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Super plants need super ROOTS
February 28, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Agriculture consumes about 80 percent of all U.S. water. Making fertilizers uses 1 to 2 percent of all the world’s energy each year.[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories' Ronen Polsky, left, Ron Manginell, center, …
Categories: Biology
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Ronen Polsky, Ron Manginell, and Philip Miller hold tiny sensors surrounded by a warehouse of plants.

Exploring the evolution of nuclear deterrence through interviews, historical footage
February 28, 2017, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories explores the evolution of nuclear deterrence in a new documentary that combines modern and historical footage with a wide range of interviews.On Deterrence features interviews with former secretaries of defense, general offi…
Categories: Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons
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Sandia intern, mentor win chemical society award
February 24, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories student intern Julian A. Vigil and researcher Timothy N. Lambert captured a 2017 American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award for Undergraduate Research. Vigil will receive a financial stipend and a plaque; his mentor Lambert will receive a plaque for permanent display at Sandia....
Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Julian Vigil and Tim Lambert

Sandia researcher wins early-career computer modeling award
February 23, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Salvatore Campione of Sandia National Laboratories has been awarded the 2017 Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Early Career Award “for innovative contributions to the electromagnetic modeling of complex systems and structures, from microwave to optical frequencies.” The ACES Early Career Award honors achievements and contributions in the...
Categories: Awards
Salvatore Campione

Asian-American engineer sees prestigious national award as Sandia ‘career achievement’
February 20, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Ireena Erteza has engineering in her blood. She’s had a love for it as far back as she can remember. “My father showed me what it is to be a scholar and an engineer,” she said. “He was playful and creative. He gave me free rein to play...
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Erteza

Energy work brings Sandia Labs two national technology transfer awards
February 15, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) national 2017 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for a heat-exchanger technology that makes power generation more efficient. And Sandia won the FLC’s State and Local Economic Development Recognition award for its work on the New Jersey TRANSITGRID...
Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Sandia adds augmented reality to training toolbox
February 6, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When you hear the term “serious gaming” you might envision professional eSports competitors gearing up for a League of Legends World Championship in front of tens of thousands of live fans and tens of millions of streaming fans. At Sandia National Laboratories, serious gaming means something else...
Categories: Homeland security
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Tam Le and Todd Noel use augmented reality

Two Sandia researchers receive Presidential Early Career awards
February 3, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia researchers Stephanie Hansen and Alan Kruizenga are among 102 scientists and engineers to receive the 2017 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE, established in 1996, is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the...
Categories: Awards, Biology, Renewable energy
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Stephanie Hansen

Sandia receives ENERGISE award to study how to help utilities better manage power systems
January 31, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has been awarded a three-year, $2.5 million award to help utility companies better visualize, manage and protect power systems as they include increasing numbers of distributed energy resources (DER) such as wind and solar. The project creates open-source advanced distribution management system (ADMS) algorithms...
Categories: Awards, Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Sandia’s solar glitter closer to market with new licensing agreement
January 31, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque company founded by a Sandia National Laboratories scientist-turned-entrepreneur has received a license for a “home-grown” technology that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. The licensing agreement was signed Jan. 23 between mPower Technology Inc. and Sandia for microsystems enabled photovoltaics (MEPV)....
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Designing diagnostic labs that are safe, specific and sustainable
January 24, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An outbreak is like a wildfire; the sooner it’s caught, the easier it is to fight, said Vips Halkjaer-Knudsen, a lab design expert at Sandia National Laboratories. To detect an outbreak early — whether Ebola, Zika or influenza — healthcare workers must have a local, trustworthy diagnostic...
Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Homeland security
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Bill Arndt in biosafety demonstration lab

Small, NM businesses key factor in Sandia’s 2016 economic impact
January 12, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories spent more than $1 billion on goods and services in fiscal year 2016, up more than $56 million from the previous year, and New Mexico businesses received more than $381 million, or 37 percent of the total, according to the labs’ latest economic impact...
Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Kirk McWethy, owner and president of SDV Construction Inc. of Albuquerque, has been a Sandia contractor since 2006. His service-disabled veteran-owned small business has 44 employees and has completed numerous construction projects at the Labs, including an addition to Bldg. 905 shown in this photo. “I love being a Sandia contractor because it is a true partnership. Both sides work to make the other successful,” says McWethy, an Air Force veteran. “The people at Sandia want us to succeed and continue to grow.” (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Grand Canyon rim-to-rim hikers provide data for Sandia study of health, performance
January 4, 2017 • LIVERMORE, Calif. – It takes a special type of person to hike from one rim of the Grand Canyon to the other in a single day. These motivated, resilient athletes now are helping researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM) to collect an…
Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering
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