Awards

July 8, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool that includes universities, startups, large corporations and government labs — received four R&D 100 Awards this year, and played a role in at least one other. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers whom its...

July 1, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — W.J. “Jack” Howard, a former Sandia National Laboratories executive vice president who became a valued national adviser on U.S. nuclear policy and was an advocate for nuclear weapons safety and control, has become the third Sandian to be inducted into the Laboratories’ Hall of Fame. The honor...

June 24, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — From oscilloscopes to safety goggles, paper clips to general contractors, Sandia National Laboratories bought nearly $911 million worth of goods and services in fiscal year 2009. Of that, about $358 million, or 39 percent, went to New Mexico businesses. Sandia’s Small Business Utilization Department has produced a...

June 2, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sidney Gutierrez, former NASA astronaut, retired U.S. Air Force colonel and a director at Sandia National Laboratories, has been named the 2010 Notable New Mexican by the Albuquerque Museum Foundation. He will be honored June 2 at the 10th annual award...

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...

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.

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…

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...

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...

September 24, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories’ silicon fabrication facility in Albuquerque, N.M., has been accredited by the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide “trusted foundry” services for both unclassified and classified integrated circuits. The foundry accreditation represents an increase in scope to Sandia’s already-existing accreditation for design services. The accreditation program...