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Review: The Untold Biology Of A Physicists’ Town

Elizabeth Church signs copies of her new novel in May at Collected Works in Santa Fe. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.com

 

Review By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

“The Atomic Weight of Love” is Los Alamos novelist Elizabeth Church’s first book, written by an unproven, non-celebrity writer, not even a relative of Los Alamos’s most famous literary figure, the poet Peggy Pond Church.

Elizabeth Church is on her own hook. Born and raised in Los Alamos and a resident, after thirty years of a legal career, without an advance or safety net, she has written a novel that she had promised Read More

DOE Awards $4 Million Contract To RRC-JGMS NHO

DOE News:
 
CINCINNATI  The Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the award of an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to RRC-JGMS NHO, LLC (RJ-JV), a small business in Wexford, Penn. 
 
The contract will have a maximum value of $4 million over 4 years. Firm-fixed-price and time and material task orders will be issued from the base contract. Work performed under this contract will be performed at various DOE-EM sites.
 
The Contractor will provide the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Environmental Management with Facilities
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DOE Invests $82 Million In Nuclear Technology

DOE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced more than $82 million in nuclear energy research, facility access, crosscutting technology development, and infrastructure awards in 28 states.
 
In total, 93 projects were selected to receive funding that will help push innovative nuclear technologies toward commercialization and into the market. These awards provide funding for nuclear energy-related research through the Nuclear Energy University Program, Nuclear Science User Facilities, and Nuclear Energy Enabling Technology
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High School Equivalency Program And Laboratory ‘Returning Student’ Scholarship Support Young Man’s Career Goals In Counseling

Joaquin Montano is the office manger at the UNM-Toas, Rio Arriba County High School Equivalency Program that assisted him with completing his GED. Supported by a Laboratory Scholarship, he is pursuing a degree in Integrative Studies at Northern New Mexico College and works with other migrant and seasonal farm workers to better themselves through education. Photo by Andrea Multari/LANL Foundation 
 
LANL FOUNDATION News:

Joaquin Montaño has always known the value of hard work. Growing up in Santa Cruz, N.M., he and his siblings lived with the rule that the family and ranch

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Genomics Conference Started When Human Genome Sequencing Finished

The 11th Annual Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future Meeting June 1-3 had more than 300 people in attendance, a capacity audience in the ballroom at the La Fonda on the Plaza in Santa Fe. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.com

 

By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

An annual conference of researchers, technologists and funders in the soaring field of genomics held its 11th event June 1-3 in Santa Fe. The conference has grown from about 70 people when it began in 2006 to more than 300 this year.

Chris Detter, founder and chairman of the organizing committee of the 11th Annual Read More

Udall Advances NM Priorities In Major Defense Bill

U.S. Sen. Tom Udall

SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Tom Udall has joined the Senate in voting 85-13 to support our troops, military bases and national defense programs in New Mexico and across the country. 

The annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is a policy bill that directs the progress of $543 billion in national defense programs. This year’s bill includes essential provisions that will strengthen New Mexico’s military bases and defense programs carried out at its federal installations — such as nuclear weapons programs and cleanup at Los Alamos Read More

Udall And Luján Meet With County, Rio Rancho Officials To Discuss Ways To Connect Intel Employees, College Graduates With Job Opportunities At Labs

SENATE News:
 
RIO RANCHO — June 1, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, along with U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján, convened a meeting of representatives from New Mexico’s national labs, the University of New Mexico, Central New Mexico Community College, Intel, and the Sandoval Economic Alliance, as well as Rio Rancho Mayor Greg Hull, to discuss the importance of collaboration to address New Mexico’s unemployment and slow economic recovery.
 
They also discussed the importance of working together to keep Intel strong in Rio Rancho, while retaining the talented workforce within New
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