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...
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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...
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...
Always/Never: Sandia documentary tells story of nuclear weapons safety, security
June 15, 2015, Media Advisory • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Six active and retired Sandia National Laboratories employees gathered in 2011 at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque, New Mexico, around two B28 gravity bombs recovered from a 1966 nuclear accide…
Categories: Media advisories, Nuclear Weapons
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
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…
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RAPTOR turbulent combustion code selected for next-gen supercomputer readiness project
May 27, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — RAPTOR, a turbulent combustion code developed bySandia 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 Ene…
Categories: Awards, Transportation
High school girls honored for math, science achievements
May 21, 2015 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories vice president Marianne Walck, center, celebrates with Dublin High School student Alessia Stewart, one of 31 high school girls honored by Sandia for academic achievement in math and science. (Photo b…
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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...
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...
Categories: Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering
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....
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 diagn…
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
Starving cancer instead of feeding it poison
May 13, 2015 • Simulation offers hope of killing cancers without sickening patients ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A patent application for a drug that could destroy the deadly childhood disease known as acute lymphoblastic leukemia — and potentially other cancers as well — has been submitted by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, the University of...
Sandia director Hommert to retire
May 12, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia President and Laboratories Director Paul Hommert announced to employees today that he plans to retire in mid-summer, five years after becoming Sandia’s 13th director. Under Hommert’s leadership, Sandia has delivered on a wide variety of national security work and increased its already large economic and community...
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Tests with Sandia’s Davis gun aid B61-12 life extension effort
May 11, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three years of design, planning and preparation came down to a split second, a loud boom and an enormous splash in a successful impact test of hardware in the nose assembly of an unarmed, mock B61-12 nuclear bomb.The Sandia National Laboratories test al…
Categories: Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons
Pulsed-power physicist receives IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science award
May 5, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — William Stygar, manager of Sandia National Laboratories’ Advanced Accelerator Physics department, has been selected to receive the Erwin Marx Award by the Pulsed Power Science and Technology Committee of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society. The award’s previous recipients “are a who’s who of the leaders...
Categories: Awards, Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering
Nuclear power safety expert from Sandia elected to National Academy of Engineering
May 4, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A former Sandia National Laboratories senior scientist and nuclear safety expert who studied the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear power plant accidents during his more than 40-year career has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Dana Powers, who recently retired from...
Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water
Digital in-line holography helps researchers ‘see’ into fiery fuels
April 27, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Transportation accidents, such as trucks crashing on a highway or rockets failing on a launch pad, can create catastrophic fires. It’s important to understand how burning droplets of fuel are generated and behave in those extreme cases, so Sandia Nati…
Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering
Phonons, arise!
April 22, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Modern research has found no simple, inexpensive way to alter a material’s thermal conductivity at room temperature. That lack of control has made it hard to create new classes of devices that use phonons — the agents of thermal conductivity — rather than electrons or photons to...
Sandia, Purdue University sign memorandum of understanding to establish strategic alliance
April 16, 2015 • WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sandia National Laboratories and Purdue University today signed an extensive, five-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish a strategic alliance that seeks to solve science and technology problems of national importance. The document was signed by Sandia President and Laboratories Director Paul Hommert and Purdue President Mitch...
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Sandia mathematician named 2015 SIAM fellow
April 15, 2015 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories mathematician Tamara Kolda was named a 2015 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. (Photo courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution…
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Hongyou Fan chosen for prestigious lecture on creating nanomaterials
April 2, 2015, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Hongyou Fan has been selected by the Materials Research Society (MRS) and the Kavli Foundation to deliver the 2015 Fred Kavli Distinguished Lecture in Nanoscience. Fan is the first lecturer identified with a national laboratory to be so honored. “I am glad that...
Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering
Twistact and Optimization of Building Efficiency projects chosen for DOE’s LabCorps
April 1, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Twistact and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Optimization of Building Efficiency projects were selected today as the Livermore Valley Site’s participants in the Energy Department’s LabCorps pilot program. “This program underscores the value of the partnership between Sandia Livermore, Lawrence Livermore and i-GATE to...
MESA complex starts largest production series in its history
March 25, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has begun making silicon wafers for three nuclear weapon modernization programs, the largest production series in the history of its Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications complex.MESA’s silicon fab in October …
Categories: Nuclear Weapons
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