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Sandia to host first-ever Economic Impact Summit Jan. 22

January 22, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ impact on the State of New Mexico will be the focus of the Labs’ first-ever Economic Impact Summit scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Albuquerque Convention Center, East Building, San Miguel Room.The purpose of the…

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Sandia adopts new agreement forms to allow universities/industry to use facilities

January 14, 2009 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Bruce McWatters prepares Sandia's Cockroft Walton accelerator for its move to the Ion Beam Laboratory. The IBL will be available to Sandia university and industry partners as an official user facility. Although the devi…

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

More chip cores can mean slower supercomputing, Sandia simulation shows

January 12, 2009 • 16 multicores perform barely as well as two for complex applications ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The worldwide attempt to increase the speed of supercomputers merely by increasing the number of processor cores on individual chips unexpectedly worsens performance for many complex applications, Sandia simulations have found. A Sandia team simulated key...

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Decade of the Mind symposium to be held this week

January 12, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The future of cognitive and neuroscience research will be discussed by leaders in the field at the Jan. 14-15 Decade of the Mind IV Symposium sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories.“Scientific breakthroughs in cognition and neuroscience are at a cr…

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Sandia awards more than $200,000 to community development programs

December 23, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Lockheed Martin Corporation on behalf of Sandia National Laboratories is pleased to award more than $200,000 in grants to programs benefitting the Middle Rio Grande area in the annual Community Development Grant Program.More than 60 percent of the funds …

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Sandia’s giving tree has many branches

December 22, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ employees have just completed the yearly Employee Caring Program.Sandia broke their giving record. Sandia employees and retirees have pledged $3.738 million to the United Way of Central New Mexico, making it the number on…

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Jumbo ‘nanotube’ existence confirmed at Sandia/LANL nanotech center

December 18, 2008 • A giant lightweight carbon nanotube with good strength and electrical properties is desirable, all right. A micron-sized carbon tube is easier to exploit commercially than any (so to speak) littler nanocousin.

Categories: Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia to host fourth Decade of the Mind symposium Jan. 14-15

December 17, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will host the fourth Decade of the Mind symposium Jan. 14-15. The symposium is expected to attract some 200 to 300 internationally respected scientists and decision makers.

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Sandia engineer Cliff Ho wins Discover magazine’s ‘The Future of Energy in 2 Minutes or Less’ contest

December 17, 2008 • Nathaniel Greene, director of Renewable Energy Policy at NRDC and judge for Discover’s contest says on Discover’s website that “I love [Cliff’s] concrete and clear presentation. I thought it did a good job of laying out the different ways we can use solar energy.”

Categories: Climate Security, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Space / Astronomy

Sandia’s microencapsulation project gives local entrepreneur warm glow

December 16, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Microencapsulation isn’t a new technology, but it’s always finding new applications. Familiar uses include the scratch-and-sniff perfume ads in magazines, certain time-release pharmaceuticals, and (perhaps mostly for an older generation) carbonless copy paper.

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Sandia Christmas campaign brings new shoes for needy school children

December 15, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — More than 50 years ago two scientists at Sandia National Laboratories decided to buy shoes for needy children instead of exchanging gifts with one another. “Everyone was very enthusiastic about our idea,” says Sandia retiree John Haaland.

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Sandia receives ‘outstanding’ rating from NNSA

December 15, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has received an overall “outstanding” rating on its FY08 Performance Evaluation Report from the National Nuclear Security Administration, the highest rating possible.

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Ground to be broken for new Ion Beam Laboratory at Sandia

December 12, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Groundbreaking for the new Ion Beam Laboratory is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 16 at 1 p.m. on Kirtland Air Force Base east of Sandia’s Processing Engineering & Technologies Lab (PETL) building.

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artist's rendering of Sandia's future IBL facility

Sandia, Mesa del Sol enter new energy, sustainability era

December 8, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories and Mesa del Sol have signed a formal agreement to partner and work on several technical projects supporting the research, development and demonstration of energy technologies in a real-life environment at Mesa del Sol — all toward

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New cell analysis platform developed by Sandia researchers now available for licensing, partnerships

December 1, 2008 • Livermore, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories is seeking commercial partners to license or contribute to the continued development of a new lab-on-a-chip platform for high-throughput manipulation and interrogation of individual cells, one that enables quantitative analysis of

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Sandia entrepreneurial program is back

November 24, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Entrepreneurial Separation to Transfer Technology (ESTT) program is back as an important part of Sandia National Laboratories’ technology transfer mission.

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Sandia sensor technology may help save wild horses

November 11, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sensor technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories for national security purposes may soon play a role in saving wild horses.

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Formidable NINE coalition merges goals to educate students

October 31, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —An unusual coalition of 60 industrial, academic, and national lab leaders have harnessed divergent interests with the intent to help students create new inventions, aid national defense, and show a bottom-line profit for industry in the field of nanotechnology.

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Sandia hosts fourth Decade of the Mind symposium

October 28, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Reverse engineering of the brain will be the focus of a two-day symposium — Decade of the Mind IV— Jan. 14-15 in Albuquerque. Hosted by Sandia National Laboratories, the symposium will be attended by some 200 to 300 internationally respected scientists and deci

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New Sandia biofuels project focuses on enzyme engineering

October 22, 2008 • LIVERMORE, CA —Biofuels researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have been awarded $600,000 in funding for a two-year, Department of Energy-funded effort titled “Development of Saccharifying Enzymes for Commercial Use.” The award is part of a joint proposal led by industry par

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Sandia, SES win Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Innovator Award

October 16, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Chuck Andraka, Sandia National Laboratories engineer, and Bruce Osborn, chief operating officer of Stirling Energy Systems (SES), were honored with a Popular Mechanics magazine Breakthrough Innovator Award Oct. 15 during a ceremony at the Hearst Tower in New Y

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Sandia aids cleanup of Iraqi nuclear facilities, rad waste

October 13, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia scientists are helping train Iraqi scientists and technicians to clean up radioactively contaminated sites and safely dispose of the radioactive wastes as part of the Iraqi Nuclear Facility Dismantlement and Disposal Program.

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Forward wall to enclose small star on Earth passes Sandia tests

September 29, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Two prototype systems expected to help contain plasma exceeding 100 million kelvin have been qualified as fit-for-use by Sandia researchers. The systems, each fronted by tiles with a heat absorption system behind them, are from the US and the European Union.

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Sandia receives Shingo Prize

September 23, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories’ Responsive Neutron Generator Product Deployment Center won the prestigious Shingo Prize for 2008 — the first and only public sector organization so honored.

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Sandia recognizes five green-certified buildings

September 18, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories recently recognized five green-certified buildings in a brief ceremony organized by the Labs’ Environmental Planning Department.

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