August
Earl Salazar named LANL tribal relations liaison
Previously a budget analyst for LANL's Chief Financial Officer Division, Salazar began working in his new capacity on August 22. - 8/25/11
Los Alamos achieves world-record pulsed magnetic field
Researchers have set a new world record for the strongest magnetic field produced by a nondestructive magnet. - 8/23/11
Las Conchas Challenge Grant Fund checks awarded
Checks totaling $57,934 presented to businesses from Los Alamos, Española, and Santa Fe that provided goods and services during the Las Conchas Fire. - 8/23/11
Thomas selected as American Chemical Society Fellow
Kimberly Thomas has become the first Los Alamos researcher to be named a Fellow. - 8/16/11
Los Alamos using NIH grant to study how social behaviors affect spread of disease
Connecting social media and epidemiological research will attempt to predict the future, i.e. people's social behavior during an epidemic, using Twitter. - 8/15/11
Nan Sauer Named Associate Director for Chemistry, Life, and Earth Sciences
Sauer has a distinguished track record as a research scientist with more than 60 publications and technical reports in archival journals. - 8/9/11
Awards recognize outstanding innovation in Technology Transfer
The award honors inventors whose patented invention exhibits significant technical advance, adaptability to public use, and noteworthy value to the mission of the Lab. - 8/8/11
Researchers use neutrons to spy on the elusive hydronium ion
A research team has harnessed neutrons to view for the first time the critical role that an elusive molecule plays in certain biological reactions. - 8/8/11
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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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