July 20, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool that includes universities, start-ups, large corporations, and government labs — received five R&D 100 Awards this year, and played a role in a sixth. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers who have developed the...
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Sandia announces appointment of new vice president
July 9, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories Director Tom Hunter today announced the selection of Carolyne Hart as vice president of Weapons Engineering and Product Realization. Hart has been a member of Sandia's Defense Systems and Assessments Program director team, a…
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget
New SunCatcher™ power system unveiled at National Solar Thermal Test Facility
July 7, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). Called SunCatchers™, the new dishes have a refined design that...
Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Robot rodeo offers excitement, experience to state’s bomb squads
June 23, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A “robot rodeo” at Sandia National Laboratories will be opened for media on Thursday, June 25, from 9 to 11 a.m. Participating teams are expected to include bomb squads from the Albuquerque Police Department, Santa Fe Police Department, New Mexico State Police, Kirtland Air Force Base, and...
Categories: Media advisories
Topics: robotics
Salt block unexpectedly stretches in Sandia experiments
June 22, 2009 • Nanoscopic discovery may have implications for smog, asthma, cloud formation ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — To stretch a supply of salt generally means using it sparingly. But researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Pittsburgh were startled when they found they had made the solid actually physically stretch. “It’s not...
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering
Sandia to hold town hall meeting June 23 geared to women-owned businesses
June 22, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will hold the second in a series of five town meetings Tuesday, June 23, designed to provide the supplier community with information on business opportunities available at the Labs.
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Sandia to hold five town hall meetings
June 12, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia's Small Business Utilization Department will hold a series of five town hall meetings this summer beginning June 16. The meetings are designed to engage the local supplier community in dialogue and information-sharing sessions regarding how to do...
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“Microswimmer” and extremely tiny testing tool are big winners at Sandia student MEMS contest
June 9, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —A “microswimmer” about the diameter of a human hair won the “novel design” category of the fifth annual Sandia National Laboratories-sponsored MEMS University Alliance Design Competition. The microswimmer, which resembles a tiny fish, is designed to have an aluminum tail that whips back and forth from being heated...
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New type of membrane developed at Sandia may help make hydrogen hybrid cars a reality
June 4, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers may have developed the key to making hydrogen cars a commercial reality.
Categories: Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering
EESAT 2009 conference scheduled for October
June 1, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Electrical energy storage technologies and applications, with an emphasis on the latest technological developments for the use of electricity storage in the power industry, will be addressed at the EESAT Conference Oct. 4-7 at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel...
Categories: Conferences / Symposia
Hydrogen Road Tour event in Livermore will showcase fuel cell vehicles
May 27, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — As Sandia National Laboratories prepares to cohost the upcoming Hydrogen Road Tour in Livermore, Calif., Sandia’s hydrogen program manager, Jay Keller, asserts that recent advances in hydrogen technology are real and significant.“Sandia has been at …
Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Sandia, Purdue investigate new methods for monitoring and operating wind turbines
May 27, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers with Sandia National Laboratories and Purdue University are using sensors and computational software to help design a better wind turbine.
Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Sandia signs MOU with Japanese national institute
May 26, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have signed an agreement to conduct and share research of mutual interest. Areas of immediate importance named in the memorandum of understanding include photovoltaics, nanoelectronics, nanomaterials and computational investigations of the properties of materials....
Sandia successfully completes hydrogen storage system for GM
May 7, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have successfully designed and demonstrated key features of a hydrogen storage system that utilizes a complex metal hydride material known as sodium alanate. The system, developed through a multiyear project...
Categories: Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Sandia researchers construct carbon nanotube device that can detect colors of the rainbow
April 30, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created the first carbon nanotube device that can detect the entire visible spectrum of light, a feat that could soon allow scientists to probe single molecule transformations, study how those molecules...
Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering
Sandia names two new directors
April 27, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories Vice President for Human Resources and Communications John Slipke has named two new directors: Karen Gardner, director of the Human Resources Center, and George Rhynedance, director of the Public Relations & Communications Center.
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Sandia, Mesalands Community College sign agreement to jointly research new wind energy technologies
April 23, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In the first arrangement of its kind between a national laboratory and a two-year college, Sandia National Laboratories and Mesalands Community College in Tucumcari, N.M., recently signed a memorandum of understanding committing the two organizations to...
Sandia research points way toward chameleon-like camouflage
April 7, 2009 • 'Nano-camo' for fashionistas and environmentalists[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="TRUE TO LIFE--Sandia researcher George Bachand examines an enlargement of actual images of light-emitting quantum dots. These ride microtubules that have spontaneously fo…
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Energy policy must reconcile values across security, economics, and the environment, energy leaders assert
April 2, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — At a workshop convened by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Sustainability Solutions Institute (SSI), some 25 leaders from academia, government, and the private sector gathered on March 18-19 to discuss key...
New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program helps 286 small businesses in 2008
March 30, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory, assisted 286 small businesses in 2008 with projects ranging from helping a door restoration company to assisting Nambe Pueblo create a water model.
We saw it coming: Asteroid monitored from outer space to ground impact
March 25, 2009 • Sandians Mark Boslough and Dick Spalding watch it in real time ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Reports by scientists of meteorites striking Earth in the past have resembled police reports of so many muggings — the offenders came out of nowhere and then disappeared into the crowd, making it difficult to get...
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Desalination of saline and brackish water becoming more affordable
March 19, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Treating brackish water for human consumption “can be done and be done affordably” here in New Mexico and other parts of the country, says Mike Hightower, water researcher at Sandia National Laboratories.
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Sandia receives DoD “trusted design” accreditation
March 14, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has received accreditation to provide “trusted design” services for both unclassified and classified integrated circuits at its Albuquerque, N.M., facility. Sandia’s Category 1A status was awarded through the Trusted IC Supplier Accreditation Program (www.dmea.osd.mil/trustedic.html) of the Department of Defense (DoD)’s Defense MicroElectronics Activity (DMEA)...
Sandia, KAFB volunteers to pack more than 10,000 care packages for troops Saturday, March 7
March 5, 2009 • Event part of Operation USO Care Package ProgramALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — More than 150 volunteers from Sandia National Laboratories and Kirtland Air Force Base will pack more than 10,000 care packages for troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, Saturday, March 7, from 8 a.m. un…
Categories: Community / Education
Tameka Barrentine honored as Modern-Day Technology Leader
February 23, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Tameka Barrentine, computer scientist in the Software Engineering and Qualification Environments Department at Sandia National Laboratories, was named “Modern-Day Technology Leader” during the 23rd annual National Black Engineer of the Year Award (BEYA) Global
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget
Topics: women in STEM
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