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Sandia, UCLA develop screening libraries to discover drug targets for viral infections
April 4, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — As headlines highlight the threat of viruses like Ebola and Zika, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have teamed up to discover and uncover the viral mechanisms of infection by creating screen…
Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Award-winning Sandia engineer traded sewing for a shot at science
March 31, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Pierrette Gorman built a successful career as a seamstress and tailor, working her way from bridal and clothing stores to owning a business in upstate New York. But she wanted more. “I wanted a college education and had a goal,” Gorman said. She wanted to be an...
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Sandia nanomaterials researcher Hongyou Fan elected MRS Fellow
March 29, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Hongyou Fan has been elected a fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS). Fewer than one in 500 MRS members are honored with the distinction. Fan is the fifth Sandian named an MRS fellow and the first elected since 2011. His nanotechnology work...
Categories: Awards, Nanotechnology
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Hongyou Fan

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 Change, 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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Small businesses to work with Sandia on clean technologies
March 10, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that it’s chosen seven small clean-energy businesses to work with Sandia National Laboratories to bring next-generation technologies to market faster. “Sandia is excited to help these companies commercialize their products and advance the clean-energy economy,” said Jackie Kerby Moore,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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Sandia Labs recruiter, scientist win Black Engineer of the Year awards
February 9, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two members of the Sandia National Laboratories staff are recipients of 2016 Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) awards. Ken Holley was honored for community service and Conrad James with a special recognition award. BEYA is a program of the national Career Communications Group, an advocate for...
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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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Algae raceway paves path from lab to real-world applications
February 2, 2016, Media Advisory • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] The new algae raceway testing facility at Sandia National Laboratories will help scientists advance laboratory research to real-world applications. Shown here is one of the three 1,000-liter ponds, outfitted with custom lighting…
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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...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Todd Griffith
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