March
Carbon nanostructures—Elixir or poison?
A LANL toxicologist and a team of researchers have documented potential cellular damage from “fullerenes”—soccer-ball-shaped, cage-like molecules composed of 60 carbon atoms. - 3/31/10
Investor and entrepreneur visits Los Alamos for Open Coffee
Brad Feld, a renowned early-stage investor and entrepreneur, will attend a meeting of the Open Coffee Club networking event. - 3/29/10
Safer nuclear reactors could result from Los Alamos research
Self-repairing materials within nuclear reactors may one day become a reality. - 3/25/10
Washington Post editor David E. Hoffman talks about new book, The Dead Hand
The Dead Hand tells, from both the American and the Russian perspectives, of the end of the Cold War arms race and its legacy of peril. - 3/22/10
Director's Colloquium March 18 Large Hadron Collider
Lyndon Evans of CERN will talk about the most complex scientific instrument ever built—the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). - 3/10/10
LANL awards Recovery Act contract worth up to $100 million
TerranearPMC, LLC will haul demolition debris and soils from LANL’s Recovery Act cleanup projects for disposal in licensed facilities. - 3/10/10
LANL exceeds early Recovery Act recycling goals
Lab demolition projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act have recovered more than 136 tons of recyclable metal since work began last year. - 3/8/10
Laboratory announces selection of Venture Acceleration Fund recipients
Simtable and Southwest Bio Fuels as recipients of $100,000 awards from the Los Alamos National Security, LLC Venture Acceleration Fund. - 3/8/10
LANL gets young women involved in math and science at 31st Expanding Your Horizons Conference April 6
The young women will participate in hands-on activities in such fields as astronomy, robotics, forensics, chemistry, and earth science. - 3/4/10
HIV vaccine strategy expands immune responses
Two teams of researchers have announced an HIV vaccination strategy that has been shown to expand the breadth and depth of immune responses in rhesus monkeys. - 3/3/10
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Total employees,
10,402
Los Alamos National Security, LLC, 6,929
SOC Los Alamos (Guard Force), 396
Contractors, 349
Students, 889
Post doctoral researchers, 427
Place
Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 36 square miles of DOE-owned property.
More than 2,000 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 8 million square feet under roof.
Replacement value of $9.8 billion
Budget
FY 2012: Approx. $2.2 billion
—57% Weapons programs
—9% Nonproliferation programs
—7% Safeguards and Security
—8% Environmental Management
—4% DOE Office of Science
—4% Energy and other programs
—11% Work for Others
Workforce Demographics
(LANS and students only)
34% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos, and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 46
—67%
male, 33% female
—44% minorities
—67% university degrees
—26% hold undergraduate degrees
—18% hold master’s degrees
—23% have earned a PhD
Major Awards
124 R&D100 awards since 1978
31 E.O. Lawrence Awards
The Seaborg Medal
The Edward Teller Medal
The Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines
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Music and math at Los Alamos National Laboratory
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