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Sandia Labs BEYA winner listened and excelled

February 16, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Growing up in Wichita, Kansas, Jon Madison had a strong sense of who he was and where he was going. “I wasn’t an average kid,” he said. “Whatever my peers were doing, chances are I wasn’t doing it. After school and weekends I helped with my family’s...

Categories: Awards, HR / Personnel, Materials Science

Topics: african american, awards, BEYA, community, diversity, engineers, materials science, STEM

Sandia Labs plans partnership center to boost collaboration, tech transfer

October 3, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will pursue a Center for Collaboration and Commercialization to strengthen partnerships, technology transfer and ties to the community. The center, known as C3, will support the city of Albuquerque’s and the University of New Mexico’s Innovation District and Innovate ABQ initiatives. C3 will offer...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, commercialization, community, economic development, economic impact, entrepreneurship, innovation, intellectual property, licensing, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, small business, tech transfer, technology

Sandia Labs tops $6 million in United Way donations

February 27, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories employees and retirees in 2013 increased donations to the United Way of Central New Mexico by 8.2 percent over the previous year, giving $6,050,426 to the charitable organization. “This level of generosity is astounding,” said Kelly Westlake, Sandia’s 2013 Employee Caring Program campaign chair....

Categories: Community / Education

Topics: community, donations, involvement, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, United Way

Economic impact report spotlights Sandia’s commitment to business

February 24, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories spent roughly $975 million on goods and services in fiscal year 2013 and New Mexico businesses were awarded more than $420 million, or 43 percent, of the total, according to the labs’ latest economic impact report. U.S. small businesses received nearly $500 million in...

Categories: Community / Education, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, community, diversity, economic development, economic impact, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, report, small business

Agreement lets Sandia, UNM staff work side-by-side

February 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has launched a new kind of collaboration designed to strengthen its research bonds with the University of New Mexico (UNM). “This is another sign of the close and deepening partnership between two of the pre-eminent research institutions in the state,” Sandia Vice President and...

Categories: Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, community, economic development, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, tech transfer, technology, University of New Mexico, unm

Black Engineer of the Year honoree inspires youth to excel in STEM

January 20, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — There’s more to receiving a Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) award than being a winner, says Aaron Brundage of Sandia National Laboratories. “The intent of the award is to provide guidance to young people to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM),” he says....

Categories: Awards, Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, BEYA, black engineers, community, diversity, education, engineers, national laboratories, national labs, STEM

Sandia showcase shines a light on research and tech transfer

September 4, 2013, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will again take its cutting-edge research and technology to the community at a daylong event that will also spotlight intellectual property and how to do business with the labs through licensing, partnership agreements, procurement and economic development programs. The second annual Sandia Research &...

Categories: Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, community, economic development, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, showcase, small business, tech transfer, technology

White House honors nurse for helping women veterans, children

April 29, 2013 • 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...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget

Topics: awards, champions of change, community, military, nurse, veterans, women

Sandia researchers bring lab experience to world of business

March 28, 2013 • 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...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, community, economic development, energy, engineers, entrepreneur, materials science, materirals science, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, small business, solar, tech transfer, technology

Albuquerque Academy team wins New Mexico Middle School Regional Science Bowl

March 2, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Students from Albuquerque Academy’s Team 1 are headed to the U.S. Department of Energy National Science Bowl in Washington, D.C., after taking the top spot at the New Mexico Regional Middle School Science Bowl at Albuquerque Academy on Saturday, March 2. More than 130 students from 29 teams representing 12...

Categories: Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: community, DOE, education, national laboratories

Sandia Labs tops $5.5 million in United Way donations

February 4, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories employees and retirees in 2012 increased donations to the United Way of Central New Mexico by 17.1 percent over the previous year, giving $5,508,717 to the charitable organization. When it passed the $5 million mark, Sandia became the first company to donate that amount...

Categories: Community / Education, Operations / Budget

Topics: charitable, community, donations, economic impact, education, involvement, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, United Way

Sandia Labs helps wounded veterans onto the career track

December 4, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Combat veterans often return with wounds, some visible, some not. Sandia National Laboratories has launched a hiring program with the goal of helping those wounded warriors get into the workforce and develop career-based skills and experience. “We want to give back to those who have given so...

Categories: Community / Education, Military / Defense

Topics: careers, community, education, hiring, military, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, veterans, warfighter, warriors, wounded, Wounded Warrior

Sandia Science & Technology Park fuels economy with jobs, tax revenue, spending

August 28, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The $1.89 billion in economic activity generated by the Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) since it was established in 1998 has produced more than $73 million in tax revenue for the state of New Mexico and $10.4 million for the city of Albuquerque, according to a...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, community, economic development, economic impact, jobs, national laboratories, national labs, research parks, Sandia, small business, tech transfer

Sandia employees donating $4.92 million

February 14, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia Labs employees in New Mexico pledged to give a record-breaking $4.66 million to nonprofits through the United Way of Central New Mexico during the annual fall Employee Caring Program campaign. With contributions earlier from Sandia’s employees …

Categories: Community / Education, Operations / Budget

Topics: charitable giving, community, national laboratories, Sandia

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