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Jane Hamilton Hall: nuclear physics
The Laboratory’s first female assistant director brought smarts, style, and a steady hand to Los Alamos. - 3/27/17
Crystal J. Rodarte-Romero: engineering safer structures
Los Alamos bridge engineer, Rodarte-Romero is a proud steward of the historic bridge and is honored to extend its life with design modifications and forthcoming modeling, including examining how the structure can withstand seismic shifts. - 3/31/14
Raeanna Sharp-Geiger: creating a cleaner, greener environment
Sharp-Geiger helps identify, evaluate and control chemical, physical, biological, radiological and environmental hazards. - 3/28/14
Katharine Page—Atomic-level insights for better materials
Page's research supports materials' advances that could have wide-ranging impact, investigating, manipulating and manufacturing nano-particles. - 3/26/14
Jerri McTaggart—Creating opportunities
She is a scientist at the Los Alamos office in Carlsbad and helps small-quantity transuranic waste generators identify and solve problems. - 3/26/14
Barbara Tenorio-Grimes—Providing science opportunities to minorities
A strong supporter of the benefits of education in science, math and engineering, she led development of the Lab’s educational outreach programs for K-12 students and teachers. - 3/24/14
Jacqueline Mirabal-Martinez: boosting electrical safety performance
The first woman to chair the Lab’s Electrical Safety Committee, she led her division to the highest level of excellence in electrical safety performance, exceeding the performance of 40 other divisions. - 3/22/14
Elizabeth Hunke: piloting polar warning of climate change
Hunke develops advanced ocean and ice models for evaluating the role of ocean and ice in climate change and projecting the impact of such change globally. - 3/20/14
Kathy Prestridge: physics solutions for energy independence
She leads a team whose high-resolution experiments in fluid dynamics have been applied to weapon design, astrophysics and inertial confinement fusion (ICF)—the power of the sun. - 3/19/14
Antonya Sanders—Promoting nanoscience integration through outreach
Bringing together university faculty, students, researchers and other Laboratory scientists to explore nanoscale science. - 3/17/14
Cheryl Kuske—Microbiology expertise aids in biothreat detection
She is an environmental microbiologist who built a world-renowned Los Alamos research program targeting complex microbial communities in the environment. - 3/14/14
Amy Bauer—Problem-solving fuels passion
She works on a broad range of nuclear counterterrorism projects, including post-detonation nuclear forensics. - 3/11/14
Marianne Francois: scientific modeling of materials and climate
Her ability to model the complexity of nuclear weapons systems through advanced numerical methods play an important role in supporting nonproliferation efforts. - 3/11/14
Dianne Williams Wilburn—Creating her own destiny
Having monitored environmental compliance for New Mexico State and analyzed water chemistry for a nuclear power plant in Virginia, Wilburn is well versed in environmental health and radiation safety. - 3/11/14
Elaine Santantonio: creating an efficient cyber workplace
She improved communication and increased efficiency by helping put mobile devices into the hands of Lab employees. - 3/11/14
Becky Chamberlin—Overcoming gender bias in science
A nuclear forensics chemist and nonproliferation expert, Chamberlin is helping bring forward a more comprehensive effort on the science of detecting nuclear weapons development. - 3/11/14
Wendee Brunish: nuclear explosion phenomenology
At work, this Lab astrophysicist spends long hours searching the planet for concealed weapons of mass destruction. - 3/10/14
Alina Deshpande—Strengthening the fight against pandemics
She is dedicated to strengthening the world’s fight against infectious diseases by providing new tools for early detection and mitigation of disease outbreaks. - 3/10/14
