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U.S. senators, NNSA administrator visit the Laboratory Photo above: U.S. Senator Harry Reid, center, D-Nev., walks in to the Los Alamos Municipal Airport terminal on Thursday afternoon with Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M. and Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., right. The senators, accompanied by National Nuclear Security Administration head Gen. John Gordon, toured several facilities and also received overviews on counterterrorism and homeland defense, threat reduction and nuclear materials protection. Photo at left: Bioscience (B) Division leader Jill Trewhella, right, discussed bioscience research at the Lab. Standing to the right of Trewhella is Gordon, while Reid is shown, center, with Bingaman at left and Domenici. Photos by LeRoy N. Sanchez, Public Affairs Laboratory Director speaks at National Press Club Laboratory Director John Browne spoke on Thursday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. To read the text of Browne's talk, click here. Seminar series starts Monday for IGPP director candidates The Laboratory's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) is hosting a series of presentations beginning Monday by candidates seeking to become its permanent director. Grant Heiken, the acting director of Los Alamos' IGPP, will speak on "Volcanoes, Cities and National Security," at 10 a.m. Monday in the Cochiti Room of the J. Robert Oppenheimer Study Center at Technical Area 3. Edmond Mathez of the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, will speak about "The Bushveld Complex and Geo Chemical Evolution of Partially Molten Rocks," at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Cochiti Room of the Study Center. Jon Weisheit of the Theoretical (T) Division will speak on "Plasma Ionization Balance," at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Superconductivity Technology Center large conference room 134, at TA-3. At 8:30 a.m. Thursday, William Leeman of the Department of Earth Science at Rice University will present "How Subduction Zones Work." The talk also is in the STC large conference room 134. The fifth candidate to become the Lab's next IGPP director, Gary Geernaert, will speak on "Air- Sea Exchange: A Survey of the History, Politics, Processes, Prameterizations and Scientific Challenges." His talk is at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the Cochiti Room of the Study Center. Geernaert works at the National Environmental Research Institute in Denmark. Michael Fehler of Geophysics (EES-11) is the chairperson of a search committee that reviewed applicants. "The search process attracted a large number of excellent applicants from which the search committee created a short list of finalists. The committee felt that they and their qualifications most closely matched the job requirements for the position," said Fehler. Other members of the search committee are, William Priedhorsky of the Nonproliferation and International Security (NIS) Division; Robert Malone of Methods of Advanced Scientific Simulations (CCS-2); Gary Glatzmaier of University of California, Santa Cruz; Bernard Minster, director of the Scripps IGPP; and Alexandra Navrotsky of UC, Davis. For more information, contact Shirley Roybal at 7-0920. --Lecole Trujillo Wellness Center catches Winter Olympics fever The Laboratory's Wellness Center is getting in to the Olympic swing with Winter Games 2002 beginning Monday. Registration for the three-week exercise program can be completed at the Wellness Center at Technical Area 3 or at http://drambuie.lanl.gov/~wellness/svc/classes/olreg1.htm online. For more information, see the Jan. 22 Daily Newsbulletin or call the Wellness Center at 7-7166.
ESA group, PTLA to be recognized at Quality New Mexico conference in March Design Engineering (ESA-DE) and Protection Technology Los Alamos (PTLA), which provides protective force services for the Laboratory, will be presented Quality New Mexico Awards at the 2002 Quality New Mexico "Salute to Quality" Conference and Awards Ceremony. Twenty-six organizations statewide will be recognized at the conference March 7 and 8 at the Sheraton in Old Town Albuquerque. The awards banquet on Friday evening will conclude the conference and feature Piñon and Roadrunner recipients from throughout the state. The Laboratory is a previous recipient of several New Mexico Quality awards. This year the Lab is also receiving a Diamond Recognition Award for loaning Tony Gallegos to Quality New Mexico as part of QNM's Loaned Executive Program. Governor Gary Johnson will present the awards. Quality New Mexico is a non-profit organization that engages in activities that seek to educate New Mexicans about quality; encourage and reward quality in business, education, government and healthcare; and promote an economic climate to foster and enhance the prosperity of the citizens of New Mexico. The mission of Quality New Mexico is to motivate, educate and congratulate New Mexico organizations for achievement in performance excellence, according to QNM's Web page. "This conference is a great opportunity to hear from some of the most successful leaders in the country in business, education, healthcare and government that have applied best practices to improve their enterprises," said Bill Wadt, Quality Improvement Office (QIO) leader and former vice chairman of QNM's board of directors. "This is an opportunity for organizations at the Lab to learn how to apply these same principles to improve their organizations. It also is a cost effective because the conference is in Albuquerque." Hosted by QNM, the two-day conference features seven tutorial presentations and 21 workshops. The tutorials and workshops will provide all levels of training, ranging from an introduction to the Malcolm Baldrige principles, a national benchmark for best management practice, to intermediate and advanced training. The tutorials and workshops are divided into sectors for small business, government and education, to give participants skills specific to their needs. "We are bringing in experts from across the country to conduct these workshops," said Gallegos of QIO. "Most of these experts are from organizations that have won Quality Awards in their respective states or the national Baldrige Award." The conference also features keynote presentations by Horst H. Schulze, vice chairman of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co., a two-time Baldrige winner, and a speaker from ABC News. The cost of the conference, which includes the awards banquet and NMQA Ceremony, is $275 for members and $295 for nonmembers if the registration is postmarked by today. For those registering after today, the member price is $295 and nonmember price is $315. For those wishing to attend only the awards banquet and ceremony on March 8, the cost is $75. Registration forms and a complete list of workshops are available at http://www.qualitynewmexico.org online or can be obtained by calling the QNM office at 505-944-2001. Registration closes at 5 p.m. on Feb. 27. --Shelley Thompson LA County wants input from Laboratory workers Los Alamos County officials want to hear from Laboratory workers about the future of the county. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Feb. 6, Lab workers can give input that will be considered as part of the county's "visioning" process. The meeting is in the Physics Building Auditorium at Technical Area 3 and is open to all Lab workers. Fore more information, see the Jan. 28 Daily Newsbulletin.
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