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 computer processor chips; and Self-Assembled […]
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Sandia Labs names three fellows
June 28, 2013 – 10:00 am
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 a promotion to the highest […]
New Mexico group wins money to educate public on climate science
June 20, 2013 – 5:00 am
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 begin to tackle a longstanding […]
Sandia National Laboratories hosts NATO visitors
May 10, 2013 – 12:45 pm
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 representatives from 23 European countries, […]
Physicist takes command of Air National Guard wing
May 6, 2013 – 10:00 am
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 a colonel in the New […]
White House honors nurse for helping women veterans, children
April 29, 2013 – 12:00 pm
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 nation’s communities, businesses and schools. […]
Sandia researchers bring lab experience to world of business
March 28, 2013 – 5:00 am
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 businesses. Entrepreneurial Separation to Transfer […]
Caterpillar, Sandia CRADA opens door to multiple research projects
March 26, 2013 – 5:00 am
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 who helped negotiate the CRADA. […]
Science of soot lands Hope Michelsen in Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame
March 25, 2013 – 5:00 am
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 honored for her combustion and […]
Prestigious award lights up Tsao’s wide-ranging career
March 12, 2013 – 11:03 am
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 the solid-state lighting group, working to cut back the worldwide […]
Black engineers get national awards for reaching beyond the expected
February 26, 2013 – 5:00 am
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, manager of Defense Systems Quality […]
Sandia Labs revitalizes nuclear security infrastructure
February 21, 2013 – 3:35 pm
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 maintenance at the National Nuclear […]
Keeping tabs on the world’s dangerous chemicals
February 15, 2013 – 5:00 am
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. Left alone for years, some chemicals can quietly break down into explosive elixirs, and what was once an innocent […]
Sandia awards information technology contracts to three firms
February 13, 2013 – 10:36 am
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 multiple service contracts to create […]
Sandia’s Paul Hommert named FLC Laboratory Director of the Year
February 4, 2013 – 3:30 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Paul Hommert has been named 2013 Laboratory Director of the Year by the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for his support of technology transfer activities at Sandia National Laboratories. The FLC said the award recognized the excellence of work during 2012 by Hommert, Sandia’s president and laboratories director, and the entire Sandia tech […]