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Sandia researchers develop portable device that can detect heart and gum disease instantly

January 27, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Someday in the not-too-distant future patients may visit a doctor's office, provide a sample of saliva or blood, and know in minutes if they are prone to heart disease, gum disease, or cancer. There would be no sending samples to off-site labs for analysis...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

Researcher Anup Singh inserts an immunoassay chip into the microfluidic module of the hand-held device.

Online database highlights opportunities to license Sandia intellectual property

January 18, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new online database created to highlight opportunities to license Sandia National Laboratories’ intellectual property is now available to the general public.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

VCSEL arrays are among the many Sandia technologies available for licensing via the iPAL database. Sandia has become an internationally recognized leader in photonics technology.

Car battery failing? Hazardous material leaching? Oil level dropping?

January 11, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — There you are, tapping your fingers on the cold steering wheel as your windows cloud over from your breath. How could you have known your car battery was that low?

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia researcher Jonathan Weiss uses light fibers in clever ways to test car batteries, determine landfill leakage, and help oil companies separate oil from water.

GM joins with Sandia to advance hydrogen storage

January 7, 2005 • DETROIT, Mich., and LIVERMORE, Calif. — General Motors Corp. and Sandia National Laboratories have launched a partnership to design and test an advanced method for storing hydrogen based on metal hydrides.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

A critical aspect of hydride storage tank development is the act of recharging and discharging hydrogen. Here, Sandia National Laboratories engineer Mark Zimmerman integrates a hydride bed with temperature monitoring sensors.

High school physics teachers invited to Jan. 8 workshop

January 5, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A workshop for high school physics teachers will be held Saturday, Jan. 8, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Albuquerque Convention Center in the Ruidoso Room, East Complex Upper level.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia Labs essay contest ‘It’s the Write Thing To Do’ makes five high school winners $2,000 richer

December 14, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Five Albuquerque high school students have been awarded $2,000 worth of U.S. Savings Bonds as winners of the second annual “It’s the Write Thing To Do” essay contest, sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories and Lockheed Martin Corporation.

Categories: Community / Education

Sandia employees buy shoes for hundreds of school kids

December 14, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — More than 500 local elementary school students are getting new shoes again this year thanks to donations from Sandia National Laboratories employees through the Labs’ annual Shoes for Kids campaign.

Categories: Community / Education

Artist/scientist ‘dream team’ assembles with goal of capturing and displaying gigapixel-sized images

December 9, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An eclectic group of artists and scientists that organizers have dubbed the “dream team” of imaging and visualization are gathered at New York University this week to begin to create a photographic system capable of capturing and displaying a gigapixel...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

A photographic camera and display system being sought by artists and scientists involved in the Big Picture Summit would have 16 times greater data display capability than this display at Sandia National Laboratories, which scientists use to visualize highly complex supercomputer-generated physics simulations.

Sandia to begin testing innovative arsenic-removal technologies in Socorro

December 7, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Over the next few weeks researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories will begin testing innovative ways to treat arsenic-contaminated water in an effort to reduce costs to municipalities of meeting the new...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia, Tenix, and CH2M Hill will develop automated water safety sensor units

December 6, 2004 • LIVERMORE, Calif., ENGLEWOOD, Colo., and SYDNEY, Australia — Sandia National Laboratories, CH2M Hill, and Tenix Investments Pty. Ltd. today announced a multi-year, multi-million dollar partnership to develop an unattended water safety system that offers the unique capability...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Through microfluidics technology such as that featured in Sandia’s µChemLab™ device, SNL and its CRADA partners, Tenix Investments and CH2M Hill, plan to develop an unattended water safety system that offers the unique capability of detecting currently unmonitored biological agents.

Sandia Mentor Protégé Program helps small businesses strengthen supplier capabilities

November 18, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is looking for businesses to serve as either mentors or protégés in its Mentor Protégé Program (MPP) for next year.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Collapse analysis of World Trade Center talk featured at Homeland Security Conference

November 15, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The third annual regional Homeland Security Conference will be held Nov. 16-19 at the Albuquerque Uptown Marriott.

Categories: Homeland security

Blinded by the light? Not Daniel Sinars

November 10, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Peering into the center of Sandia National Laboratory’s Z machine as it fires had been a feat unachievable for a decade.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia National Laboratories researcher Daniel Sinars demonstrates the setup he and his team created to peer into the center of Sandia’s Z machine at the moment of firing. The crystal under his finger is attached to portions of a Z target configuration.

Sandia, Stirling to build solar dish engine power plant

November 9, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories is joining forces with Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. (SES) of Phoenix to build and test six new solar dish-engine systems for electricity generation that will provide enough grid-...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

SANDIA RESEARCHER Chuck Andraka makes adjustments to a Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. solar dish-engine system installed at Sandia's National Solar Test Facility earlier this year. Five more will be erected by January as test units.

Search and rescue group uses Sandia synthetic aperture radar

November 4, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A radar, originally developed by the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories for military surveillance and reconnaissance applications, is helping a volunteer search and rescue group save lives.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

SAR FOR SAR — Sandia researcher Bill Scherzinger, president of the Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council, looks at a SAR map and a standard topographic map used in search and rescue missions.

Z’s $61.7 million refurbishment to advance fusion machine’s capabilities

October 21, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine, which last year emitted neutrons to enter the race to provide the world virtually unlimited electricity from, essentially, seawater, has received approval from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Z in the instant of its firing. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Download 300dpi JPEG image, ‘z-machine.jpg’, 1.3MB (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories.)

State’s business & education leaders to discuss learning initiatives for job growth

October 19, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — To attract new high tech businesses and jobs to New Mexico, the state’s business, government, and academic institutions must collaborate to develop an educational infrastructure and workforce that offers the right engineering skills and manufacturing...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Homeland Security Conference set for Nov. 16-19

October 13, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The third annual regional Homeland Security Conference will be held Nov. 16-19 at the Albuquerque Uptown Marriott.

Categories: Homeland security

Nanotechnology research funding list now live at Sandia/LANL CINT website

September 30, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Nanotech researchers can shorten their search for funding by visiting the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) Internet site (www.sandia.gov/cint or www.lanl.gov/cint). There, a searchable database of federal government nanotechnology funding...

Categories: Nanotechnology

Oct. 5 ceremony to celebrate completion of new $22 million WETL facility in Amarillo

September 29, 2004 • AMARILLO, TEXAS — Area news media are invited to a ceremony Oct. 5 at 11 a.m. marking the completion of construction of the new Weapons Evaluation Test Laboratory (WETL) at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Workmen add finishing touches to the WETL building. This is a view from the front.

Device allows naked eye to see motion of 10 nanometers

September 29, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new class of very small handheld devices can detect motion a thousand times more subtly than any tool known.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Two Sandians honored with Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards

September 14, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have been notified they are to receive achievement awards from the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation (HENAAC).

Categories: Awards

Juan Ramirez with a young friend in Chetumal, Mexico.

Sandia researcher wins Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

September 9, 2004 • Washington, D.C. — Dr. Tamara Kolda, a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in California, is one of 57 young scientists from around the country to be selected for a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the nation’s highest honor for...

Categories: Awards

Sandia experiments may reduce possibility of future water wars and create additional solar power sources

September 8, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A method that uses roughly only one-hundredth the fresh water customarily needed to grow forage for livestock may leave much more water available for human consumption, as well as for residential and industrial uses. As a byproduct, it also may add formerly...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

FRUGAL FORAGE — Ron Pate of Sandia National Laboratories checks a tray of forage in a greenhouse just north of the U.S.-Mexico border in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

Department of Homeland Security’s Charles McQueary to visit Sandia, Lawrence Livermore national labs in honor of September 11

September 7, 2004 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Dr. Charles E. McQueary, Under Secretary for Science and Technology for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will deliver a speech at Sandia National Laboratories’ California site the morning of Friday, September 10, at Sandia’s CRF Auditorium...

Categories: Homeland security

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