A#4 Impact

Benchmark 1-A:

New Mexico: analyze how people and events of New Mexico have influenced United States and world history since statehood:

A#4 Standards with Specifications:

Analyze the impact of the arts, sciences and technology of New Mexico since World War II (e.g., artists, cultural artifacts, nuclear weapons, the arms race, technological advances, scientific developments, high-tech industries, federal laboratories)

Sample Question:

Assets

Sandia National Laboratories – Centrally located in Albuquerque, Sandia National Laboratories is a leading government R&D laboratory, focusing on nuclear weapons technology and security, energy, climate and infrastructure security, defense systems, and homeland security.

Los Alamos National Laboratory – Los Alamos National Laboratory, located less than an hour’s drive from Santa Fe, is a premier national security research institution focused on delivering scientific and engineering solutions for the most crucial and complex problems including the advancement of bioscience, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, and physics.

UNM – Nonprofit that handles University of New Mexico technologies and brings them to the marketplace through patent applications, license and options agreements, and start-up companies.

New Mexico Consortium – Engages universities and industry in scientific research in the nation’s interest and to increase the role of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in science, education and economic development.

Microsystems & Engineering Science Application Center (MESA) – Located at Sandia Labs. It represents the essential facilities and equipment to design, develop, manufacture, integrate, and qualify trusted microsystems for national security needs.

Pulse Power Center – Also locates in Sandia Labs. Houses some of the world’s most advanced optics equipment. The center has technologies to create, diagnose, and model extreme radiation, high energy density environments, and inertial confinement fusion.

Which comment is supported by the evidence in the text above?

A. Non-profit business centers are extremely important in the state of NM.

B. The defense industry, science and technology are essential parts of the NM economy. *

C. The state of NM is totally dependent upon funding from the federal government.

D. The impact of science and technological research has been shrinking in recent years in the state of NM.