September 22, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Shovels symbolically speared the ground today at the site of Sandia National Laboratories new $42.5 million Emergency Operations Center.The 25,000-square-foot complex located on Kirtland Air Force Base is expected to be operational by spring 2023. The c…
Community / Education
Current Filters
Clear all
Sandia joins 16 national labs on transgender-inclusive, name-change process for papers
July 28, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories joins 16 other Department of Energy national laboratories and many prominent publishers, journals and other organizations in scientific publishing in announcing the beginning of a partnership to support name-change requests from researchers on past published papers. This agreement will allow researchers who wish to...
Sandia gives awards, mentoring to local young women
June 3, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A three-decade tradition connecting young Bay Area and northern California high school students with accomplished scientists at Sandia National Laboratories was not stopped by the COVID-19 pandemic. This spring, more than 70 students, parents, mentors and educators virtually attended the 30th Sandia Women’s Connection Math & Science...
Categories: Community / Education
Planting seeds and growing hope
May 17, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, on behalf of Sandia National Laboratories, recently gave more than $538,000 in grants that focus on families and education as part of its corporate contributions program. “Sandia’s grants focus on improving family stability and educational success by supporting nonprofits that...
Categories: Community / Education
Search and rescue volunteers from Sandia respond to wilderness misadventures
March 1, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — By day, Craig Tenney is a chemical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories. But sometimes as he readies for bed, he gets a call and instead finds himself on an icy trail, mere feet from a cliff high above the city in the Sandia Mountains rescuing a couple...
Categories: Community / Education, Coronavirus
Economic Impact: Sandia Labs injects $3.76B into economy
January 27, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Driven by the purchasing of goods and services and payroll, Sandia National Laboratories injected an all-time high of more than $3.76 billion into the economy in fiscal year 2020. “It’s no secret that the second half of the year was tough on a lot of people and...
Giving campaigns at Sandia shine during pandemic year
January 25, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories employees came together in a big way in 2020, contributing $4.8 million to the annual Sandia Gives campaign, which benefits United Way of Central New Mexico, United Way of the Bay Area and other nonprofits, increasing donations by $324,000 over 2019. A booster from...
Categories: Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering
Finding COVID-19 needles in a coronavirus haystack
July 14, 2020, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — COVID-19 researchers the world over face a daunting task of sifting through tens of thousands of existing coronavirus studies, looking for commonalities or data that might help in their urgent biomedical investigations. To accelerate the filtering of relevant information, Sandia National Laboratories has assembled a combination of...
Teens pay it forward, use 3D printers built at Sandia to make face shields
May 15, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Teens who built 3D printers during a weeklong robotics camp at Sandia National Laboratories last year have used them to make more than 3,000 face shields that have been donated to medical professionals and first responders in New Mexico. The camp was hosted by Sandia in collaboration...
Sandia Labs collects $245,000 for Native American neighbors
May 11, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As COVID-19 began ravaging Native American communities in the Southwest last month, a sense of urgency was mounting for Sandia National Laboratories tribal government relations program manager Laurence Brown. As the virus spread rapidly in parts of the Navajo Nation and New Mexico pueblos, a groundswell of...
Categories: Community / Education, Coronavirus
Sandia gives more than $100K to Roadrunner Food Bank through match program
April 15, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories employees have contributed more than $100,000 to the Roadrunner Food Bank during a 15-day campaign that will help New Mexicans with food during the coronavirus pandemic. The amount raised, and the speed at which employees gave was a remarkable surprise during a trying time...
Categories: Community / Education
Economic Impact: Sandia Labs spends $3.68B
January 15, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories pumped an all-time high of nearly $3.68 billion into the economy in fiscal year 2019 by spending on goods, services, payroll, taxes and other payments, Labs Director James Peery announced today. “Sandia is proud of the past success but will not rest,” Peery said....
National security, science collaboration bolstered by new agreement
May 9, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico are joining forces to bolster national security and advance science and engineering with an agreement signed this week. “Once we have that umbrella in place, it opens the knowledge cache of both institutions — our scientific researchers collaborating...
Students applaud Manos science spotlight
April 25, 2019, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Many of us can thank a teacher or mentor who early in our lives ignited a passion in us for our current professions. For nearly 30 years, Sandia National Laboratories’ Manos — or “hands-on” — program has provided that spark for science, technology, engineering and math, or...
Categories: Community / Education
Second Act: Sandia retirees band together to help small businesses with tech challenges
January 22, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Retirement means different things to different people. To Mike Murphy it wasn’t about TV and golf, not after logging 40 years as an electrical engineer in the nuclear weapons program at Sandia National Laboratories. He wanted to put his experience to work. Murphy, who retired in 2009,...
Support group aims to curb fears of talking about addiction at Sandia Labs
December 3, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Almost every morning on her way to work, Theresa Rolfe drives past homeless people outside a fast food restaurant, and the sight takes her back to a time when her son could have been among them. It wasn’t too long ago that Rolfe, an emergency management employee...
Categories: Community / Education
Sandia gears up for annual computer donation event
August 9, 2018, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Students from more than 40 New Mexico schools are expected to benefit from Sandia National Laboratories’ annual K-12 Computer Donation Event next week, where more than 1,000 computers and related accessories will be distributed. Representatives from schools around the state, who preregistered for the event, will collect...
Categories: Community / Education, Media advisories
Sandia materials scientist looks to inspire students through STEM program
July 5, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For 32 years, Sandia National Laboratories’ Black Leadership Committee has brought science, technology, engineering and math to more than 3,000 middle and high school students through the Hands-On, Minds-On Technologies program. HMTech began as an after-school program to inspire African-American students to pursue STEM careers. Ten years...
Categories: Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering
Computer science teacher wins 2018 Sandia Excellence in Teaching Award
June 25, 2018 • LIVERMORE, Calif. – Miguel Baez, Granada High School computer science teacher, was recently getting his students motivated after welcoming them back from lunch. After getting his class settled, he was interrupted by P.J. Daley, the school’s principal. The class murmured to each other, trying to figure out why their principal...
Categories: Community / Education
Catching dreams
June 7, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories in a new partnership with New Mexico Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement, or NM MESA, has increased the number of students in Sandia’s Dream Catchers Science Program. The latest hands-on science and engineering program was recently held at the University of New Mexico-Gallup campus....
Students to learn about Sandia’s global security work during state STEM event
February 26, 2018 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Students learned about sticky foam during the Sandia National Laboratories STEM Day in 2017. Sticky foam was first developed at Sandia in the late 1970s and used for security applications. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click the thum…
Sandia’s Valentine’s Day gift bolsters United Way program
February 14, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Spreading love on Valentine’s Day, Sandia National Laboratories donated $50,000 to help kick-start United Way of Central New Mexico’s Mission: Families to foster family stability and support student achievement. “Sandia National Laboratories is committed to making a difference in the lives of those around us,” Labs Director...
Categories: Community / Education
Sandia donates $25,000 to Valley Children’s Museum
January 31, 2018 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories has donated $25,000 to the Valley Children’s Museum in Dublin, California. The grant, made possible through Sandia’s gifts and grants program, will be used to update the museum’s exhibit space and curriculum with engineering-themed activities. “Sandia is honored to be a partner in bringing...
Categories: Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering
Project management jobs pipeline focus of Sandia, University of New Mexico agreement
January 30, 2018, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico’s Anderson School of Management have reached a new agreement to collaborate on project management education and professional development. The memorandum of understanding to be signed Wednesday supports creating a Master of Science degree in project controls, project management...
Woman credits Sandia reality-based active shooter training for saving her life
January 17, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Like a lot of concertgoers who attended Las Vegas’ Route 91 Harvest music festival, Sandia National Laboratories manager Marlene Lucero thought she was hearing fireworks when a round of gunfire rained down on fans. But then the man next to her husband fell, and a second wave...
Categories: Community / Education
Results 26–50 of 145