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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...
Categories: Operations / Budget
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
LED on a stick

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

Nanoscopic particles resist full encapsulation, Sandia simulations show
October 11, 2010 • Sandia researcher Matt Lane stands before computer simulations of 2-nm. gold particles too small to measure experimentally. The particles aggregate to produce cigar-shaped objects that prefer to sit at the water’s surface. Red represents oxygen, blue  carbon, white hydrogen, yellow the sulfur coating. The gold particles are  not modeled directly....
Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Red Sky/Mesa wins Oracle green award
September 22, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Red Sky/Red Mesa, listed by Top500 Supercomputer Sites as the 10th fastest computer in the world, has been selected as one of the 15 winners of Oracle’s Enable the Eco-Enterprise award. “Red Sky/Red Mesa is the most eco-transparent (energy efficient) compute platform Sandia has deployed to date,”...
Categories: Awards, Computing, Operations / Budget

Sandia mourns death of former executive, Hall of Fame inductee
September 19, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — W.J. “Jack” Howard, a former Sandia National Laboratories executive vice president who was a valued national adviser on U.S. nuclear policy, passed away Sept. 13 at the age of 88. During his career, Howard, who lived in Albuquerque, was responsible for the early recognition that U.S. nuclear...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget

Sandia Labs’ device helps U.S. troops in Afghanistan disable improvised explosive devices
September 10, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A device developed by Sandia National Laboratories researchers that shoots a blade of water capable of penetrating steel is headed to U.S. troops in Afghanistan to help them disable deadly improvised explosive devices, or IEDs — the No. 1 killer and threat to troops in Afghanistan, according...
Categories: Military / Defense, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Sandia National Laboratories helping to safeguard world’s dangerous biological agents
September 2, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Safeguarding the world’s most dangerous biological agents has been a top priority for a dedicated group of Sandia scientists for more than a decade, and now, this team is training laboratory leaders from around the world to secure deadly agents such as anth...
Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

LEDs promise brighter future, not necessarily greener
August 23, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— Solid-state lighting pioneers long have held that replacing the inefficient Edison light bulb with more efficient solid-state light-emitting devices (LEDs) would lower electrical usage worldwide, not only “greenly” decreasing the need for new power plants but even permitting some to be decommissioned. But, in a paper published Thursday...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Reborn Ion Beam Lab has grand opening, with talk by Sen. Bingaman to follow
August 19, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Sandia National Laboratories’ President Paul Hommert welcomes U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich and Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry, who will speak at the grand opening of Sandia National Laboratories’ reborn Ion Beam Laboratory in a ceremony from 9:30–10:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 20. B-roll of the intense beams...
Categories: Media advisories

Sandia Science & Technology Park’s Applied Technology Associates announces plant expansion
August 18, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Sandia Science & Technology Park and Applied Technology Associates (ATA) will host Sen. Jeff Bingaman, Rep. Martin Heinrich and Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry on Thursday, Aug. 19, as the company announces a building expansion that has more than doubled the size of its Albuquerque headquarters. The...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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