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Sandia National Laboratories partners with TUV Rheinland PTL, LLC to advance nation’s photovoltaic industry
June 23, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Testing techniques from Sandia National Laboratories are helping accelerate the growth of the nation’s photovoltaic solar power industry through a partnership with TUV Rheinland PTL, LLC, a private testing and certification company in Tucson, Arizona. “The unique, multiplatform test capabilities developed at Sandia Labs are providing a...
Categories: Awards, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
TUV-PTL yard

Sandia wins four R&D 100 Awards
June 22, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs — captured three prestigious R&D 100 Awards in this year’s contest, and were cowinners of a fourth. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers whom its editors and independent...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering

Dust-size dragonflies and microvalves make mark at annual MEMS student design contest
June 17, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A dragonfly as small as a dust mote, its four tiny wings beating like it had momentarily alit on a lily pad, and a highly sensitive microvalve were the big winners in this year’s student design contest for extraordinarily tiny devices at Sandia National Laboratories. The winners...
Categories: Awards, Materials Science, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering
TTU Novel design

Z researcher Dan Sinars awarded $2.5 million DOE Early Career grant
May 25, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Pursuing a fruitful line of inquiry, Sandia National Laboratories researcher Dan Sinars has been awarded a $2.5 million, five-year  “Early Career Research Program” award for measuring fundamental instabilities in magnetically driven Z-pinch explosions.  Sinars’ team was the first to capture, in a series of 3-D images separated...
Categories: Awards, Materials Science, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering
Dan Sinars

Sandia National Laboratories unlocks secrets of plague with stunning new imaging techniques
May 16, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a super-resolution microscopy technique that is answering long-held questions about exactly how and why a cell’s defenses fail against some invaders, such as plague, while successfully fending off others like E.coli. The approach is revealing never-before-seen detail of the cell...
Categories: Awards, Biology, Materials Science
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SUPER RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY

Japanese collaboration promises to put Sandia hydrogen program on global track
May 5, 2011 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A new hydrogen research initiative based in Japan will leverage Department of Energy (DOE)-funded hydrogen research at Sandia National Laboratories’ California site and will likely become the first research effort to be rolled into a broader laboratory research umbrella aimed at increasing the laboratories’ hydrogen partnerships domestically and...
Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy
Sandia researcher Brian Somerday

From fork to farm
April 21, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — At Sandia’s largest cafeteria, a leftover burrito will be sent off to eventually help some backyard garden bloom. When someone leaves a bit of lunch behind at Thunderbird Café, employees send it out for composting. The composting program began in March 2010 as a pilot to divert...
Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget
From fork to farm

Scientists’ ideas, businesses’ know-how spark innovation through New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program
April 7, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Rod Dakan, owner of Royal Fiber Spinnery in Ruidoso, N.M., wanted an economical method of baling fleece from small, scattered alpaca herds for transport to the mills, so he turned to the New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program for help. Royal Fiber was one of 339...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Royal Spinnery

Sandia named one of ‘New Mexico’s Healthiest Employers’
March 25, 2011 • Sandia Labs was named a winner in New Mexico Business Weekly’s New Mexico’s Healthiest Employers, an award that honors employers that support employee health and wellness. Sandia won in the large company category, for organizations with more than 1,500 employees. Linda Duffy, director of Sandia’s Health, Benefits and Employee Services,...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget
Healthy employees at Sandia

Sandia wins 3 national technology transfer awards for bringing ideas, research to market
March 14, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A water blade that is disabling improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan, software that detects water contamination or evidence of terrorists poisoning municipal water systems and a program that provides free technical assistance to New Mexico’s small businesses all have earned national awards for Sandia National Laboratories....
Categories: Awards, Homeland security, Military / Defense, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
Stingray

Tamara Kolda accepts high-performance-computing editorship of key journal
January 26, 2011 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Tamara Kolda has accepted a section editorship of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics’ Journal on Scientific Computing [SIAM SISC], overseeing the portion reserved for high-performance computing and software. “The journal just formed this section due to increased interest in computing,” Kolda said. “I was excited...
Categories: Awards, Computing, Operations / Budget
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National Cancer Institute Awards nearly $4M to UNM Cancer Center to support cancer nanotechnology partnership with Sandia Labs
November 9, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The National Cancer Institute recently announced two five-year awards totaling nearly $4 million for a partnership between the University of New Mexico Cancer Center and Sandia National Laboratories. One $1.95 million grant will fund the creation of a joint Cancer Nanotechnology Platform Partnership, and another $1.8 million...
Categories: Awards, Nanotechnology, Operations / Budget

Sandia computational researchers awarded $2.6 million in grants from DOE Office of Science
October 27, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Four Sandia researchers have been awarded three-year grants totalling $2.6 million from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science to pursue computational research proposals that would help create an exascale computer. An exascale computer would be 1,000 times faster than a petascale computer, the fastest now available,...
Categories: Awards, Computing, Operations / Budget

Sandia Labs wins 3 technology transfer awards for projects, student research
October 14, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has won technology transfer awards for a water disruptor now diffusing improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan, mobile, fuel cell-powered lighting used at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards® and a national institute that teaches students cutting-edge nanoengineering. The winners of the Federal Laboratories Consortium (FLC)...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
LED on a stick

Red Sky/Mesa wins Oracle green award
September 22, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Red Sky/Red Mesa, listed by Top500 Supercomputer Sites as the 10th fastest computer in the world, has been selected as one of the 15 winners of Oracle’s Enable the Eco-Enterprise award. “Red Sky/Red Mesa is the most eco-transparent (energy efficient) compute platform Sandia has deployed to date,”...
Categories: Awards, Computing, Operations / Budget

Sandia mourns death of former executive, Hall of Fame inductee
September 19, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — W.J. “Jack” Howard, a former Sandia National Laboratories executive vice president who was a valued national adviser on U.S. nuclear policy, passed away Sept. 13 at the age of 88. During his career, Howard, who lived in Albuquerque, was responsible for the early recognition that U.S. nuclear...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget

Sandia Science & Technology Park’s Applied Technology Associates announces plant expansion
August 18, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Sandia Science & Technology Park and Applied Technology Associates (ATA) will host Sen. Jeff Bingaman, Rep. Martin Heinrich and Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry on Thursday, Aug. 19, as the company announces a building expansion that has more than doubled the size of its Albuquerque headquarters. The...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Tom Friedmann awarded NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal
July 12, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Tom Friedmann was awarded NASA’s Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal (EEAM) at a ceremony June 15 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. He received the award for the quality of the diamond-like carbon thin films he contributed to the Genesis science...
Categories: Awards, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Operations / Budget
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