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Sandia Labs’ director re-dedicates Pete V. Domenici National Security Innovation Center

February 18, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In recognition of Sen. Pete Domenici’s decades of advocacy and support for the role the national laboratories play in protecting the nation’s security, officials at Sandia National Laboratories today re-dedicated the still relatively new Weapon Integration Facility building as the Pete V. Domenici National Security Innovation Center. With the...

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The Senator in front of the Pete V. Domenici National Security Innovation Center

Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories to showcase hydrogen vehicles

February 17, 2011 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories will showcase two buses powered by hydrogen, now operating at both Livermore sites. The collaborative effort is part of a strategy for an energy sustainable future and cleaner environment.

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Sandia re-dedicates building 898 as Pete V. Domenici National Security Innovation Center

February 16, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Labs director Paul Hommert will re-dedicate Sandia’s Weapons Integration Facility (building 898) as the Pete V. Domenici National Security Innovation Center at a ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 18, at the southeast corner of Sandia National Laboratories’ MESA complex on Kirtland Air Force Base. Sen. Domenici...

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Energy technology, policy tools to be explored at summer institute for top grad students

February 9, 2011 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Graduate students pursuing careers in energy, policy, science and environmental matters are being encouraged to submit applications for Technology and Policy Tools for Energy in an Uncertain World, a week-long summer institute at Sandia National Laborat…

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Sandia security experts help Kazakhstan safely transport, store Soviet-era bomb materials

February 8, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories team helped reach a major milestone in the nation’s nuclear nonproliferation efforts by working with the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan to move nuclear materials — enough to build an estimated 775 nuclear weapons — to safety. Sandia provided security and logistics expertise...

Categories: Nonproliferation

Sandia researcher lauded as “person to watch” in world of supercomputing

February 4, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Richard Murphy has been identified as a “person to watch,” not by the CIA but by the respected online computing magazine HPCwire. The magazine each year names a handful of researchers whom its editors believe to be doing the world’s most interesting work...

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Richard Murphy. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Sandia MOU to assist MEMS students at University of Guadalajara

February 3, 2011 • Tiny microelectronic mechanical systems to improve Mexican economy, aid US defense ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will help Mexican engineering students learn to design tiny microelectromechanical devices (MEMS), according to a memorandum of understanding between Sandia and the University of Guadalajara. The rationale for the agreement is that the...

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10 Mexican professors and three Sandia researchers at a SUMMit design course for MEMS devices held at Sandia in December, 2009. Ernest Garcia is third from right.

Sandia engineering-sciences director Duane Dimos elected AAAS Fellow

January 27, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Duane Dimos, director of Sandia’s Engineering Sciences Center 1500, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific association. Fellows are chosen by their peers to be honored for scientific or social efforts to advance science...

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Tamara Kolda accepts high-performance-computing editorship of key journal

January 26, 2011 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Tamara Kolda has accepted a section editorship of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics’ Journal on Scientific Computing [SIAM SISC], overseeing the portion reserved for high-performance computing and software. “The journal just formed this section due to increased interest in computing,” Kolda said. “I was excited...

Categories: Awards, Computing, Operations / Budget

Topics: women in STEM

Sandia researcher Mike Heroux named editor-in-chief of key software journal

January 26, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia researcher Mike Heroux has been named editor-in-chief of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journal Transactions on Mathematical Software. The quarterly publication, published by ACM, has been rated among the top 20 journals for its “impact factor” — roughly, the number of times its articles are...

Categories: Computing, Operations / Budget

Needy children to receive new shoes thanks to Sandia’s Shoes for Kids Program

January 25, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Since Sandia’s Shoes for Kids campaign began 54 years ago, the volunteer effort has provided about 12,300 pairs of shoes to needy school children. The program began when two Sandia National Laboratories scientists decided that instead of exchanging …

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Sandia researchers tailoring fungi-based biofuels to meet the needs of current, advanced combustion engines

January 19, 2011 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Engine experts and biofuels researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working on a project that aims to modify an endophytic fungus so that it will produce fuel-type hydrocarbons for transportation purposes.

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Sandia researcher Eizadora Yu prepares biomass harvested from liquid fungal cultures for nucleic acid analysis. The cultures come from the endophytic fungus Hypoxylon sp, which produces compounds potentially used for fuel.

Sandia’s effect on New Mexico’s economy, community highlighted in 2010 Economic Impact report

January 11, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories bought more than $500 million worth of goods and services in fiscal year 2010 from New Mexico companies, 40 percent more than in the previous fiscal year, according to a new report. The purchases are part of the more than $1 billion spent overall...

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Albuquerque mayor to address summit showcasing Sandia’s economic impact on local economy, small businesses

January 5, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will host Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry and other community leaders at its 2010 Economic Impact Summit on Tuesday, Jan. 11. The summit will highlight the role Sandia plays in the local economy and community. At the summit, Sandia will release its annual “Economic Impact...

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