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Laminar-flow cleanroom inventor honored posthumously by National Inventors Hall of Fame

March 4, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The inventor of the modern cleanroom, Willis Whitfield, will be honored posthumously by the National Inventors Hall of Fame for a technology that revolutionized manufacturing in electronics and pharmaceuticals, made hospital operating rooms safer and advanced space exploration. Whitfield, the son of Texas cotton farmers who became...
Willis Whitfield

Sandia Labs tops $6 million in United Way donations

February 27, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories employees and retirees in 2013 increased donations to the United Way of Central New Mexico by 8.2 percent over the previous year, giving $6,050,426 to the charitable organization. “This level of generosity is astounding,” said Kelly Westlake, Sandia’s 2013 Employee Caring Program campaign chair....
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Portable hydrogen fuel cell unit to provide green, sustainable power to Honolulu port

February 25, 2014 • Deployment project builds on earlier study’s optimistic results LIVERMORE, Calif.— Clean hydrogen power that’s expected to lower emissions and reduce energy consumption will be coming to the Port of Honolulu in 2015 after the completion of a new fuel cell technology de…

Economic impact report spotlights Sandia’s commitment to business

February 24, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories spent roughly $975 million on goods and services in fiscal year 2013 and New Mexico businesses were awarded more than $420 million, or 43 percent, of the total, according to the labs’ latest economic impact report. U.S. small businesses received nearly $500 million in...

Sandia’s Greg White chosen as a New Face of Engineering 2014

February 20, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia engineer Greg White has been chosen as one of the 2014 New Faces of Engineering, a recognition program that highlights the work of engineers ages 30 and younger.The award is sponsored by the National Engineers Week Foundation, now the DiscoverE F…

Agreement lets Sandia, UNM staff work side-by-side

February 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has launched a new kind of collaboration designed to strengthen its research bonds with the University of New Mexico (UNM). “This is another sign of the close and deepening partnership between two of the pre-eminent research institutions in the state,” Sandia Vice President and...

Threat reduction: Hruby leads Sandia effort to counter weapons of mass destruction

February 14, 2014, Media Advisory • Sandia Labs vice president to speak at AAAS annual meeting CHICAGO, Ill. — Threats of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction don’t seem as imminent today as they did after terrorists flew hijacked planes into the first World Trade Center and the Pentagon and crashed in a Pennsylvania field, but...
Jill Hruby

Computer power clicks with geochemistry

January 28, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is developing computer models that show how radioactive waste interacts with soil and sediments, shedding light on waste disposal and how to keep contamination away from drinking water. “Very little is known about the fundamental chemistry and whether contaminants will stay in soil or...

Black Engineer of the Year honoree inspires youth to excel in STEM

January 20, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — There’s more to receiving a Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) award than being a winner, says Aaron Brundage of Sandia National Laboratories. “The intent of the award is to provide guidance to young people to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM),” he says....

Sandia conducts first impact test in years of B61 nonnuclear components

January 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A ground-penetrating bomb, minus its nuclear components, rammed through a target at the remote Coyote Canyon test range last month in Sandia National Laboratories’ first such rocket-driven impact test in seven years. Engineers said the Sandia componen…

Fusion instabilities lessened by unexpected effect

January 9, 2014 • Control of widely recognized distortion may allow greater output at Sandia’s Z machine ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A surprising effect created by a 19th century device called a Helmholtz pair offers clues about how to achieve controlled nuclear fusion at Sandia National Laboratories’ powerful Z machine. A Helmholz coil produces a...

California educators win Sandia Excellence in Teaching awards

December 20, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Sandia National Laboratories’ Livermore, Calif., site presented two local teachers with Excellence in Teaching Awards at the regular meeting of the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District’s Board of Education on Dec. 10. Terry Greenaway, a sci…

N.M. Safety Professional of the Year awarded to Sandia Labs employee

December 19, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories employee has been named New Mexico Safety Professional of the Year for her expertise in the safety profession, including working with Sandia researchers to make their labs as safe as possible. Terri Wallis, an environment, safety and security professional who joined Sandia in...
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Wallis

Sandia to demonstrate robotics capabilities at 2013 DARPA Robotics Challenge Expo

December 18, 2013, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Engineers from Sandia National Laboratories will demonstrate real-world robotics successes at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials 2013 Expo this week in Florida. The challenge is focused on human-scaled robots that assist in humanitarian aid and disaste…
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Sandia Labs' Gemini Scout Robot

Pioneering path to electrical conductivity in ‘Tinkertoy’ materials to appear in Science

December 9, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Sandia National Laboratories researchers have devised a novel way to realize electrical conductivity in metal-organic framework (MOF) materials, a development that could have profound implications for the future of electronics, sensors, energy conversion…

Engineer honored for contributions to precision strike systems

December 4, 2013 • Advanced Hypersonic Weapon work caps Sandia Labs honoree’s career ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The chief engineer of Conventional Prompt Global Strike programs at Sandia National Laboratories has been honored with a national award for his outstanding contributions to precision strike systems. Gary Polansky, an engineer in Sandia’s Flight Systems department, won...
Categories: Awards, Military / Defense
Polansky

Combustion chemist to be awarded Polanyi Medal for pioneering work at Sandia Labs

November 26, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Sandia National Laboratories combustion chemist Craig Taatjes, whose groundbreaking work on Criegee intermediates has provided scientific insight into hydrocarbon combustion and atmospheric chemistry, has been selected to receive the prestigious Polanyi …

American Indian group names Sandia engineer 2014 Professional of the Year

November 19, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Randy McKee’s passion is engineering excellence. “I’m a process guy,” says the Cherokee Nation member. “I always put that first in anything I do.” Close behind is his desire to help young people become professional engineers. McKee has spent countless hours mentoring in minority recruitment, graduate and...

Improved ranking test for supercomputers to be released by Sandia

November 15, 2013, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Mike Heroux has helped craft a new benchmark that more accurately measures the power of modern supercomputers for scientific and engineering applications. Heroux collaborated with the creator of the widely used LINPACK benchmark, Jack Dongarra, and his colleagues at the University of Tennessee...
Categories: Computing
Mike Heroux

Sandia’s Katherine Guzman receives national Hispanic award for technical contributions

October 31, 2013 • [caption id="attachment_8051" align="alignright" width="239"] Sandia's Katherine Guzman, who was recently named a HENAAC 2013 Luminary honoree. (Photo by Dino Vournas) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.[/caption]LIVERMORE, Calif.— The Hispanic Engineer Na…
Katherine Guzman
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