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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…

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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

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Topics: women in STEM

Huge pressures that melt diamonds on planet Neptune determined by Sandia researchers – February 17, 2009

February 17, 2009 • Technique may provide data for NIF nuclear fusion effort ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The enormous pressures needed to melt diamond to slush and then to a completely liquid state have been determined ten times more accurately by Sandia National Laboratories researchers than ever before. As a bonus to science, researchers Marcus...

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Sandia’s diamond-like films on board NASA satellite

February 16, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Diamond-like carbon films created at Sandia National Laboratories are helping probe the far boundaries of the solar system as part of a NASA mission to study how the sun’s solar wind interacts with the interstellar medium – the matter that exists between...

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Sandia Science & Technology Park receives top award

February 11, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Sandia Science & Technology Park has received the 13th annual Outstanding Research/Science Park Achievement Award given by the national Association of University Research Parks (AURP).

Categories: Awards, Community / Education, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Biofuels can provide viable, sustainable solution to reducing petroleum dependence, say Sandia researchers

February 10, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — An in-depth study by Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors Corp. has found that plant and forestry waste and dedicated energy crops could sustainably replace nearly a third of gasoline use by the year 2030.

Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Brochure outlining Sandia’s impact to New Mexico now available

February 9, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ economic impact on New Mexico is detailed in a recently released brochure.

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Sandia announces executive leadership changes

February 5, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories Director Tom Hunter this week announced changes to the Lab's executive leadership. The changes take effect Feb. 16, 2009.Sandia's top management structure includes three deputy lab directors who report to Hunter. Each overse…

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Sandians play key roles in nuclear power associations

February 2, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two employees of Sandia National Laboratories are leading well-respected nuclear power associations, and a retiree has been honored by one of the top organizations in the country.Steve Ortiz, a 29-year Labs employee, is president of the Institute of Nuc…

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Local high schools to compete at kickoff 2009 Bay Area Regional Science Bowl this Saturday

January 29, 2009 • Regional winners qualify to compete in Department of Energy’s National Science BowlLIVERMORE, CALIF. – This Saturday, Sandia National Laboratories California and Las Positas College will host the first of three high school Regional Science Bowls scheduled for the Bay Are…

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Two Sandia researchers win nation’s most prestigious “early career” awards

January 28, 2009 • Leadership cited in condensed-matter physics, improved simulation methods ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Of eight DOE researchers selected to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), two were researchers at Sandia National Laboratories. The awards, presented at a White House ceremony in mid-December, are the U.S. government’s most...

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Sandia researchers win 2009 DOE INCITE award to fight disease

January 26, 2009 • One million processor hours — how long is that? ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers Mike Heroux and Laura Frink have been awarded a 2009 DOE INCITE multiyear award of one million processor hours on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Cray XT machines to produce high-fidelity simulations of complex biological...

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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…

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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

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