Education

Los Alamos High School AP Results For 2018

LAPD News:

The results are in for the 341 students at Los Alamos High School who took a total of 613 AP® exams this past May. This year, 80 percent of students received scores of 3 or higher on their exams.

“We are extremely proud of our students on their AP accomplishments, and our AP teachers who support and guide them in these efforts,” said LAHS Principal Carter Payne, upon seeing the 2018 results.

The College Board’s Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) provides students with the opportunity to take rigorous college-level courses while still in high school, and to earn college credit, advanced Read More

Eighth Annual Julie’s Helpers Memorial Scholarship For Navajo Women Announced

Jamy Malone and family. Courtesy photo
 
JHMS News:
 
The Julie’s Helpers Memorial Scholarship recognizes determined Navajo women who strive to give back to their communities through advancing their education and who need help funding a challenging academic course of study.
 
The scholarship has been administered since 2011 by White Rock Presbyterian Church. It honors the memory of Julie Meadows, a young mother and LANL employee who died of a brain tumor in 2009. Shortly before she was diagnosed, Julie participated in a mission experience with White Rock Presbyterian Church
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Music From Angel Fire Hosts Series Off Free Workshops In Los Alamos

Triacanthos Woodwind Quintet. Courtesy photo
 
MUSIC News:
 
Music From Angel Fire will host a series of free workshops the afternoon of Friday, Aug. 31 in the Los Alamos Public Schools facilitated by Zane Meek.
The feature group, the Triacanthos Woodwind Quintet, will work with Los Alamos youth in master classes, private lessons, ensemble coaching and more. The day will come to a close with a free public concert 6-7 p.m., at Duane Smith Auditorium.
 
The featured ensemble, Triacanthos Quintet, is based at the www.Curtis.edu Institute in Philadelphia and will be featured during
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Chartwells Team Gears Up For Back To School

Chef Mia Holsapple
 
CHARTWELLS News:
 
Chef Mia Holsapple and her Chartwells team have been working all summer long to feed community youth and are gearing up, for a new school year.
 
As the school year came to a close, Holsapple worked with the LAPS Administration to secure funds through the Children Youth and Families Department (CYFD), for the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).
 
The beauty of the program was that the service provided free lunch and snacks for any student under the age of 18. The ease of needing no income eligibility to apply, but just show up and eat, allowed
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SFCC Announces Fall Semester Registration

SFCC News:
 
SANTA FE Santa Fe Community College registration is ongoing for the Fall semester, which begins Aug. 20. The college offers hundreds of credit classes from accounting to welding.
 
Interim president Cecilia Cervantes, Ph.D., said, “We want to make the community aware that the college realizes that many working adults are looking at ways to earn a certificate or degree. There are a variety of options such as evening, weekend and online programs that offer flexible scheduling.”
 
Students can complete many certificate programs in a year or less. A recent study by
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C’YA Hosts Youth Entrepreneur Fair Aug. 11

 
C’YA News:
 
When life gives you a lot of lemons sell lemonade. That is just one of the activities you will find as Champions of Youth Ambitions (C’YA) hosts a Youth Entrepreneur Fair Aug. 11, and youth are welcome to apply. The event will take place from 10am-2pm at the United Church of Los Alamos.
 
The fair is a low cost opportunity for youth from the community and around the area, to sell their arts, crafts, products or services. The event takes place just prior to the start of school, when the actual summer for students, comes to an end.
 
The event will rent tables for
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Los Alamos Students Invited To View Dr. Atomic

Los Alamos High School students Thursday at the Santa Fe Opera. Courtesy photo
 
LAHS News:
 
Through the generous support of the Santa Fe Opera, Los Alamos High School students were invited to view Dr. Atomic.Thursday, Aug. 2.
 
This opportunity is part of an ongoing collaboration with Santa Fe Opera Education and the Los Alamos Opera Guild in which LAHS students of AP Literature learn about the power of story through the art form of opera. Their work includes guest lectures, a spring tour of the SFO campus and a culminating viewing of a full production.
 
This year’s
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PEEC: ‘Search For Sun Siblings’ Talk 7 p.m. Today

Courtesy photo
 
PEEC News:
 
Stars like the Sun almost never form in isolation. Usually, star formation takes place in large clusters, creating many sibling stars in batches that slowly disperse over time. Join Erica Fogerty at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3 at the Los Alamos Nature Center’s planetarium to learn about the search for the Sun’s long-lost relatives and their most likely location.

Erica Fogerty

Fogerty is a computational astrophysicist in the Center for Theoretical Astrophysics at Los Alamos National Laboratory. A native of Philadelphia, she is enjoying the change in surroundings Read More

Bandelier: Ranger Guided Activities In Frijoles Canyon

An evening on the main loop trail at Bandelier National Monument. Photo by Jana McClure
 
 BNM News:
 
On most Saturdays, Aug. 4 through Sept. 29, Interpretive Rangers at Bandelier National Monument will be providing Bat Strolls and Night Walks in Frijoles Canyon.
 
Rangers Ryan Gaul and Jason Knight will reveal fun bat facts and accompany visitors on the Falls Trail to a spot where the group will quietly wait for any emerging bats. While Rangers Wesley Hermann and Derek Wallentinsen will share insight about what night time activity in the canyon may have been like when the
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SF’s Colorful Legacy Series: Celebrating 100+ Years Of Art, Culture, And History Pueblo Textile & Embroideries

SAR News:
 
SANTA FE The School for Advanced Research (SAR) continues its Santa Fe’s Colorful Legacy series with a panel discussion on Pueblo Textiles and Embroideries from 1-2:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23, at the St. Francis Auditorium, 107 West Palace Avenue at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
 
Brian Vallo, director of SAR’s Indian Arts Research Center (IARC), and a panel of former SAR Native American Artist Fellows explore the history and evolution of textile arts in Pueblo communities. The panel includes: Louie Garcia from the Prio Manso Tiwa tribe of Guadalupe
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New LAMS Principal Brian Easton Focusing On Consistency And Fairness

New Los Alamos Middle School Principal Brian Easton in the administrative office Tuesday at LAMS. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post
bjgordon@ladailypost.com

After 20 years in the Los Alamos High School classroom, Brian Easton is moving on, but not that far. Easton is the new principal of Los Alamos Middle School.

The highly esteemed social studies teacher loved his job, but said he felt ready for a new challenge … although he wasn’t sure what it would be.

Easton recently added a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership Read More

Los Alamos Kids Take 1,000 Book Challenge

Violet and Eli Helton have read 500 books! They received a certificate and had their photo taken for the Mesa Public Library wall. Courtesy photo
 
Jayla Vest has reached the halfway point in the 1,000 Books challenge! Courtesy photo
 
Bonnie J. Gordon
Los Alamos Daily Post
bjgordon623@ladailypost.com

More than 250 young readers are taking the Los Alamos Library book challenge to read 1,000 books before they enter kindergarten. The nationwide 1,000 Books Foundation provides customized programs to libraries around the U.S.

Youth Services Librarian Angie Manfredi discovered Read More

LAPS Welcomes New Teachers And Staff

Los Alamos Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Kurt Steinhaus welcomes new teachers and staff to the district during new employee orientation this morning in the Board Room at the Administrative Offices on Trinity Drive. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Kurt Steinhaus addresses new teachers and staff during employee orientation this morning in the Board Room at the Administrative Offices on Trinity Drive. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Kurt Steinhaus welcomes new teachers and staff Read More

American Federation Of Teachers NM Responds To State Appeal Of Yazzie/Martinez v. New Mexico Lawsuit

AFT-NM News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE American Federation of Teachers New Mexico (AFT-NM) President Stephanie Ly released the following statement:
 
“Words hardly express the deep disappointment educators across New Mexico feel in response to the news that Gov. Susana Martinez has chosen to appeal the recent court decision, which found New Mexico has been critically underfunding our public education system of hundreds of millions of dollars which should be flowing into classrooms and lecture halls across the state.
 
“This administration is woefully out of step even in its waning
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NMHU Students Create Digital Online Exhibits

Marie Gallegos plays the role of Goneril in a 1950 Highlands University Koshare Players production of King Lear. The photo is part of the new Donnelly Library digital online special collections exhibits. Courtesy photo
 
NMHU News:
 
LAS VEGAS History of the Las Vegas community and Highlands University come to life, thanks to a digital online special collections exhibits project the university’s media arts and technology students created for Donnelly Library.
 
Graduate media arts students in Lucia Duncan’s spring semester 2018 class, Synthesis of Media Arts and Computer
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Udall, Heinrich Announce $1.1 Million Grant For NMSU Sustainable Agriculture Research

U.S. SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced that New Mexico State University (NMSU) Agriculture Extension Program has received a $1.18 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
 
The Resilient Agroecosystems in a Changing Climate award will fund research into the best strategies for arid land farmers and ranchers in the Southern Great Plains in Union County, N.M.; Las Animas, Colo.; and Cimarron County, Okla., to adapt to times of drought.
 
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Panel Of Experts To Discuss J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Rise And Fall From Grace 6 p.m. Aug. 8

Dr. Gregg Herken
 
RSF News:
 
As part of an ongoing focus on the history of the atomic age, Recursos de Santa Fe will present a program exploring the long and tangled history of the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer as scientific head of the Manhattan Project and the subsequent loss of his security clearance, barring him from the Los Alamos National Laboratory he founded and led.
 
The discussion is Aug. 8, the anniversary of the atomic bomb drop on Nagasaki. It begins at 6 p.m. in the La Terrazza Ballroom at La Fonda Hotel.
 
Speakers include Dr. Gregg Herken, who has written extensively
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Presentation On How Parasites Manipulate Their Hosts And Make Them Real Life Zombies At 7 p.m. Today

Andrew Bartlow on Mindoro Island in the Phillippines collecting parasites from birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians will give a presentation at 7 p.m. today. Courtesy/EEC

PEEC News:

Join Andrew Bartlow tonight at the Los Alamos Nature Center to learn about how some specific parasites have evolved ways to manipulate their hosts and turn them into their own zombie bodyguards.

His talk begins at 7 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

Parasites are everywhere and are extremely diverse. From tiny microscopic Giardia to giant tapeworms, parasites rule the world in terms of biodiversity. Read More

Lujan Grisham On Meeting With Secretary DeVos

U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham
 
CONGRESSIONAL News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM-01) released the following statement after meeting Thursday with Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos:
 
“In today’s meeting, Secretary DeVos continued to demonstrate that she does not understand the investments and policies that need to be implemented so that public school students, their families, and teachers succeed.
 
“Since becoming Secretary of Education, DeVos has proposed cutting billions of dollars from after school, early education,
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LANL Foundation Awards 20 Scholarships

LANL FOUNDATION News:

Espanola— The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Foundation awarded 20 scholarships, each worth $1,500 to Northern New Mexico students in three categories.

New in 2018, the Abiquiú Land Grant – Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Scholarship is specifically designated for descendants of an Abiquiú Land Grant family. Marisa-Ann Lopez of Santa Fe, who is studying culinary arts at Santa Fe Community College, is the inaugural recipient of this award. Applicants from this group may pursue a bachelor’s degree, two-year degree or professional Read More

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