ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A group of students from Gallup, Miyamura and Grants high schools will visit Sandia National Laboratories on March 30 to see firsthand some of the Labs’ research and technology that career paths in science, technology, engineering and math can lead to. The students will tour Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility, Structural […]
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Labs Director to make historic visit to Navajo Nation
March 10, 2023 – 7:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On March 17, Sandia National Laboratories Director Dr. James Peery will make an historic visit to Navajo Technical University in Crownpoint, New Mexico, marking the first time a sitting national lab director has visited a tribal college or university. The event is designed to build on the growing partnership Sandia has started […]
Terrorist, timed scenarios challenge bomb squads at Sandia’s Robot Rodeo
May 13, 2019 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bomb squad teams from New Mexico and beyond are converging at Sandia National Laboratories for a five-day Robot Rodeo and Capability Exercise where emergency preparedness skills will be put to the test. Twelve challenges for 10 military and civilian teams have been set up for the 13th annual event that provides opportunities […]
Sandia gears up for annual computer donation event
August 9, 2018 – 5:00 am
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. Media representatives must RSVP to attend: What: Sandia 2018 K-12 Computer Donation Event When: 8 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. […]
Catching dreams
June 7, 2018 – 5:00 am
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. Dream Catchers is designed for […]
Students to learn about Sandia’s global security work during state STEM event
February 26, 2018 – 12:08 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will host 30 northern New Mexico middle school students for a day of interactive science, technology, engineering and math activities Tuesday at an event that focuses on the labs’ global security work. The event is part of the New Mexico Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Achievement, Inc. STEAM Extravaganza. NM MESA […]
Project management jobs pipeline focus of Sandia, University of New Mexico agreement
January 30, 2018 – 5:00 am
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 and program management at UNM […]
Sandia physicist leads effort to revamp former jail into winter refuge for city’s homeless
November 13, 2017 – 12:01 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — One weekend a month, Rosalie Multari drives west through the petroglyphs, past the Three Sisters volcanoes, following dirt paths and loose gravel roads, until she reaches what was once an Albuquerque jail. Just inside the perimeter gate — still adorned with razor wire in some areas — a second chain-link fence is […]
Annual Robot Rodeo offers bomb squads an unbeatable experience
May 17, 2017 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is hosting the 11th annual Western National Robot Rodeo, a thrilling four-day event where civilian and military bomb squad teams get practice using robots to defuse diverse, dangerous situations. Robots are life-saving tools for these emergency response teams, providing them a buffer from danger. Ten teams from around the […]
Lockheed Martin Mars Experience Bus stops in Albuquerque with virtual tour of red planet
October 24, 2016 – 9:50 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The world’s first virtual reality vehicle for groups of participants is making a stop in Albuquerque on a cross-country tour, giving students a chance to traverse the surface of Mars from inside a school bus. The Lockheed Martin Generation Beyond: Mars Experience Bus will stop at Tomasita Elementary School and Kennedy Middle […]
Always/Never: Sandia documentary tells story of nuclear weapons safety, security
June 15, 2015 – 11:45 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ documentary, Always/Never: The Quest for Safety, Control & Survivability, showcases rare historical footage and interviews with a wide range of experts to describe how national security laboratories improved the safety and security of nuclear weapons from the dawn of the nuclear age to the end of the Cold War. […]
Sandia to ink MOU with New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
November 19, 2014 – 11:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories President and Labs Director Paul Hommert will sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science’s executive director Charles Walter and foundation executive director Jotina Trussell at the museum’s Start Up exhibit Friday, Nov. 21, at 11:45 a.m. The museum is located […]
Showcase to spur commercialization of Sandia technologies
September 16, 2014 – 8:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A showcase that brought Sandia National Laboratories’ cutting-edge research and technology to the community the past two years has a new look and target audience. Instead of an annual daylong gathering open to the public, the re-envisioned Sandia Technology Showcase will become a yearlong series of events geared to investors and entrepreneurs. […]
Vehicle fuel efficiency, biofuels, climate change to be explored by world’s leading combustion scientists
July 14, 2014 – 5:00 am
International symposium to feature foremost experts on fuel and combustion research LIVERMORE, Calif.— Nearly 1,500 of the world’s foremost fuels and combustion scientists and engineers will gather in San Francisco on Aug. 3-8 for the 35th International Symposium on Combustion, a biennial event sponsored by the Combustion Institute and with Sandia National Laboratories leading the […]
Moving technologies from the lab to the marketplace
March 13, 2014 – 6:00 am
Sandia and Lawrence Livermore labs, i-GATE to showcase Cleantech Open program LIVERMORE, Calif. — Representatives from national labs, universities and business will gather for a Cleantech Open Business Briefing on March 18 at Sandia National Laboratories’ Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC) to highlight how those entities are working together to develop clean technologies and take them […]