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Los Alamos hosts community leaders’ breakfast and science outreach event
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., October 17, 2012—Media are invited to the annual celebration of Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) projects, “Creating Our Tomorrows, LDRD Day 2012” on October 23, at which cutting-edge research concepts will be presented in poster form with the scientists available in person to describe their work.
LDRD funding supports the most advanced, high-risk ideas at Los Alamos. Many of the Laboratory’s successes, which range from the heavens (the Earth’s radiation belts and their effects on satellites) to the Earth (the accelerated cleanup of the Rocky Flats site near Denver), can be traced to LDRD.
Preceding LDRD Day is a community leaders breakfast beginning at 7:30 a.m. Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan and Los Alamos Site Office manager Kevin Smith will speak to invited community leaders. The Lab hosts these breakfasts to allow community leaders to hear updates about Laboratory operations.
What: Community Leaders Breakfast and LDRD Day.
When: LDRD Posters: 9:20 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. October 23, 2012
Where: Hilton Santa Fe Buffalo Thunder conference center, 20 Buffalo Thunder Trail, Pojoaque, N.M.
October
- Climate Change Cripples Forests
- LANL shatters records in first year of accelerated shipping effort
- Evolutionary theory, web-search technology combine for DNA analysis
- Northern New Mexico College Foundation honors LANL’s Richard Marquez with leadership, service award
- Neutron Crystallography Aids Drug Design
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People
Total employees,
10,402
Los Alamos National Security, LLC, 6,929
SOC Los Alamos (Guard Force), 396
Contractors, 349
Students, 889
Post doctoral researchers, 427
Place
Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 36 square miles of DOE-owned property.
More than 2,000 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 8 million square feet under roof.
Replacement value of $9.8 billion
Budget
FY 2012: Approx. $2.2 billion
—57% Weapons programs
—9% Nonproliferation programs
—7% Safeguards and Security
—8% Environmental Management
—4% DOE Office of Science
—4% Energy and other programs
—11% Work for Others
Workforce Demographics
(LANS and students only)
34% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos, and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 46
—67%
male, 33% female
—44% minorities
—67% university degrees
—26% hold undergraduate degrees
—18% hold master’s degrees
—23% have earned a PhD
Major Awards
124 R&D100 awards since 1978
31 E.O. Lawrence Awards
The Seaborg Medal
The Edward Teller Medal
The Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines
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