DALLAS, Texas, June 10 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on the county employment and wages in New Mexico for 4th quarter 2019: In New Mexico's only large county, Bernalillo, employment rose 1.3 percent from December 2018 to December 2019, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. (Large counties are those with 2018 annual average employment levels of 75,000 or more.) Acting Regional Commissioner   more

PASADENA, California, June 10 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: France Cordova (PhD '79), distinguished astrophysicist and former director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), has been elected to Caltech's Board of Trustees. Over the course of her career, Cordova has served as a leader in science, higher education, and government. After earning a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, she continued her studies at Caltech, where she graduated with a   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: EM made steady progress in its cleanup mission after most field sites moved into an essential mission-critical operating posture beginning in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Field sites across the DOE complex marked noteworthy accomplishments during this period of reduced operations, positioning the cleanup program for further success as the s  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: MEMORANDUM FOR: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director FROM: J.W. Plaue and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending May 22, 2020 COVID-19 Impacts: The nuclear facilities continue with routine entry into their normal operation modes as defined in their safety bases to support programmatic  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, June 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: No one can say whether androids will dream of electric sheep, but they will almost certainly need periods of rest that offer benefits similar to those that sleep provides to living brains, according to new research from Los Alamos National Laboratory. "We study spiking neural networks, which are systems that learn much as living brains do," said Los Alamos Nationa  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, June 13 -- The New Mexico Department of Economic Development issued the following news release: A company at the leading edge of quantum computing is relocating some operations to New Mexico, and plans to hire over 100 employees, Economic Development Department Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced. After considering locations in Utah, Idaho, Oregon, and California, SavantX Inc. has chosen Santa Fe, N.M. for its corporate research headquarters. The operations, sales  more

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release: The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) successfully completed two flight tests in March 2020 at the Tonopah Test Range (http://ttr.sandia.gov/index.htm) in Nevada for the B61-12 Life Extension Program (LEP). The B61-12 LEP is a joint program between NNSA and the Air Force preserving a critical ele  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, June 12 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release: National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Bert Frost announced the selection of Jason Lott as permanent superintendent of Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri. Lott has been serving as the acting superintendent since January following the retirement of Larry Johnson. "I am pleased to welcome Jason as superintendent of Ozark National Scenic Riverways," Frost said o  more

SANTA MONICA, California, June 12 -- RAND issued the following commentary: Trump administration officials are reported to have recently discussed conducting a nuclear test, breaking a moratorium the United States has observed since 1992. Such a move is not necessary to ensure the continued reliability of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It could also increase threats to U.S. and allied security by giving a green light to other countries, including dangerous proliferators, to conduct nuclear tests of t  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, June 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Dropped from above 25,000 feet, the mock B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb was in the air for approximately 55 seconds before hitting and embedding in the lakebed, splashing a 40- to 50-foot puff of desert dust from the designated impact area at Sandia National Laboratories' Tonopah Test Range in Nevada. That strike was the last in a series of flight tests designed to de  more

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, June 11 -- St. John's College issued the following information: It started out like any other lunch party. Earlier this semester, Eve Admasu (SF20), who just graduated from St. John's, was out in town with her friends Louise Yakey and Lynn Hefron from the Santa Fe branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Started in 1881 by two female college graduates who aimed to empower women in higher education, the AAUW now has over a thousand branches around the   more