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LANL Awards Highest Honor – The Los Alamos Medal – To Premier Designer Gary Wall

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Gary Wall accepts the Los Alamos Medal from Laboratory Director Thom Mason at a special awards ceremony at Buffalo Thunder. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • The medal is the highest honor given to Los Alamos National Laboratory employees

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) awarded its highest honor, the Los Alamos Medal, to Gary Wall of the Weapons Physics group. A Laboratory Fellow with more than 50 years’ experience in primary design, analysis and certification, Wall is considered one of the nation’s premier designers. As such, he has had, and continues to have, a profound influence on America’s Read More

Local Youth Exchange Student Caleb Langenbrunner Shares Experiences In France With Los Alamos Rotary Club

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Caleb Langenbrunner, a freshman at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, spoke during the Aug. 15 Rotary meeting at Cottonwood on the Greens. Photo by Linda Hull

By LINDA HULL
Rotary Club of Los Alamos

Caleb Langenbrunner, a freshman at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, spoke about his Youth Exchange experiences in France during the Aug. 15 meeting of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos at Cottonwood on the Greens.

Langenbrunner had applied to the Rotary program with the intention of spending his junior year of high school abroad, but instead spent his senior year in France due to a hiatus in the program created Read More

Fuselier: The History Of NPH And Marlon

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Marlon presenting a talk about the NPH’s work in Latin America during a gathering earlier this summer at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church at 3700 Canyon Road. Courtesy/Bob Fuselier

By BOB FUSELIER
Los Alamos

Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part series about the NPH’s work in Latin America. Please see (https://ladailypost.comfuselier-a-visitor-from-the-past/) for the previous part of the series.

NPH was founded unintentionally in 1954 when Fr. William Wasson provided a home for a young boy who had been caught stealing from the collection box at R. Wasson’s church in Read More

Laura Gonzales Recounts Rotary International Convention

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Rotarian Laura Gonzales unveils the colorful scarf created for the Rotary International 2023-2024 with the theme Create Hope in the World. Gonzales purchased the scarf in May during the Rotary International Convention in Melbourne, Australia. Photo by Linda Hull

By LINDA HULL
Rotary Club of Los Alamos

Los Alamos Rotarian Laura Gonzales, the Inbound Youth Exchange Placement chair for Rotary District 5520, spoke July 25 at the Los Alamos club meeting at Cottonwood on the Greens. 

Gonzales, who has long held an interest in Rotary youth activities, was invited by Rotary International President Read More

Fuselier: A Visitor From The Past

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By BOB FUSELIER
Los Alamos

Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series about the NPH’s work in Latin America.

It’s a rare event when I cross paths with someone who I hadn’t seen or spoken with in 35 or so years. Such was the case when Marlon Velasquez recently visited IHM Catholic Church. I hadn’t seen Marlon since the time Susie and I, along with our two children at the time (Jenny and Mike), were volunteering in the late 80’s at an orphanage known as Ranch Santa Fe or “the Ranch”. The home was set on a large piece of land in the mountains outside Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Marlon was then a pequeño Read More

Huang: From The First A-Bomb To The Last O-Mega … Is 78-Years Too Long A Time?

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Courtesy/Zhen Huang

By ZHEN HUANG
Los Alamos

In Los Alamos, we have a bridge, the only bridge. It is a steel bridge across the Los Alamos Canyon at Otowi Crossing built in 1951. It connects the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a giant scientific research complex that is also the base of nuclear weapons development, and Los Alamos County, a small town sitting at the Pajarito Plateau surrounded by the peaceful National Forest and sacred land of Native Americans. 

The official name of the bridge is called Omega Bridge. “Omega” is the name of an experimental nuclear reactor at the Los Alamos National Read More

Today Marks 2023 Earth Overshoot Day

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Courtesy/Global Footprint Network <www.footprintnetwork.org>.
Courtesy/Global Footprint Network <www.footprintnetwork.org>.
By SKIP DUNN
White RockEarth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. https://www.overshootday.org

In 2023, Earth Overshoot Day lands on Aug. 2. We maintain this deficit by liquidating stocks of ecological resources and accumulating waste, primarily carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Earth Overshoot Day is hosted and calculated

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Los Alamos High School’s Daniel Kim Joins Students Across US & World At Joint Science & Technology Institute West

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Los Alamos High School student Daniel Kim

JSTI News:

ALBUQUERQUE — Daniel Kim of Los Alamos, was one of 36 high school students who attended the Joint Science and Technology Institute (JSTI) West, an educational opportunity to expand his knowledge and experience in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

Kim, son of Eun Jung Kim, is a student at Los Alamos High School. He collaborated with scientists and was mentored by Department of Defense scientists and experts in STEM fields. He took the opportunity to work on one of several research projects with teammates and mentor, gaining Read More

Manhattan Project National Historical Park To Host Days Of Peace & Remembrance Of Atomic Bombings In Japan

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A bag with a message of peace in Los Alamos at Ashley Pond Park in 2022. Courtesy photo

MPNHP News:

DENVER — Manhattan Project National Historical Park, (MPNHP)in partnership with Pearl Harbor National Memorial, will host “Days of Peace and Remembrance” across its three sites and at Pearl Harbor to commemorate and reflect on the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945.

This commemorative programming acknowledges and interprets the conflicting viewpoints, both historical and modern, that surround the development and use of the world’s first atomic weapons.

These events Read More

LAJI Hosts Talk With Simon Wisenthal Center’s Rabbi Abraham Cooper & Writer/Activist Kinue Tokudome July 24

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LAJI News:

Los Alamos-Japan Institute (LAJI) invites the public to join Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of President Truman and LAJI Founder Dr. Judith Stauber for a conversation with Simon Wiesenthal Center Co-Founder Rabbi Abraham Cooper and writer/activist Kinue Tokudome. Hear about the current state of antisemitism, holocaust denial and perceptions of Israel in the United States and Japan today.

The talk will begin at 5 p.m. Monday, July 24.

Visit https://laji.us to register and join the conversation. Questions will be welcomed.

Rabbi Cooper is an expert on hate and terrorism, is Read More