Friday October 4, 2019, Los Alamos National Laboratory and New Mexico Consortium Scientist Rex P. Hjelm gave an invited presentation for the Graduate Seminar Series of the Department of Materials and Chemical Engineering, New Mexico State University, entitled, “Soft Matter Materials Physics by Neutron Scattering Techniques and Applications to Device Engineering”. Hjelm spoke about scattering
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Congratulations to LANL Bioscientist and NMC Affiliate Harshini Mukundan who has been selected as one of 125 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) IF/THEN Ambassadors. The IF/THEN initiative seeks to further the education and careers of young women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. Ambassadors such as Harshini Mukundan are exceptional
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Wednesday September 4, 2019, Senator Tom Udall spent the day visiting two successful New Mexico Consortium (NMC) Tech Transfer sites, and engaged in discussions of successful start-up research companies in Northern New Mexico. After a site visit to UbiQD, Senator Udall spent time meeting with scientists and leaders at the New Mexico Consortium / Pebble
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The LANL Parallel Computing Summer Research Internship program started four years ago. This internship is an intense 10-week program aimed at providing students with a solid foundation in modern high performance computing (HPC) topics integrated with research on real problems encountered in large-scale scientific codes. This 10-week summer program combines lectures and a research project
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Wildfires are becoming more common. Fire managers often use prescribed burns to get rid of excess fuels which have accumulated on the forest floor. However, sometimes prescribed burns can go wrong and get out of control, which is what happened in Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico in 2000. This prescribed burn turned into a
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Tau Beta Pi, The Engineering Honor Society, has named Marth C. Mitchell, PhD, its 14th McDonald Mentor. The award celebrates excellence in mentoring and advising among Tau Beta Pi educators and engineers who consistently support the personal and professional development of their students and colleagues. Established in 2005 by Marion and Capers W. McDonald (NC
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On Saturday, July 13, 2019, the New Mexico Consortium’s (NMC) booth at the Los Alamos Science Fest’s Discovery Day featured information on the NMC and what we do, our economic partners, and science research projects. Discovery Day was held from 10am – 3pm Saturday July 13 and was attended by hundreds of scientists, engineers, techies,
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Los Alamos, NM, July 10, 2019 – One of the biotechnology companies the New Mexico Consortium (NMC) has supported since 2017, Pebble Labs USA, Inc., held a press conference yesterday with New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham at the NMC’s Biological Research Laboratory and Greenhouse. Together, the start-up company and the governor announced a major
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Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth MacDonald and the STEVE/Aurorasaurus team for being the NASA Agency Honor Award recipient of the Group Achievement Award. This prestigious NASA certificate is awarded to any combination of Government and/or non-Government individuals for an outstanding group accomplishment that has contributed substantially to NASA’s mission. And a second congratulations goes to Dr.
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The Los Alamos City Council approved two ordinances Tuesday June 11, 2019. The ordinances are to support Pebble Labs under the Local Economic Development Act (LEDA) and the issuance of an industrial revenue bond to help finance the project. The Act allows local governments to enter into public-private partnerships for economic benefit. Pebble Labs, a
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