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Asian American Engineer of the Year honors three Sandians
February 27, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three Sandia National Laboratories scientists are among 19 people from across the United States receiving 2012 Asian American Engineer of the Year awards. The AAEOY program and awards ceremony will be held in Albuquerque on March 2-3 at the Marriott Uptown. “It is a great honor to...
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Asian American Engineer

Sandia tool determines value of solar photovoltaic power systems
January 31, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Consistent appraisals of homes and businesses outfitted with photovoltaic (PV) installations are a real challenge for the nation’s real estate industry, but a new tool developed by Sandia National Laboratories and Solar Power Electric™ and licensed …
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PV Tool

Vermont-Sandia Partnership announces Center for Energy Transformation and Innovation
December 13, 2011 • Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Gov. Peter Shumlin and Sandia National Laboratories Vice President Rick Stulen have announced a $15 million, three-year partnership to establish a joint Center for Energy Transformation and Innovation to be housed at the University of Vermont. Researchers at the center will collaborate on research in areas...
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Center for Energy Transformation and Innovation

Rankings released for supercomputers doing “big data”
November 15, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—The list of supercomputers entered in the Graph500 competition now features 50 competitors, up from nine in its initial release a year ago, said Sandia National Laboratories researcher Richard Murphy, chair of the Graph500 steering committee. New rankings were released Tuesday in Seattle at SC2011, the international conference for...
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Hopes high for revitalized agreement between UNM and Sandia Labs
October 17, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A memorandum of understanding (MOU) of unusual depth and content was signed Sept. 23 by Sandia National Laboratories and executives from the University of New Mexico at the jointly occupied Advanced Material Laboratory on University Boulevard. The growing closeness of two major Albuquerque institutions — often not...
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Sandia receives award for electronics stewardship
October 6, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has received an award for reducing the environmental impacts of the computers, printers and other office electronics it uses through its fiscal year 2010 electronics stewardship activities. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive, which jointly manage...
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Solar glitter, rescue robot and university partnership earn Sandia technology transfer awards
October 4, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will begin researching how to use glitter-sized photovoltaic cells in utility-scale solar power systems, which eventually could cut the costs of solar panels in half and nearly double their efficiency. Sandia’s work with industry, other labs and universities to improve the design, materials and...
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FLC Awards

UNM and Sandia broaden collaboration in science, technology and education
September 22, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On Friday, Sept. 23, Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico and will sign a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) that significantly strengthens collaborative research and development between the two institutions, expanding the opportunities for students to participate in cutting-edge research and preparing them for a...
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Sandia’s “Cooler” technology offers fundamental breakthrough in heat transfer for microelectronics, other cooling applications
July 7, 2011 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia’s Jeff Koplow makes an adjustment to an earlier prototype of his Air Bearing Heat Exchanger invention. The technology, known as the “Sandia Cooler,” significantly reduces the energy needed to cool the processor chip…
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Jeff Koplow

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...
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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...
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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...
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Dan Sinars

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...
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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...
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Royal Spinnery

Sandia, Los Alamos labs to honor businesses’ innovations at New Mexico Small Business Assistance event
April 4, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A baler design that could economically bring alpaca fleece to market. A method to remove sediment from a northern New Mexico reservoir. An improved pesticide sprayer to reduce disease-carrying mosquitoes in the developing world. These are among the 10 projects by small companies that received technical assistance in...
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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,...
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Healthy employees at Sandia
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