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Sandia wounded warriors discover they were united in battle years ago
July 11, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jason Shelton and John Bailon left a Sandia National Laboratories Military Support Committee meeting side by side, sharing stories of combat in Iraq. Bailon talked about a day in the summer of 2005 when his Marine unit was called to rescue a small Joint Special Operations team...
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Sandia wins three R&D 100 awards
July 8, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs — captured three R&D 100 Awards in this year’s contest. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers whom its editors and independent judging panels determine have developed the year’s...
Categories: Awards, Chemistry, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Materials Science, Military / Defense, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Improving the reliability and resiliency of Hoboken’s electric grid in aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
July 3, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia will help East Coast communities devastated by Hurricane Sandy boost the resiliency of their electric grids, so they can be better prepared to deal with natural disasters in the future. Sandia’s Energy Surety Design Methodology (ESDM) is a quantitative, risk-based assessment approach that has been applied...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy
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Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology Facility event
June 25, 2013, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories and Texas Tech University will host the commissioning of the DOE/Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) Facility on Tuesday, July 9, at the Reese Technology Center in Lubbock, Texas. The event will feature speakers from the U.S. Department of...
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia hosts annual Robot Rodeo
June 17, 2013, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories is hosting the seventh annual Western National Robot Rodeo and Capability Exercise, a lively and challenging five-day event that draws civilian and military bomb squad teams from across the country to see who can most effect…
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Robot Rodeo

High-impact Sandia physicist publishes technical, yet personal, memoir
June 6, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The swan song of retiring Sandia physicist Tom Sanford is in a technical, yet personal, memoir about experiments that changed the course of research at particle accelerators around the world. His experiments in the mid-1990s made the Z accelerator a more effective candidate to achieve peacetime fusion...
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Sandia National Laboratories hosts NATO visitors
May 10, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — NATO delegates toured Sandia National Laboratories during a three-day visit highlighting the labs' programs that support extended deterrence to U.S. allies, as well as broader national security programs ranging from homeland security to preventing the p…
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Physicist takes command of Air National Guard wing
May 6, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Clark Highstrete has walked two paths in his professional life. One went toward science and led to physics research at Sandia National Laboratories. The other went to the skies and a career as an Air Force pilot. Highstrete works in Sandia’s Quantum Information Sciences department and is...
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White House honors nurse for helping women veterans, children
April 29, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Michelle Racicot, a contract family nurse practitioner at Sandia National Laboratories, was one of 14 women recognized by first lady Michelle Obama at the White House as Champions of Change. The event during Women’s History Month honored women veterans who have made a major impact on the...
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Fertilizer that fizzles in a homemade bomb could save lives around the world
April 23, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A Sandia engineer who trained U.S. soldiers to avoid improvised explosive devices (IEDs) has developed a fertilizer that helps plants grow but can’t detonate a bomb. It’s an alternative to ammonium nitrate, an agricultural staple that is also the raw ingredient in most of the IEDs in...
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