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Designing a geothermal drilling tool that can take the heat

July 21, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and a commercial firm have designed a drilling tool that will withstand the heat of geothermal drilling.The downhole hammer attaches to the end of a column of drill pipe and cuts through rock with a rapid hammering action si…

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science

Topics: downhole hammer, drilling, geothermal, high operating temperature test facility

Joining forces: Military students get a taste of national lab research

July 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Two years ago, West Point cadet Willahelm Wan signed on to spend a few summer weeks at Sandia National Laboratories in a real-world research environment. What he learned changed his career. “At Sandia, everything is connected,” he said. “Projects have multiple components and overlap between departments. I...

Categories: Community / Education, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: cadets, education, engineers, military academies, national labs, STEM

Former Army ranger receives Sandia-Livermore Chamber of Commerce Student of the Year Award

July 12, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif – Former Army ranger Damon Alcorn has received the Sandia National Laboratories-Livermore Chamber of Commerce Student of the Year Award. Presented at the chamber’s State of the City Luncheon on June 23, the annual award highlights a Las Positas College s…

Categories: Awards, Community / Education

Topics: Army Rangers, education, Las Positas, national labs, STEM

Damon Alcron has received the Sandia-Livermore Chamber Award

Sandia storing information securely in DNA

July 11, 2016 • Sandia researchers explore a biologically inspired information storage system ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider generate 15 million gigabytes of data per year. That is a lot of digital data to inscribe on hard drives or beam up to the “cloud.” George Bachand, a Sandia National Laboratories...

Categories: Biology, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: basic research, Biology, biomimicry, Center for Integrated Nanotechnology, DNA, encryption, fundamental science, information storage, LDRD, nanotechnology

Marlene and George Bachand show off their new method for encrypting and storing sensitive information in DNA

New Mexico African American Affairs office honors two from Sandia

July 7, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two Sandia National Laboratories employees have been named recipients of 2016 Outstanding Service Awards from the New Mexico Office of African American Affairs (OAAA). Research engineer Conrad James and Theresa A. Carson, a senior manager in Sandia’s Supply Chain Management Center, were recognized for their strong commitment...

Categories: Awards, HR / Personnel, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: african american, awards, community, diversity, new mexico, supply chain

Lightning lab: Recreating nature’s big show for research

June 29, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories creates lightning in a lab to evaluate how anything from sensitive nuclear weapons components to entire buildings will hold up against the worst that nature might throw at them.

Categories: Nuclear Weapons

Topics: electromagnetic fields, lightning lab, lightning protection systems, Lightning Simulator, stockpile

DOE funding moves two Sandia energy programs closer to the marketplace

June 27, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two technologies developed at Sandia National Laboratories are among 54 energy projects that will receive nearly $16 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help bring them to market. The projects involve 12 national labs and 52 private-sector partners. Funding comes through the Technology Commercialization...

Categories: Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, commercialization, economic development, energy, national labs, tech transfer

Microwave imaging expert at Sandia Labs honored as SPIE fellow for radar work

June 21, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Armin Doerry has been named a SPIE fellow for his technical achievements in imaging microwave radar technology development, design and analysis.[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="250"] Sandia National Laborat…

Categories: Awards, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia researchers discover mechanism for Rift Valley fever virus infection

June 16, 2016 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Brooke Harmon, a virologist at Sandia National Laboratories, led research that found a cellular pathway for Rift Valley fever virus infection, the first step in developing treatment for the highly infectious deadly disease. (P…

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

Topics: Biology, disease-carrying mosquito, Ebola, infectious disease, Journal of Virology, mosquito, mosquito-borne disease, Rift Valley fever virus, RVFV, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, virus, Wnt pathway, Zika

Sandia researcher Melissa Teague awarded Presidential Early Career Award

June 15, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories materials engineer Melissa Teague has been awarded a Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE), the highest honor the U.S. government bestows on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their research careers. Teague was recognized for pioneering improved characterization...

Categories: Awards, Chemistry, Physics

Topics: Early Career, mesoscopic, MOX, nuclear reactor, pecase, TerraPower, travelling wave E

Lab know-how: Small companies grow with a technical leg up from Sandia, Los Alamos labs

June 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine driving a car with no fuel gauge and no idea how big the gas tank is. You want to go as far as possible before filling up but not so far that you sputter to a halt. “That’s what it’s like to operate an electric plane...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, economic impact, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, small business, tech transfer

Sandia explores aggressive high-efficiency sparkplug-free gasoline auto engines

June 13, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Combustion Research Facility are helping to develop sparkplug-free engines that will help meet ambitious automotive fuel economy targets of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.[caption id="" align="alignleft" wid…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation

Topics: auto engine, car engine, combustion research, CRF, fuel efficiency, University of Minnesota

High school girls recognized for math, science accomplishments

June 7, 2016 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Celeste Rohlfing, chief operating officer at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, congratulates Audrey Kurz, a student at Livermore Valley Charter Preparatory, for her outstanding achievement in math. Rohlfin…

Categories: Awards, Community / Education

Topics: awards, Celeste Rohlfing, community, education, mentoring, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, women in STEM

Two Sandia student interns named Goldwater Scholars

June 3, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories student interns Hattie Schunk and Julian A. Vigil have been named 2016 Goldwater Scholars. The undergraduate scholarship, established by Congress in 1986 to honor former Sen. Barry Goldwater, annually pays tuition, fees, books and room and board for 250 college sophomores and juniors pursuing...

Categories: Awards, Community / Education

Topics: electrocatalysts, Goldwater, nanoparticles, nanotechnology

World’s fastest multiframe digital X-ray camera created at Sandia

June 2, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An adversary who steps inside a boxer’s sense of rhythm may land a punch the boxer never saw coming. A similar problem faces physicists struggling to achieve laboratory-scale nuclear fusion: A rogue event occurring between successively monitored images may knock an otherwise promising experiment off-kilter without anyone...

Categories: Nanotechnology, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: CCD cameras, HED, high energy density, inertial confinement fusion, NIF, NRL, plasma, pulsed power, University of Rochester, UXI, X-ray imager, Z, Z-Beamlet

First women join Sandia hiring program for combat-injured veterans

May 26, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two young women, one disabled by a mortar blast in Afghanistan and the other injured in several battles while helping women in Baghdad, are the first two women veterans in Sandia National Laboratories’ Wounded Warrior Career Development Program (WWCDP). The WWCDP specializes in hiring disabled combat veterans...

Categories: HR / Personnel, Military / Defense

Topics: Army, disabilities, disabled veterans, hiring, veteran, women, wounded, Wounded Warrior, WWCDP

From the Navajo Reservation to Sandia Labs: Health-care pioneer starts new career

May 25, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When Arthur Vall-Spinosa got out of medical school in the 1960s, all the doctors were being drafted. He had a choice between the Army and the Indian Health Service, and the decision was easy. “I had thought about and wanted to work with Native Americans,” he said....

Categories: HR / Personnel

Topics: health care, Indian Health Service, medical director, national labs, Navajo Reservation, physician, pulmonology

Precise atom implants in silicon provide a first step toward practical quantum computers

May 24, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has taken a first step toward creating a practical quantum computer, able to handle huge numbers of computations instantaneously. Here’s the recipe: A “donor” atom propelled by an ion beam is inserted very precisely in microseconds into an industry-standard silicon substrate. The donor atom...

Categories: Computing, Nanotechnology, Physics

Topics: quantum computing, quantum dots, qubits, silicon, spin

Thin film work is poster child for getting research and development to industry

May 19, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Paul Vianco sees his work on thin films as a poster child for the way research and development based on nuclear weapons work can boost U.S. industry.Since the 1970s, laboratories researchers have taken studies ori…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: high-reliability electronics, hybrid microcircuits, LTCC, thin films

Livermore educators win Sandia Excellence in Teaching awards

May 18, 2016 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Transitional kindergarten teacher Heather Dion received a Sandia National Laboratories Excellence in Teaching Award for her innovative use of technology in her classroom. (Photo courtesy of Livermore Valley Joint Unified School …

Categories: Community / Education

Topics: education, Livermore Valley Education Foundation, Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District, Sandia National Laboratories, STEM education

Lessons from cow eyes: The long-term impacts of studying cornea biomechanics

May 17, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Nature has had millennia to optimize biomaterials for useful properties, from lightweight strength to walking on smooth, vertical surfaces. Mother-of-pearl, spider silk, cholla wood “skeletons” and gecko feet are all good examples of nature’s brilliant materials engineering. The study of gecko feet spurred research into dry nano-adhesives,...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: basic research, biomechanics, cornea, cows, eyes, glaucoma, Lasik, materials science, research

Sandia develops autoignition model designed for efficient, accurate engine simulations

May 12, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a model for how diesel engines autoignite that should lead to increased engine efficiency and a better understanding of how pollutants form.[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="250"] Sandia N…

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Transportation

Sandia’s California site invites community to 60th anniversary celebration

May 11, 2016, Media Advisory • LIVERMORE, Calif. –Sixty years ago, the Giants played baseball in New York and the Athletics in Kansas City, Dwight Eisenhower was president and Sandia National Laboratories opened its California site in the city of Livermore, which at the time had a population of under 10…

Categories: Community / Education, Cybersecurity, Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Nuclear Weapons, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: 60th Anniversary, 60th Anniversary Community Event, additive manufacturing, algae, Altergy, Bankhead Theater, California Fuel Cell Partnership, Combustion Research Facility, cybersecurity, Explosive Destruction System, Fuel Cell Mobile Light, Jill Hruby, Livermore, Marianne Walck, National Security talks, Sandia California, Sandia National Laboratories, SpinDx

Sandia plasma-materials researcher wins DOE Early Career Award

May 10, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Robert Kolasinski has received a $2.5 million, five-year Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science to support his work on how intense fusion plasmas interact wit…

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: California Institute of Technology, Early Career Research Program, fusion, fusion energy, fusion reactors, Office of Science, plasma

‘Cold War Warriors:’ Sandia’s decades in nuclear weapons

May 9, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories video producer Myra Buteau swept a hand toward the top shelf of a bookcase stuffed with black cases of high-definition tapes. The biggest challenge in telling the story of Sandia’s years of above-ground and underground nuc…

Categories: History, Nuclear Weapons

Topics: documentary, field testing, history, nuclear weapons

Sandia National Laboratories video producer Myra Buteau interviewed more than 40 people who spent their careers in above-ground and underground nuclear weapons testing. The result is a documentary, "Cold War Warriors."

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