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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…
Rift Valley fever virus

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
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...

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…
Isaac Ekoto

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…

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...
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...
Ultrafast camera

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....
Categories: HR / Personnel

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...
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 ori…

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
Sandia award

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,...
Brad Boyce with load frame

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…

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…
Robert Kolasinski

Marine Corps teams with Sandia on microgrids and renewable energy planning

May 5, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Marine Corps are the first boots on the ground in a crisis. On the front lines, they must be able to power up securely without plugging into utilities. They require nothing less than completely reliable and cost-effective energy independence. Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories are...
solar portable system

Sandia Labs tapped again to lead national solar evaluation centers

May 3, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won a three-year renewal of a Department of Energy contract to manage the U.S. Regional Test Centers (RTCs), a network of five sites across the country where industry can assess the performance, reliability and economic viability of solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies. The program currently...

Sandia dial-a-fire test complex ignites huge blaze

April 28, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Though researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories Thermal Test Complex study a variety of fires, they focus on those that rotate rather than burn in place. Whirls generate much higher heat fluxes than non-rotational fires.Massive flames billow from…

Ingenious method enables sharper flat-panel displays at lower energy costs

April 26, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A perpetual quest of  manufacturers and viewers is for ever-brighter colors and better images for flat-panel displays built from less expensive materials that also use less electricity. An intriguing method discovered by Sandia National Laboratories researcher Alec Talin and collaborators at the Center for Nanoscale Science and...
Electrochromic

CRADA boom sets records, forges ties at Sandia Labs

April 21, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories entered into a vast array of new Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA) in the past three years, bringing dozens of new partners to the labs. “This is a great mechanism for getting national laboratory technology into the private sector,” said Sandia CRADA specialist...

U.S. rooftops get a thumbs-up for solar after Sandia testing

April 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Most U.S. rooftops in good repair can take the weight of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. That’s the conclusion of a three-year study by a research team led by Sandia National Laboratories. “There is a misperception in the building industry that existing residential rooftops lack the strength to...
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