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Albuquerque, Russian school children shed Cold War mentality in electronic-age pen-pal program

May 11, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Their parents spent their school-age years learning to mistrust Russians. But for the 19 second graders in Janet Sanchez's Petroglyph Elementary classroom, Russians aren't reason to "duck and cover." They're pen pals, friends, summer camp companions, perhaps.

Categories: Community / Education

Two Sandia technologies place among the world’s top innovations in 1998 Discover Awards competition

May 7, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The editors of Discover magazine have announced that two Sandia National Laboratories technologies are among 45 finalists now in the running for 1998 Discover Awards, issued each year by the magazine for the top inventions and engineering achievements of...

Categories: Awards

Real (not reel) deep impacts: Sandia scientists predict what an asteroid strike would look like, really

May 5, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Steven Spielberg's new blockbuster movie -- with its computer-animated interpretation of a comet striking Earth -- promises to be a big hit at the box office this summer. But computer scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are creating some big hits of...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

‘Human presence detector’ fails controlled tests conducted by Sandia National Laboratories

May 1, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A recent Sandia National Laboratories' double-blind test of an instrument that its manufacturer said could detect the presence of human beings at a distance through any material found no evidence that it could do so.

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Hot research at Sandia may make producing electricity from geothermal energy more cost competitive

April 29, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Research under way in Sandia National Laboratories' Geothermal Research Department may improve the economic feasibility of using geothermal energy -- water heated deep inside the earth's crust -- to produce electricity.

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Sandia’s lab on a chip to spot chemical clues

April 23, 1998 • LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Extending our senses beyond their current limits, bits of hardware may one day discern the faint but informative presence of trace chemicals while mounted on bands of small vehicles that cooperatively canvass the countryside.

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Sandia expands partnering agreements with Pacific Scientific’s Energy Dynamics Division

April 17, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories has expanded its partnership with Pacific Scientific Company to manufacture, test, and supply vital components for national defense weapons systems. Sandia and Pacific Scientific officials celebrated the expanded partnership at...

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Sandia Engineers Among Top 20 Hispanics in Technology

April 10, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Hispanic Engineer and Information Technology Magazine has recognized Sandia National Laboratories engineers Dr. Dan Arvizu, Director of Materials and Process Science Center, and Dr. Nestor Ortiz, Director of Nuclear Energy Technology Center, and former...

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Wear-resistant diamond coating created by Sandia scientists

April 8, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Eliminate stress, the saying goes, and you live longer. Apparently the same is true of certain diamond coatings.

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Sandia formally proposes to design accelerator expected to produce high-yield fusion

April 8, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Permission to prepare a conceptual design for an accelerator, X-1, has been formally requested by Sandia National Laboratories President Paul Robinson in a letter to the Department of Energy (DOE).

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Cool tool to improve microchip production patented by Sandia

March 27, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A device expected to be potentially less expensive and more effective than any on the market in helping cool silicon wafers during the chip manufacturing process has been patented in prototype by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories.

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World’s experts to discuss the future of arms control at International Arms Control Conference

March 17, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Some 180 internationally known experts representing the United Nations, NATO, and about 40 countries will gather here April 3-5 to discuss how to deal with the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons and the technologies required to monitor them.

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Sandia awards $41.8M pulsed power support contract to Ktech

March 6, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Ktech, an Albuquerque engineering and technology company, has been awarded a five-year $41.8 million contract to provide pulsed power technology support services to Sandia National Laboratories.

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Another dramatic climb toward fusion conditions for Sandia Z accelerator

March 2, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine -- the former dark horse among accelerators meant to produce conditions required for nuclear fusion -- have increased the machine's X-ray power output by nearly 10 times in the last two years.

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Sandia President Paul Robinson Elected To National Academy of Engineering

March 2, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories President and Director C. Paul Robinson has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest distinctions accorded an engineer.

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Actor Charlton Heston lends big voice to Sandia’s little machines

February 27, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories' micromachines are tiny little marvels, but now they have a spokesman who is bigger than life.

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Sandia FY97 contribution to New Mexico economy up 16 percent from previous year

February 20, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories contributed just over $973 million to the New Mexico economy during fiscal year 1997, ending Sept. 30, 1997 -- a 16-percent increase over the amount it contributed to the state's well being the year before.

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Agreement Supports, Streamlines Sandia Work with Semiconductor Industry Consortium

February 18, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories and SEMI/SEMATECH have entered into a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) aimed to improve the competitiveness of the U.S. semiconductor supplier industry and to support and nurture Sandia's technology base.

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Sen. Jeff Bingaman names Sandia to head new School Security Technology Center

February 18, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., today named Sandia National Laboratories to head a new national center of expertise for school security technologies and approaches. Bingaman plans to introduce Congressional legislation establishing the center next week...

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Sandia World Wide Web Site Receives Top Prize in 1997 WebAwards Competition

February 16, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories' World Wide Web site (http://www.sandia.gov) has been named the top government site by the Web Marketing Association through its 1997 WebAward competition for corporate web sites.

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Sandia’s quantum mechanical transistor may increase computer speed and sensor accuracy

February 11, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Improvements in the transistor of the future may not rely on decreasing its size but rather on a radical change in operation made possible by a quantum mechanical transistor created at Sandia National Laboratories.

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Sandia scientist, colleague suggest meteor plumes causing transient dark spots in upper atmosphere

February 10, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A Sandia National Laboratories physicist and his Texas-based research colleague have done some calculations that may offer additional insight into a decade-old astronomical controversy about whether up to 30,000 house-sized snowballs, or icy comets,...

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New Portable Voltage Standard Heads to NASA Facilities Following Sandia Training

February 4, 1998 • The portable Josephson Voltage Standard, a new compact, fully automated calibration system for DC reference standards and digital voltmeters, has been developed over the past three years by Sandia National Laboratories in cooperation with the National Institute of Standards...

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Sandia Labs Developing Means to Sniff Out Mines Chemically and Electronically

December 18, 1997 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories has joined the effort to rid the planet of what some people have called its worst form of pollution -- land mines.

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Scientists Use Digital Paleontology to Produce Voice of Parasaurolophus Dinosaur

December 5, 1997 • Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science have collaborated to recreate the sound a dinosaur made 75 million years ago.

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