LANL NEWS RELEASE

As we said goodbye to 2022, Los Alamos National Laboratory looked back at some of the ways we connected with communities across seven counties throughout the year.

“We continue to be grateful for the support of our neighbors and the chance to work, live and grow as a community,” said Kathy Keith, director of Community Partnerships. “We look forward to finding more ways to support the region in 2023.”

1. Challenge Tomorrow Trailers hit the road. The Lab expanded its educational outreach with the Challenge Tomorrow experience: traveling trailers targeted at New Mexico middle-schoolers with Lab scientists on board to explain everything from robotic arms to glove boxes to missions to Mars. Photo Courtesy LANL

2. Hollywood comes to town. Los Alamos County took on a different look this spring with movie trailers, lights and celebrity sightings becoming the norm for a few weeks while Christopher Nolan’s new movie, “Oppenheimer,” was filmed. Scheduled for a summer 2023 release, the biopic looks at the life of the Lab’s first director, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and was filmed in part at Fuller Lodge in downtown Los Alamos. Several Lab employees donned 1940s-era clothes and hairstyles to play extras in the film. Photo Courtesy LANL

3. Collaborating to combat wildfire. More than 1,100 firefighters tirelessly battled the flames of the Cerro Pelado wildfire that started April 22 and burned for several weeks, keeping…