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Sandia helps Las Positas College manufacture the future
July 3, 2024 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories, with the support of the National Nuclear Security Administration, has donated machinery and attachments to Las Positas College in Livermore, supporting the expansion of a cutting-edge manufacturing program. Those machines will help train the next generation of California students in the art of fabricating...
Categories: Community / Education
Sandia employees teaching quantum science to the next generation
July 2, 2024, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — QCaMP is returning to New Mexico for its third year, with the goal of inspiring the next generation of scientists in the rapidly growing field of quantum science. Scientists from Sandia National Laboratories, in collaboration with instructors from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,...
DOE awards $7.4M for energy projects at Sandia National Laboratories
June 28, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions has awarded $7.4 million to develop seven projects at Sandia National Laboratories aimed at advancing clean energy technologies. Vanessa Chan, the Chief Commercialization Officer and director of DOE’s OTT office, announced the funding at an event in Albuquerque on...
Two Sandians honored with 2024 Women in Tech Award
April 8, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two Sandia National Laboratories employees have been honored with the 2024 New Mexico Women in Tech Award from the New Mexico Technology Council. The award recognizes remarkable women who drive innovation and excellence in their tech field and inspire and empower others to pursue careers in the...
Sandia pumps $140B into the economy through technology development
April 2, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — To say that the technology and products Sandia National Laboratories researchers have helped imagine, innovate and industrialize have had a massive impact on the country would be an understatement. Two studies commissioned by Sandia and the National Nuclear Security Administration show Sandia’s work has had an overall...
Los Alamos students headed to National Science Bowl
March 6, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Students from Los Alamos have once again proven that when it comes to science and math, they know their stuff. They were among the science and math buffs from seven New Mexico high schools who gathered this weekend at Albuquerque Academy for the Department of Energy Regional...
Sandia and UNM collaborate to build more efficient rocket
January 25, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sal Rodriguez, a nuclear engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, is forging a rocket revolution with the help of the University of New Mexico and student Graham Monroe. Their cutting-edge research is propelling the future of aerospace by infusing rocket science with a touch of golf ball magic....
Collaboration, innovation drive SIAM Fellow to succeed
August 11, 2023 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — For a man whose job is to envision outcomes, Ali Pinar says he was completely surprised when the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics named him one of its 2023 Fellows. “When I was pursuing my PhD, if somebody had told me I would become a SIAM...
Categories: Awards
STEM in the Sun keeps learning cool amid record temperatures
July 29, 2023 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Volunteers from Sandia National Laboratories helped wrap up summer break with fun, hands-on science, technology, engineering and math activities at the fourth annual STEM in the Sun program. With the outdoor temperatures hovering near 100 degrees, this year’s event was moved indoors, creating a unique environment for...
Safeguarding the nation with Untitled Goose Tool
July 28, 2023 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Programmers at Sandia National Laboratories are helping the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency protect the nation through an innovative program, assisting Microsoft cloud users everywhere in tracking down hackers and cyber terrorists. Untitled Goose Tool was introduced to the public through a CISA alert in March. Sandia...
Categories: Computing
Creating diamonds to shed light on the quantum world
September 20, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Diamonds are a scientist’s best friend. That much is at least true for physicist Andy Mounce, whose work with diamond quantum sensors at Sandia National Laboratories has earned him the DOE’s Early Career Research Award. As a scientist in Sandia’s Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, he specializes in...
Categories: Physics
Dedication, curiosity earn chemist DOE Early Career Research Award
July 8, 2022 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — After earning a Department of Energy Early Career Research Award, Krupa Ramasesha plans to launch an in-depth study of how interactions of nanoparticles with light drive chemistry — possibly the first step in helping the nation end its dependence on fossil fuels. “The goal of my work...
Categories: Awards
Black engineer awards distinguish Sandia Labs
February 28, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Ten Sandia National Laboratories engineers received Black Engineer of the Year Awards this year, including Most Promising Scientist in Government, Research Leadership, Science Spectrum Trailblazers and Modern-Day Technology Leaders. Honorees include Sandia mechanical, electrical, civil, aerospace and aeronautical engineers who excel in their respective fields. From the...
New testing method yields pathway to better, longer-lasting batteries
December 2, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Using a microscopic method for measuring electrical potential, a team of scientists at Sandia National Laboratories may have discovered how to make a longer-lasting, more efficient battery. The team of Elliot Fuller, Josh Sugar and Alec Talin detailed their findings in an article published Oct. 19 in...
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering
National 2021 Diversity Team Award goes to Sandia National Labs
September 30, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories recently was recognized for its contributions to its organization and communities as a 2021 Diversity Team Award winner by Profiles in Diversity Journal. Fifteen companies and 16 diversity teams are being celebrated this summer for their teamwork to advance the cause of diversity and...
High-speed alloy creation might revolutionize hydrogen’s future
September 20, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A Sandia National Laboratories team of materials scientists and computer scientists, with some international collaborators, have spent more than a year creating 12 new alloys — and modeling hundreds more — that demonstrate how machine learning can help accelerate the future of hydrogen energy by making it...
Sandia brings best cybersecurity minds to bear in national policy talks
August 23, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia hosted a series of virtual cybersecurity events, called Meetings of the Minds, to pull together the best thinking on how the nation should respond to changing threats. The first one was held Dec. 6, 2020, and the second on May 26. The first event brought together...
Categories: Cybersecurity
Engineer at Sandia Labs turns error detection into ‘secret language’ for data security
August 9, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Research into software error detection has led one Sandia National Laboratories engineer to develop a method — it works like two friends who speak their own language — to enhance the protection of digital content like email and social media messaging. Celestino Corral is an electrical engineer...
Categories: Cybersecurity
CRADAs, licenses lead to billions in economic impact since 2000
April 15, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Cooperative Research and Development Agreements and patent license agreements between Sandia National Laboratories and outside partners led to billions in economic impact and supported tens of thousands of high-paying jobs every year for the last two decades, according to a recent study on national economic contributions. CRADAs...
Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact
A song of ice and fiber
April 8, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers are beginning to analyze the first seafloor dataset from under Arctic sea ice using a novel method. They were able to capture ice quakes and transportation activities on the North Slope of Alaska while also monitoring for other climate signals and marine life....
Categories: Climate Change, Energy / Environment / Water
Walking the walk: Project controller honored for work toward inclusion at Sandia
July 31, 2020 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A man who didn’t walk on his own until age five because of spastic cerebral palsy has been helping Sandia National Laboratories take steps toward greater inclusion. He is now being honored by CAREERS & the disABLED magazine as an employee of the year — one of...
Categories: Awards
Sandia researchers use public data to forecast new coronavirus cases
June 30, 2020 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Global data networks that connect people through their devices have made it possible to create accurate short-term forecasts of new COVID-19 cases, using a method pioneered by two researchers at Sandia National Laboratories. Jaideep Ray and Cosmin Safta used a model developed by Ray more than a...
Terrorist, timed scenarios challenge bomb squads at Sandia’s Robot Rodeo
May 13, 2019, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bomb squad teams from New Mexico and beyond are converging at Sandia National Laboratories for a five-day Robot Rodeo and Capability Exercise where emergency preparedness skills will be put to the test. Twelve challenges for 10 military and civilian teams have been set up for the 13th...
Topics: bomb squads, explosives, Robot Rodeo, robotics, robots, Sandia, Sandia Labs, Sandia National Labs, simulated, training
National security, science collaboration bolstered by new agreement
May 9, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico are joining forces to bolster national security and advance science and engineering with an agreement signed this week. “Once we have that umbrella in place, it opens the knowledge cache of both institutions — our scientific researchers collaborating...
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