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City resilience: Sandia analyzes effects of rising sea levels in Norfolk
March 28, 2016, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In Norfolk, Virginia, an East Coast city that’s home to the world’s largest naval station and important seaports, catastrophic flooding could damage more than homes and roads. A new study from Sandia National Laboratories assesses how much the city, its region and the nation would suffer in...
Categories: Climate Security, Homeland security
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Chinese nuclear security center opens with help from Sandia Labs
March 24, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) Principal Deputy Administrator Madelyn Creedon, Sandia National Laboratories President and Labs Director Jill Hruby and other experts and international guests joined with leaders of China on March 18 to commission the Chinese Center of Excellence (COE)...
Categories: Nonproliferation, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Jill Hruby

Lighting up disease-carrying mosquitoes
March 21, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Mosquitoes are deadly efficient at spreading disease. Despite vaccines and efforts to eradicate the pesky insects, they continue to infect humans with feared diseases like Zika virus, malaria and West Nile virus.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="…
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Mentoring café a forum for Sandia researchers to spark girls’ interest in STEM careers
March 12, 2016, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Albuquerque middle school and high school girls will receive speed mentoring from influential female leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at Sandia National Laboratories’ first STEM Mentoring Café on Saturday, March 12, at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History. STEM Mentoring Café is...
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Girls in STEM

Asian-American engineer at Sandia receives national honor
March 9, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories engineer Tian Ma, whose research helps deter nuclear proliferation, is the 2016 Most Promising Asian American Engineer of the Year (AAEOY). He will be honored in a ceremony March 12 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The prestigious AAEOY awards are a National Engineers Week...
Categories: Awards, Military / Defense
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Tian Ma

Interactive map shows thousands of Sandia Labs collaborations across U.S.
March 3, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories signed more than 5,000 U.S. partnership agreements in the past five years touching every state in the country, and has created an online map that brings them to life. “The map illustrates the amazing breadth of work Sandia does with industrial, university, government and...
Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Suicide bomb detector moves forward with Sandia engineer’s help
February 18, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On the chilling list of terrorist tactics, suicide bombing is at the top. Between 1981 and 2015, an estimated 5,000 such attacks occurred in more than 40 countries, killing about 50,000 people. The global rate grew from three a year in the 1980s to one a month...
Categories: Homeland security, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Ice sheet modeling of Greenland, Antarctica helps predict sea-level rise
February 11, 2016 • Sandia Labs research part of five-year multi-partner project titled Predicting Ice Sheet and Climate Evolution at Extreme Scales (PISCEES) LIVERMORE, Calif. — The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will make a dominant contribution to 21st century sea-level rise if current…
Categories: Climate Security, Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Sandia Labs takes home three national tech transfer awards
February 4, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) 2016 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for a decontamination product that neutralizes chemical and biological agents and for software that helps emergency responders disable improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Business development specialist Bianca Thayer was named Outstanding Technology...
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Nondestructive testing: Sandia looks inside composites
February 1, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researcher David Moore holds a rectangle of hard carbon composite material, smooth with a faint woven pattern on its surface. The sample shows normal wear and tear until he turns it over to reveal a circular impact mark with cracks radiating from it.The…
Categories: Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Sandia National Laboratories technologist Andrew Lentfer passes a roller probe over a composite as researcher David Moore checks data on a screen. The nondestructive testing technique sends sound waves into the composite material, returning data with each swipe of the roller probe.

Enormous blades could lead to more offshore energy in U.S.
January 28, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new design for gigantic blades longer than two football fields could help bring offshore 50-megawatt (MW) wind turbines to the United States and the world. Sandia National Laboratories’ research on the extreme-scale Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotor (SUMR) is funded by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced...
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Todd Griffith

Sandia Labs spending, economic impact up in 2015
January 21, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories spent roughly $983 million on goods and services in fiscal year 2015, up nearly $21 million from the previous year, and New Mexico businesses received more than $381 million, or 39 percent of the total, according to the labs’ latest economic impact report. U.S....
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Sandia Labs playing key role in grid modernization
January 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is leading the Security and Resilience area of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium (GMLC) and bringing its strong research capability in grid modernization to help the nation modernize its power grid. The consortium includes scientists and engineers from across 14...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy
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Unique phononic filter could revolutionize signal processing systems
January 12, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A unique filtering technology that combines light and sound waves on a single chip is expected to better detect radar and communications frequencies. “We have developed a powerful signal filtering technology that could revolutionize signal processing systems that rely solely on conventional electronics,” said Patrick Chu, manager...
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Charles Reinke

Thor’s hammer to crush materials at 1 million atmospheres
January 5, 2016 • Sophisticated features may influence eventual Z-machine rebuildALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new Sandia National Laboratories accelerator called Thor is expected to be 40 times more efficient than Sandia’s Z machine, the world’s largest and most powerful pulsed-power accelerat…
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