LANL expands program that engages Indigenous women in physics [Video]

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – Women’s History Month is days away and Los Alamos National Laboratory’s partnership with two universities is paving a new path for indigenous women studying physics. The Engaging Indigenous Women in Nuclear Physics program started two years ago.

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Now in its third year, the program currently includes four students from Fort Lewis College in Colorado and a new partnership is being introduced this fall with Navajo Technical University in Crownpoint, New Mexico.

Los Alamos physicist, Cesar Luis Da Silva, says the program first started as an effort to bring more indigenous women into physics. Da Sila leads the group of women in projects related to the study of subatomic particles.

Sign-up is now open for a free summer physics camp for women in Santa Fe starting this June. The deadline to apply for the program is April 1.

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