Los Alamos National Laboratory

Walk where history happened on a tour of Manhattan Project National Historical Park! 🗓️ The deadline to register for the May lottery is March 4. ✉️ Participants will be drawn randomly and notified via email by March 31. 🥾Tours are free for lottery winners and will take place twice daily May 5–7. These unique, half-day guided tours take visitors to areas open to the public only twice a year, where Manhattan Project scientists made world-changing discoveries. Enter the lottery now 👇 https://ow.ly/KmHl50Ym0Ab

U.S. Navy Adm. Rich Correll, commander, U.S. Strategic Command, recently visited Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he met with Director Thom Mason and other Lab leadership. They discussed aligning missions and strategic vision, Los Alamos’ weapons missions, and visited the pit production facility.

Part-time Aggies 🤠 More than 100 Lab employees have completed the Master of Engineering Technical Management program at Texas A&M University, designed for established professionals looking to become technical leaders. The part-time, hybrid program focuses on practical project management skills, leadership skills and a real-world technical capstone project using work at the Lab. See more in our National Security Science magazine 👇 https://ow.ly/cP5P50YlU2M 📸 Photo 1: Los Alamos group leader and TAMU Master of Engineering Technical Management graduate Jun Gao currently serves as a capstone professor for the program. Upon completing his master's program, he ordered an Aggie class ring. “This opportunity allows me to give back,” he says. “Ultimately, the capstone course equips students with the practical engineering management tools necessary to excel as technical leaders, preparing them for advancement in both technical and managerial career paths.” Credit to: Jun Gao 📸 Photo 2: Six Los Alamos employees (from left: Kenny Saiz, Nick Pizana, Rusty DeBlassie, Brian Davis, James Kuropatwinski, and Ramiro Rodriguez Ray) received their A&M class rings during a ceremony at historic Fuller Lodge in downtown Los Alamos on April 16, 2025.

Your future could be closer than you think! 🗺️ Local colleges — in partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory — are creating new pathways for students to train for in-demand careers, from cybersecurity and finance to welding and radiation protection. If you’re thinking about what comes next, you don’t have to look far. There are real opportunities to build skills, find meaningful work and grow a career right here at home. 👉 Explore the programs and see where they could take you: https://ow.ly/KvHh50YicMN

Seeing color in a whole new light 🌈 A Los Alamos team formalized the geometry behind how we perceive hue, saturation and lightness — proving color isn’t subjective after all. This work helps resolve a century-old theory of color perception by Erwin Schrödinger. Understanding color is an important component of visualization science, which helps scientists interpret data for national security and more. 👉 https://ow.ly/w3P050Yfa4V

The mentor in the cockpit 🛩️ Every year, Los Alamos brings one or two members of the Air Force — like Lt. Col. Mike Marchand, a B-52 pilot and flight instructor — to the Laboratory as Air Force fellows. This year, Marchand is gaining familiarity with the nuclear enterprise to facilitate the transfer of knowledge between the national laboratories and the military, as well as within the Air Force itself. See his journey in our National Security Science magazine 👉 https://ow.ly/mH2m50YaytN 📸 Photo 1: Marchand with his family and a T-6 Texan aircraft in 2024. 📸 Photo 2: Marchand (right) with his brother after Marchand’s last flight in an Air Force aircraft at Sheppard Air Force Base in 2025. 📸 Photo 3: A B-52 piloted by Marchand is refueled over England in 2015.

Lab Love 💕💍 This Valentine’s Day, see a match made in the Manhattan Project: the wedding of Marjorie Hall, Oppenheimer’s secretary, and physicist Hugh Bradner. 

Can you spot Oppie giving the bride away? 

 Hugh happened to be the first person Marjorie met when she arrived in Santa Fe to join the Lab’s secret wartime efforts. It was love at first sight, Marjorie recalled in an interview years later, and they tied the knot in Los Alamos in September 1943. 

The Bradners were married 65 years until their deaths, just weeks apart, in 2008. #ValentinesDay

We had a great fireside chat with employees on the GENESIS mission, weapons modernization, pit production, quantum computing and AI. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gs5z-iTe

Steward of a scientific giant ⚛️ Meet Eric Brown, the leader guiding a multi-year, billion-dollar effort to rebuild a 53 year-old particle accelerator — one of the Lab's most ambitious infrastructure investments in a generation. In our 1663 magazine, see how Brown is keeping the "beam" on to power world-class research for decades to come. 👉 https://ow.ly/nnUO50Y9tG7 📸 Photo 1: Eric Brown is the User Facility Director for the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, or LANSCE — a kilometer-long particle accelerator that, for the past half-century, has fueled groundbreaking research on the origins of the universe, life-saving isotopes, and the future of U.S. national security. 📸 Photo 2: Brown answers audience questions at the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, D.C., during a 2014 materials science conference. “Before D.C., I was publishing a paper a month,” says Brown. “But managing portfolios across the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Department of Defense taught me how to sell big science: how to tie data and science to the mission and policy objectives of program managers.” 📸 Photo 3: Brown at the Edgar Experimental Mine facility at the Colorado School of Mines in 2023

Are trees smarter than we thought? 💧 New Lab research shows that piñon pines can switch drought strategies to behave more like juniper when extra water is available, reshaping how we understand plant survival in dry places like New Mexico.  “This was one of those surprise findings that you encounter by accident while looking for an answer to another problem,” said Turin Dickman, co-author of the study. “By putting the pieces together from a number of incidental findings, we came up with a new way to think about an old concept.” See the surprising science 👉 https://ow.ly/eyKg50YbOjv