Today's News

A stream of smiling graduates graced the colorful stage at Duane Smith Auditorium during the UNM-Los Alamos 2009 Commencement Ceremony Friday evening.

To avoid the heat, rain and wind that has plagued graduation ceremonies in the college kiva, Executive Director Cedric Page suggested a change of venue that worked out well by all accounts.

Manager Ross Mason has updated the auditorium, which provided a beautiful backdrop to Friday’s auspicious event. Large floral arrangements adorned the stage and pastel colored lighting glowed dramatically along the walls.

After a two-year hiatus, the Rendija Canyon Master Plan is having life breathed into it once again.

On Tuesday night, during the county council meeting Community Development Director Rick Bohn will give councilors a briefing on the master plan.

Patricia Rogers, a former Los Alamos County Councilor and currently an Albuquerque resident, and Martha Hawkins of Los Alamos, were among the 151,000 spectators who watched an unknown horse from New Mexico achieve victory during the Kentucky Derby.

Mine That Bird raced from obscurity into fame during the 135th derby, May 2 in Louisville, Ky.

Hawkins said she and her friend turned to each other during the race and exclaimed, “Number 8! What’s the name of that horse?”

Los Alamos National Laboratory hosts a week-long conference with a focus on “Energy in the 21st Century” starting Monday in Santa Fe.

The 29th annual conference of the lab’s 30-year old Center for Non-Linear Studies, is taking a whack at the global energy problem as a complex system. The complexity of a non-linear system, in which a particular input may not always have a simple output, is the kind of problem to which the center is well accustomed, but the scale of this particular topic is especially challenging.