New Class Trains For Pajarito Mountain Ski Patrol
Volunteer Pajarito Mountain Ski Patrol group photo in front of Aspen House on Pajarito Mountain, back row from left, instructors Bart Daly, Kathy Brooks, Greg Cagle, patroller Jonathan Doorn and candidates Hermann Geppert-Kleinrath, Malcolm Burns, Jon Dempster and Eva Tourangeau. Front row from left, candidates Kelsey Beisman, Fritz Devendorf and instructor Roman Gallegos. Photo by Verena Geppert-Kleinrath
Celebratory gathering in the lodge, from left, Patroller Allison Chan and candidates Jon Dempster, Malcolm Burns, Dana Duke, Kelsey Beisman, Eva Tourangeau and HermannAfter Pushback, Sponsor Revamps State Lottery Bill
By ROBERT NOTTGovernor Names Five To Serve As UNM Regents
Gov. Michelle Lujan GrishamGov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Saturday that she has named five people to the University of New Mexico Board of Regents.
Their appointments are subject to confirmation by the state Senate.
Her appointees are:
- Kimberly Sanchez Rael for a six-year term. Rael’s background is in business, and she served on the New Mexico State Board of Finance from 2003 to 2009.
- Sandra K. Begay for a four-year term. Begay, whose background is in science, most recently worked on development and management of renewable energy at Sandia
LAHS Advances To National Science Bowl … Again!
Sponsors Kathy and Steve Boerigter with the Los Alamos High School team from left, Michael Chigaev, Elijah Pelofske, Conner Rittner, Steven Zhao (captain) and Do Vo. The team won the regional competition and is going to the National Science Bowl again. This is the ninth time in the last 10 years that the LAHS team has advanced to represent New Mexico at the national competition. Science Bowl is a nationwide academic competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy that tests the knowledge of middle and high school students in all areas of science and mathematics. Courtesy photo Read More
2019 Summer Physics Camp For Young Women
Scene from a previous Summer Physics Camp. Courtesy photoUNM-LA Film Class Visits Reel Deal Theater
Reel Deal Theater owner Jim O’Donnell shows a UNM-LA film class a hard drive that contains a movie and explains that the distributor sends an encryption key to unlock the drive for the time the Reel Deal is renting it. Photo by Nancy Coombs 
Group: A few of the students from the UNM-LA Film Studies class met in the Reel Deal lobby with their instructor, Dr. Cathy Hardy, and Reel Deal owner Jim O’Donnell prior to the film. From left, Robert Kiss, Logan Caspersen, Jim O’Donnell, Cathy Hardy, Lydia Kenamond and Maegan Carter (kneeling). Photo by Nancy Coombs
Lydia Kenamond, RobertLos Alamos Chiropractor Dr. Charles Lenz Selected As UNM-LA SBDC Star Client Of The Year
Dr. Charles Lenz, owner of Los Alamos Chiropractic Center, earned the Small Business Development Center’s Star Client of the Year award. Photo by Nancy Coombs/UNM-LA
UNM-LA News:
The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at UNM-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) has selected Dr. Charles Lenz, DC as the Small Business Star Client of the Year. Lenz is the new owner of Los Alamos Chiropractic Center.
Lenz purchased Los Alamos Chiropractic Center (LACC) July 1, 2018, which has served the Los Alamos community and surrounding areas for more than 30 years. He had joined the LACC as a practitioner in May, Read More
2019 Lectures & Curator’s Coffee Series: ‘The Brain: It’s More Than You Think’ Saturday Feb. 23
2019 Lectures & Curator’s Coffee Series: ‘The Brain: It’s More Than You Think’ Feb. 23 at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. Courtesy/NMMNHS LAPS: Bus Safety Campaign Starts Monday
Los Alamos Public Schools bus lot. Courtesy photoLANL Foundation: Nineteen Northern New Mexico Students Receive $28,500 In Scholarships
Courtesy/LANL Foundation
LANL FOUNDATION News:
Española — The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Foundation recently awarded $1,500 Scholarships to 19 nontraditional students from Northern New Mexico.
Regional College/Returning Student (RCRS) Scholarships support individuals seeking a certification or two-year degree from a local accredited college, university or trade school after a gap in formal education.
The RCRS program is part of the Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund (LAESF), the largest scholarship pool in Northern New Mexico with funding primarily contributed Read More
LANL Foundation: New Team To Lead Northern New Mexico’s Largest Scholarship Program
From left, LANL Foundation Scholarship Program Manager Mike Ammerman, Program Associate Sarah Gissinger and Vice President of Advancement & Scholarship Tony Fox. Courtesy/LANL Foundation
LANL FOUNDATION News:
Española — Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Foundation, the nonprofit dedicated to strengthening education in Northern New Mexico, welcomes two new staff members to its scholarship program.
Mike Ammerman joins the Foundation as scholarship program manager, transitioning into the position from John McDermon who is retiring in March. Sarah Gissinger was chosen Read More
Talk/Film On Dark Matter This Weekend In Planetarium
Explore the nature of Dark Matter and Dark Energy this weekend at the Los Alamos Nature Center’s planetarium. Astrophysicist Galen Gisler discusses the nature of these phenomena at 7 p.m. Friday and the full-dome film ‘Dark Matter Mystery’ will play at 2 p.m. Saturday. Courtesy/PEEC
PEEC News:
Unearth the mysteries of Dark Matter and Dark Energy this weekend at the Los Alamos Nature Center’s planetarium.
Astrophysicist Galen Gisler will give a talk called “The Dark Side of the Universe” at 7 p.m. Friday that will explore these phenomena. The following day, the nature center will show the full-dome Read More
LAHS Seniors Top New Mexico Brain Bee
LAHS students dominate New Mexico Brain Bee competition. Courtesy photoAfghan Students Visit Los Alamos For Screening Of ‘The Staging Post’
Mah Begum speaks about her life in Afghanistan, while Hakima and Desert Academey Headmaster Yann Lussiez look on. The two girls spoke at the Unitarian Church Saturday to raise awareness about the New Mexico Refugee Bridge Program, which is bringing students from Afghanistan to study in New Mexico. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com 
Hakima tells how education in Afghanistan differs from that in the U.S. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos residents learned about the plight Read More
Chamisa Students Learn Through Drumming
A kindergarten class gets ready to make some noise during the Drums Alive® program held Jan. 31 at Chamisa Elementary School. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com 
Carrie Ekins, founder of Drums Alive®, demonstrates one of the exercises. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.comQueen’s “We Will Rock You” boomed Jan. 31 from the gymnasium in Chamisa Elementary School. But there was another sound accompanying the rock and roll song, the sounds of beating drums.
SFI Lecture: ‘Networks Thinking Themselves’ Feb. 12
The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat/ADAGP, Paris/ARS, New York 2014; (www.thebroad.org)
SFI News:
Neuroscientist Danielle S. Bassett
The Santa Fe Institute presents its first SFI Community Lecture of the 2019 season: “Networks Thinking Themselves” by neuroscientist Danielle S. Bassett. The lecture is 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 12 at The Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. in Santa Fe.
We are all embedded in multiple, ever-changing networks — the network of colliding particles in the universe, the interacting flows in Earth’s atmosphere, the highways and city streets Read More
LAPS Students Participate In American Indian Day
LAPS News:
Seven students from the Native American Club at Los Alamos High School traveled to the New Mexico State Capitol, otherwise known as the “Roundhouse” Friday for celebration of American Indian Day.
“We had a very successful field trip to the Roundhouse for American Indian Day on Friday,” said former San Ildefonso Pueblo Gov. James Mountain and current Native American Parent Advisory Council Chairman.
LAPS students included Nichelle Aguilar (LAPS 11th grade), Daniel Gonzales (TFA 9th grade), Janessa Gonzales (LAHS 12th grade), Maddox Martinez (TFA 9th grade), Leah Mountain (LAHS Read More
SFCC Collaborates With Northern New Mexico College To Offer EPA Job Training Program At NNMC
EDUCATION News:
SANTA FE – Santa Fe Community College will collaborate with Northern New Mexico College to offer a free training program on NNMC’s campus in Española.
The New Mexico Environmental Workforce Job Training Program is a free five-week intensive training designed to prepare its graduates to enter the expanding environmental job market. An Environmental Protection Agency grant supports the program.
The five-week intensive training is 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, May 20 through June 21 at NNMC in Española.
“Santa Fe Community College is pleased to partner with Northern Read More
Scenes From Museum Monday At Nature Center
Leslie Linke checks out the view this afternoon at the Los Alamos Nature Center. The Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) hosted numerous activities during Museum Monday at the Nature Center, which featured historical aspects of the community, from established brick-and-mortar museums to special pop-up exhibits and installations, as well as special Atomic City Tours of the Los Alamos Historic District and the townsite. Photo by Connor Hoch/ladailypost.com
PEEC Director of Interpretation Jonathan Creel mingles with the public this afternoon during Museum Monday at the Read More
NNM Children’s Bible Quizzing Meet In White Rock
COMMUNITY News:
La Vista Church of the Nazarene in White Rock is hosting groups from other churches all over northern New Mexico, Sat. Feb. 9, for a Children’s Bible Quizzing meet.
Children’s Bible Quizzing is a Bible study program for children in kindergarten through sixth grade to learn a book of the Bible and with an optional competition component. There also is a Teen competition level, open to students in seventh through 12th grade.
This year, the children are studying the book of Acts, and teens are studying the book of John. Children learn facts about the events in each book, and memorize Read More
