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February 5, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories has awarded a worldwide licensing agreement to NeoSafety, a workplace risk solutions company, to market the RAMPART™ method and software and co-develop a suite of complementary products. RAMPART™, for Risk Assessment Method — Property Analysis and Ranking Tool, is a...

February 28, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A system developed at Sandia National Laboratories and the New Mexico Department of Health to detect disease outbreaks more quickly than traditional reporting methods has been deployed in Southern New Mexico. The system demonstrates one of the goals of the Bi-National Sustainability Lab (BNSL) concept — the...

October 8, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- On the heels of his July 16 Nature paper about improving night vision devices with an artificial lattice that efficiently bends infrared light (see write-up, photos at https://newsreleases.sandia.gov/lincoln-log-like-structure-to-improve-infrared-and-optical-communications-optical-computers/), Sandia National Laboratories scientist Shawn Lin strikes again in a paper in the Oct. 9 issue of the journal Science. In it, Lin...

February 21, 2001 • Sandia National Laboratories principal investigator Tina M. Nenoff examines vials of recently crystallized SOMS powder. (Photo by Randy Montoya)Download 300dpi JPEG image, ‘Nenoff_SOMS.jpg’, 1.3MB (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories.) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers studying ways to capture radioactive chemicals swimming in a sea of hazardous waste...

March 13, 2000 • Time-exposure photo of the MTI satellite blasting into the night sky aboard an Orbital Sciences Corporation Taurus rocket early Sunday morning, March 12. (Sandia photo by Diana Helgesen)Download 300dpi JPEG image, 'MTI-Launch.jpg', 1.1Mb (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories.) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A Department of Energy research...

June 5, 2000 • DECON FOAM -- Sandia scientist Maher Tadros displays his Discover Award-winning decontaminating foam for neutralizing chemical and biological agents. (Photo by Randy Montoya)Download 300dpi JPEG image, 'Tadros.jpg', 626K (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories.) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Two technologies developed at the Department of Energy's Sandia National...

August 29, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories today announced that its formulation for the rapid decontamination of chemical and biological warfare agents has been licensed to EnviroFoam Technologies Inc. of Draper, Utah. The nonexclusive license agreement gives EnviroFoam rights to manufacture and sell products based on the formulation in all fields...

August 1, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When you turn on the spigot in the US, you expect the water to flow and be clean and safe to drink. You don’t think about it. Not so in parts of Mexico where the recent drought means decreased water quality or even no water at all...

November 13, 2002 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — College students seeking academic instruction that could help the U.S. win the war on terrorism will soon have an opportunity to learn from the best and the brightest and earn a Masters of Science Degree in National Security and Public Safety to boot. The University of New...

November 18, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is looking for businesses to serve as either mentors or protégés in its Mentor Protégé Program (MPP) for next year. Protégés in the program typically are small or growing businesses with a process or procedure in need of improvement. Mentors can be Sandia employees...

October 21, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is offering the nation’s outstanding new Ph.D.s in science and engineering an opportunity to conduct independent research of their own choosing within a national security context through a new prestigious postdoctoral research fellowship. The President Harry S. Truman Research Fellowship in National Security Science...

November 15, 2005 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — In the days of $2.50-per-gallon gas, tightening environmental regulations, debate over drilling in nature reserves, and lethal instability in oil-rich regions, is today’s internal combustion engine still relevant? If the hydrogen economy is still decades from becoming a reality, what transition approaches are researchers looking at, as...

October 22, 2008 • LIVERMORE, CA —Biofuels researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have been awarded $600,000 in funding for a two-year, Department of Energy-funded effort titled “Development of Saccharifying Enzymes for Commercial Use.” The award is part of a joint proposal led by industry partner DSM. Sandia engineer Rajat Sapra will serve as principal...

April 12, 2006 • TURBINES SPIN at the New Mexico Wind Energy Center, located 170 miles southeast of Albuquerque and 20 miles northeast of Fort Sumner.Download 300dpi JPEG image, “turbine-land.jpg,” 644K (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories.) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Some 100 wind turbine manufacturers, researchers, and suppliers will be...

May 25, 2006 • Texas Tech’s winning MEMS Device Characterization design includes structures for the measurement of material properties and a biocell for the characterization of cells and tissues.Download 300dpi JPEG image, “ttu_charact_design.jpg,” 412K (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories.) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An exceedingly small monorail and a chain...

July 2, 2003 • Systems analyst Dawn Manley (standing) describes the Weapons of Mass Destruction — Decision Analysis Center (WMD-DAC) computer program to a group of observers. The center, located at Sandia/California, uses medical data and sophisticated computer simulation capabilities to offer government officials and other decision-makers a realistic tool for responding to a...