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October 15, 2003 Media Advisory for Oct. 16 Signing Ceremony Signals New UNM/LANL Collaboration University of New Mexico President Louis Caldera and Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Pete Nanos will sign a Memorandum of Understanding and an Intellectual Property Agreement directed at science and technology, the first between the two institutions. The signing ceremony is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 16, 2003, at 3 p.m. in the Roberts Room of Scholes Hall on the University of New Mexico campus. Also participating in the ceremony will be Bruce Darling, interim Vice President, Laboratory Management, University of California, and Terry L. Yates, UNM Vice Provost for Research. The participants will each have brief remarks, and several will be available for questions after the signing ceremony. The MOU establishes a strategic partnership directed at science and technology. The goal is to strengthen the interactions between LANL and UNM in order to provide opportunities for research, education, recruitment and retention and to enhance research collaborations in areas of mutually beneficial research and education. ###

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