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Los Alamos Faith And Science Forum 2024 Summer Lecture Series Presents ‘Antisemitism And Anti-Science: A Deadly Overlap And The Case Of The Missing Hyphen’

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Rabbi Jack Shlachter

Los Alamos Faith And Science Forum News:

Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum 2024 Summer Lecture Series will presents “Antisemitism And Anti-Science: A Deadly Overlap and the Case of the Missing Hyphen” by Rabbi Jack Shlachter Tuesday June 18 at SALA Event Center. A light meal will be served at 6 p.m. with the lecture to follow beginning at 6:30 p.m.

If there is any town in which anti-science is anathema, it is Los Alamos. Anti-science involves the “rejection of mainstream scientific views and methods or their replacement with unproven or deliberately misleading theories, Read More

Second New Mexico Facility Awarded CHIPS Funding

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EDD News:

SANTA FE — New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD) Acting Cabinet Secretary Mark Roper said that today’s announcement by the White House of another award to a New Mexico company under the CHIPS and Science Act solidifies New Mexico as a center for advanced manufacturing. 

The $23.9 million award to Albuquerque’s Rocket Lab, formerly SolAero, will significantly increase its satellite solar power production over the next four years and provide up to 140 additional jobs in New Mexico.

The company will invest more than $70 million of private money into the expansion and $25 Read More

Family Strengths Network Hosts Day Of STEAM June 12

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FSN News:

Family Strengths Network (FSN) invites families with kids of all ages to attend its annual Day of STEAM  9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 12.

A variety of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities and presentations will take place. FSN will provide ongoing STEAM fun throughout the day.

Visiting organizations will have special presentations at the following times:

  • 10 a.m. – Santa Fe Reptile and Bug Museum will have some creepy crawlies to check out;
  • Noon – Santa Fe Raptor Center will bring a special feathered guest; and
  • 1 p.m. – Los Alamos
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Los Alamos Faith & Science Forum 2024 Summer Lecture Series Presents ‘An Ancient Near Eastern Cultural Context For Israelite Temple Worship’ By Dr. James Carroll June 11

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Courtesy/LAF&SF

LAF&SF News:

Los Alamos Faith & Science Forum (LAF&SF) 2024 Summer Lecture Series will present “An Ancient Near Eastern Cultural Context For Israelite Temple Worship” by Dr. James Carroll Tuesday, June 11 at SALA Event Center. The event begins with a light meal at 6 p.m., followed at 6:30 p.m. with the lecture.

The Israelite temple tradition was recorded in painstaking detail. It included specific architectural forms, enigmatic cultic objects, and complex rituals. To the modern reader, this can be one of the most jarring and sometimes confusing aspects Read More

New Mexico Museum Of Natural History & Science To Celebrate Legacy Of Dr. Sally Ride With Special Event

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NMMNHS News:

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS) will  celebrate the legacy of Dr. Sally Ride with an evening of fun that highlights the contributions of New Mexico women in science.

In partnership with the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum, NMMNHS will be the local host for this national celebration of the first American woman in space: Dr. Sally Ride, June 20.

To showcase New Mexico women in space, there will be a showing of the classic sci-fi film Contact (1997) in the Planetarium, Powered by META, as part of the museum’s Science Fiction or Fact? film series. This Read More

TechSource Named DOE Small Business Of The Year

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TechSource officials accepting the DOE Small Business of the Year Award Tuesday in Minneapolis from left, Deno Photinakis, VP for Technical Solutions and Deputy Managing Director, NCR PMO; Kristi Daugherty, Deputy Director for Operations, LA PMO; Brian D’Andrea, Chairman and CEO and Jim Rhone, Senior VP and Managing Director, NCR PMO. Courtesy/TechSource

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com

TechSource, Inc, headquartered in downtown Los Alamos, has been named the Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business of the Year, a prestigious recognition of its “outstanding Read More

Faculty Research Informs Classroom Design For All Learners

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Faculty researchers apply input from neuroatypical students to classroom design ideas for industry partner Steelcase. Courtesy/David Kniola and Elif Tural

VIRGINIA TECH News:

Faculty from the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences conducted a study that informs classroom designs by incorporating the perspective of neuroatypical students.

This study on universal design, supported by funding from Steelcase, a global design and thought leader in the world of work, is not only acting as an industry guide, but its findings are attracting Read More

From Ranches To Rockets, Upcoming Exhibit At New Mexico History Museum Explores History Of Tularosa Basin

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Sixteen General Electric employees pose on a warhead V-2 Rocket with one man standing at the tail end at White Sands Missile Range. GE had the contract to work on the V-2 at the Proving Ground. Courtesy/WSMR

New Mexico History Museum News:

A new exhibit opens at New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) that tells the story of the dramatic transformation of life in the Tularosa Basin of Southern New Mexico in the 1940s and beyond. 

Home on the Range: From Ranches to Rockets opens June 7, 2024, and is traveling from New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces to the

The New Mexico History Museum, Read More

Los Alamos Faith And Science Forum 2024 Summer Lecture Series Presents Dr. Charles Chick Keller June 5

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Dr. Charles “Chick” Keller

Los Alamos Faith And Science Forum News:

The Los Alamos Faith And Science Forum 2024 Summer Lecture Series kicks off at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 5 at SALA Event Center, with a presentation by Dr. Charles F. “Chick” Keller on “Galaxies vs. People Interacting with the Creator”.

In the last 10 years we have discovered just how enormous the universe is. We already knew the enormous number of stars in each galaxy, and now Hubble and Webb telescopes have shown us countless galaxies. And the Gaia satellite has found that most stars have planets. The theological implications are Read More

New Mexico Author Magdalena Sandoval Grew Up In Los Alamos And Has Released Second Book On Geology

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New Mexico geologist and author Magdalena Sandoval Donahue published her second book, Roadside Geology of New Mexico, in April. Courtesy photo

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

“Growing up in Los Alamos, I learned a lifelong learning philosophy and have a continuous curiosity about how things work. ” –Magdalena Sandoval Donahue

New Mexico geologist and author Magdalena Sandoval Donahue’s origins as a rockhound are right here in Los Alamos.

She explained that it was while working as a summer intern at Los Alamos National Laboratory alongside her best friend’s Read More