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New vice president appointed to oversee defense research at Sandia Labs
March 9, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — James Peery was appointed vice president for defense research to lead Sandia National Laboratories’ longstanding work in this national security area. Peery had been director of Sandia’s Information Systems Analysis Center and was responsible for the research and development of new information technologies for national security organizations....
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Asian American engineering honorees credit families for success
February 19, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two scientists at Sandia National Laboratories thought back to their roots when they won Asian American Engineer of the Year (AAEOY) awards: Somuri Prasad to a village in India and Patrick Feng to a refuge in America. Prasad’s father helped found the first school in his native...
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Sandia Labs BEYA winner listened and excelled
February 16, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Growing up in Wichita, Kansas, Jon Madison had a strong sense of who he was and where he was going. “I wasn’t an average kid,” he said. “Whatever my peers were doing, chances are I wasn’t doing it. After school and weekends I helped with my family’s...
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Sandia Labs anthrax detector takes home national technology transfer award
February 12, 2015 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories scientists, from left, Jason Harper, Melissa Finley and Thayne Edwards with a BaDx anthrax detector. The three were recognized by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for their work in commercializing t…
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Direct measurement of key molecule will increase accuracy of combustion models
February 5, 2015 • Sandia National Laboratories chemist John Savee, left, identified cycloheptadiene as the best fuel for creating a detectable QOOH, and Sandia computational expert Ewa Papajak, right, and her adviser, Judit Zádor, used quantum c…
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The quest for efficiency in thermoelectric nanowires
February 2, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Efficiency is big in the tiny world of thermoelectric nanowires.Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories say better materials and manufacturing techniques for the nanowires could allow carmakers to harvest power from the heat wasted by exhaust system…
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Report spotlights Sandia’s impact on New Mexico economy
January 15, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories spent nearly a billion dollars on goods and services in fiscal year 2014 and New Mexico businesses received more than 38 percent of the total, according to the labs’ latest economic impact report. Of the total of $961.8 million Sandia spent last year, New...
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‘Iron Sun’ is not a rock band, but a key to how stars transmit energy
January 6, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Working at temperatures matching the interior of the sun, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine have been able to determine experimentally, for the first time in history, iron’s role in inhibiting energy transmission from the center of the sun to near the edge of its radiative...
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Linde, Sandia partnership looks to expand hydrogen fueling network
December 17, 2014 • LIVERMORE, CALIF. — Sandia National Laboratories and industrial gas giant Linde LLC have signed an umbrella Cooperative Research & Development Agreement (CRADA) that is expected to accelerate the development of low-carbon energy and industrial technologies, beginning w…
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Getting bot responders into shape
December 16, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is tackling one of the biggest barriers to the use of robots in emergency response: energy efficiency. Through a project supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Sandia is developing technology that will dramatically improve the endurance of legged robots, helping them...
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Sandia, University of Illinois sign research agreement
December 11, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have signed an extensive, five-year agreement that aims to solve science and technology problems of national importance. The enhanced partnership has three principal goals: solve big problems, sustain and engage human capital and accelerate technology adoption. The...
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Turning biological cells to stone improves cancer and stem cell research
December 8, 2014 • ‘Zombie’ method also hardens biostructures for mass production ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Changing flesh to stone sounds like the work of a witch in a fairy tale. But a new technique to transmute living cells into more permanent materials that defy decay and can endure high-powered probes is widening research opportunities...
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Two Sandia leaders elected AAAS Fellows
December 1, 2014 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="180"] Gil Herrera, director of Sandia’s Microsystems Science, Technology and Components Center and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. (Photo courtesy of Sandia National Labs) Click on the thumbnail fo…
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State safety award goes to Sandia engineer
November 26, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Luis G. Amezcua, a surveillance assessment engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, began his safety career in Mexico helping improve safety standards in the construction industry. His career has followed an interesting trajectory. Amezcua received the New Mexico Safety Professional of the Year award from the American Society...
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Starting point for suppliers at Sandia is not a recording
November 25, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The first voice people hear when they call Sandia National Laboratories for information about becoming a supplier is the real thing. “I was surprised to talk to a live person about how to do business with Sandia,” said Danny Ruiz of Mazda Computing in Albuquerque. “You don’t...
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Electric Car Challenge sparks students’ STEM interest
November 20, 2014, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Aspiring automotive engineers from 27 middle schools across New Mexico will compete in the New Mexico Electric Car Challenge on Saturday, Nov. 22, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Highland High School gymnasium in Albuquerque. Forty-six teams will partic…
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Sandia Science & Technology Park fuels economy with jobs, tax revenue
November 19, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The $2.3 billion worth of economic activity generated by the Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) since it was established in 1998 has produced more than $89 million in tax revenue for the state of New Mexico and $12.9 million for the city of Albuquerque in the...
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Sandia to ink MOU with New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
November 19, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories President and Labs Director Paul Hommert will sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science’s executive director Charles Walter and foundation executive director Jotina Trussell at the museum’s Start Up exhibit Friday, Nov. 21, at 11:45...
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Sandia’s Cooperative Monitoring Center promotes global security for 20 years
November 18, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Cooperative Monitoring Center is celebrating its 20th anniversary of promoting the principles of cooperation and the value of technology in support of international security agreements. Since it was established in 1994, the CMC has worked to address critical security issues by bringing together policy...
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Sandia releases interface to help standardize supercomputer power and energy systems
November 11, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — To help moderate the energy needs of increasingly power-hungry supercomputers, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have released an application programming interface (API) with the goal of standardizing measurement and control of power- and energy-relevant features for high-performance computing (HPC) systems. The High Performance Computing — Power API...
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The High Performance Computing -- Power Application Program Interface is intended to standardize and control power and energy features of high-performance computing systems.

From Vietnam with love: Sandia Labs retiree works to return wartime greetings
November 6, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — If you were, or know, a New Mexico Air National Guardsman stationed in Tuy Hoa,Vietnam, in 1968, Art Sena is looking for you. The reason goes back to a long-ago wish to make Christmas merrier for servicemen at war, and a long-lost box of film. Sena, a...
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