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Media advisory: 'Science On Saturday' lecture to explore shale gas
Who: Lawrence Livermore scientist Roger Aines and Tracy High School teacher Dean Reese will present "Shale Gas Revolution," the kickoff lecture for the popular Science on Saturday series for students.What: Aines and Reese will discuss how the new abundance of natural gas provides energy options for America, including clean electric power. They will explore the way shale…
Explore the elements of science through Lawrence Livermore's popular lecture series
LIVERMORE, California — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's popular lecture series, "Science on Saturday," returns Feb. 7 and runs through Feb. 28. The series will offer four lectures with the theme "Seeking Solutions in Elemental Science."The lectures are free and will be held in the Bankhead Theater, located at 2400 First St. in Livermore. Two presentations are…
Registration opens Jan. 27 for Tri-Valley Expanding Your Horizons Conference
Registration opens Tuesday, Jan. 27, for the 37th annual Tri-Valley Expanding Your Horizons Conference. The conference will be held Saturday, Feb. 28, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the Las Positas College Gymnasium, 3000 Campus Hill Drive, Livermore. Registration is limited to the first 300 students. The deadline to register is Friday, Feb. 13. The annual daylong event is held…
Labs team up with historically black colleges and universities in cybersecurity consortium
LIVERMORE, California – With national and global threats related to cybercrime at an all-time high, there is a considerable and growing need for expertise in cybersecurity. The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) recently announced that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will participate as a partner in a Cybersecurity…
Colleges, labs develop STEM core curriculum
The success of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Engineering Technology Program to educate veterans for technical careers has inspired a statewide push to create an educational core curriculum to prepare junior college students for technical jobs at California’s national labs. The core curriculum being designed by a consortium of community colleges, national labs…
Lawrence Livermore campaign raises $3.4 million for charitable organizations
LIVERMORE, California -- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees, along with Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS), have raised $3.4 million to give to charities within their surrounding communities. Laboratory employees pledged $2.4 million through the Helping Others More Effectively (HOME) Campaign, an annual employee charitable giving campaign…
Ruth Hawley finds fertile ground to help others
Editor's Note: This is one in a series of articles about Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees who volunteer for various non-profit agencies. This is just a sampling. Ruth Hawley began to volunteer for Fertile Groundworks "because growing organic food to feed hungry people in our local community is meaningful." Fertile Groundworks was founded in 2010 to plant…
Helping animals across the globe
Editor's Note: This is one in a series of articles about Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees who volunteer for various non-profit agencies. This is just a sampling.______________Growing up, Jennifer Anthony had a passion for whale watching. Those childhood experiences sparked a love for animals that has grown with time and now encompasses causes that range…
Tri-Valley SOCKS fights breast cancer
It was 2006 when about a dozen women hit upon the idea of staging a six-mile walk around downtown Pleasanton to raise money to fight breast cancer.The cadre of women, mostly from the Tri-Valley and including three Laboratory employees, hauled in nearly $85,000 that first year. They were stunned.In succeeding years, the group -- known as Tri-Valley Stepping Out for Cancer…
Volunteers focus on helping veterans
Editor's Note: This is one in a series of articles about Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees who volunteer for various non-profit agencies. This is just a sampling.------------------The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Helping Others More Effectively (HOME) Campaign is under way, a time when Lab employees focus their attention to helping those in…
Cyclists ride coast to coast for a cause
For Tom and Rose (O’Brien) Ramos, no challenge is too steep. Literally.Tom Ramos, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and his wife Rose, who retired last year after 47 years at LLNL, spent their summer traveling coast to coast across the United States. They didn’t take a plane, train, automobile, or motorcycle...they rode their bicycles.The…
Volunteer turns two wheels into big smiles
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles about Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees who volunteer for various non-profit agencies. This is just a sampling. Larry McMichael’s mission is to get kids off the couch by steering them away from the indoor world of television, computers and video games that dominate many of their lives. He’s doing it…
Lab entertains during Science Discovery Day
More than 30,000 people packed into AT&T Park Saturday for the San Francisco Bay Area Science Festival, a day of hands-on experiments, exhibits, games and shows.The event was the culmination of the Bay Area Science Festival's week-long science festivities, which featured more than 100 fun, interactive science and technology events. During the successful event, LLNL…
Unleash your inner scientist at the annual Bay Area Science Festival
Test your knowledge of basic science, offer up solutions to the world’s energy and transportation needs or get up to your elbows in interactive experiments when the Bay Area Science Festival presents its fourth annual Discovery Day, Saturday, Nov. 1, at AT&T Park in San Francisco. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will have three booths on display, located on the…
Summer workshops provide hands-on learning for high school students
Each summer, college students from around the world descend upon the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to conduct research and experience what it is like to work at a national laboratory. While hosting college students at LLNL is commonplace, the presence of high school students onsite is a rarity. This summer, the University Relations and Science Education…
Teacher Research Academy summer series in full swing
While a good number of teachers are vacationing this time of the year, some teachers elect to continue the learning through the summer months tduring the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL)Teacher Research Academy (TRA). The academy, which kicked off in June, is a summer-long series of professional development workshops for teachers and features content…
Department of Energy's Dot Harris honored for blazing path for women
LaDorris "Dot" Harris, director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the Department of Energy, was recently honored at the EmpowHer Institute's Girls to Greatness Luncheon, "Dream Big, Reach Higher," in Beverly Hills, California. The mission of theEmpowHer Institute is to empower girls and womento seek fulfilling and productive lives by helping them gain the…
UC Merced students inspired by Laboratory visit
UC Merced students spent Friday touring Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), a place where some of them dream of working as a scientist or engineer. The group included 20 undergraduate and graduate students from the university's science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) Resource Center. The purpose of the visit was for LLNL to strengthen its…
Lawrence Livermore information technology job shadow day a hit
Tuesday was no ordinary school day for 60 students and teachers, who visited the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to take their education outside of the classroom and learn all about the Lab and information technology (IT). The event was hosted by The Office of the Chief Information Officer and Livermore Information Technology as part of the Department of…
Farnsworth honored by Livermore School District
Richard "Dick" Farnsworth was recently honored at a Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District (LVJUSD) public Board meeting for his service and contributions to science education. Farnsworth, who retired from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in January, has long been involved with LLNL's Science Education Program, serving as its manager for over a decade…
