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LANL: Los Alamos Scientists Earn DOE Early Career Awards

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Los Alamos scientist Miles Beaux is among the 83 scientists who will receive a total of $100 million through the Department of Energy’s Early Career Awards Program. Courtesy/LANL

Los Alamos scientist Matt Durham is among the 83 scientists who will receive a total of $100 million through the Department of Energy’s Early Career Awards Program. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Two Los Alamos scientists, Miles Beaux and Matt Durham, are among 83 scientists who will receive a total of $100 million through the Department of Energy’s Early Career Awards Program, which supports critical research at universities Read More

Economic Development Dept. Awards $125,000 Start Up Grants To 5 New Mexico Science & Technology Companies

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EDD News: 

SANTA FE — Economic Development Department’s (EDD) Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced that five New Mexico, high-growth potential companies were awarded Science & Technology Business Start Up Grants at $25,000 each.

Science & Technology Business Start Up Grants are available to New Mexico-based for profit science and technology companies with fewer than 50 employees. Eligible businesses must work in one of the following fields: aerospace, biosciences, cybersecurity, intelligent manufacturing, and sustainable and green energy.

The grant specifically Read More

Relationships Energize New Mexico MEP Resources

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IDS Nanojet Subsystem. Courtesy/IDS

Finance New Mexico:

When tech innovator Dave Keicher requested marketing and sales growth services from New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership (New Mexico MEP), the nonprofit organization saw it as an opportunity to experiment. New Mexico MEP helps manufacturers increase their competitiveness and profitability by improving processes. 

Keicher is vice president of Integrated Deposition Solutions (IDS), whose founder Marcelino Essien patented an aerosol printing technology that IDS calls NanoJet. Keicher helped develop the technology Read More

Los Alamos Faith And Science Forum Summer Series Continues With Nels Hoffman Wednesday June 9

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Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum  News:

The Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum summer series continues Wednesday, June 9 with a lecture by Nels Hoffman: “How Christianity Laid the Foundation for Modern Science … and many other things, such as human rights and individual freedom — Part I: The Psychology of Europe”.

The first lecture of the Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum 2021 summer series was June 2 and featured a talk by Bob Reinovsky on faith and science interactions. 

His lecture was titled “Why Can/Should Faith and Reason/Religion and Science Interact.” He spoke of the commonality of Read More

Sen. Luján Tours Los Alamos And Sandia National Labs, Highlights Need To Pass U.S. Innovation & Competition Act

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Luján tours LANL and SNL today, highlighting the need to pass the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act. Courtesy photo

From the Office of U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján:

ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) today toured Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories and met with Lab leaders to discuss the importance of passing the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act.

Recently, Sen. Luján secured an amendment to the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act that will invest $17 billion in America’s National Labs and other Department of Energy (DOE) facilities.

He also championed Read More

Los Alamos High School Students Garner Awards In Regeneron International Science And Engineering Fair

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LAPS News:

Four Los Alamos High School students garnered awards in the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair held virtually May 16-21.

The team of Phillip Ionkov and Anthony Lestone were awarded $2,000 and a second place in the Physics and Astronomy category for their project, Nondestructive Analysis of Geological Sites Through Muon Transmission Imaging.

Karin Ebey placed fourth in Animal Sciences for her project on Climate Change on Crocodilians: Modeling the Effects of Phenological Shifts.

Robert Strauss competed in the Robotics and Intelligent Machines category Read More

American Nuclear Society Honors Los Alamos Scientists 

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From left, Mark B. Chadwick, Stuart A. Maloy and D.V. Rao honored by American Nuclear Society. Courtesy/LANL 

LANL News:

  • Chadwick, Maloy and Rao’s accomplishments heralded by organization dedicated to nuclear scientific research and technology 

Two scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory were named fellows of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and a third was recognized with a special award.

Mark B. Chadwick, chief scientist and chief operating officer of Weapons Physics, and Stuart A. Maloy, deputy group leader for Materials Science at Radiation and Dynamic Extremes, were named Read More

United States Senate Votes To Create DOE Foundation

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U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate has voted 83-14 to pass an amendment advancing the Partnerships for Energy Security and Innovation Act (S. 1359 – previously known as the IMPACT for Energy Act).

The amendment was co-led by U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) along with Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), and Susan Collins (R-Maine). The amendment added the legislation to the bipartisan competitiveness package – the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act – currently being debated in the Senate.

If passed and signed into law, the legislation Read More

Los Alamos Faith And Science Forum Launches Eighth Annual Summer Program Featuring Bob Reinovsky June 2

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Courtesy/LAFSF

Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum News:

The Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum invites the community to its eighth annual summer program entitled “Why Do Faith and Reason Interact?” – this year again via Zooming.

Our lecture series will begin at 6:30 p.m. every Wednesday, starting June 2 and running for 9 weeks, through July 28.

These sessions will be available on the internet via Zoom. Information has already been sent to members and previous years’ attendees. Otherwise, connect to these sessions by clicking here.

This summer’s series will again explore a wide range of issues Read More

AGU: Yellowstone National Park Is Hotter Than Ever

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Dendrochronologist Karen Heeter samples a tree in Shoshone National Forest, just outside the boundary of Yellowstone National Park. Courtesy/G. L. Harley

AGU News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yellowstone National Park is famous for harsh winters but a new study shows summers also are getting harsher, with August 2016 ranking as one of the hottest summers in the last 1,250 years.

The new study drew upon samples of living and dead Engelmann spruce trees collected at high elevations in and around Yellowstone National Park to extend the record of maximum summer temperatures back centuries beyond instrumental Read More