITY News:

It’s not every day that your hometown is featured in a major television series. Starting July 27, with the premiere of “Manhattan” on WGN America, Los Alamos will be.

The Los Alamos Historical Society and Time Out Pizzeria (Los Alamos branch on Central Avenue) are hosting a viewing party and discussion group for each of the season’s 13 episodes. The premier is 7 p.m., Sunday, July 27. Subsequent episodes will air 8 p.m Sundays.

According to WGN, “Manhattan” is about “brilliant but flawed scientists” who lived in Los Alamos during World War II and were racing to build Read More

WIPP: Investigation Continues in Room 7

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WIPP News:

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) employees are continuing their efforts to develop a system that allows workers to obtain additional video footage, photographs and samples in Room 7 of Panel 7.

The Accident Investigation Board requested this work to gather more information on the waste containers beyond what has already been obtained. To date, the project has been able to examine the first 16 rows of waste containers. After evaluating and testing a variety of options, the Reach team selected a 90-foot carbon adjustable boom with a base that rides on a beam system.

This will allow Read More

NNSA Announces Federal and Contractor Security Professional of the Year Awards

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Paulette Solis

NNSA News:

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced Thursday the recipients of the Bradley A. Peterson Federal and Contractor Security Professional of the Year Awards.

Paulette Solis from Sandia National Laboratories will receive the contractor award and Susan Christian-Payne from the Nevada Field Office will receive the federal award.

The awards recognize one federal employee and one contractor employee whose contributions to security programs within the NNSA enterprise serve as models for excellence and commitment to the NNSA mission.

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Los Alamos Devices Capture ‘Oscars of Invention’ Awards

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Acoustic Wavenumber Spectroscopy (AWS) developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory generates images of hidden structural properties and/or defects. The spectrometer is a revolutionary laser-based, nondestructive inspection system, working 30 times faster than the leading competitor. The breakthrough technology won a prestigious R&D 100 Award. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Safire oil-well measurement and AWS laser-based spectrometer for materials inspection capture R&D Magazine’s ‘R&D 100s’

R&D Magazine today announced the winners of its annual Read More