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• Visit by Brigadier General Timothy Peppe
• Laboratory to celebrate women's history month during March
• HR-1 closed March 2
• NASA astronaut to talk about aspects of space flight Friday

Visit by Brigadier General Timothy Peppe

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Brigadier General Timothy Peppe, center in uniform, visited the Lab last week for briefings on a variety of Lab activities that relate to Department of Defense responsibilities. Here, Peppe listens as Buck Thompson of the Delphi Project Office, left, describes advanced computing efforts during a tour through the ASCI Blue Mountain center. To the right of Peppe are Ken McKenna, DoD Programs manager (TSA-DoD), and Ron Pistone, group leader for Military Systems Analysis and Simulations (TSA-5). Peppe gave an overview of DoD's Joint Experimentation program, which he directs, while at the Lab. Photo by LeRoy N. Sanchez

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Laboratory to celebrate women's history month during March

The Los Alamos National Laboratory Women's Diversity Working Group (WDWG) will help celebrate "Women's History Month" in March by sponsoring several events under the title, "Women Putting Our Stamp on America."

The kickoff event takes place March 1 when New Mexico State Representative Jeannette Wallace and State Senator Arthur Rodarte will introduce a memorial to both houses of the legislature, proclaiming March "Women's History Month." Several WDWG members will join Rodarte on the floor of the Senate, as he introduces the memorial into the legislative record.

The other WDWG-sponsored events include a student poster exhibit, featuring works by students from Northern New Mexico in the Santa Clara Gallery on the second floor of the Oppenheimer Study Center, and a women's history display in the Otowi lobby, both are on exhibit all month. There will also be talks and a panel discussion designed to raise awareness of the roles of women at the Laboratory, in New Mexico and across the nation.

Women's History Month events take place in the Jemez Room of the Study Center.

• March 2, Noon-1 p.m. "Women Putting Our Stamp on the Laboratory" Panel discussion featuring Wendee Brunish, program manager, EES-DO; Carol Burns, deputy group leader, CST-18; Margaret Durbin, deputy group leader, CIC-1; Earle Marie Hanson, division director, ESA-DO; Anne Hayes, center leader, CIC-ACL; Carolyn Mangeng, deputy associate director, ALDNW; Janet Mercer-Smith, group leader, MST-7; Judith Snow, group leader, DX-2; Barbara Stine, chief of staff, ALDNW; Kimberly Thomas, group leader, CST-11; and Mary Anne Yates, chief of staff, ALDTR
• March 9, Noon-1 p.m. "AIDS Research" Talk by Bette Korber, T-10.
• March 11, Noon-1 p.m. Open meeting of the WDWG, prospective new members welcome.
• March 17, 1-2 p.m. Talk by Judge Carol J. Vigil, New Mexico District Court, 3rd Division.
• March 25, Noon-1 p.m. Talk by Cholene Espinoza, former U2 spyplane pilot and military flight instructor.

Also planned: a talk by Martha Krebs, director of the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Research.

--Kevin Roark

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HR-1 closed March 2

Compensation and Benefits (HR-1) will be closed all day on Tuesday, March 2 for scheduled training.

Employees who have emergency matters to resolve with HR-1 are asked to call the HR-1 group office at 5-2020.

For more information, call 7-1806 or write to benefits@lanl.gov by electronic mail.

-Steve Sandoval

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NASA astronaut to talk about aspects of space flight Friday

The Center for Space Science and Exploration (CSSE) is sponsoring a presentation by NASA astronaut Donald R. Pettit 3:30 p.m. Friday in the Physics Building Auditorium. He will discuss "Some Technical Aspects of Space Flight." Pettit came to work at the Lab in 1984 as a staff scientist. When he left in 1996 he was employed by EES Division. He is presently an astronaut at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Pettit received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Oregon State University in 1978 and a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Arizona in 1983.

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no new announcements today Shipment cut-off times for next day delivery Important news regarding LANL's online shipping request form Catalog fair to be held New JIT contractor for custodial supplies Dell computers available for quick reduction Jazz workout for beginning dancers offered at the Wellness Center Museum celebrates National Engineers Week beginning Wednesday Nutrition Month at the Wellness Center

LABNET, Channel 10 schedule for week of Feb. 22 Los Alamos Arts Council presents a noontime preview of "Kiss Me, Kate Special Electrical Safety Courses Offered in March and April Compensation and Benefits (HR-1) closed March 2 American Heart Month continues at The Wellness Center LANL 12-month calendars available from Boise Cascade Lab golf league (a Laboratory sanctioned organization) annual meeting March 2 February is Wise Health Consumer Month

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