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Los Alamos High School students headed to DOE National Science Bowl

February 16, 2013 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Los Alamos High School regional winners, left to Right: Willie Zhao, Aaron Bao, Kevin Gao, Alex Swart, Alex Wang and their coach, Kathy Boerigter. (Image courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories.) Click on the thumbnail …

Categories: Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering

Keeping tabs on the world’s dangerous chemicals

February 15, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – In the chemistry labs of the developing world, it’s not uncommon to find containers, forgotten on shelves, with only vague clues to their origins. The label, if there is one, is rubbed away.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Sandia…

Categories: Awards, Chemistry, Conferences / Symposia, Homeland security, Operations / Budget

Topics: AAAS, American Chemical Society, chemistry, national laboratories, Sandia, women in STEM

Sandia awards information technology contracts to three firms

February 13, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has issued three information technology contracts totaling $353 million over a potential term of seven years. The awards streamline IT contracting at the labs. “These contracts replace current IT contracts that are expiring,” said Chris Slater of the Sandia Procurement group. “We are integrating...

Categories: Awards, Computing, Operations / Budget

Topics: business, computer, computing, contracts, economic development, economic impact, information, IT, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, small business, technology

Scientists to explore need for, relevance of combustion engines at AAAS gathering

February 12, 2013 • Enhancements to combustion technology can still help with carbon reduction, oil savings issuesLIVERMORE, Calif.— The internal combustion engine has been the workhorse for transportation for more than a century, but Sandia National Laboratories researchers say there is stil…

Categories: Chemistry, Conferences / Symposia, Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia researcher looks for bad guys in cyberspace

February 11, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The weakest link in many computer networks is a gullible human.With that in mind, Sandia National Laboratories computer science researcher Jeremy Wendt wants to figure out how to recognize potential targets of nefarious emails and put them on their guar…

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: cybersecurity, national laboratories, Sandia

‘Zombie’ replica cells may outperform live ones as catalysts and conductors

February 7, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — “Zombie” mammalian cells that may function better after they die have been created by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM). The simple technique coats a cell with a silica solution to form a near-perfect replica of its structure. The process may...

Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: 3-D structures, carbon, catalysts, cells, nanoscopic, PNAS, silica, zombie

Disabled kids inspire musical instrument anyone can play

February 6, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Not everyone can play music. You need timing and rhythm, an ear for pitch and notes and an ability to interpret sheet music and symbols. You need physical coordination to apply those talents plus control of lungs, lips, arms and fingers to match the mec…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, computing, economic development, education, nanomaterials, national laboratories, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, research, Sandia, small business, tech transfer, technology

Sandia’s Paul Hommert named FLC Laboratory Director of the Year

February 4, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Paul Hommert has been named 2013 Laboratory Director of the Year by the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for his support of technology transfer activities at Sandia National Laboratories. The FLC said the award recognized the excellence of work during 2012 by Hommert, Sandia’s president and laboratories director,...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, director, DOE, economic development, flc, national laboratories, national labs, research, Sandia, small business, tech transfer, technology

Sandia Labs tops $5.5 million in United Way donations

February 4, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories employees and retirees in 2012 increased donations to the United Way of Central New Mexico by 17.1 percent over the previous year, giving $5,508,717 to the charitable organization. When it passed the $5 million mark, Sandia became the first company to donate that amount...

Categories: Community / Education, Operations / Budget

Topics: charitable, community, donations, economic impact, education, involvement, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, United Way

Report spotlights Sandia’s impact on New Mexico economy

February 1, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories spent roughly $900 million on goods and services in fiscal year 2012 and New Mexico businesses were awarded more than $400 million, or 45 percent, of the total, according to the labs’ latest economic impact report. U.S. small businesses received $472.7 million in Sandia...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic development, economic impact, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, small business

Study rebuts hypothesis that comet attacks ended 13,000-year-old Clovis culture

January 30, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Rebutting a speculative hypothesis that comet explosions changed Earth’s climate sufficiently to end the Clovis culture in North America about 13,000 years ago, Sandia lead author Mark Boslough and researchers from 14 academic institutions assert that other explanations must be found for the apparent disappearance. “There’s no...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: American Geophysical Union, asteroid, climate change, Clovis, comet, culture, Geoscience, green glass, national laboratories, Sandia, simulations, Tunguska

Technologist Richard Simpson: Helping solve Sandia’s unique problems

January 23, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia principal technologist Richard Simpson has filled a canyon with soap bubbles, shot photos of flaming liquefied natural gas from a helicopter, floated balloons hundreds of feet in the air to calibrate cameras, chopped out pieces of a Cape Canavera…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: General science

CTO Rottler named vice president of Sandia’s California laboratory

January 10, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif. – Sandia’s Chief Technology Officer Steve Rottler will become vice president of Sandia’s California laboratory on Feb. 1. He replaces Rick Stulen, who is retiring after 36 years at Sandia National Laboratories.In his new role, Rottler will lead Sandia…

Categories: Operations / Budget

Sandia airborne pods seek to trace nuclear bomb’s origins

January 9, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — If a nuclear device were to unexpectedly detonate anywhere on Earth, the ensuing effort to find out who made the weapon probably would be led by aircraft rapidly collecting airborne radioactive particles for analysis. Relatively inexpensive unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — equipped with radiation sensors and specialized...

Categories: Military / Defense, Nonproliferation

Topics: airborne, bombs, military, nuclear, pods, sensors, UAV, weapons

Engineering alternative fuel with cyanobacteria

January 7, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories Truman Fellow Anne Ruffing has engineered two strains of cyanobacteria to produce free fatty acids, a precursor to liquid fuels, but she has also found that the process cuts the bacteria’s production potential.[caption id=…

Categories: Biology, Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: Biology, women in STEM

Supercomputing on the XPRESS track

December 20, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In the stratosphere of high-performance supercomputing, a team led by Sandia National Laboratories is designing an operating system that can handle the million trillion mathematical operations per second of future exascale computers, and then create prototypes of several programming components. Called the XPRESS project (eXascale Programming Environment and...

Categories: Computing

Topics: DOE, exascale, operating system, parallel processing, programming, Sandia, scalability, supercomputing, XPRESS

Sustainability push unites Sandia facilities and research

December 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has launched a Sustainability Innovation Foundry that combines labs-wide resource conservation with efforts to turn research in fields related to sustainability into business opportunities. “Sandia has experience on the facilities side and a tremendous wealth of knowledge on the R&D side,” said Jack Mizner,...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, climate, energy, facilities, green, national laboratories, national labs, renewable, research, Sandia, sustainability, tech transfer, technology

More than 400 rockets soar from Sandia’s Kauai Test Facility in 50-year history

December 17, 2012 • KAUAI, Hawaii — A white-orange oval, the rocket moves slowly, silently across the night sky, followed by a metallic roar that fades away the farther it flies from its launch pad at Sandia National Laboratories’ Kauai Test Facility. When the rocket is an orange ember against the black backdrop, it...

Categories: Military / Defense

Topics: Hawaii, Kauai, Kauai Test Facility, MDA, Missile Defense Agency, national laboratories, navy, Sandia

Detecting tunnels using seismic waves not as simple as it sounds

December 6, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You’d think it would be easy to use seismic waves to find tunnels dug by smugglers of drugs, weapons or people.You’d be wrong.Nedra Bonal of Sandia’s geophysics and atmospheric sciences organization is nearing the end of a two-year study, “Impro…

Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Border Patrol, Geoscience, national laboratories, research, Sandia, security, tunnels

Sandia Labs helps wounded veterans onto the career track

December 4, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Combat veterans often return with wounds, some visible, some not. Sandia National Laboratories has launched a hiring program with the goal of helping those wounded warriors get into the workforce and develop career-based skills and experience. “We want to give back to those who have given so...

Categories: Community / Education, Military / Defense

Topics: careers, community, education, hiring, military, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, veterans, warfighter, warriors, wounded, Wounded Warrior

Sandia physicist wins two national awards

November 29, 2012 • Albuquerque, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories senior manager Mark Herrmann has garnered two national awards for his work in high-energy-density science. In September, the American Physical Society elected him a Fellow, an honor limited to 0.5 percent of the society’s membership in any given year. The citation, formally presented at...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: American Physical Society, fusion, inertial fusion, national laboratories, Sandia, z machine

Modern-day cleanroom invented by Sandia physicist still used 50 years later

November 26, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When Willis Whitfield invented the modern-day cleanroom 50 years ago, researchers and industrialists didn’t believe it at first. But within a few short years, $50 billion worth of laminar-flow cleanrooms were being built worldwide and the invention is used in hospitals, laboratories and manufacturing plants today. The...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: clean room, cleanroom, engineering, inventor, MESA, national laboratories, Sandia, Whitfield

Researchers use shock tube for insight into physics early in blasts

November 20, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia’s one-of-a-kind multiphase shock tube began with a hallway conversation that led to what engineer Justin Wagner describes as the only shock tube in the world that can look at how shock waves interact with dense particle fields.The machine is co…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: physics, shock tube

Primary Standards Laboratory: Sandia’s the word for precision measurements, calibrations

November 15, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You probably never gave roundness a thought.But when it’s crucial that something be really round, federal labs and agencies can turn to the Department of Energy’s Primary Standards Laboratory (PSL), operated by Sandia. The PSL is often the last word…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: DOE, nano, national laboratories, Primary Standards Laboratory, Sandia

Traumatic brain injury patients, supercomputer simulations studied to improve helmets

November 14, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico are comparing supercomputer simulations of blast waves on the brain with clinical studies of veterans suffering from mild traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) to help improve helmet designs. Paul Taylor and John Ludwigsen of Sandia’s Terminal Ballistics...

Categories: Military / Defense, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

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