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Sandia MOU to assist MEMS students at University of Guadalajara
February 3, 2011 • Tiny microelectronic mechanical systems to improve Mexican economy, aid US defense  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will help Mexican engineering students learn to design tiny microelectromechanical devices (MEMS), according to a memorandum of understanding between Sandia and the University of Guadalajara. The rationale for the agreement is that the...
Categories: Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering
10 Mexican professors and three Sandia researchers at a SUMMit design course for MEMS devices held at Sandia in December, 2009. Ernest Garcia is third from right.

Sandia engineering-sciences director Duane Dimos elected AAAS Fellow
January 27, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Duane Dimos, director of Sandia’s Engineering Sciences Center 1500, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific association. Fellows are chosen by their peers to be honored for scientific or social efforts to advance science...
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Duane Dimos

Tamara Kolda accepts high-performance-computing editorship of key journal
January 26, 2011 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Tamara Kolda has accepted a section editorship of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics’ Journal on Scientific Computing [SIAM SISC], overseeing the portion reserved for high-performance computing and software. “The journal just formed this section due to increased interest in computing,” Kolda said. “I was excited...
Categories: Awards, Computing, Operations / Budget
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Sandia researchers tailoring fungi-based biofuels to meet the needs of current, advanced combustion engines
January 19, 2011 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Engine experts and biofuels researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working on a project that aims to modify an endophytic fungus so that it will produce fuel-type hydrocarbons for transportation purposes. The biofuels being investigated for the project are produced by a class of fungi — endophytes...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy
Sandia researcher Eizadora Yu prepares biomass harvested from liquid fungal cultures for nucleic acid analysis. The cultures come from the endophytic fungus Hypoxylon sp, which produces compounds potentially used for fuel.

Albuquerque mayor to address summit showcasing Sandia’s economic impact on local economy, small businesses
January 5, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will host Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry and other community leaders at its 2010 Economic Impact Summit on Tuesday, Jan. 11. The summit will highlight the role Sandia plays in the local economy and community. At the summit, Sandia will release its annual “Economic Impact...
Categories: Media advisories, Operations / Budget

Sandia researchers awarded more than 65 million supercomputing simulation hours by DOE INCITE program
December 9, 2010 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Two projects led by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Combustion Research Facility (CRF) and Computer Sciences and Information Systems Center have been awarded 65 million hours on two Department of Energy (DOE) supercomputers through the DOE’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program....
Categories: Awards, Computing, Operations / Budget

Building name change at Sandia/California more than just wordplay
December 1, 2010 • New “Applied Biosciences Laboratory” reflects emerging bioresearch mission  LIVERMORE, Calif. — Officials at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore have announced a change in name for one of its laboratory facilities, signaling the lab’s increased attention on bioresearch. The Applied Biosciences Laboratory (ABL) was known as the Chemical and Radiation Detection...
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Glenn at ABL

Registration open for Sandia-sponsored 4th International Conference on Integration of Renewable and Distributed Energy Resources
November 19, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Registration is open for the 4th International Conference on the Integration of Renewable and Distributed Energy Resources, the premier event for technical discussion of electric integration of new energy resources. Jointly sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S. Department of Energy, Natural Resources Canada, Public Service Company...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Tougher rating system evaluates nine supercomputer capabilities
November 18, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Nine supercomputers have been tested, validated and ranked by the new “Graph500” challenge, first introduced this week by an international team led by Sandia National Laboratories. The list of submitters and the order of their finish was released Nov. 17 at the supercomputing conference SC10 meeting in...
Categories: Computing

New standard proposed for supercomputing
November 15, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new supercomputer rating system will be released by an international team led by Sandia National Laboratories at the Supercomputing Conference 2010 in New Orleans on Nov. 17. The rating system, Graph500, tests supercomputers for their skill in analyzing large, graph-based structures that link the huge numbers of...
Categories: Computing
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National Cancer Institute Awards nearly $4M to UNM Cancer Center to support cancer nanotechnology partnership with Sandia Labs
November 9, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The National Cancer Institute recently announced two five-year awards totaling nearly $4 million for a partnership between the University of New Mexico Cancer Center and Sandia National Laboratories. One $1.95 million grant will fund the creation of a joint Cancer Nanotechnology Platform Partnership, and another $1.8 million...
Categories: Awards, Nanotechnology, Operations / Budget

Sawyer to replace Romig as Executive Vice President for Mission Support
November 8, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories Director Paul Hommert announced today that Kimberly Sawyer will replace Al Romig as Sandia’s executive vice president and deputy Laboratories director for Mission Support, effective November 29. Currently, Sawyer serves as the vice president of Technical Operations for Lockheed Martin’s Mission Systems & Sensors...
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Katherine Sawyer

Sandia computational researchers awarded $2.6 million in grants from DOE Office of Science
October 27, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Four Sandia researchers have been awarded three-year grants totalling $2.6 million from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science to pursue computational research proposals that would help create an exascale computer. An exascale computer would be 1,000 times faster than a petascale computer, the fastest now available,...
Categories: Awards, Computing, Operations / Budget

Sandia Labs wins 3 technology transfer awards for projects, student research
October 14, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has won technology transfer awards for a water disruptor now diffusing improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan, mobile, fuel cell-powered lighting used at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards® and a national institute that teaches students cutting-edge nanoengineering. The winners of the Federal Laboratories Consortium (FLC)...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Water’s interaction with platinum demands closer examination, Sandia researchers find
October 13, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— Basic assumptions about water’s adsorption to platinum do not hold true, Sandia researchers have found. “The way that water molecules prefer to arrange themselves on platinum has always been largely a matter of speculation,” Sandia researcher Peter Feibelman said. Accurate knowledge is important because the first layer of water...
Categories: Materials Science, Nanotechnology

Sandia National Laboratories’ photovoltaic vehicle receives GreenGov Presidential Award
October 11, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has received White House recognition as one of eight recipients of the 2010 GreenGov Presidential Awards. The awards honor federal agencies and employees who work to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, meet a number of energy, water and waste reduction targets and leverage federal purchasing...
Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy
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