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International Institute For Applied Systems Analysis: Advocating For Global Commitment To Science Diplomacy

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IIASA News:

The Vienna Statement on Science Diplomacy is the product of a high-level event organized by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in June this year to discuss the crucial role of international scientific cooperation in enabling researchers to access additional expertise and gain new perspectives on research, unlocking scientific discoveries, and promoting scientific advancement.

Discussions at the event also explored how international scientific cooperation helps countries to build stronger relations and how it contributes through evidence-based Read More

LARSO Seeks Volunteers To Finish Re-Useable Cloth Bags 12:30-3:30 PM Friday For Pharmacy Team In Haiti

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Many in Haiti go through great lengths to get people to the free clinics. This is a sign of true care for their elders. Courtesy/Bernadette Lauritzen

These re-useable cloth bags for the pharmacy team in Haiti will each get the FOTCOH stamp to remind Haitians to bring the bag with them on every visit to the clinic. Courtesy/Bernadette Lauritzen

By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Executive Director
LARSO

When the world feels like it will never return to normal, how do you help those you used to help in person?

Friday, former Smith’s Pharmacist Katie Fry continues her good deeds by sewing re-useable bags for Read More

Monkeypox Cases On The Rise In United States

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Courtesy/cdc.gov

1440 News:

The number of confirmed monkeypox cases has risen to more than 1,800, with instances of the viral infection having been reported in 43 states and the District of Columbia – six in New Mexico.

Officials say vaccine demand has outpaced supply—the federal government has ordered 7 million doses, though the majority will not become available until the end of the year.

The spread comes amid a broader global outbreak, with more than 11,000 cases reported across 65 countries. It marks the largest known spread of the virus outside central and western Africa, though Read More

Winners Announced For 2022 Spaceport America Cup

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2022 Spaceport America Cup winning team, The University of Sydney. Courtesy/Spaceport America

New Mexico Lt. Gov. Howie Morales with NMSU’s Atomic Aggies. Courtesy/Spaceport America

SPACEPORT AMERICA News:

SIERRA COUNTY — Spaceport America and the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA) have announced the winners of the 2022 Spaceport America Cup brought to you by Sierra Space.

The University of Sydney took home the overall winners’ trophy after impressing the judges with their 30,000 ft rocket launch.

Over 1,300 participants attended the 2022 Spaceport America Cup Read More

Lemon Bucket Orkestra Performs In Albuquerque Aug. 3

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MUSIC News

Work has been underway since Lemon Bucket Orkestra’s festival performance at ¡Globalquerque! 2018 to bring them them back to New Mexico.

¡Globalquerque! and the City of Albuquerque present Lemon Bucket Orkestra in concert Wednesday, Aug. 3.

The Guardian said Lemon Bucket Orkestra performances are “gorgeously sung and passionately played” and The New York Times called them “charismatic…handsome and ambitious”.

Lemon Bucket Orkestra’s (LBO) repertoire and inspiration comes from a myriad of folk traditions across Eastern Europe, including, notably, Ukraine. Their Read More

Los Alamos High School Graduate Chase Ealey Makes History As First American To Win Shot Put World Title

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LAHS 2012 graduate Chase Ealey, 27, makes history winning the gold medal in Women’s shot put Saturday night at the 2022 World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Post/Screenshot

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

Los Alamos High School (LAHS) 2012 graduate Chase Foster Ealey has made history as the first American to win a shot put world title. Ealey, 27, won the gold medal in women’s shot put Saturday night at the 2022 World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.

During an interivew in 2019 with the Los Alamos Daily Post, Ealey’

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Today Is World Snake Day 2022

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Picture of snake in glue trap taken by homeowner. Courtesy/J. Macek

By JAN MACEK
Los Alamos

April 27 of this year 2022 many articles on Internet Sites, that sadly went unnoticed, declared that “One-fifth of all snakes, turtles, and other reptiles face extinction. More than a fifth of all reptilian species — over 1,800 — are threatened with extinction, and 31 species have permanently vanished already, according to a new study in the journal Nature.”

https://www.vox.com/2022/4/27/23040966/snakes-turtles-lizards-reptiles-extinction

World Snake Day is celebrated every year on July 16 Read More

Partners Sign Letter Of Intent To Forward Collaborative Binational Approach To Mexican Wolf Recovery

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A male Mexican gray wolf tries to elude capture inside an enclosure in 2017 at Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. The wolf was to be transported to the Endangered Wolf Center in Eureka, Mo. for breeding purposes. Courtesy/NMDGF

NMDGF News:

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD), New Mexico Department of Game and Fish (NMDGF), and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) through its National Commission for Natural Protected Areas (CONANP) and the Directorate General for Wildlife, have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) Read More

James Webb Space Telescope’s New View Of Cosmos

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First images: James Webb Space Telescope’s new view of the cosmos. Courtesy image

World Science Festival News:

Scientists have waited a generation to see the stunning images that the James Webb Telescope is now delivering.

In a live online Q+A, (link), Brian Greene speaks with Nobel Prize-winner John Mather and other key project scientists about the telescope’s first full color images, looking back in time farther than ever before and providing unprecedented observations of the birth of stars and the formation of galaxies.

See the captivating first images and learn how understanding of Read More

Los Alamos High School Student Receives U.S. State Department Scholarship For Exchange Program In Germany

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LAHS Student Elizabeth Frost

CIEE News:

CIEE, a nonprofit study abroad and intercultural exchange organization, has  announced that Elizabeth Frost, a gap year student at Los Alamos High School, is one of 250 American high school students from across the United States to be awarded the prestigious Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) Scholarship for the 2022-2023 academic year.

CBYX is a bi-lateral exchange program co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and German Bundestag (Parliament). 

As a CBYX scholar, Frost will spend the academic year in Germany living with a host family, Read More