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Tammy Ma named 'Woman of the Year'
Tammy Ma, an experimental plasma physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has been named Woman of the Year for the 16th Assembly District by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan. "I am extremely pleased to announce Dr. Tammy Ma as my Woman of the Year for Assembly District 16. A Pleasanton resident and first-generation American, Dr. Ma is strongly…
Lawrence Livermore's 'Science on Screen' brings neuroscience to the movies
Now in its fifth year, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is once again partnering with The State Theatre in Modesto to bring "Science on Screen" to the theater two Saturdays a month in March and April. The 2019 theme is all about the brain. Science on Screen is a free educational program geared to middle, high school and college students that creatively pairs…
Girls inspired to 'never give up' in their pursuits
The Tri-Valley Expanding Your Horizons (TVEYH) conference recently celebrated its 40th anniversary with more than 300 young women attending the daylong event to learn about careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). See the video on Facebook. This year's theme, "Never Give Up," encouraged young women to never give up in pursuing their dreams. The…
SOS: How scientists use modeling to determine how therapeutics cross the blood brain barrier
WHO: LLNL scientists Tim Carpenter and Nicholas Be, with teacher Dan Burns of Los Gatos High School, will present "Crossing the Blood-Brain Barrier: One Byte at a Time," the fourth and final lecture in the 2019 Science on Saturday series that highlights the many facets of the brain. WHAT: The talk will focus on the blood-brain barrier (BBB), a special structure in the body…
'Science On Saturday' to cover how scientists use 3D printing in cancer research
WHO: LLNL scientists Monica Moya, Javier Alvarado, Karen Dubbin, William Hynes and Claire Robertson, with teacher Melody McGill of Roosevelt Junior High School, will present "Seed, Soil and Spread: 3D Bioprinted Model for Metastatic Brain Tumors," the third lecture in the 2019 Science on Saturday series that highlights the many facets of the brain. WHAT: The talk will…
'Science on Saturday' lecture to explore how scientists decipher complex brain signals
WHO: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientist Alan Kaplan and teacher Katherine Huang of Dougherty Valley High School will present "In the Mood: Deciphering Complex Brain Signals," the second lecture in the 2019 Science on Saturday series that highlights the many facets of the brain. WHAT: The talk will focus on how the human brain contains approximately 86…
LLNL tackles second annual battle of the nerds
In the battle for nerd supremacy, only one team could rise to the top – and that team was Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Lazer Cats. On Jan. 26, players from four teams — the Lazer Cats, Facebook’s Cache Money, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s SLAC Attack and Sandia National Laboratories’ Ballistic Thunderbirds — converged at Livermore High School’s…
'Science on Saturday' lecture series returns with look at micro sensors that talk to the brain
WHO: LLNL scientists Anna Belle and Allison Yorita, joined by Erin McKay, a biology teacher from Tracy High School, will present "Giving Your Brain a Voice: Engineering Sensors That Listen to Brain Cells," the first lecture in the 2019 Science on Saturday series that highlights the many facets of the brain. WHAT: The talk will focus on how the human brain is composed of…
Lawrence Livermore's 'Science on Saturday' lecture series returns with a look at the brain
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) popular lecture series, "Science on Saturday," returns Feb. 2 and runs through Feb. 23 at the Bankhead Theater, located at 2400 First St. in Livermore. The series will offer four different lectures with a theme relating to the brain. Each lecture is presented by leading LLNL researchers who are joined by master high school…
Are you nerd enough? Nerd Bowl returns Jan. 26
On Saturday, Jan. 26, watch teams from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Facebook, Sandia National Laboratories/CA and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory battle it out in the Bay Area’s smartest flag football tournament. The first game of Nerd Bowl II will kick off at 2 p.m. at the Livermore High School field, located at 3011 Fourth St. in Livermore,…
Lawrence Livermore's HOME Campaign raises more than $3.7 million for charitable groups
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) employees, along with Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS), LLC, donated more than $3.7 million to charitable organizations via the annual employee giving program, the Helping Others More Effectively (HOME) Campaign. Through the HOME Campaign, now in its 43rd year, Laboratory employees pledged $2,725,611 through payroll…
Lawrence Livermore among Glassdoor's 'best places to work,' ranked top lab employer
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has been honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, recognizing the Best Places to Work in 2019. The Employees’ Choice Awards program, now in its 11th year, is based solely on the input of employees, who elect to provide feedback on their jobs, work environments and companies on Glassdoor, one of the world’s largest job…
Workforce magazine announces LLNL as a winner of two 2018 Optimas Awards
Two programs and teams of employees within the Strategic Human Resources Management (SHRM) Department at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have been honored with gold and silver 2018 Optimas Awards by Workforce magazine, a Human Capital Media publication. The awards program, celebrating its 28th year, recognizes companies achieving successful measurable…
Lawrence Livermore receives USDA award for purchasing bio-based materials
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) received an award from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Bio-preferred Program for purchasing bio-based materials that includes all the compostable products used in Laboratory cafeterias and bio-based cleaning products used by the custodial division. The award, presented to LLNL, was "For your leadership in…
Lawrence Livermore National Security awards 40 groups as part of Community Gift Program
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS), the contract manager for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has announced the recipients for the 2018 LLNS Community Gift Program. These gifts, totaling $100,000, reflect LLNS' commitment to local communities. LLNS received applications totaling more than $440,000 in requests. Forty applications were selected…
Central Valley students inspired by STEM Day
Ashley Love, an eighth-grade student at Henry Elementary School in Stockton, wants to be an engineer when she grows up. What better way to learn about engineering than at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)? Love was one of more than 180 students from San Joaquin and Sacramento counties who visited LLNL last week for STEM Day at the Laboratory, a daylong…
Science on Saturday features proteins in action
WHO: Lawrence Livermore scientists Matthias Frank and Megan Shelby, along with Erin McKay, a biology teacher from Tracy High School, will present "Biomolecular Action Movies: Flash Imaging With X-ray Lasers," the final lecture in the Science on Saturday series themed "Marvelous Machines," at the Chabot Space and Science Center. WHAT: Proteins are nature's machines,…
Science and Engineering Seminar to focus on 'Theory to Practice: How Science is Done'
WHO: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Las Positas College (LPC) partner on a special presentation, "Theory to Practice: How Science is Done," as part of the Science and Engineering Seminar Series. The series provides LLNL scientists and engineers a forum to share basic and applied research with LPC students and faculty and the Tri-Valley community. The…
Celebrating diversity and inclusion in tech
The annual Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) is the premier international gathering of women in computing. This September, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) sent 43 employees to GHC in Houston, Texas — the largest attendance from any national laboratory. Named after American computer scientist Grace Hopper (1906–1992), the conference packs three days of technical…
Test your science know-how at Discovery Day
You’re standing on the moon and you need to toss a simple rock into a basket, about 18 feet away. Same challenge, different venue — now it’s a park and a pinecone. Move into a classroom and try to chuck an eraser or a wad of paper, not at a classmate, but into the trash bin. How much thrust do you need? What angle do you need to make your throw? What kind of factors do…
