First Born: Providing the Tools for Parents to Joyfully Raise a Healthy, Well-developed Child Alison Ticknor, a telecommunications engineer who works from home in Los Alamos, and her husband, Dr. Chris Ticknor, a theoretical physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory,…
Two people, Mathilde Schaumberg and her husband Joseph, recently came forward to publicly thank the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation for helping the kids in their program have a great time this summer. Mathilde Schaumberg, a teacher and the director…
Scholarship and Lab Internship Helped Shape the Career of a Winner from the Valley Lindsay Redman says she always knew she would have a career in science. As early as Kindergarten, she was active in school science fairs and sought…
From Free Spirit to Disciplined Cadet, Scholarship Winner Uses Leadership to Give Back to Others Growing up in Cerrillos, NM, life for Solomon Sindelar was anything but typical. The small town located on the Turquoise Trail south of Santa Fe…
Above: ETS Fairview Elementary School 2nd Grade Teacher Elias Allison and with their award checks. Honoring Excellent Teachers in Rio Arriba County During a surprise school assembly at Ojo Caliente Elementary school, LANL Foundation K-12 Education Program Director Gwen Perea…
Building Confident Parents and Community Relationships Through the Española First Born Program Teen mom Tiffany Sesma at Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo and First Born home visitor Nancy built a close relationship that’s similar to and “auntie” and niece. Clow, a home…
Scholarship Winner Hopes to Inspire Young Women with a Career in Science Toaseña Arasely Rodriguez is a soft-spoken, observant young woman. Her intensity of focus has been one of her greatest assets in defining her self-driven learning style that sets…
High School Equivalency Program and “Returning Student” Scholarship Support a Young Man’s Career Goals in Counseling Joaquin Montaño has always known the value of hard work. Growing up in Santa Cruz, NM, he and his siblings lived with the rule…
The LANL Foundation supports the work of schools, nonprofits and community programs in Northern New Mexico through its grants program. Changes have been made to the grantmaking process to assure fair distribution of funds and alignment of outside programs with…
Love of Music and Compassion for Others Inspire Scholarship Winner Katherine Wang describes herself as “independent.” From an early age she was self-driven and focused on academics. Her interest in music and playing the piano were enjoyable but very personal, not shared…