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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...
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Susan Remke

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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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
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Bill Stygar

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...
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Dana Powers

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 National Laboratories researchers have developed 3-D measurement techniques...
Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering
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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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Purdue partnership

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
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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...
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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 began producing base wafers for Application-Specific Integrated Circuits for the B61-12 Life Extension...
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Sandia Labs tops $6.5 million in United Way donations
March 23, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories employees and retirees in 2014 increased donations to the United Way of Central New Mexico (UWCNM) by 8.2 percent over the previous year, giving $6,556,666 to the charitable organization. “Sandians are amazingly generous and recognize the community’s needs,” said Pam Catanach, who coordinates the...
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Sandia showcases biology breakthroughs available for licensing
March 19, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif.—Technologies developed in Sandia National Laboratories’ biosciences program could soon find their way into doctors’ offices — devices like wearable microneedles that continuously analyze electrolyte levels and a lab-on-a-disk that can test a drop of blood for 64 different diseases in minutes. At a recent seminar for potential investors...
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SpinDx

Iron rain fell on early Earth, new Z machine data supports
March 18, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine have helped untangle a long-standing mystery of astrophysics: why iron is found spattered throughout Earth’s mantle, the roughly 2,000-mile thick region between Earth’s core and its crust. At first blush, it seemed more reasonable that iron arriving from collisions between...
Categories: Materials Science, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy
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An artist's concept shows a celestial body about the size of our moon slamming at great speed into a body the size of Mercury.

Explosive Destruction System begins first stockpile project
March 17, 2015 • Unit will lead destruction of munitions at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot LIVERMORE, Calif. — This week the Explosive Destruction System (EDS), designed by Sandia National Laboratories for the U.S. Army, began safely destroying stockpile chemical munitions. The project to destroy 560 chemical munitions at the U.S. Army Pueblo...
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Tom Raber, Explosive Destruction System photo

Geophysicist Marianne Walck named vice president of Sandia’s California laboratory
March 12, 2015 • New role includes leadership of Energy and Climate program LIVERMORE, Calif.—Sandia National Laboratories has appointed Marianne Walck vice president of Sandia’s California laboratory. She replaces Steve Rottler, who will become the deputy director and executive vice president for National Security Programs. Both changes are effective March 6. “I am pleased...
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Marianne Walck

Sandia finds shared opportunities for natural gas and hydrogen fuel cell vehicle markets
March 10, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif.—Fueling stations that offer both hydrogen and natural gas could benefit distributors of both fuel types, says a new Sandia National Laboratories report, “Transitioning the Transportation Sector: Exploring the Intersection of Hydrogen Fuel Cell and Natural Gas Vehicles.” The report, from a workshop last fall supported by the Department...
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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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James Peery

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 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) 2015 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for a credit-card-size device that can detect bacteria that cause anthrax. BaDx (Bacillus anthracis Diagnostics) works in places with no power, refrigerated storage or laboratory equipment. It requires minimal or no...
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Direct measurement of key molecule will increase accuracy of combustion models
February 5, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers are the first to directly measure hydroperoxyalkyl radicals — a class of reactive molecules denoted as “QOOH” — that are key in the chain of reactions that controls the early stages of combustion. This breakthrough has generated data on QOOH reaction rates and...
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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 systems or lead to more efficient devices to cool computer chips....
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Sandia Labs names new vice president of Human Resources and Communications
January 28, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A human resources executive with more than 17 years of experience in a wide variety of human resources and communications disciplines is the new vice president of Human Resources and Communications at Sandia National Laboratories. Melonie Parker will be responsible for shaping Sandia’s strategies for staffing, recruiting,...
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Melonie Parker
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