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FUNdamentals of Leadership Workshop Helps Students Gain Career Skills

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RDC News:

ESPANOLA – Friday, April 4, Accelerate program students from the University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) and five other colleges and universities around northern New Mexico will learn and practice leadership skills in a workshop at Northern New Mexico College.

The event, Learning the FUNdamentals of Leadership, aims to increase career readiness and assist in completing certificates and 2-year technical degrees for non-traditional students. It is the final event in a series of training classes and workshops held by Accelerate, a program of the Regional Development Corporation Read More

Seventy-three New Mexico Students Receive Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund Scholarships

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From left, LAHS senior Alexander Wang, Santa Fe HS senior Greta Miller and Bernalillo HS senior Raymond Fasano awarded LAESF scholarships. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Scholarship campaign begins May 5 for 2015 scholarship awards

Los Alamos High School senior Alexander Wang, Santa Fe High School senior Greta Miller and Raymond Fasano of Bernalillo High School are among the 73 students from seven Northern New Mexico counties receiving LAESF scholarships, which are funded through pledges from Los Alamos National Laboratory employees, and a matching amount from Los Alamos National Security, Read More

Heroes Honor Heroes At Los Alamos Public Safety Association’s Dinner and Awards Banquet

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2013 Public Safety First Responder of the Year award recipients Dena Edwards, left, and Debbi Miller. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
 
DOE’s John Mitsunaga, second from left, Los Alamos Public Schools teacher Jodi Hughes, center, with her husband Los Alamos Fire Chief Troy Hughes who recently had his hair shaved for charity, sitting with Mike and Lisa Wismer of LANL and UNM-LA respectively. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
 
By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post

Saturday was a special night as local public safety and security officials who spend their careers

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ATHENA Desktop Human ‘Body’ Could Reduce Need for Animal Drug Tests

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The ATHENA organ project combines heart, liver, kidney and lung features in a desktop toxicity testing platform. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Surrogate Organ System Developed for Toxicity Testing

Creating surrogate human organs, coupled with insights from highly sensitive mass spectrometry technologies, a new project is on the brink of revolutionizing the way we screen new drugs and toxic agents.

ATHENA, the Advanced Tissue-engineered Human Ectypal Network Analyzer project team, is developing four human organ constructs – liver, heart, lung and kidney – that are based on a significantly Read More

New Mexico Consortium Offers Monthly Public Tours of New Bio Lab and Greenhouse

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Dr. Richard Sayre guides a recent tour for LAHS students. Courtesy NMC

Monthly tours of the NMC’s Biological Laboratory and Greenhouse are now being offered. Courtesy/NMC

NMC News:

  • Guided tours of the NMC’s Biological Laboratory and Greenhouse will be offered the 4th Saturday of each month.

The New Mexico Consortium (NMC) is now offering tours of its new, state-of-the-art Biological Laboratory and Greenhouse to the public 11 a.m. to noon the fourth Saturday of each month.

The next tour is scheduled for Saturday, April 26.

The deadline to register is the 4th Thursday of the month. Read More

LANL Updates Community Leaders Over Breakfast

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Several hundred attendees from around northern New Mexico listened to speakers, including LANL Director Charlie McMillian, at Wednesday’s LANL Community Leaders Breakfast at Buffalo Thunder. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
LANL Director Charlie McMillan and Los Alamos NNSA Field Office Manager Kimberly Lebak take questions from the audience at the Community Leaders Breakfast. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Several hundred community leaders from business, government and nonprofits in northern Read More

LANL: Flipping the Switch on Magnetism in Strontium Titanate

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Los Alamos postdoctoral fellow William Rice holds a crystal of strontium titanate up to the light. This crystal, previously thought to be nonmagnetic, turns out to have surprising magnetic features when treated with special “circularly polarized” light. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Semiconductor material can be magnetized with light, suggesting new technology opportunities

LOS ALAMOS—Interest in oxide-based semiconductor electronics has exploded in recent years, fueled largely by the ability to grow atomically precise layers of various oxide materials.

One of the most important Read More

Innovation Celebration Recognizes 10 New Mexico Small Businesses

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Molly Cernicek of SportXast. Courtesy/LANL
 
LANL News:

Ten New Mexico small businesses participating in projects using the technical expertise and assistance of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) will be recognized at the 13th annual Innovation Celebration April 3 at Balloon Fiesta Park in Albuquerque.

Duncan McBranch, Chief Technology Officer at LANL, is keynote speaker at the Innovation Celebration, which is part of Technology Venture Corporation’s Innovation Summit.

“The technical expertise Los Alamos and Sandia principal investigators Read More

SFI Seminar: The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

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John Padgett. Courtesy/SFI

SFI News:

Tuesday, April 1 • 3:30 p.m. • Noyce Conference Room • 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe

John Padgett, University of Chicago; SFI external professor presents “The Emergence of Organizations and Markets.”

Abstract.  The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and new types of people come from?

Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically oriented social network analyses, Read More

Testing Set For WIPP Ventilation System Filter Banks

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WIPP News:

An aerosol test to determine the effectiveness of the WIPP ventilation system filter banks is targeted for early next week.

The test will be performed by Los Alamos National Laboratory by introducing aerosolized oil in front of the filter banks then using highly sensitive equipment that will measure the concentration of aerosol particles at the back of the filter banks to determine filter efficiency.

WIPP’s individual HEPA filter banks are tested annually and consistently meet the efficiency standard. Two filter banks service the underground exhaust. Prior to any manned entries Read More