Two Director's Colloquia scheduled this week at Laboratory
Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann will deliver a Director's Colloquium titled "Complexity and Simplicity: Regularity and Randomness" at 1:10 p.m. Tuesday in the Physics Building Auditorium. Gell-Mann is a physicist at the Santa Fe Institute. The talk is open to the public.
At 12:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Physics Building Auditorium, Adm. Stansfield Turner, U.S. Navy retired, and former Central Intelligence Agency director, will speak on "Caging the Genies: A Plan for Controlling the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Including Nuclear, Chemical and Biological threats." This colloquium is open to cleared and uncleared badgeholders only. Both talks will be broadcast on LABNET Channel 9.
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Biosciences Division (B) Director Jill Trewhella discussed the Laboratory's interest in adding a Biosafety Level 3 laboratory on "Breakfast With Nancy," last Friday on Taos radio station KTAO. For audio excerpts from the interview, click here. |
Tuesday is deadline for EPSCoR focus proposals
Proposals to assist the New Mexico state Committee of the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research in selecting focus areas are due on Tuesday.
The deadline is the first of a two-stage process that will lead to the submission of a National Science Foundation proposal by the New Mexico EPSCoR Infrastructure Program.
In this first stage of the NSF proposal, focus areas are selected. In the second stage, which begins this spring, projects will be solicited from among selected focus areas. These projects will be incorporated into a $13.5 million proposal to be submitted to NSF on July 17.
Proposed focus areas include biotechnology, nanotechnology, space technology, sustainable development/environmental sciences and computational and information science and engineering.
EPSCoR aids researchers and institutions in securing federal research and development funding to develop a state's research infrastructure and advance economic growth. EPSCoR's goal is to maximize the potential of a state's science and technology resources and to use those resources as a foundation for economic growth. New Mexico began its involvement with EPSCoR in fiscal year 2001.
Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories and all six of the state's universities participate in EPSCoR.
EPSCoR is a joint program of the National Science Foundation and several states and territories. The program promotes the development of United States science and technology resources through partnerships between federal research and development efforts, universities, industry and government.
Persons or organizations interested in submitting proposals for focus areas should contact Jim Porter of the Science and Technology Base (STB) Program Office at 7-7824. More information about the proposals is available at http://stb.lanl.gov/UC/epscor/epscor.htm online.
--Chris Pearcy
Women's History Month talk by Marilyn
Adams is Wednesday
In celebration of National Women's History Month, history researcher Marilyn Adams will speak at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Materials Science Laboratory Auditorium at Technical Area 3. The Laboratory's Women's Diversity Working Group is sponsoring the talk, which is free and open to the public.
Adams' lecture, entitled "A Male Minority: Men Who Stood with Women for Equality," is a compilation of speeches and stories about American men who braved "the taunts and jeers of the male majority to stand for fairness and justice for women. "
"The hidden history of pro-feminist men deserves to be rescued from historical obscurity," said Adams. "This is your opportunity to become acquainted with the accounts of how Wyoming became the first state to grant women suffrage, of the men's role in the 1912 suffrage parade in New York and the New Mexico Ratification of the 19th Amendment."
Adams has a master's degree in education from University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focus is 19th century women. She normally portrays Susan B. Anthony as a women's rights leader in 1895. However she will not recreate Anthony for her lecture at the Lab.
For special accommodations, contact Sheila Brandt of Occupational Medicine (ESH-2) at 5-2667. The Women's Diversity Working Group urges attendees to request a taxi by calling 7-8294.
For more information, go to the WDWG web site at http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/dvo/wdwg/March2001.html online.
--Michael Carlson
ESH Division External Review Committee at the Lab
Robert Long, left, chairman of the Environment, Safety and Health (ESH) Division's External Review Committee for Science and Technology, talks with John Rogers, right, of Health Physics Measurements (ESH-4) at a poster session in the J. Robert Oppenheimer Study Center. The nine-person committee was at the Lab last week conducting its annual review of ESH division. At far left in photo is Tom Buhl of the ESH Division Office. Photo by Fran Talley, Public Affairs
Math and Science Academy Appreciation Night
Individuals and organizations who helped get the Laboratory's new Northern New Mexico Math and Science Academy organized and operating will be recognized at an appreciation night Thursday evening (March 22) in Española.
The Math and Science Academy Appreciation Night begins at 6 p.m. at Española Middle School, 116 Calle Espinosa behind Rio Valley Ford.
Community leaders, educators, local and state government officials, private industry representatives and a number of individuals from several Laboratory organizations who have contributed personnel, equipment, furniture and office space and financial assistance to the Math and Science Academy will be publicly recognized, said Tony Gallegos of Environmental Dynamics and Spatial Analysis (EES-10) and coordinator of the Math and Science Academy.
The Math and Science Academy was piloted last fall in three middle schools in Española, Chama and Mora. The academy is designed to provide students with sound preparation in math, science and technology.
"The bottom line is the students. They're the ones who will receive the benefits of this training, the science and math and communication arts," Gallegos said. "We want to thank those individuals, companies and organizations that have joined together as partners to make this happen.
"The academy is brand new for Northern New Mexico, and it's really directed at making systemic changes in the way students are trained in math and the sciences. Its goal is to establish an inquiry based curriculum in which students have hands on experience," said Gallegos.
"It's a modernization of teaching and seeing if we can make students in Northern New Mexico competitive," Gallegos continued. "We're trying to get more students interested in these areas."
Students and teachers in the Math and Science Academy also will display math, science, social studies and language arts projects they have begun while in the academy.
Math and Science Academy Appreciation Night also is a chance for organizations to network and provide information about their products or services, said Andrew Chavez of the Community Relations (CRO) Office, which is sponsoring the event and providing refreshments along with La Jicarita Enterprises.
For more information, contact Gallegos at 5-6345, or write to agallegos@lanl.gov by electronic mail. Or contact Chavez at 5-4803, or ajchavez@lanl.gov by electronic mail.
--Steve Sandoval
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