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Lessons from Fukushima
August 16, 2016 • Sandia helps industry learn from Japanese reactor accident ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. –When you’re an operator or engineer at a nuclear power plant, there are things you want to know long before you’re faced with an emergency. Reactor safety experts from Sandia National Laboratories and elsewhere are sharing lessons learned in Japan’s...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Researchers at Sandia, Northeastern develop method to study critical HIV protein
August 3, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – More than 36 million people worldwide, including 1.2 million in the U.S., are living with an HIV infection. Today’s anti-retroviral cocktails block how HIV replicates, matures and gets into uninfected cells, but they can’t eradicate the virus. Mike Kent, a researcher in Sandia National Laboratories’ Biological and...
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Mike Kent with specially designed Languir trough.

Sandia researcher wins high-voltage award
August 2, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Awards arrive at different levels of intensity, but no one can deny that Sandia National Laboratories researcher Mark Savage has won the highest voltage prize of all — the IEEE William G. Dunbar Award — for work achieved at extremely high voltage. Asked why he was selected...
Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Physics, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Mark Savage

Sandia physicist Jim Bailey wins major physics award for 10-year study of the sun
July 28, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — By testing bits of iron at the temperature of the sun, Sandia National Laboratories physicist Jim Bailey and his team have provided key data to improve the Standard Solar Model, widely used by astrophysicists to help model the behavior of stars. For this work, Bailey will receive...
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Sandia celebrates 30 years of STEM program for local students
July 27, 2016, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Since 1986, Sandia National Laboratories has helped more than 3,000 middle and high school students get involved in fun, hands-on science and engineering activities and explore a variety of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers. That 30-year milestone will be celebrated July 29 with former students,...
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A student works on an HMTech project. HMTech began in 1986 as an after-school program at Albuquerque's Career Enrichment Center.

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 similar to that of a...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science
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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...
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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 student who demonstrates exemplary academic achievements and leadership....
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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...
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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...
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Theresa Carson

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. “Sandia’s primary mission is to assure an ‘always/never’ operating condition for nuclear weapons,” said Larry...
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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...
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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. Doerry is one of 32 new fellows honored this year by SPIE, an international society for optics and photonics established in 1955...
Categories: Awards, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering
Armin Doerry

Sandia researchers discover mechanism for Rift Valley fever virus infection
June 16, 2016 • Virus uses known cancer pathway LIVERMORE, Calif. — Viruses can’t live without us — literally. As obligate parasites, viruses need a host cell to survive and grow. Scientists are exploiting this characteristic by developing therapeutics that close off pathways necessary for viral infection, essentially stopping pathogens in their tracks. Rift...
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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...
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Melissa Teague

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...
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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. They are working on low-temperature gasoline combustion (LTGC) operating strategies for affordable, high-efficiency engines that will meet...
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation
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Isaac Ekoto

High school girls recognized for math, science accomplishments
June 7, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. – Celeste Rohlfing, chief operating officer at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), presented Sandia National Laboratories’ 25th annual Math and Science Awards to 28 young women from San Francisco Bay Area high schools. Rohlfing, a chemist at Sandia for 11 years, was one of...
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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...
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Julian A. Vigil

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...
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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...
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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....
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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
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Meenakshi Singh

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 originally performed to support the weapons program and...
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Livermore educators win Sandia Excellence in Teaching awards
May 18, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A recent knock on the classroom doors of three Livermore teachers brought a welcome surprise — the news that Heather Dion, Donna Lee and Amanda Johnston had won the Sandia National Laboratories Excellence in Teaching Award. Given annually to teachers in the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School...
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