December 21, 2009 • Adventures in microsolar supported by microelectronics and MEMS techniques ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. The tiny cells could turn a person into a walking solar battery charger if they were fastened...
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Sandia and Lockheed Martin’s ‘It’s the Write Thing to Do’ essay contest rewards three local students with savings bonds
December 21, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three students from Albuquerque’s traditional public high schools each earned $2,000 U.S. Savings Bonds in the fourth annual scholastic “It’s the Write Thing to Do” essay contest. The program is sponsored by Sandia and Lockheed Martin Corp. as part of their commitment to promoting math, science and...
Categories: Community / Education
Sandia adds water power to clean energy research portfolio
December 18, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories will receive more than $9 million over three years from a Department of Energy competitive laboratory solicitation for the development of advanced water power technologies. Sandia, through a partnership with several national laboratories and academic institutions, will lead two of the four topic areas...
Two Sandia researchers elected AAAS Fellows
December 17, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia researchers Dave Haaland and David Myers have been elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. Haaland was cited for “distinguished contributions in the area of chemometrics and spectral...
Categories: Operations / Budget
Red Sky at night, Sandia’s new computing might
December 17, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – There’s a new high-performance computer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories, and it stands on the shoulders of giants. Red Sky is located in the space where legendary system ASCI Red once stood, ready to provide computing might for a variety of Sandia projects,...
Sandia’s Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory awarded $4.2 million in stimulus funds
December 16, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will use $4.2 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to modify and enhance its existing Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory (BATLab), with the goal of developing low-cost batteries for electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Sandia’s BATLab is internationally recognized as a leader...
Sandia’s Shoes for Kids program makes new shoes possible for needy school children
December 15, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Many children in the Albuquerque area will receive new shoes this year thanks to a program started 53 years ago by two Sandia National Laboratories scientists who instead of exchanging gifts with each other decided to buy shoes for needy school children. The Shoes for Kids campaign...
Categories: Community / Education
Online computer program aids food producers in assessing vulnerabilities
December 14, 2009 • Individual farmers can play roles in national defense, says Sandia researcher ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An online computer program that Sandia National Laboratories helped develop two years ago to protect the entire U.S. food manufacturing industry — from field to retail or food services — has been extended for use by...
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering
Sandia/California to celebrate achievements, evolving national security mission during 60th anniversary event
December 9, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories’ California site will celebrate 60 years of laboratory achievements at a Dec. 17 commemorative event at Sandia’s Livermore campus. News media are invited to attend the event, which kicks off at 10 a.m. Sandia President and Laboratories Director Tom Hunter will be among the...
Categories: Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering
Erik Ridley named to government relations staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore
December 9, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Erik Ridley, who spent six years on the staff of former U.S. Rep. Ellen Tauscher, has been named to the government relations team at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif. Ridley is a public policy professional with more than 10 years of experience in legislative affairs and...
Categories: Operations / Budget
Stopping MRSA before it becomes dangerous is possible, Sandia/UNM researchers find
December 3, 2009 • Drug-resistant hospital bacteria could be inactivated at their outset ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Most scientists believe that staph infections are caused by many bacterial cells that signal each other to emit toxins. The signaling process is called quorum sensing because many bacteria must be present to start the process. But the...
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering
Sandian honored by American Indian organization
November 24, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandra Begay-Campbell, a Sandia National Laboratories engineer and a member of the Navajo Nation, was selected for the prestigious Ely S. Parker Award by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society at an honors banquet Oct. 31 in Portland, Ore. Begay-Campbell, who has worked at Sandia for...
Topics: diversity, women in STEM
Why huge bands of iron formed billions of years ago on Earth’s surface
November 19, 2009 • Ironing out a longstanding geological puzzle ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — No one knows why massive formations of banded iron — some ultimately hundreds of kilometers long, like a sleeping giant’s suspenders — mysteriously began precipitating on Earth’s surface about 3.5 billion years ago. Or why, almost 2 billion years later, the...
Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction
November 2, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The Environmental Restoration Project at Sandia National Laboratories reports the successful construction of an alternative evapotranspirative cover at the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) in September. The 2.6-acre site is located in Technical Area 3 in the west-central part of Kirtland Air Force Base. The protective cover consists...
Sandia, others funded to sequence microbial genes for potential biofuels use
October 28, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia researchers and others at the University of New Mexico (UNM), the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), Novozymes and North Carolina State University’s Center for Integrated Fungal Research (NCSU-CIFR) have received a DNA sequencing award from the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI) to study microbial genes...
Magnetic mixing creates quite a stir
October 27, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces. Researchers currently use all types of processes to try and create mixing, with only “mixed” success. “In small devices,” says Sandia materials scientist Jim Martin “people have tried all kinds...
Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering
“Perspectives on Energy Policy” report now available
October 22, 2009 • Energy leaders call for independent energy council, recommend outcomes and values-based policies LIVERMORE, Calif. — The United States should create a high-level independent council to analyze and communicate critical issues to energy policymakers and the public, a group of 27 leaders in academia, government and the private sector recommends in...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget
Sandia, SRC win LES award for NINE program outreach
October 21, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ National Institute for Nano-Engineering (NINE) program, operated in conjunction with the Semiconductor Research Corp., has won a “Deal of Distinction” award from the Licensing Executives Society (U.S. and Canada), Inc. The award — a glass sculpture — will be presented today in San Francisco....
Sandia joins forces with Boeing, Caltrans, other industry partners on fuel cell-powered mobile lighting application
October 19, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories, with help from The Boeing Company, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), and others, is leading an effort to develop a commercially viable, fuel cell-powered mobile lighting system. “Mobile lighting” refers to small, portable lighting systems that are used primarily by highway construction crews,...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water
Turning algae into energy
October 7, 2009 • Project converts dairy wastes to energy, other products ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As part of a project to create alternative sources of energy, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are cultivating green algae that holds promise as a new supply of biofuel. “People have been growing algae for centuries for food supplements...
Sandia’s Jerilyn Timlin earns NIH award for research into protein interactions
September 29, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jerilyn Timlin, a chemist at Sandia National Laboratories, has been presented by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with a New Innovator Award, one of 55 such awards granted by the NIH this year. The award encourages researchers to explore bold ideas that have the potential to...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget
Topics: women in STEM
Sandia receives DoD ‘trusted foundry’ accreditation
September 24, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories’ silicon fabrication facility in Albuquerque, N.M., has been accredited by the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide “trusted foundry” services for both unclassified and classified integrated circuits. The foundry accreditation represents an increase in scope to Sandia’s already-existing accreditation for design services. The accreditation program...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget
Sandia hopping robots to bolster troop capabilities
September 11, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Boston Dynamics, developer of advanced dynamic robots such as BigDog and PETMAN, has been awarded a contract by Sandia to develop the next generation of the Precision Urban Hopper, meaning Sandia‘s hopping robots may soon be in combat. When fully operational, the four-wheeled hopper robots will navigate...
Topics: defense, Homeland security, military, robot, Robotic Vehicle, robotics, Urban Hopper, warfighter
Sandia Labs to highlight evolving national security mission in Washington, D.C., 60th anniversary events
September 11, 2009 • Sandia National Laboratories will hold a media availability Sept. 15 at the National Press Club featuring several of the lab’s technical experts and the National Nuclear Security Administration’s top Defense Programs official, followed by a technical exposition Sept. 16 at the Capitol Visitor Center showcasing state-of-the-art national security technologies. News...
Categories: Media advisories
Sandia climate study projects receive $5 million in Recovery Act funding
September 10, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two Sandia National Laboratories climate study projects are getting a boost this year with the help of $5 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — the stimulus package. Both projects are associated with the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program supported by the Department of Energy....
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water
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