The LANL Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2024 LANL Career Pathways scholarships. With support from Laboratory employees and Laboratory operator Triad, the scholarships support students pursuing associate degrees, certificates and other credentials in the trades. This year, 128 Northern New Mexico students received 44 scholarships totaling $117,000. The recipients, from Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Taos, Los Alamos, Sandoval and Santa Fe Counties, receive $750 per semester up to a total of $3,000 toward their education.
“The Career Pathways Scholarship is an amazing opportunity for the LANL Foundation to support any student, including non-traditional learners, pursuing associates degrees or certificates programs,” said Laboratory employee Kacy Hopwood, chair of the LAESF Committee which helps determine who receives the scholarships. A full list of recipients is available here.
Lab’s Small Business Program receives recognition
Yvonne Gonzales and Trish Alley from the Laboratory’s Small Business Program won the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) Director’s Excellence Award at the 2024 DOE Small Business Forum & Expo, held in Minneapolis in June. OSDBU Director Ron Pierce presented the award to Gonzales and Alley, thanking them for their ongoing commitment to helping small businesses work with the Laboratory.
“Being recognized was an opportunity to show the Lab that our program is excelling,” Gonzales said, emphasizing the importance of her team’s hard work. “I am thrilled that our office is being acknowledged at a very high level.”
You can learn more about the Small Business Program here.
Lab wins award for vehicle electrification
The Laboratory has earned the Department of Energy's Green Fleet Award for the second year in a row, in recognition of its zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) acquisition rate. This fiscal year, 87% of Los Alamos' light-duty vehicle acquisitions have been ZEVs. The award includes $250,000 to buy more ZEVs or add electric-vehicle charging infrastructure. Fleet transition is one in a series of federally established decarbonization milestones the Lab must meet. All light-duty acquisitions must be ZEVs by 2027, and every vehicle acquisition — including heavy-duty trucks — must be ZEVs by 2035.
