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Service dog helps Wounded Warrior on the job at Sandia Labs

August 11, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For the first time, Sandia National Laboratories has welcomed a service dog to its New Mexico campus as a workplace accommodation for a veteran living with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Three years ago, Rob Mitchell rescued Hunni, a Rhodesian Ridgeback mix, from Animal Humane New Mexico as...

Categories: HR / Personnel, Military / Defense

Topics: Animal Humane, Paws and Stripes, service dog, veteran, Wounded Warrior

Warning Area in Arctic airspace to aid research and exploration

August 6, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A 700-mile-long airspace that stretches north from Oliktok Point — the northernmost point of Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay — to about 400 miles short of the North Pole has been put under the stewardship of Sandia National Laboratories by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Federal...

Categories: Climate Change, Energy / Environment / Water, Military / Defense

Topics: arctic, Arctic Shield, ARM, drones, Oliktok Point, restricted area, UAS, warning area

Hardware from old nuclear weapons systems becomes valuable teaching resource

July 30, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is preserving the history of nuclear weapons in hardware developed since the start of the nuclear era as a way to connect new generations of weapons engineers to the engineering work of past generations. “Tremendous amounts of knowledge are represented by this hardware, and...

Categories: Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: legacy hardware, nuclear weapons, stockpile, Weapon Intern Program

Sandia veterinarian helps make the world safer through livestock health and biosecurity

July 28, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dr. Melissa Finley’s credibility was on the line as she worked, surrounded by skeptics, to save the life of a dehydrated calf in rural Afghanistan. As a woman and a foreigner she had to earn the trust of the villagers she was trying to help. “They had...

Categories: Biology, Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: animal health, biological threats, biosafety, bioscience, biosecurity, infectious disease, laboratory security, veterinary medicine

Red and White Fleet going green

July 27, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — When it comes to environmental sustainability, Red and White Fleet president Tom Escher is all in. “Everyone is talking about reducing emissions by 20 percent, 40 percent or more,” he said. “I thought, ‘Why not do away with emissions altogether?’” Sandia National Laboratories, which recently signed a...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Transportation

Topics: business, clean fuel, collaboration, electric cars, emissions, ferries, hydrogen fuel cells, refueling, renewable energy

Whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on

July 22, 2015 • Sandia’s new vibration table promises different ways of testing ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It took decades for technology to catch up with the math David Smallwood worked out to control vibration table shakers. Smallwood, a retired Sandia National Laboratories researcher who consults at the labs, knew that shaking in all directions...

Categories: Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: nuclear weapons, tests, vibration table

Tracing the evolution of a drug-resistant pathogen

July 15, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — To fight a pathogen that’s highly resistant to antibiotics, first understand how it gets that way. Klebsiella pneumoniae strains that carry a particular enzyme are known for “their ability to survive any antibiotics you throw at them,” said Corey Hudson of Sandia National Laboratories in California. Using...

Categories: Biology, Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: antibiotics, bacteria, bioscience, genetic material, pathogen, resistance

Sandia, UNM ink pact to promote research, recruiting

July 13, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The nation’s largest national laboratory and New Mexico’s flagship university on Monday expanded their commitment to work together to help redefine the future of science and engineering for national security, partner on research and jointly recruit top researchers. Sandia National Laboratories President and Director Paul Hommert and...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: cyber security, nano, University of New Mexico, unm

Sandia pilot to assist small clean-energy companies

July 9, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) chose Sandia National Laboratories as one of five leads in a pilot that will give small, clean-energy companies access to national laboratory expertise and resources. Sandia will receive $2.75 million of DOE’s $20 million investment to launch the voucher pilot for...

Categories: Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, clean energy, collaboration, economic impact, national labs, renewable, small business, tech transfer

Sandia tamper-detecting seal is tough to fool

July 7, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A critical area of security is ensuring that something inside a container stays there. Sandia National Laboratories has made the job easier with an innovative technology that detects signs of tampering. “In our world, one advance by an adversary can make a security technology obsolete overnight,” said...

Categories: Cybersecurity, Homeland security, Nonproliferation, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, cargo, container, cybersecurity, Homeland security, sealing, tamper detection, tech transfer

Testing heats up at Sandia’s Solar Tower with high temperature falling particle receiver

July 1, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working to lower the cost of solar energy systems and improve efficiencies in a big way, thanks to a system of small particles. This month, engineers lifted Sandia’s continuously recirculating falling particle receiver to the top of the tower at the...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Topics: concentrating solar power, energy production, falling particle receiver, solar, solar tower, sunshot

Sandia’s Z machine receives funding aimed at fusion energy

June 29, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A two-year, $3.8 million award has been received by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) to hasten the day of low-cost, high-yield fusion reactions for energy purposes. High-yield means much more energy emerging from a fusion reaction than is put...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Physics, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: ARPA-E, laser, LLE, magLIF, plasma, pulsed power, University of Rochester, Z

Amplified light passes through the large tubes of Sandia National Laboratories’ Z-Beamlet laser, one of the most powerful in the world.

Sandia’s Z machine helps solve Saturn’s 2-billion-year age gap

June 26, 2015 • Research supports 80-year-old prediction ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Planets tend to cool as they get older, but Saturn is hotter than astrophysicists say it should be without some additional energy source. The unexplained heat has caused a two-billion-year discrepancy for computer models estimating Saturn’s age. “Models that correctly predict Jupiter to...

Categories: Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: astrophysics, computer simulations, helium, hydrogen, Jupiter, Saturn, space

New Sandia director will be first woman to lead national security lab

June 22, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jill M. Hruby today was named the next president and director of Sandia National Laboratories, the country’s largest national lab. She will be the first woman to lead a national security laboratory when she steps into her new role July 17. A Sandia staff member and manager...

Categories: Homeland security, HR / Personnel, Nonproliferation

Topics: director, executive, first female, first woman, WMD

New fog chamber provides testing options that could improve security cameras

June 17, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Fog can play a key role in cloaking military invasions and retreats and the actions of intruders. That’s why physical security experts seek to overcome fog, but it’s difficult to field test security cameras, sensors or other equipment in fog that is often either too thick or...

Categories: Homeland security, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: AFRL, Air Force Research Laboratory, atmospheric, fog, fog chamber, optical, optics, physical security, security cameras

Always/Never: Sandia documentary tells story of nuclear weapons safety, security

June 15, 2015, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ documentary, Always/Never: The Quest for Safety, Control & Survivability, showcases rare historical footage and interviews with a wide range of experts to describe how national security laboratories improved the safety and security of nuclear weapons from the dawn of the nuclear age to the...

Categories: Media advisories, Nuclear Weapons

Topics: deterrent, Global Zero, James Schlesinger, nuclear weapons, Robert McNamara, Scott Sagan

Computational mathematician at Sandia receives DOE’s Lawrence Award

June 11, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Pavel Bochev, a computational mathematician, has received an Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for his pioneering theoretical and practical advances in numerical methods for partial differential equations. “This is the most prestigious mid-career honor that the Department of Energy awards,” said Bruce Hendrickson, director...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: computing, cyclotron, math

Sandia, Georgia Institute of Technology form academic collaboration

June 9, 2015 • ATLANTA — Sandia National Laboratories and The Georgia Institute of Technology today signed a five-year memorandum of understanding (MOU), establishing a strategic collaboration that seeks to solve science and technology problems of national importance. Sandia President and Laboratories Director Paul Hommert and Georgia Tech President G. P. “Bud” Peterson signed...

Categories: Community / Education

Topics: Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech

RAPTOR turbulent combustion code selected for next-gen supercomputer readiness project

May 27, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — RAPTOR, a turbulent combustion code developed by Sandia National Laboratories mechanical engineer Joseph Oefelein, was selected as one of 13 partnership projects for the Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR). CAAR is a U.S. Department of Energy program located at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. It...

Categories: Awards, Transportation

Topics: Center for Accelerated Application Readiness, Joseph Oefelein, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, supercomputer, turbulent combustion

High school girls honored for math, science achievements

May 21, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. – Sandia National Laboratories has presented its annual Math and Science Awards to 31 girls from San Francisco Bay Area high schools, celebrating their academic accomplishments and potential. “I want to congratulate each of you for your academic excellence and encourage you to continue your passion for math...

Categories: Community / Education

Topics: awards, Dublin, education, high school, Lathrop, Livermore, Manteca, Pleasanton, Tracy

Sandia researcher Mark Taylor receives highest award from DOE Secretary

May 21, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Mark Taylor has received the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 2014 Secretary’s Honor Award — the department’s highest non-monetary employee recognition — for his work as chief computational scientist for DOE’s Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) executive council team. The award recognizes...

Categories: Climate Change, Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: climate, climate modeling, high performance computing, ocean, sea ice, supercomputing, uncertainty quantification

Chief Computational Scientist Mark Taylor

Sandia researchers first to measure thermoelectric behavior by ‘Tinkertoy’ materials

May 20, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers have made the first measurements of thermoelectric behavior by a nanoporous metal-organic framework (MOF), a development that could lead to an entirely new class of materials for such applications as cooling computer chips and cameras and energy harvesting. “These results introduce MOFs as...

Categories: Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: material science, materials, metal-organic framework, MOF

Sandia helps small security company thwart thieves

May 19, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — At a motorcycle shop on a busy city street, crooks devised an elaborate scheme to steal from the storage yard. They jumped the fence and unpacked some newly arrived bikes from crates. They used the crates to build a ramp and run the motorcycles over and out....

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, security, small business, tech transfer

Optical diagnostics researcher at Sandia wins DOE Early Career award

May 15, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Christopher Kliewer has won a $2.5 million, five-year Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science for his fundamental science proposal to develop new optical diagnostic tools to study interfacial combustion interactions that are major sources of...

Categories: Awards, Chemistry, Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: awards, chemistry, Christopher Kliewer, combustion chemistry, Combustion Research Facility, Early Career Research Program, energy, interfacial combustion interactions, Office of Science, optical diagnostic tools, soot formation

Robot Rodeo at Sandia Labs showcases bomb squad expertise

May 14, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bomb squads from across the country saddled up their robots and are duking it out at the ninth annual Western National Robot Rodeo and Capability Exercise at Sandia National Laboratories. The five-day event offers a challenging platform for civilian and military bomb squad teams to practice defusing...

Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: bomb squad, robot, Robot Rodeo, robotics, UAV, unmanned aerial vehicle

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