LANL Foundation awards $237,000 in scholarships to 81 students
A $237,000 scholarship round is sending 81 students toward trades, associate degrees and advanced research tied to Los Alamos jobs.
The LANL Foundation’s latest scholarship round is aimed squarely at Northern New Mexico’s talent pipeline, backing students from the first rung of training to graduate study for work tied to Los Alamos-area employers. The foundation said 81 students received a combined $237,000, including 67 Career Pathways Scholarships worth $152,000 and 14 National Security Workforce Graduate Scholarships totaling $85,000.
The Career Pathways awards are built for high school students, college students and adult learners who already know what comes next. Each scholarship provides $750 per semester, up to $3,000 total, for tuition, fees and other educational expenses, and can be renewed for eligible students who remain in good academic standing and keep moving toward completion. The money comes from Triad National Security LLC, the Los Alamos National Laboratory Employee Scholarship Fund and other donors, giving the program a direct link to the laboratory economy that shapes so much of the region’s workforce planning.
The graduate program reaches further up the ladder. The National Security Workforce Graduate Scholarship is designed for students pursuing advanced degrees in scientific, engineering and management fields that support careers at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It is funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration through the Plutonium Workforce Development Institutional Partnerships Program and administered through a collaboration among LANL, the New Mexico Consortium and the LANL Foundation. Eligible applicants must live in Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Sandoval, Santa Fe or Taos counties. The application window ran from Dec. 15, 2025, through March 1, 2026. The scholarship is listed at $10,000 per student, paid as $5,000 a year for two years, with up to eight awards per year for 2026-2028.
For Los Alamos County, the significance is less about a single funding announcement than about how the county sustains its workforce. The foundation said it has been investing in education, learning and human potential in Northern New Mexico since 1997. Since 1999, the LANL Foundation and the Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund have awarded nearly 2,900 scholarships totaling close to $15 million. In 2024, Northern New Mexico students received $884,000 from the employee fund, and the annual drive raised more than $400,000 from Laboratory employees. In 2025, employees and supporters gave another $376,349. The pattern shows a community betting that scholarships can keep local students in the region, fill technical jobs and strengthen the long-term pipeline from classroom to career.
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