Science

New Mexico Educators Are Finalists For Presidential Awards

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NMPED News:

SANTA FE — Four New Mexico educators are state finalists for the prestigious Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching:

Math finalists:

  • Teresa Butcher of Laguna-Acoma High School, Grants/Cibola County Schools; 
  • Marila Mancha-Garcia of NextGen Academy High School, Albuquerque Public Schools; and
  • Tara Palomares of Sandia High School, Albuquerque Public Schools

Science finalist:

  • Lesha Harenberg of Eldorado High School, Albuquerque Public Schools. 

State finalists represent the most outstanding teachers New Mexico has to offer and serve Read More

NMC Shares 2020/2021 Supercomputing Challenge Results

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Courtesy/NMC

NMC News:

The New Mexico Consortium extends congratulations to all the students who completed the 2020/2021 Supercomputing Challenge!

The Supercomputing Challenge is a program for middle and high school students to come up with a computational science project and work on it all year long.

This year’s Supercomputing Challenge, with the theme “Changing the World One Line of Code at a Time”, concluded April 27 with the 31st annual awards ceremony via a Zoom webinar.

This was an unforgettable year and the organizers of the Supercomputing Challenge are very proud of all the students Read More

LANL Unveils 49,200-Square-Foot Employee Training Academy On East Road In Downtown Los Alamos

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LANL officials tour the new Employee Training Academy housed in this recently refurbished facility in downtown Los Alamos at 195 East Road. Inside, new and current employees will complete coursework in Fissionable Materials Handling and Glovebox Operations. No actual radiological work will be carried out here. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • LANL signs five-year lease on 49,200-square-foot facility

Beginning May 17, 2021, a group of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) employees will move in to a 49,000-square-foot facility in downtown Los Alamos.

Once COVID restrictions are lifted and Read More

New Mexico Applauds Intel $3.5B Expansion In Rio Rancho

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Intel plans to invest $3.5 billion in New Mexico operations and hire more than 700 new workers at their facility in Sandoval County. Courtesy/Intel Corporation/Walden Kirsch

EDD News:

RIO RANCHO — Intel plans to invest $3.5 billion in its New Mexico operations and hire more than 700 new workers to create a domestic hub for advanced semiconductor manufacturing at its fabrication facility in Sandoval County, the company and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced.

In what will be one of the largest capital investments in New Mexico, Intel plans to modernize facilities to accommodate its Foveros Read More

LANL: Antarctica Remains The Wild Card For Sea-Level Rise Estimates Through 2100

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The front of Getz Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Courtesy/Jeremy Harbeck, NASA Icebridge

LANL News:

A massive collaborative research project covered in the journal Nature this week offers projections to the year 2100 of future sea-level rise from all sources of land ice, offering the most complete projections created to date.

“This work synthesizes improvements over the last decade in climate models, ice sheet and glacier models, and estimates of future greenhouse gas emissions,” Stephen Price said, one of the Los Alamos scientists on the project. “More than 85 researchers from various disciplines, Read More

LANL: Using Cosmic-Ray Neutron Bursts To Understand Gamma-Ray Bursts From Lightning … An ‘Accidental Discovery’ Confirms What Simulations Show

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A lightning mapper at the HAWC Cosmic Ray Observatory in Mexico unexpectedly observed that gamma rays produce more neutrons than previously known. Photo by Jordan Goodman, HAWC Collaboration (NSF.gov)

LANL News:

Analysis of data from a lightning mapper and a small, hand-held radiation detector has unexpectedly shed light on what a gamma-ray burst from lightning might look like – by observing neutrons generated from soil by very large cosmic-ray showers.

The work took place at the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Cosmic Ray Observatory in Mexico.

“This was an accidental discovery,” Read More

New Mexico Museum Of Space History Re-Opens May 7

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New Mexico Museum of Space History reopens May 7 in Alamogordo. Courtesy/NMDCA

Museum Executive Director Christopher Orwoll

NMDCA News:

ALAMOGORDO — The New Mexico Museum of Space History, a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (NMDCA), has announced that it will re-open to the public on National Space Day, Friday, May 7.

The Museum will be open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday and closed Monday and Tuesday at 3198 State Rte. 2001 in Alamogordo. A temporary reduced entry fee of $5 per person will be in effect, due to ongoing renovation and other projects. Capacity Read More

DOE’s Office Of Science Graduate Student Research Program Selects 78 Outstanding U.S. Graduate Students To Perform Research At National Laboratories

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WASHINGTON, DC – The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science has selected 78 graduate students representing 26 states for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program’s 2020 Solicitation 2 cycle.

Seven graduate students will be coming to Los Alamos:

  • Luis Bichon – Vanderbilt University, NP – Heavy Ion Nuclear Physics
  • Michael Woodward – University of Arizona, ASCR – Applied Mathematics
  • Nathan Mark Myers – University of Maryland Baltimore County, BES – Quantum Information Science for Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
  • Nicholas
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International Space Hall Of Fame Mourns Michael Collins

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July 24, 1969, aboard the USS a happy President Richard M. Nixon laughs with astronauts, from left, Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin as they exchange greetings through the window of the Mobile Quarantine Facility. Courtesy/Bettmann/CORBIS

NASA Astronaut Michael Collins. Courtesy/ NASA

NMMSH News:

ALAMOGORDO — Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael Collins passed away today, April 28, 2021, at the age of 90.

Collins was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in 1977.

The New Mexico Museum of Space History, International Read More

LANL Researchers Earl Lawrence And James Wendelberger Named Fellows By American Statistical Association

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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) researchers Earl Lawrence and James Wendelberger were named fellows by the American Statistical Association (ASA). Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) researchers Earl Lawrence and James Wendelberger, both in the Lab’s Statistical Sciences group, were named fellows by the American Statistical Association (ASA).

“I am pleased to see Earl and James recognized by the American Statistical Association and I congratulate both of them,” Irene Qualters said, associate Laboratory director for Simulation and Computation. Read More