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August 13, 2008 • Sandia Science & Technology Park, looking east. (Photo courtesy of SS&TP) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Sandia Science & Technology Park will celebrate its 10-year anniversary at an event Friday, Aug. 15, from 10-11:30 a.m. at the Pocket Park II on Innovation Parkway, and Gibson Avenue, SE. Confirmed speakers for the...

August 13, 2008 • Sandia researcher Jaideep Ray has developed a model that can determine in the first few days of an epidemic how fast the disease will spread and how many people may be infected. (Photo by Randy Wong) LIVERMORE, C.A. — Imagine an outbreak of a disease like SARS (severe acute respiratory...

March 15, 1996 • A dust mite, no bigger to the human eye than a tiny dot, crawls over one of Sandia's micromachines. The machine turns gears, each smaller in diameter than a human hair and one-hundredth the weight of the dust mite, at hundreds of thousands of revolutions per minute.To receive a copy...

January 28, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) announced this week that it has named Sandia National Laboratories a Satellite Facility to support the Institute's multi-disciplinary science and technology development program. NIJ is the research and development branch of the U.S. Department of Justice for state and local law...

June 24, 1997 • Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, N.M. -- When Sandia's Hal Post saw the woman peer through the brush and wonder aloud about the large photovoltaic array some thirty yards from the visitors' path, he was absolutely delighted. For it's notice that Sandia photovoltaics scientists and engineers are hoping the photovoltaics...

April 29, 1998 • Joseph Henfling tests electronics in a high-temperature oven in the Geothermal Research Department at Sandia National Laboratories. Research under way in the department may improve the economic feasibility of using geothermal energy to produce electricity. (Photo by Randy Montoya)Download 150dpi JPEG image, 'GeoOven.jpg', 1.6MB ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Research under way in...

August 20, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Three Sandia National Laboratories scientists who proposed methods to investigate or restore damaged environmental areas each have won grants of more than a million dollars from the Department of Energy to test the validity of their proposals. The awards are among 135 distributed nationally to 52 universities...

March 7, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A seven-month-old Sandia National Laboratories program to help small New Mexico businesses solve pressing technical problems is off to a fast start, with more than 110 projects under way or completed. More than 190 businesses have applied for such help, and more are coming in every week,...

April 11, 2001 • THIS COMPUTER-GENERATED illustration shows extreme ultraviolet light (EUVL) as a beam (colored purple) being generated from a plasma source in the top right-hand side of the apparatus, which was assembled at Sandia/California.Download 300dpi JPEG image, ‘chamber2.jpg’, 372K (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories.) LIVERMORE, Calif. —...

July 2, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has received the U.S. Department of Energy’s Small Business Special Emphasis Award. The award was presented at the second annual DOE Small Business Conference, “Excellence in Energy with Small Businesses,” in Las Vegas, Nev., June 19-22. The Special Emphasis Award was given to Sandia...

August 8, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and Lockheed Martin Corporation are sponsoring the sixth Annual Student Internship Program Symposium at the Albuquerque Old Town Sheraton Hotel on Aug. 9. Some 250 students from Sandia and other national labs are presenting papers and posters detailing research assignments. The college interns, who...

September 5, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Enabling the blind to see — a task once thought the province of miracles — is the goal of a technical team that includes Sandia National Laboratories, four other national labs, a private company, and two universities. GOT YOU IN MY SIGHTS — A prototype of the...

February 18, 2004 • ONE PRIMARY APPLICATION of miniSAR will be reconnaissance on small UAVs such as the AAI Corp. Shadow seen in this picture. This class of small UAVs can carry a payload of 50 pounds, which is considerably less than existing small UAVs can carry. The miniSAR will have two primary applications....

February 18, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Officials of the University of New Mexico, Sandia National Laboratories, and Lockheed Martin Corporation on Wednesday will sign an agreement that formalizes a unique collaborative initiative to nurture scholarly thought and research on policy issues linked to threats to national and international security. A new Office for...

July 28, 2004 • Kent Biringer (center) of Sandia’s Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) shows Nazir Kamal (left), an international relations expert from Pakistan, and Pravin Sawhney, a journalist and former major in the Indian army, a model of a nuclear missile in this 1998 photo taken at the CMC. Kamal and Sawhney were at...

December 4, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Laptops make laps hot, as users of mobile lightweight computers sometimes learn dramatically. And things could get worse: upcoming chips may produce 100 watts per square centimeter — the heat generated by a light bulb — creating the effect of an unpleasantly localized dry sauna. (Current chip...