Scene From LAHS Marching Band Evening Practice
The Los Alamos High School Marching Band practicing Wednesday evening on Sullivan Field. Photo by Mark Lorenc Read More
LAHS Lockout Lifted; Class Registration Resumes
Registration resumes today following a 30-minute lockout due to a suspicious package spotted across the street on Diamond Drive. Photo by John McHale.ladailypost.comLos Alamos Police have cleared the area and the Los Alamos High School Lockout has been lifted following the sighting late this morning of a suspicious package across the street on Diamond Drive.
Superintendent Kurt Steinhaus told the Los Alamos Daily Post that Cpl. James Keane contacted the high school after spotting a box on the ground with a wire hanging Read More
Senior Centers Host Presentation On The Five Wishes
The White Rock and Betty Ehart Senior Centers will each host a presentation on The Five Wishes.
The presentations, done in conjunction with Tim Rivera of Rivera Funeral Homes and Jenn Bartram of Final Wishes Known, will take place at each center.
The purpose is to foster discussion for those who need a boost to create such documents. Often many find the process time consuming or financially limiting, and these events hope to solve both issues.
“After all the years of meeting with families under what could be described as the worst day of their Read More
Free Science Saturday: Make A Rain Cloud In A Bottle
NMMSH News:Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation Donates $15,000 To Refresh And Refurbish Staff Lounges
The staff of the high school, middle school and all the elementary schools except Barranca (which is under construction) were surprised by newly refreshed and refurnished staff lounges! The LAPS Foundation just completed a $15,000 refresh of the staff lounges, which was meant to be a surprise for teachers and other staff when they returned for their first day on Tuesday. Los Alamos Middle School Principal Suzanne Lynne, left, and Assisant Principal Andy Ainsworth, right, joined, from left, LAPS Foundation Executive Director Laura Loy and LAPS Foundation Board members Louise O’Brien,On The Job In Los Alamos: Math Teachers & Coach
On the job in Los Alamos this afternoon during lunch at the Blue Window Bistro are a group of Los Alamos High School math teachers, and at right, wrestling coach Lawrence Wilson. #worklosalamos #wherediscoveriesaremade. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Indian Affairs Dept. Back To School Supply Drive Aug. 6
Los Alamos High School Key Club Members Attend Southwest District Kiwanis Convention In Arizona
LAHS Key Club members Shena Hand and Andrew Watson meet with Kiwanis Key Club Advisor Morrie Pongratz at the Southwest District Kiwanis Convention over the weekend in Chandler, Ariz. Courtesy photo
KIWANIS News:
This past weekend Los Alamos members of the Kiwanis family braved “Excessive Heat Warnings” to attend the Southwest District Kiwanis convention in Chandler, Ariz.
Attendees included Kiwanis President-elect Cheryl Pongratz, her husband and Key Club Advisor Morrie Pongratz and Builders Club Advisor Don Casperson.
The Southwest District Key Club Board of Directors, including Read More
NM Public Education Dept. Seeks Teacher Mentors For Governor’s 2019-20 STEM Challenge & Showcase
NMPED News:
SANTA FE – As New Mexico schools are preparing for the 2019-20 academic year, the New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) is reaching out to high school science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) educators to encourage participation in the first-ever Governor’s STEM Challenge and Showcase.
Over the course of the 2019 summer break, the PED contacted principals and superintendents in all 89 school districts and charter school directors across the state to share information about this exciting opportunity for New Mexico’s students.
Schools wishing to register a Read More
Local Members Attend International Women’s Forum
International Women’s Forum (IWF) members from Los Alamos, Linda Deck, Nancy Bartlit and Carol A. Clark attended the organization’s 3rd quarterly meeting Saturday at CHRISTUS St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe. CHRISTUS St. Vincent CEO Lillian Montoya is a member of IWF and hosted the 4-hour event, which included a program on women and aging. Dr. Trent Sensiba, Dr. Lily Love and Dr. James Green presented talks as part of the program. From foreground center, Montoya, Bartlit, Sandra Evenson visiting from Washington, and Deck, who serves as board secretary for IWF. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Lunch With A Leader: Global Warming Express Aug. 20
LWVLA News:Historic Santa Fe Foundation Announces Launch Of Mac Watson Register Fellowship Honoring Contributions
Alan ‘Mac’ Watson. Courtesy/HSFFSFCC Services & Fitness Center Opening Late Aug. 8
SFCC News:Ledoux: Exploring Mysteries Of Living … Behavior And Contingencies
By STEPHEN F. LEDOUX
Los Alamos
A member of The International Behaviorology Institute
Last time we took a quick look at contingency causes of behavior through the oversimplified “A—B—Cs of behaviorology.” A slightly more realistic formula, “A—B—P,” refers mostly to events in time and stands for “Antecedents—Behaviors—Postcedents.” We will quickly see this develop into many fully realistic versions, a common one of which is “Evocative Stimulus—Response—Consequential Stimulus.”
Such variables are the starting point, the most basic starting point, for beginning any investigation Read More
PEEC: Discover World Of Real-Life Zombies Aug. 6
Andrew Bartlow will give a presentation at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 6 at the Los Alamos Nature Center to explore how some parasites have evolved to manipulate their hosts and turn them into their own zombie bodyguards. In this photo he is on Mindoro Island in the Philippines on a museum collection trip where he was one of the parasitologists who went to collect parasites from birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians. Courtesy/PEECSFCC Announces Thomasinia Ortiz-Gallegos Is Associate Vice President For Student Success
Thomasinia Gallegos-Ortiz
Workforce Solutions Department Funding Will Support Training For High-Demand Jobs At LANL And N3B
Officials and students gather Tuesday morning at NNMC for the announcement of a new program funded by Workforce Solutions that will train more than 50 area students for high-paying jobs at with LANL and N3B. Photo by Arin McKenna/Valley Daily Post
New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions, the Department of Higher Education, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B), Northern New Mexico College and University of New Mexico–Los Alamos held a joint press conference Tuesday at NNMC to announce a new Read More
Highlands University And LANL Success Story
Monte Roybal. Courtesy/LANL
Highlands University News:
LAS VEGAS, N.M. – Monte Roybal, a New Mexico Highlands computer science graduate student and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, has landed a coveted permanent software developer position at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), calling it a dream come true.
Roybal is among six Highlands University graduates with a Master of Science in computer science whom LANL hired during early spring semester 2019.
“The most interesting thing about working at LANL is continually adding to my ‘bag of tricks’ in regard to computer science skills,” Roybal Read More
