Science / Technology / Engineering

September 18, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Security Systems & Technology Center and the Terrorism Research Center (TRC) will co-host the “Terrorism: Threats, Training, Tactics and Technology” conference Oct. 4-6, in Bldg. 962.

August 22, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Lockheed Martin Corporation on behalf of Sandia National Laboratories has contributed more than $15 million to Albuquerque-area community organizations since Lockheed Martin became manager of the laboratory Oct. 1, 1993.

August 18, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing — deemed the Nobel Prize for manufacturing by Business Week — recognized Sandia’s Neutron Generator Production with a Bronze-level Shingo Prize Public Sector Award for 2006. The center produces neutron...

August 15, 2006 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Baseball fans cheering on their beloved Oakland A’s in a recent homestand may have been happy about the team’s play, but the best news for those visitors to McAfee Stadium didn’t take place on the field and couldn’t be noticed by even the most observant...

August 14, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will demonstrate two methods of removing arsenic and radium from drinking water at the Pine Hill School Public Water System on the Navajo Nation (Ramah Navajo Reservation) over the next several months.

August 9, 2006 • LIVERMORE, Calif. and ST. LOUIS — Sandia National Laboratories and Monsanto Company today announced a three-year research collaboration that is expected to play a role in both organizations’ interests in biology and bioenergy.

August 8, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For the past three years a Sandia research team headed by Mat Celina has been investigating the performance of various piezoelectric polymer films that might one day serve as ultra-light mirrors in space telescopes.

August 7, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — E M Optomechanical, Inc. (EMOM) of Albuquerque recently obtained a license from Sandia National Laboratories to produce products based on a Labs-developed technology — a new configuration for interference microscopy.

August 2, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When smooth surfaces that hate water approach each other underwater, scientists have observed that they snap into contact. This is apparently due to attractive forces that extend for tens to hundreds of nanometers.

July 26, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Michael Dell, chairman of Dell Corporation and the youngest CEO of a company listed on the Fortune 500, will visit Sandia National Laboratories at 4 p.m. Friday, July 28, to tour Sandia’s Dell Thunderbird supercomputer — the sixth fastest in the world — and...

July 20, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Far above the heads of Earthlings, arrays of single-cell creatures are circling Earth in nanostructures.

June 19, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A preemptive spark lasting for nanoseconds that helps find potentially dangerous short circuits hidden in the miles of wiring behind the panels of aging commercial airliners has been patented by Sandia National Laboratories.

May 25, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An exceedingly small monorail and a chain with links approximately 1/10 the diameter of a human hair were among the remarkable devices created by the imaginative yet detail-oriented winners of Sandia National Laboratories’ 2006 MEMS University Alliance (UA)...

May 17, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The first of a series of seminars to examine the ideas, trends, people and practices in the education arena, called ImagiNANOvation™ Workshops will be held at the TVI Workforce Training Center on Thursday, May 25. This all-day workshop will include about 40...

May 16, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is accepting applications for the 2006 Dream Catcher Science Program.

May 15, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed an inexpensive, reliable and easy-to-manufacture class of dielectric films that have the capability of enabling programmable antifuses on integrated circuits (IC) at less cost and using easier-to...

April 17, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A building dedication celebrating the formal opening — on-time and on-budget — of Sandia National Laboratories’ architecturally attractive Microfab and Microlab facilities will be held at 10:30 a.m., Friday, April 21, on Kirtland Air Force Base.

April 12, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Some 100 wind turbine manufacturers, researchers, and suppliers will be on hand at a Wind Turbine Blade Workshop April 18-19 in Albuquerque sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories. The two-day workshop will be held at the Sheraton Uptown.

April 11, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Thanks to a tax credit passed by the New Mexico Legislature, Sandia National Laboratories was able to provide technical assistance to 283 New Mexico small businesses in 2005.

April 11, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. and UPTON, NY — If a so-called “dirty bomb” exploded in a populated area, first responders would have to make immediate decisions to lessen health impacts on people who might be exposed to radioactive material. In a cover article in the April issue of the...

March 13, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — RADTRAN, software developed by Sandia National Laboratories for assessing risks and consequences of transporting radioactive material, turns 30 this year.