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Sandia National Laboratories leads reliability workshop for growing field of photovoltaic systems integration

May 11, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is using its expertise and long history in photovoltaic (PV) research and development to accelerate the adoption of reliability tools within the growing industry of PV power gen...
Jennifer Granata and Michael Quintana examine a photovoltaic solar panel at Sandia National Laboratories.

City of Pittsburgh honors Sandia for solar work

May 5, 2010 • Albuquerque, N.M. — The city of Pittsburgh has honored solar researchers from Sandia National Laboratories for training city staff to install and maintain solar thermal and photovoltaic panels on city facilities. The formal proclamation, signed by Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, recognizes the Sandia researchers “who braved sleet, snow, ice, and frigid...

Powering tribal lands: Sandia researcher to discuss off-grid, green technologies for rural areas at law seminar

April 30, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandra Begay-Campbell, leader of Sandia’s Tribal Renewable Energy Program and member of the Navajo Nation, will present “The Potential for Tribal Energy Resource Development in the Southwest” at the Tribal Energy in the Southwest Conference May 3-…
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Sandra Begay-Campbell stands in front of Window Rock with a solar panel.

Sandia wins 2 national technology transfer awards for work with Cray, Stirling Energy Systems

April 28, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has won two national Federal Laboratory Consortium awards for its efforts to transfer technology to supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc. and solar energy supplier Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. The Federal Laboratory Consortium plans to present the Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards in Albuquerque at its national...
Archie Gibson, a team leader on the Computer Operations Team at Sandia National Laboratories, works inside the Red Storm supercomputer, the result of an award-winning partnership between Cray Inc. and Sandia National Laboratories. (Photo by Randy Montoya)

Defense-scale supercomputing comes to alternative energy research

April 26, 2010 • Albuquerque, N.M. — A new supercomputer that more quickly models the most efficient ways to harness energy from the sun, wind and other renewable resources is now operating at Sandia National Laboratories. Red Mesa, a 180-teraflop computing platform, is a collaboration between Sandia and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)....

Sandia receives national electronics reuse/recycling award

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...
Brian Post stands under an antenna at the ground station at Sandia National Labs during the MTI satellite’s 55,000th orbit (photo by Randy Montoya).

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 S…
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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...
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...

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...
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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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...
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