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Sandia Labs names new vice president of Human Resources and Communications

January 28, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A human resources executive with more than 17 years of experience in a wide variety of human resources and communications disciplines is the new vice president of Human Resources and Communications at Sandia National Laboratories. Melonie Parker will be responsible for shaping Sandia’s strategies for staffing, recruiting,...

Categories: HR / Personnel

Topics: Hampton University, human resources, Lockheed Martin, Villanova University

New leadership named for Sandia nuclear weapons work

December 4, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has appointed Stephen Rottler as deputy director and executive vice president for National Security Programs effective March 6. He succeeds Jerry McDowell, who will retire in July after 35 years at Sandia. McDowell has been executive vice president since 2010. Rottler is vice president...

Categories: HR / Personnel, Operations / Budget

State safety award goes to Sandia engineer

November 26, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Luis G. Amezcua, a surveillance assessment engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, began his safety career in Mexico helping improve safety standards in the construction industry. His career has followed an interesting trajectory. Amezcua received the New Mexico Safety Professional of the Year award from the American Society...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget

Topics: ASSE, safety

Sandia appoints new vice president of science and technology

October 13, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has appointed Rob Leland as vice president of science and technology and chief technology officer. Sandia executives Duane Dimos and Julia Phillips, respectively, had served in those roles on an acting basis for the past 20 months. Leland joined Sandia in 1990. With a...

Categories: Computing, HR / Personnel, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Cray, cyber, extreme-scale supercomputing, graph partitioning, supercomputing

Math skill put Sandia Labs HENAAC honoree on the path to success

October 2, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Edward Jimenez, a Sandia National Laboratories applied mathematician, was named a 2014 HENAAC Award winner as Most Promising Engineer/Advanced Degree by Great Minds in STEM. He joins other honorees at the 26th annual HENAAC conference in New Orleans from Oct. 2-4. HENAAC, formerly the Hispanic Engineering National...

Categories: Awards, HR / Personnel, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: applied mathematics, awards, diversity, education, Great Minds in STEM, HENAAC, math, minorities, national laboratories, national labs, STEM

Sandia pioneers software for smart and sustainable institutions

September 18, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Institutional Transformation (IX) model helps the federal laboratory reduce its energy consumption and could help other large institutions do the same. The IX model allows planners to experiment with energy conservation measures, such as adding cool roofs or replacing old heating, ventilation and air...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering

New way to report purchases better shows how Sandia Labs spends money

August 18, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has changed the way it categorizes purchased goods and services by linking each acquisition to a specific industry code. “This change in our data systems allows Sandia to better describe to our stakeholders, customers and the general public how we spend our money,” said...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic development, economic impact, government contracting, minority owned, NAICS, national laboratories, national labs, procurement, small business, suppliers, woman owned

Security professional at Sandia nationally recognized with annual NNSA award

July 18, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories security professional Paulette Solis has received the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Bradley A. Peterson Contractor Security Professional of the Year Award. This year’s federal honoree is Susan Christian-Payne of the Nevada Field Office, who received the NNSA’s Bradley A. Peterson Federal Security Professional...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget

Topics: NNSA, security professional

Licensing executive named distinguished fellow by international organization

June 5, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Craig Smith, a licensing and business development specialist at Sandia National Laboratories, has been selected as a distinguished fellow by the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) and its Chemicals, Energy, Environment and Materials (CEEM) sector. The society is the world’s largest association for the licensing and intellectual...

Categories: Awards, HR / Personnel, Operations / Budget

Topics: intellectual property, licensing, Licensing Executives Society International, tech transfer

N.M. Safety Professional of the Year awarded to Sandia Labs employee

December 19, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories employee has been named New Mexico Safety Professional of the Year for her expertise in the safety profession, including working with Sandia researchers to make their labs as safe as possible. Terri Wallis, an environment, safety and security professional who joined Sandia in...

Categories: Awards, HR / Personnel

American Indian group names Sandia engineer 2014 Professional of the Year

November 19, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Randy McKee’s passion is engineering excellence. “I’m a process guy,” says the Cherokee Nation member. “I always put that first in anything I do.” Close behind is his desire to help young people become professional engineers. McKee has spent countless hours mentoring in minority recruitment, graduate and...

Categories: Awards, HR / Personnel, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: AISES, American Indian, awards, diversity, education, engineers, mentoring, national labs, North Carolina A&T State, professional development, STEM

Sandia Labs wins five regional FLC tech transfer awards

October 24, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won five regional awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC’s Far West/Mid-Continent regions gave Outstanding and Notable Technology Development awards to Sandia’s: SpinDx medical diagnostic tool; Sandia Cooler, which reduces energy to cool...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, flc, Homeland security, medical, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, tech transfer, technology

Sandia Labs names three fellows

June 28, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers Jerry Simmons, Ed Cole and John Rowe have been named Sandia Fellows. That status — stellar at Sandia and nearly as rare as hen’s teeth — is reserved for those who are nationally or internationally recognized pioneers in their fields. It is considered...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: fellows, physics, solid-state lighting

New Mexico group wins money to educate public on climate science

June 20, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — With interest in climate change heating up, a New Mexico group has won a $3,000 American Chemical Society Presidential Climate Science Challenge Grant to help educate the public on climate science issues. The award to the Central New Mexico section of the ACS will help the group...

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget

Topics: climate, climate change, climate science, women in STEM

Sandia National Laboratories hosts NATO visitors

May 10, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — NATO delegates toured Sandia National Laboratories during a three-day visit highlighting the labs’ programs that support extended deterrence to U.S. allies, as well as broader national security programs ranging from homeland security to preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The visitors included more than 50...

Categories: Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Operations / Budget

Topics: defense, DoD, DTRA, Life Extension Program, NATO, NNSA, nonproliferation, security

Physicist takes command of Air National Guard wing

May 6, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Clark Highstrete has walked two paths in his professional life. One went toward science and led to physics research at Sandia National Laboratories. The other went to the skies and a career as an Air Force pilot. Highstrete works in Sandia’s Quantum Information Sciences department and is...

Categories: Military / Defense, Operations / Budget

Topics: air national guard, Kirtland Air Force Base, military, physicist, wing commander

White House honors nurse for helping women veterans, children

April 29, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Michelle Racicot, a contract family nurse practitioner at Sandia National Laboratories, was one of 14 women recognized by first lady Michelle Obama at the White House as Champions of Change. The event during Women’s History Month honored women veterans who have made a major impact on the...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget

Topics: awards, champions of change, community, military, nurse, veterans, women

Sandia researchers bring lab experience to world of business

March 28, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Three Sandia National Laboratories workers were recognized for taking technology out of the labs and into the private sector. Laurence Brown, Matt Donnelly and Jim Pacheco received Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards for their participation in a Sandia program that encourages researchers to take jobs at startup or expanding...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, community, economic development, energy, engineers, entrepreneur, materials science, materirals science, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, small business, solar, tech transfer, technology

Caterpillar, Sandia CRADA opens door to multiple research projects

March 26, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories and industrial giant Caterpillar Inc. have signed their first umbrella Cooperative Research & Development Agreement (CRADA), opening the door to a wide range of scientific research. “This agreement will lead to an expanded relationship with Caterpillar,” said Vic Weiss, the Sandia business development specialist...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, computer, computing, CRADA, economic development, national laboratories, national labs, partnership, research, Sandia, tech transfer, technology

Science of soot lands Hope Michelsen in Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame

March 25, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Sandia National Laboratories scientist Hope Michelsen, who peers through atmospheric soot to learn about the air we breathe, has been named by the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame as the 2013 Outstanding Woman in Science. She is the first Sandia employee to receive this award. Michelsen is being...

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget

Topics: women in STEM

Prestigious award lights up Tsao’s wide-ranging career

March 12, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Jeff Tsao has seen it all in his 29-year Sandia National Laboratories career, from research to management to entrepreneurship. But being an idea guy is what he likes best. “It’s what I naturally gravitate toward,” Tsao said.Tsao is a researcher in…

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget

Topics: aaeoy, asian-american, awards, energy, engineers, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia

Black engineers get national awards for reaching beyond the expected

February 26, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Three Sandia National Laboratories staff members who share a commitment to quality and diversity are winners of 2013 Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) awards. J. Anthony Wingate, manager of Subsystems and Component Quality Engineering, was named Professional Engineer of the Year for Diversity Leadership. Dennis Owens,...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget

Topics: african american, awards, BEYA, diversity, engineers, National Engineers Week, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia

Sandia Labs revitalizes nuclear security infrastructure

February 21, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has completed $199 million in facilities construction and repair as part of an 11-year national effort to revitalize the physical infrastructure of nuclear security enterprise sites. The Facilities and Infrastructure Recapitalization Program (FIRP) was established in 2001 to reduce a long-standing backlog of deferred...

Categories: Operations / Budget

Topics: DOE, facilities, FIRP, infrastructure, maintenance, national laboratories, national labs, nuclear, repair, Sandia, security

Keeping tabs on the world’s dangerous chemicals

February 15, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – In the chemistry labs of the developing world, it’s not uncommon to find containers, forgotten on shelves, with only vague clues to their origins. The label, if there is one, is rubbed away.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Sandia…

Categories: Awards, Chemistry, Conferences / Symposia, Homeland security, Operations / Budget

Topics: AAAS, American Chemical Society, chemistry, national laboratories, Sandia, women in STEM

Sandia awards information technology contracts to three firms

February 13, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has issued three information technology contracts totaling $353 million over a potential term of seven years. The awards streamline IT contracting at the labs. “These contracts replace current IT contracts that are expiring,” said Chris Slater of the Sandia Procurement group. “We are integrating...

Categories: Awards, Computing, Operations / Budget

Topics: business, computer, computing, contracts, economic development, economic impact, information, IT, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, small business, technology

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