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Sandia to play major role in DOE-funded simulation of “virtual” nuclear reactor

June 14, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories computational scientists will lead two of five technical areas in a U.S. Department of Energy effort to create a “virtual” nuclear reactor, to be headquartered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). This state-of-the-art simulator will use advanced capabilities of the world’s most powerful computers...

Sidney Gutierrez named 2010 Notable New Mexican

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...
Sid Gutierrez

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...
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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...

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...
Clifford Ho, in the heliostat field

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...
Paul Dodd

Sandian honored by American Indian organization

November 24, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandra Begay-Campbell, a Sandia National Laboratories engineer and a member of the Navajo Nation, was selected for the prestigious Ely S. Parker Award by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society at an honors banquet Oct. 31 in Portland, Ore. Begay-Campbell, who has worked at Sandia for...
Sandia engineer Sandra Begay Campbell received the Ely S. Parker award

Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction

November 2, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The Environmental Restoration Project at Sandia National Laboratories reports the successful construction of an alternative evapotranspirative cover at the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) in September. The 2.6-acre site is located in Technical Area 3 in the west-central part of Kirtland Air Force Base. The protective cover consists...
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Sandia receives DoD ‘trusted foundry’ accreditation

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...

Sandia hopping robots to bolster troop capabilities

September 11, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Boston Dynamics, developer of advanced dynamic robots such as BigDog and PETMAN, has been awarded a contract by Sandia to develop the next generation of the Precision Urban Hopper, meaning Sandia‘s hopping robots may soon be in combat. When fully operational, the four-wheeled hopper robots will navigate...
Jon Salton, left, and Steve Buerger put the Precision Urban Hopper through its paces. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Download 300dpi 4.27MB JPEG image (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories.)

Sandia wins five R&D 100 awards

July 20, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool that includes universities, start-ups, large corporations, and government labs — received five R&D 100 Awards this year, and played a role in a sixth. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers who have developed the...
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Sandia announces appointment of new vice president

July 9, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories Director Tom Hunter today announced the selection of Carolyne Hart as vice president of Weapons Engineering and Product Realization. Hart has been a member of Sandia's Defense Systems and Assessments Program director team, a…

Sandia receives DoD “trusted design” accreditation

March 14, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has received accreditation to provide “trusted design” services for both unclassified and classified integrated circuits at its Albuquerque, N.M., facility. Sandia’s Category 1A status was awarded through the Trusted IC Supplier Accreditation Program (www.dmea.osd.mil/trustedic.html) of the Department of Defense (DoD)’s Defense MicroElectronics Activity (DMEA)...

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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