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Scientists help entrepreneurs make business dreams come true

May 12, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bill Watts knows a thing or two about data-center computers. One is that they’re dangerous to move. “A server cabinet is 8 feet tall with 3,500 pounds of equipment,” he said. “If it starts to tip over, there’s no way you can stop it.” Watts, an Intel...

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

Topics: assistance, awards, business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, engineers, entrepreneurs, innovation, national laboratories, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, research, small business, tech transfer, technology

Sandia completes major overhaul of key nuclear weapons test facilities

May 8, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories recently completed the renovation of five large-scale test facilities that are crucial to ensuring the safety and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons systems. The work supports Sandia’s ongoing nuclear stockpile modernization work on the B61-12 and W88 Alt, assessments of current stockpile systems...

Categories: History, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: large-scale testing, national laboratories, national labs, nuclear, Sandia

Tech transfer program shares Sandia’s science, creates jobs for two decades

April 24, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For 20 years, Sandia National Laboratories researchers have been able to leave to start or join small companies, knowing they can return. Their work has made a difference: creating jobs, bringing Sandia expertise into the private sector and boosting economic development, a new survey shows. “The Entrepreneurial...

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

Topics: business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, engineers, entrepreneurship, national laboratories, national labs, research, small business, tech transfer, technology

Entrepreneur teams with Sandia scientists to bring life-saving vaccines to far reaches of the world

March 25, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Getting life-saving vaccines to the most remote parts of the world is no easy feat. Biopharmaceuticals are highly sensitive to heat and cold and can perish if their temperature shifts a few degrees. “The vast majority of the world’s population lives in areas where electricity and refrigeration...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Chemistry, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Cargo security partnership takes home national tech transfer award

March 10, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and two collaborators won the national Federal Laboratory Consortium’s 2014 Interagency Partnership Award. The award recognizes agency and/or laboratory employees from at least two organizations who together did outstanding work in transferring technology. The winning partnership included Sandia, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems...

Categories: Awards, Homeland security, Technology transfer / Economic Impact, Transportation

Topics: awards, business, collaboration, defense, economic development, economic impact, engineers, flc, Homeland security, military, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, tech transfer

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

White House honors four early-career Sandia researchers

February 17, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia researchers Matthew Brake, Adrian Chavez, Seth Root and Daniel Stick have been named by President Barack Obama as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the highest honor the U.S. government gives outstanding scientists and engineers who are...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, engineers, national laboratories, national labs, pecase, Sandia

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

Computer power clicks with geochemistry

January 28, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is developing computer models that show how radioactive waste interacts with soil and sediments, shedding light on waste disposal and how to keep contamination away from drinking water. “Very little is known about the fundamental chemistry and whether contaminants will stay in soil or...

Categories: Chemistry, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: computing, geochemistry, Geoscience, molecular modeling, national laboratories, national labs, radioactive waste, research, technology, waste disposal

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 Labs wins five regional FLC tech transfer awards

October 24, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won five regional awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC’s Far West/Mid-Continent regions gave Outstanding and Notable Technology Development awards to Sandia’s: SpinDx medical diagnostic tool; Sandia Cooler, which reduces energy to cool...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, flc, Homeland security, medical, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, tech transfer, technology

Sandia internship program serves up challenging national security work with a side of fun

October 17, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Keilan Jackson wanted real-world experience when he shopped for an internship for the summer of 2013. The Arizona State University computer science junior had completed other intern stints where his work was never put to use. From several options, he chose Sandia National Laboratories’ Technical Internships to...

Categories: Computing, Military / Defense

Topics: computing, cybersecurity, defense, education, engineers, Homeland security, internship, national laboratories, national labs, research, security, students, technology, training

Researching new detectors for chemical, biological threats

September 5, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories scientists are thinking small, building on decades of sensor work to invent tiny detectors that can sniff out everything from explosives and biotoxins to smuggled humans. Their potential seems unlimited. The military needs to find low concentrations of chemicals, such as those used in...

Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Homeland security, military, national laboratories, Sandia, sensors

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

Sandia and Arizona State University sign MOU

August 30, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University have signed a formal partnership agreement on important renewable energy challenges. The goals of the memorandum of understanding are to encourage collaborative research, build educational and workforce development programs and inform policy endeavors. The agreement enables the two institutions to...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: collaboration, energy, national laboratories, partnerships, renewable, solar

Project Neptune: Specialized gas detection for nonproliferation

July 24, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Trying to sniff out traces of hard-to-detect gases can be like trying to hear a whisper at the other end of a very large, very crowded, very noisy room. Sandia National Laboratories’ Project Neptune aims to design a system capable of sensing, from among the loud signals...

Categories: Nonproliferation

Topics: national laboratories, nonproliferation, Sandia

Hurricane season: Predicting in advance what could happen

July 17, 2013 • Sandia National Laboratories analyzes vulnerabilities to storms ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories team is gearing up for hurricane season, readying analyses to help people in the eye of a storm. The Department of Homeland Security’s National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC), jointly housed at Sandia and Los...

Categories: Homeland security

Topics: climate, DHS, Homeland security, hurricane, national laboratories

Sandia wounded warriors discover they were united in battle years ago

July 11, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jason Shelton and John Bailon left a Sandia National Laboratories Military Support Committee meeting side by side, sharing stories of combat in Iraq. Bailon talked about a day in the summer of 2005 when his Marine unit was called to rescue a small Joint Special Operations team...

Categories: Homeland security, Military / Defense

Topics: battle, careers, defense, Homeland security, iraq, military, national laboratories, national labs, veterans, Wounded Warrior

Fertilizer that fizzles in a homemade bomb could save lives around the world

April 23, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A Sandia engineer who trained U.S. soldiers to avoid improvised explosive devices (IEDs) has developed a fertilizer that helps plants grow but can’t detonate a bomb. It’s an alternative to ammonium nitrate, an agricultural staple that is also the raw ingredient in most of the IEDs in...

Categories: Chemistry, Military / Defense, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: bomb, chemistry, defense, fertilizer, IEDs, improvised explosive device, JIEDDO, military, national laboratories, national labs, non-detonable, security, technology

Sandia employees reach out to Hispanic students with Manos

April 15, 2013, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories is hosting its annual Manos program, which targets Hispanic middle school students and is designed to encourage interest in math, science and engineering. The program was launched 23 years ago by Sandia’s Hispanic Leadership Outreach Committee, today led by Sandia employees Pat Sena and...

Categories: Community / Education, Media advisories

Topics: education, national laboratories, Sandia, STEM

Better monitoring and diagnostics tackle algae biofuel pond crash problem

April 9, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Sandia National Laboratories is developing a suite of complementary technologies to help the emerging algae industry detect and quickly recover from algal pond crashes, an obstacle to large-scale algae cultivation for future biofuels. The research, which focuses on monitoring and diagnosing algal pond health, draws upon Sandia’s longstanding...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: algal ponds, biofuel, national laboratories, Sandia

New instrument will quickly detect botulinum, ricin, other biothreat agents

April 2, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are developing a medical instrument that will be able to quickly detect a suite of biothreat agents, including anthrax, ricin, botulinum, shiga and SEB toxin. The device, once developed, approved by the Food and Drug Administration and commercialized, would most likely be used...

Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: biothreat, National Institutes of Health, national laboratories, Sandia, toxin

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

Caterpillar, Sandia CRADA opens door to multiple research projects

March 26, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories and industrial giant Caterpillar Inc. have signed their first umbrella Cooperative Research & Development Agreement (CRADA), opening the door to a wide range of scientific research. “This agreement will lead to an expanded relationship with Caterpillar,” said Vic Weiss, the Sandia business development specialist...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, computer, computing, CRADA, economic development, national laboratories, national labs, partnership, research, Sandia, tech transfer, technology

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