May 11, 2010 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Bob Carling, director of Sandia National Laboratories’ Transportation Energy Center in California, will give a plenary presentation on May 31 at 10 a.m. local time during the 11thInternational Conference on Present and Future Engines for Automobiles.The con..
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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...
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Sandia awards construction contract agreements worth estimated $156M over 6 years
May 10, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has selected 10 New Mexico companies to provide an estimated $156 million in general construction, mechanical and electrical work at the federal laboratory for up to six years. Eight of the companies chosen are small businesses. The companies will be prime contractors for the...
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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...
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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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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...
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)....
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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...
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.
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.
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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 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...
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, a
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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.
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.
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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 Lab...
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 ins…
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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...
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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...
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