Los Alamos National Laboratory
March
Novel long range wireless sensor network monitors remote areas
A research team has developed a novel system which covers large geographic areas using a self-healing, self-forming mesh network of long range radios. - 3/29/18
Brenda Dingus receives Mexican Physical Society Medal
The award honors her developments for physics in Mexico, particularly her work establishing the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory and her ongoing work on the project. - 3/26/18
A short history of women at Los Alamos
As part of the Laboratory’s 75th Anniversary this year, this is the second in a series of stories celebrating the people and achievements that made us into an extraordinary scientific institution. - 3/22/18
Los Alamos machine learning discovers patterns that reveal earthquake fault behavior
A new artificial intelligence-based method identifies sounds that indicate when a fault is about to rupture. - 3/20/18
Anderson-Cook chosen for American Society of Quality’s Shewhart Medal
The American Society for Quality has selected Christine Anderson-Cook to receive the 2018 Shewhart Medal. - 3/19/18
Arthur Voter receives American Chemical Society Award
The American Chemical Society has awarded Arthur Voter the 2018 ACS Physical Chemistry Division Award in Theoretical Chemistry. - 3/19/18
Lighthouse directional radiation detectors: Proof positive in radiation detection
These novel detectors are a broad class of directional radiation detectors that use differential attenuation to reveal the vector components of a radiation field. - 3/8/18
March
Fast Facts
Total employees: 11,300
Los Alamos National Security, LLC: 8,150
Centerra Group, LLC Los Alamos (Guard Force): 300
Compa, Staff and support contractors: 425
Students: 1,100
Unionized craft workers: 980
Post doctoral researchers: 375
Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 40 square miles of DOE-owned property.
1,280 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 9 million square feet under roof.
Replacement value of $14.2 billion
63% Weapons programs
9% Nonproliferation programs
5% Safeguards and Security
7% Environmental Management
4% DOE Office of Science
2% Energy and other programs
10% Work for Others
40% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 45
67% male, 33% female
46% minorities
66% university degrees
29% hold undergraduate degrees
17% hold master’s degrees
20% have earned a PhD
145 R&D100 awards
34 E.O. Lawrence Awards
8 Presidential Early Career Awards
3 Glenn Seaborg Medals
Edward Teller Medal
Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines
Albuquerque to Los Alamos, NM
98 miles; 1 hr, 51 min.
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