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LANL: Seven Los Alamos Scientists And Engineers Named 2020 Laboratory Fellows

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The 2020 Laboratory Fellows: top row from left, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Christopher Fontes, Vania Jordanova and Thomas Leitner. Bottom row from left, Ralph Menikoff, Joseph Martz and John Lestone. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Seven Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) scientists and engineers have been named 2020 Laboratory Fellows: Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Christopher Fontes, Vania Jordanova, Thomas Leitner, John Lestone, Joseph Martz and Ralph Menikoff.

“Recognizing the Fellows of Los Alamos National Laboratory is one of my proudest responsibilities. To be a Fellow is to be a leader at

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HAPSMobile’s Sunglider Holds Successful Stratospheric Test Flight At Spaceport America

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Sunglider™ flying in the stratosphere above Spaceport America. Courtesy/HAPSMobile

Sunglider’s™ inaugural flight at Spaceport America, July 2020. Courtesy photo

SPACEPORT AMERICA News:

SIERRA COUNTY — HAPSMobile Inc., a subsidiary of SoftBank Corp. (TOKYO: 9434) and minority-owned by AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), successfully reached an altitude of more than 60,000 feet above sea level during a 20-hour test flight of the Sunglider™ solar-powered high-altitude platform station (HAPS) at Spaceport America.

This is the second successful test flight of the Sunglider at Spaceport Read More

LANL: Eight Los Alamos Projects Win R&D 100 Awards

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LANL brought home eight R&D 100 awards this year, plus an additional four special-recognition awards. Scientist Ramesh Jha was among the winners, with the Smart Microbial Cell Technology project, an ultra-high-throughput screening platform to engineer custom biocatalysts. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory technologies brought in eight R&D 100 Awards and Special Recognition Awards, including a Gold Award for Corporate Social Responsibility, Gold and Silver Awards for Market Disruptor – Services, and a Bronze Award for Green Technology, presented Read More

Santa Fe Institute Scientist Sidney Redner Awarded 2021 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize From American Physical Society

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Sidney Redner

SFI News:

SFI Professor Sidney Redner has been awarded the 2021 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize “For leadership in transcending traditional disciplinary boundaries by applying and advancing deep concepts and methods of statistical physics to gain novel insights into diverse real-world phenomena.”

The annual prize from the American Physical Society is one of its highest honors in theoretical physics.

According to the APS website, the prize “recognizes a scientist or scientists whose work (theoretical, experimental, or computational) has opened new vistas for statistical and/or Read More

Top Students Tapped For Los Alamos Science Experience

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National Security Sciences Building (NSSB) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy/LANL 
 
LANL News:
  • Graduate program from DOE prepares students for STEM careers

As part of a U.S. Department of Energy graduate-student program, 52 students from 43 different universities will be sponsored to conduct research at 12 national laboratories. Seven of them will come to Los Alamos National Laboratory for their research experience for between three and 12 months.

“These graduate student awards help prepare new scientists for STEM careers that are vitally important to the DOE mission and the Read More

NNSA Administrator Statement On 2020 Nobel Prize In Physics Recipient Dr. Andrea Ghez With Ties To LLNL

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2020 Nobel Prize in Physics recipient Dr. Andrea Ghez of UCLA. Courtesy/@NobelPrize

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Administrator Lisa E Gordon-Hagerty of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Department of Energy’s Under Secretary for Nuclear Security issued the following statement on the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, Dr. Andrea Ghez:

“Congratulations to Andrea Ghez, this year’s co-recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. Now an esteemed professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, she has close ties with NNSA’s Lawrence Livermore Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory Early Career Scientist Sumantra Sarkar Receives 2021 Irwin Oppenheim Award

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LANL early career scientist Sumantra Sarkar receives the 2021 Irwin Oppenheim Award. Courtesy/LANL

LANL New:

Sumantra Sarkar, a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist specializing in self-replicating materials, is the recipient of the 2021 Irwin Oppenheim Award from the American Physical Society.

“Self-replication is a biophysical process through which an object can create a near identical replica of itself,” Sarkar said. “Biological systems such as all animals and plants are master self-replicators. As I write, millions of cells in our bodies are copying themselves and producing Read More

National Institute Of Standards And Technology Innovation Could Improve Detection Of COVID-19 Infections

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COVID-19 testing. Courtesy/NIST (Shutterstock)

NIST News:

A multidisciplinary research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a way to increase the sensitivity of the primary test used to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19.

Applying their findings to computerized test equipment could improve our ability to identify people who are infected but do not exhibit symptoms.

The team’s results, published in the scientific journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, describe a mathematical technique for perceiving comparatively Read More

New Report Provides Recommendations For Effective Data Practices Based On NSF Research Enterprise Convening

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ARL News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of research library and higher education leadership associations released Sept. 25 Implementing Effective Data Practices: Stakeholder Recommendations for Collaborative Research Support.

In this new report, experts from library, research and scientific communities provide key recommendations for effective data practices to support a more open research ecosystem.

In December 2019, an invitational conference was convened by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the California Digital Library (CDL), the Association of American Universities Read More

Udall Promotes New Mexico Space Economy, Peaceful Use Of Space In Senate Hearing With NASA Administrator

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U.S. Sen. Tom Udall

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — At a hearing of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) progress on major missions, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) secured commitments from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on the agency’s continued collaboration with key stakeholders in New Mexico’s growing space economy, and on U.S. leadership in international cooperation to maintain the peaceful use of outer space.

Udall is the author of S.Res.386, a resolution to support implementation of international Read More