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Jill Hruby named Sandia vice president for Energy, Security and Defense Technologies
April 5, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories President and Labs Director Tom Hunter announced today that Jill M. Hruby has been named vice president for Energy, Security and Defense Technologies. Hruby replaces Les Shephard, who recently retired from the Laboratories after nearly 30 years at Sandia. “We are pleased to welcome Jill...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Operations / Budget
Sandia vice president Jill Hruby

New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program helps 320 small businesses in 2009
April 5, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program (NMSBA) helped 320 companies in 25 counties in 2009 to solve technical challenges, including creating high-speed video of an exploding frozen pipe and explaining how silver-coated bandages speed healing. A partnership of Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory and...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandian Named Asian American Engineer of the Year
March 1, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories' Clifford Ho has been selected by the Chinese Institute of Engineers ─ USA to receive the Asian American Engineer of the Year Award. The honor is presented each year to the nation’s most outstanding Asian American engineers and...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget
Clifford Ho, in the heliostat field

Sandia researcher Paul Dodd named IEEE Fellow
February 24, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Paul Dodd, a Sandia National Laboratories researcher, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) “for contributions to the understanding and simulation of single-event effects in microelectronic,” according to a notification sent out by the organization. Single-event effects in microelectronics are caused...
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Paul Dodd

Understanding the secrets of water on a surface
February 22, 2010 • In Physics Today cover story, Peter Feibelman traces progression of an idea ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It may seem a harmless question to ask how molecules of water arrange themselves to cover a surface, but the answer has big consequences. For instance, the drag experienced by water flowing past a surface...
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering
Peter J. Feibelman

Julia Phillips to speak on solid-state lighting’s contributions to national energy efficiency at AAAS Annual Meeting
February 18, 2010 • SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Solid-state lighting and its potential as a near-term generator of energy efficiencies will be the topic of a presentation by Julia Phillips, director of the Physical, Chemical, and Nano Sciences Center at Sandia National Laboratories, at the 2010 AAAS annual meeting. The meeting runs Feb. 18-22...
Categories: Conferences / Symposia, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering
Julia Phillips

Tom Sanders appointed to U.S. Department of Commerce’s Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee (CINTAC)
February 15, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Tom Sanders, president of the American Nuclear Society and manager of Global Nuclear Futures Program at Sandia National Laboratories, was recently appointed to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee (CINTAC). CINTAC advises the Secretary of Commerce on issues related to programs that expand...
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Tom Sanders

Sandia National Laboratories earns ISO 9001 certification
January 11, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia has received ISO 9001 certification by the British Standards Institute (BSI-Americas). Sandia received its ISO 9001:2008 Certificate of Registration following a comprehensive ISO audit conducted by BSI-Americas. In late October, BSI auditors visi…
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Glitter-sized solar photovoltaics produce competitive results
December 21, 2009 • Adventures in microsolar supported by microelectronics and MEMS techniques ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. The tiny cells could turn a person into a walking solar battery charger if they were fastened...
Categories: Nanotechnology, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering
Representative thin crystalline-silicon photovoltaic cells – these are from 14 to 20 microns thick and 0.25 to 1 millimeter across.

Two Sandia researchers elected AAAS Fellows
December 17, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia researchers Dave Haaland and David Myers have been elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. Haaland was cited for “distinguished contributions in the area of chemometrics and spectral...
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