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…
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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…
Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research
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...
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…
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation
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
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
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...
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
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...
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
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
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,...
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…
‘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
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...
Categories: Military / Defense, Renewable energy
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...
Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Topics: business, economic impact, energy, partnerships, PV, renewable energy, RTCs, solar, solar electricity, tech transfer
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…
Categories: Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering
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...
Topics: electrochromic, electromagnetic waves, nanodots, NIST, pixels, plasmons, polaritons, polymers, television, TV
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...
Topics: business, collaboration, CRADA, economic development, partnerships, R&D, small business, tech transfer
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...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy
Computer scientist named fellow of Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
April 12, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories senior scientist Cynthia Phillips has been named a 2016 fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for her contributions to the theory and applications of combinatorial optimization.SIAM, which announ…
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