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Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker: ‘Doomed To Cooperate’ Jan. 23

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Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker, Stanford University
 
COMMUNITY News:

Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker will present a Los Alamos public lecture about how American and Russian Nuclear scientists joined forces to mitigate some of the greatest post-Cold War Dangers.

The free lecture is 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1967 18th St.

Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker will discuss how nuclear risks changed dramatically when the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991. Suddenly the world was threatened more by Russia’s weakness than its strength.

Never before had a

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Travel Expands World View For UNM-LA Faculty Member

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Dr. Zandree Stidham, right, with her husband Tony in Pemba, Mozambique. Courtesy/Dr. Zandree Stidham

 

By CRISTINA OLDS
UNM-LA

With a passion for teaching, UNM-LA Assistant Professor of English Zandree Stidham, Ph.D., traveled to Mozambique, Africa, to share her talents and exchange cultural insights. She also brought  insights home to Los Alamos to help enhance the learning experience for her students here.

“Teaching is my absolute favorite thing I do,” Stidham said. “If I could be in the classroom all day, every day, I would. In my classes, students research and write about Read More

Los Alamos History Museum Launches Japan Initiative

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LA HISTORY MUSEUM News:

The Los Alamos Historical Museum has been awarded a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation to increase the cultural understanding between the communities of Los Alamos, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Museum Director Judith Stauber, Museum Registrar Stephanie Yeamans and Intern Kallie Funk, a Los Alamos High School student, will travel to Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, Japan March 24 to visit museums and historic sites. They will meet with colleagues at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum with the goal of developingdialogue Read More

Los Alamos Rabbi Jack Shlachter Speaks On Rabbi-In-Residence Experience In Bejiing

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Rabbi Jack Shlachter of Los Alamos with the Chinese-style holy ark and torah at Kehillat Beijing. Photo by Beverly M. Post
 
Members of Kehillat Beijing progressive Jewish community go for a group bike ride. Photo by Beverly M. Post. More photos from Rabbi Jack Shlachter’s trips to Beijing to support the Jewish community can be found on his website: www.physicsrabbi.com.

LAJC News:

Kehillat Beijing (www.sinogogue.org) is a progressive, lay-led community of American and international ex-patriots, business people and travelers in Beijing. Rabbi Jack Shlachter of Los Read More

Arctic Islands Film And Presentation Part 1 At Nature Center 7 p.m. Today

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Stephen Becker of Los Alamos aboard the National Geographic/Lindblad Explorer. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

Enjoy the beauty of the Arctic Islands, only recently opened to eco-tourism, from the comfort of the Los Alamos Nature Center, 2600 Canyon Road.

At 7 p.m., today in the Los Alamos Nature Center Planetarium, Stephen A. Becker will show a film and share stories from his three week National Geographic voyage to West Greenland and the North Canadian Islands. This is the first of two events revealing nature in this remote part of the globe.

Part 2 of this event is 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 9, in which Read More

To Sustain Astronauts’ Mental Health, Dartmouth-Led Team Testing Virtual Reality Tech In Arctic Isolation

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Professor Robert Stone
University of Birmingham

DARTMOUTH News:

HANOVER, N.H. – Dartmouth physician and former astronaut Jay Buckey is leading a team of international investigators testing new virtual reality technology in the remote Arctic this winter.

Their goal is to see whether simulated natural beauty can relieve the psychological challenges of living in the isolated confines of deep space travel.

The test site is the Canadian Forces Station Alert (CFS Alert), the most northerly, permanently inhabited location in the world, only 817 kilometers from the geographic North Pole. The Read More

Behind The Lens: 2015 Year In White House Photos

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Feb. 27, 2015 ‘It’s definitely true that former NBA player Shaquille O’Neal is a big guy. But I’ll admit that I used a wide angle lens and this angle to accentuate his size when he stopped by the Oval Office for a quick visit.’ Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

April 29, 2015 ‘Visiting wounded warriors at Walter Reed, the President signed a patient’s military banner at his request.’ Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

June 11, 2015 ‘We had just stopped by the annual Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park and we were already driving away underneath the stadium. The President

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IUPAC: With Discovery Of Four New Chemical Elements – 7th Period Of Periodic Table Of Elements Is Complete

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Simulation of an accelerated calcium-48 ion about to collide with an americium-243 target atom. Courtesy/DOE

SCIENCE News:

IUPAC – International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, announces the verification of the discoveries of four new chemical elements: The 7th period of the periodic table of elements is complete.

The fourth IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party (JWP) on the priority of claims to the discovery of new elements has reviewed the relevant literature for elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 and has determined that the claims for discovery of these elements have been fulfilled, Read More

Top LANL Sci-Tech & Spy Stories 2015

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Courtesy/FBI

VIDEO: Leonardo Mascheroni Of Los Alamos Offering Nuclear Weapons To Venezuela

FBI News:
Feb. 1, 2015

In FBI undercover video and audio recordings, Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni of Los Alamos explains to undercover agent Jimenez that he had a “top of the top” clearance and that he held a security clearance from the Department of Defense and from the Department of Energy.

Mascheroni, 79, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Argentina, was recently sentenced to 60 months in prison for Atomic Energy Act and other violations relating to his communication of classified nuclear Read More