April 22, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories was one of eight winners among 137 participating federal government agency sites in the Fiscal Year 2009 Electronics Reuse and Recycling Campaign (ERRC), spearheaded by the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive (OFEE). Sandia contributed 400,119 pounds of electronics toward a total 15.8 million...
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Sandia to conduct controlled explosives test today
April 20, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories plans to conduct one controlled explosive test sometime between 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. on April 20 at Sandia’s Coyote test field on the south side of Kirtland Air Force Base. Some Albuquerque residents could hear some booms associated with the experiment. Some black...
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MTI satellite continues to serve after 10 years in orbit
April 19, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – For engineers and scientists at Sandia, the evening of Friday, March 12, marked a proud moment in exceptional service to the nation. Hundreds of miles above the Earth, the Multispectral Thermal Imager satellite reached its 10th anniversary of service as it completed its 55,000th orbit — far...
Alternative Fuels Challenge allows middle school students to race their own creations
April 16, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On Saturday, April 17, Albuquerque Public Schools, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Public Service Company of New Mexico and Sandia National Laboratories will host the fourth annual Alternative Fuels Challenge at Wilson Middle School. More than 30 middle schools teams from Carlsbad, Albuquerque and northern New Mexico will...
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Sandia paper on steric confinement of proteins published in PNAS journal
April 14, 2010 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A paper authored by Sandia National Laboratories researchers Jeanne Stachowiak, Carl Hayden and Darryl Sasaki is featured in the April 13 edition of PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper, “Steric confinement of proteins on lipid membranes can drive curvature and tubulation,” presents...
Sandia’s Chuck Mueller to receive SAE award for diesel engine research
April 13, 2010 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories engine researcher Charles J. Mueller will be presented with the 2009 SAE John Johnson Award for Outstanding Research in Diesel Engines at the 2010 SAE World Congress Awards Ceremony on April 13 in Detroit. Mueller is being recognized for his paper “An Experimental Investigation...
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Tri-Lab Directors’ Statement on the Nuclear Posture Review
April 9, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The directors of the three Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration Laboratories – Dr. George Miller from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Dr. Michael Anastasio from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Dr. Tom Hunter from Sandia National Laboratories – today issued the following statement on the Nuclear...
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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...
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...
Sandia sponsors Expanding Your Horizons to encourage girls to pursue STEM careers
March 31, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Hundreds of middle school and high school girls will investigate rocketry, solar fountains, crime scenes and seismic waves at the annual Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) workshop in Albuquerque on April 3. The event is sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories, and is designed to encourage girls to pursue...
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Sandia workshop to focus on codes development for hydrogen-powered industrial trucks
March 30, 2010 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories will host a workshop April 28 for industry and code development organizations designed to address research barriers to hydrogen-powered forklifts and other near-term fuel cell market applications. The workshop will include a number of participants, including industry leaders from Plug Power, Nuvera Fuel Cells...
Fuel cell-powered mobile lighting system deployed at Academy Awards®
March 23, 2010 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A team led by Sandia National Laboratories made a cameo appearance at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards® ceremony in Los Angeles earlier this month. Sandia, The Boeing Company, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), Altergy Systems, Multiquip Inc., and others developed a novel mobile lighting system as...
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Sandia to break ground for new computational laboratories building
March 22, 2010 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A groundbreaking ceremony for a new facility – the Combustion Research Computation and Visualization (CRCV) building, part of the Combustion Research Facility (CRF) – will take place at 2 p.m., Wednesday, March 24, on the grounds of Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore. The Department of Energy’s Office...
Sandia’s California lab cited in ‘best places to work’ survey
March 3, 2010 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories’ California site in Livermore is ranked eighth among the winners in The Scientist magazine’s eighth annual Best Places to Work for Postdocs survey. “This year’s award winners represent an array of forward thinking institutions that are open to changing in support of the values...
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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 scientists who make significant, lasting and...
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National Security Computing Center open for business
February 25, 2010 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Sandia's Red Storm supercomputer becomes primary machine for the National Security Computing Center. Click on the image thumbnail to download a high-resolution version."][/caption]ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Sandia National Lab…
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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Sandia researchers awarded 73 million supercomputing simulation hours by DOE INCITE program
February 23, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three computationally based projects proposed by Sandia National Laboratories researchers have been awarded 73 million of 1.6 billion supercomputing processor hours offered by the Department of Energy’s INCITE program to advance cutting-edge work. Another Sandia researcher is participating in a Los Alamos National Laboratory-led proposal that was...
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...
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Fueling the future with fish tank residue: Sandia scientist discusses use of algae as a biofuel
February 18, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As Americans demand new and cleaner ways to meet the country’s energy needs, researchers are turning to algae as a promising new fuel source. The approach has the potential to significantly reduce the nation’s reliance on imported oil while contributing to rural economic development and lowering greenhouse...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy
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...
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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California selects Livermore Valley’s i-GATE as state innovation hub
February 11, 2010 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — California’s Business, Transportation and Housing Agency has selected i-GATE (Innovation for Green Advanced Transportation Excellence) as one of six applicants to be recognized as inaugural members of the California iHub demonstration program. i-GATE was submitted by the city of Livermore (iHub coordinator) in close partnership with Sandia National Laboratories/California...
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Sandia signs agreement with New Zealand institute to address critical transportation energy issues
February 4, 2010 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories and Scion, a New Zealand Crown Research Institute, have signed an agreement that will focus research on the cooperative development of technical information and system studies relevant to low-carbon energy technologies. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) outlines the intention to develop mutually beneficial research...
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Sandia Labs employees and retirees pledge $4 million to the United Way of Central New Mexico
January 28, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories employees and retirees have pledged more than $4 million to the United Way of Central New Mexico. Sandia is the No. 1 contributor again, a role Sandia has always owned. The $4 million includes $70,000 from Lockheed Martin Corporation. “When I first started working...
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