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New Mexico Governor Leading Taiwan Trade Mission

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STATE News:

TAIPEI, Taiwan — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham will lead a business and trade mission to Taiwan today, Sept. 17, to participate in U.S. Business Day and meet with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua and manufacturing companies interested in locating to the state.

Gov. Lujan Grisham will speak Sept. 19 at U.S. Business Day in Taipei, the premier business and economic development event in Taiwan sponsored by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council. The delegation will also make presentations on New Mexico’s business climate, Read More

What Happened On 9/11?

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Scene from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. Courtesy/9/11 Memorial & Museum

The Cross after 9/11 (2001). The World Trade Center cross, also known as the Ground Zero cross, is a formation of steel beams found among the debris of the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan, New York City, following the September 11 attacks in 2001. Courtesy/wikipedia

The cross installed on a pedestal at Ground Zero (2003). Courtesy/wikipedia

9/11 Memorial & Museum News:

Today marks the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. “9/11” is shorthand for four coordinated terrorist attacks Read More

U.S. And Japan Convene Nuclear Security Working Group To Adopt New Goals, Discuss Nuclear Security Landscape

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NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S.-Japan Nuclear Security Working Group (NSWG) convened for its 12th meeting at Oak Ridge National Laboratory last month.

The United States and Japan established the bilateral NSWG in 2011 in response to a shared desire to demonstrate leadership in strengthening nuclear security worldwide and in support of the Nuclear Security Summit process.

The meeting’s co-chairs were Corey Hinderstein, NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, and Ambassador Mitsuko Hayashi, Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Read More

NucleCast Celebrates 100th Episode With Special Guest Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Dr. Thomas Mason

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Dr. Thomas Mason

NucleCast News:

NucleCast, the official podcast of the Advanced Nuclear Weapons Alliance Deterrence Center (ANWA) Deterrence Center, celebrates its 100th episode Tuesday, Sept. 5, with special guest Dr. Thom Mason, director of Los Alamos National Laboratory.

As director, Mason leads the Laboratory’s mission to solve important challenges in energy and national security.

Mason talks with the host of NucleCast, Dr. Adam Lowther, director of Strategic Deterrence Programs at the National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska.

Listeners will learn Read More

Communities To Take Action On International Overdose Awareness Day Aug. 31 To Stem Overdose Crisis

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Vital Strategies News:

NEW YORK, NY — For International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD) Aug. 31, public health organization Vital Strategies and hundreds of organizations and government agencies across the country are mounting community memorial events and rallying support for harm reduction services to stem the rising tide of overdose, which has claimed more than 100,000 lives in each of the past two years.

“Aug. 31, Overdose Awareness Day, is an important time to honor the lives of family and friends who we have tragically lost to overdose, now the leading cause of death for people under 50 Read More

USC: Fighting ‘Bad’ Fires With ‘Good’ Ones

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Joshua trees burn during the York Fire in the Mojave National Preserve in July. Photo by Ty O’Neil, The Associated Press

By NINA Raffio
USC

  • Outlawing controlled burns didn’t work. As demand for prescribed fire increases across California, experts explore traditional and modern methods for building wildfire resilience in a burning world.

What can Native American knowledge, and now AI, teach us about fire? University of Southern California (USC) experts weigh in.

For centuries, Native American tribes used cultural and controlled burns to nurture healthy ecosystems. These deliberate, Read More

NNMC Professor & Students Conduct Research In Bahamas

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NNMC Assistant Professor/Biology Dr. Rhiannon West and students Jazmyn Gutierrez and Vincent Benavidez visit the University of the Bahamas Gerace Research Centre in December 2022 to conduct research on indigenous species of pupfish in the interior of San Salvador Island. Courtesy/NNMC

NNMC students Jazmyn Gutierrez and Vincent Benavidez conduct research in December 2022 on indigenous species of pupfish in the interior of San Salvador Island. Courtesy/NNMC

NNMC News:

ESPAÑOLA — Students at Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) benefit from remarkable opportunities for undergraduate Read More

Fuselier: Marlon’s Road To Emmaus

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By BOB FUSELIER
Los Alamos

Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part series about the NPH’s work in Latin America. Please see previous part one here and part two here.

Marlon’s Emmaus moment came somewhere during his early 30’s. Before that, he had experienced the love of his two parents early in his life, enough to give him the confidence needed to survive living on the streets of Tegucigalpa as a young teenager. He had also felt a tremendous sense of abandonment as a young child when his mother died and as a young teenager when his father told him that he could no longer support him. On the streets, Read More

Los Alamos Rotary Club Youth Exchange Student Annabelle Rosette Prepares For Year Of Study In Huesca, Spain

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Rotary Youth Exchange Student Annabelle Rosette performs on cello at club’s meeting Aug. 22 at Cottonwood on the Greens. Photo by Linda Hull

By LINDA HULL
Rotary Club of Los Alamos

Annabelle Rosette, a junior in high school, performed on cello for an admiring audience at the Rotary Club meeting Aug. 22 at Cottonwood on the Greens. The selections she chose were La Cinquantaine, written in 1887 by Jean-Gabriel Prosper Marie, a French romantic composer and conductor, and The Sounds of Silence, written by American folk singer and songwriter Paul Simon in 1964.

In September, Rosette will travel to Read More