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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...

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

Topics: academic alliance, Atlas Detector, CERN, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, CRADA, Gamma Irradiation Facility, Higgs boson, Ion Beam Laboratory, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, University of New Mexico, unm

Fields of gold

April 4, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On a drive around Sandia National Laboratories, ecologist Jennifer Payne sees more than wide-open desert, grasslands, cacti and dirt. She notices tiers of soil that have experienced stress, looks closely at the height and spacing of vegetation and recites the Latin names of native New Mexico plants...

Categories: Biology, Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: Biology, ecological restoration, Ecology, Ecology Program, environment, jennifer payne, john kay, protection, Sandia, Sandia Labs, Sandia National Laboratories, steve cox, stormwater program

700,000 submunitions demilitarized by Sandia-designed robotics system

February 21, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — More than 700,000 Multiple Launch Rocket System submunitions have been demilitarized since the Army started using an automated nine-robot system conceptualized, built and programmed by Sandia National Laboratories engineers. “This is by far the most complex, automated robotic demilitarization system that Sandia has built in the last...

Categories: Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Army, automated system, automation, demilitarization, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, DoD, DOE, MLRS, Multiple Launch Rocket System, robot, robotics, Sandia, Sandia Labs, Sandia National Labs

CRADA boom spurs innovation, collaboration with Sandia Labs

November 19, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories signed more Cooperative Research and Development Agreements this past fiscal year than in any previous year this century, sparking dozens of new collaborations and potential technological innovations. “CRADAs are one of the crown jewels of the technology transfer industry,” said Sandia business development specialist...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: CalWave, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, CRADA, Electric Power Research Institute, Emera, Georgia Tech, German Aerospace Center, Sandia, Stevenson-Wydler

Chart showing yearly CRADA signings since 2000.

Wind tunnel and lasers provide hypersonic proving ground at Sandia National Laboratories

November 7, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It’s about speed, and Sandia National Laboratories, with a hypersonic wind tunnel and advanced laser diagnostic technology, is in an excellent position to help U.S. defense agencies understand the physics associated with aircraft flying five times the speed of sound. With potential adversaries reporting successes in their...

Categories: Military / Defense, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: aerosciences, hypersonic, large-scale testing, Sandia, wind tunnel

Steven Beresh and Russell Spillers place a model in the hypersonic wind tunnel

Veterans hired at Sandia Labs triples over past year

November 6, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The number of military veterans hired at Sandia tripled the last fiscal year, and marked the highest veteran hiring rate in the history of Sandia National Laboratories. As part of a broader laboratories recruiting strategy, Sandia engaged in a new deliberate and strategic military veteran hiring initiative...

Categories: HR / Personnel, Military / Defense

Topics: diversity, employment, military, Sandia, Sandia Labs, Sandia National Laboratories, veteran, veterans

Scientists, leaders take home five awards honoring their work

October 30, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Five Sandia National Laboratories employees with accomplishments in science, engineering, management or diversity and inclusion received career achievement and leadership awards. Three awards were presented to Sandia’s Chief Information Officer Carol Jones, chemical engineer Rekha Rao and electrical engineer Ireena Erteza at the annual Women of Color...

Categories: Awards

Topics: awards, Blythe Clark, Carol Jones, diversity, Ireena Erteza, Rekha Rao, Renee Holland, Sandia, Sandia Labs, Sandia National Laboratories, women of color, women worth watching

Early biologists catch the bird … and lizard … and snake

October 25, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Its heart beating rapidly, a wild gray flycatcher sits in the palm of a steady hand, making side-eye contact and shaking, waiting for just the right moment to escape from its perceived human predator. Mere seconds are filled with fear, connection and protection, and the moment is...

Categories: Biology, Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: amphibians, Animals, avian, birds, callan pope, Department of Energy, Ecology, Ecology Program, evan fahy, Kirtland Air Force Base, matthew baumann, reptiles, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, steve cox, Wildlife Biologists

Sandia Science & Technology Park celebrates 20 years, announces positive economic impact

August 24, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Sandia Science & Technology Park, home to 26 buildings, 47 companies and organizations and more than 2,050 jobs celebrated its 20th anniversary Friday and highlighted the park’s economic impact through 2017. Sandia National Laboratories Director Steve Younger joined Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller at SolAero Technologies Corp....

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

Topics: economic impact, news conference, Sandia, Sandia Labs, Sandia Science & Technology Park, SS&TP, tech park, technology transfer, the park

Catching dreams

June 7, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories in a new partnership with New Mexico Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement, or NM MESA, has increased the number of students in Sandia’s Dream Catchers Science Program. The latest hands-on science and engineering program was recently held at the University of New Mexico-Gallup campus....

Categories: Community / Education, Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: American Indian, community, diversity, education, national labs, Native American, outreach, partnerships, robotics, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, STEM, technology

Sandia physicist leads effort to revamp former jail into winter refuge for city’s homeless

November 13, 2017, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — One weekend a month, Rosalie Multari drives west through the petroglyphs, past the Three Sisters volcanoes, following dirt paths and loose gravel roads, until she reaches what was once an Albuquerque jail. Just inside the perimeter gate — still adorned with razor wire in some areas —...

Categories: Community / Education, Media advisories

Topics: community, Sandia, Sandia Labs, Sandia National Laboratories

Three Sandia engineers recognized for contributions to advancing women in STEM

October 24, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three Sandia National Laboratories engineers have been recognized by the Society of Women Engineers as part of its annual awards program for their support in the enrichment and advancement of women in engineering. Janet Williams won the Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes members who have made significant...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: APS, ASME, diversity, fusion, inertial confinement fuison program, inertial confinement fusion, LDRD, MESA, microscale, Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications, nuclear weapons, Sandia, Society of Women Engineers, STEM, SWAN, SWE, women in STEM, z machine

Trio of Sandia women recognized as leaders in STEM, diversity

August 9, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three Sandia women have received a Women Worth Watching Award, presented by Profiles in Diversity Journal. Chemical engineers Carol Adkins and Justine Johannes each received a Women Worth Watching in STEM Award and were recently profiled in the special STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) edition of...

Categories: Awards, HR / Personnel

Topics: awards, diversity, engineers, materials science, national labs, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, STEM, women in STEM

Grand Canyon rim-to-rim hikers provide data for Sandia study of health, performance

January 4, 2017 • LIVERMORE, Calif. – It takes a special type of person to hike from one rim of the Grand Canyon to the other in a single day. These motivated, resilient athletes now are helping researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM) to collect and study biometric...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: national laboratories, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, unm

Sandia researchers discover mechanism for Rift Valley fever virus infection

June 16, 2016 • Virus uses known cancer pathway LIVERMORE, Calif. — Viruses can’t live without us — literally. As obligate parasites, viruses need a host cell to survive and grow. Scientists are exploiting this characteristic by developing therapeutics that close off pathways necessary for viral infection, essentially stopping pathogens in their tracks. Rift...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

Topics: Biology, disease-carrying mosquito, Ebola, infectious disease, Journal of Virology, mosquito, mosquito-borne disease, Rift Valley fever virus, RVFV, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, virus, Wnt pathway, Zika

High school girls recognized for math, science accomplishments

June 7, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. – Celeste Rohlfing, chief operating officer at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), presented Sandia National Laboratories’ 25th annual Math and Science Awards to 28 young women from San Francisco Bay Area high schools. Rohlfing, a chemist at Sandia for 11 years, was one of...

Categories: Awards, Community / Education

Topics: awards, Celeste Rohlfing, community, education, mentoring, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, women in STEM

RAPTOR turbulent combustion code selected for next-gen supercomputer readiness project

May 27, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — RAPTOR, a turbulent combustion code developed by Sandia National Laboratories mechanical engineer Joseph Oefelein, was selected as one of 13 partnership projects for the Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR). CAAR is a U.S. Department of Energy program located at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. It...

Categories: Awards, Transportation

Topics: Center for Accelerated Application Readiness, Joseph Oefelein, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, supercomputer, turbulent combustion

A better prosthesis: Sandia invents sensor to learn about fit; system to make fit better

October 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As an amputee walks on a prosthetic leg during the day, the natural fluid in the leg shifts and the muscles shrink slightly. Now imagine the problem that poses for the fit of the prosthesis. There’s a growing need for a solution. The national Amputee Coalition says...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: biomedical engineering, prosthetic liner, prosthetics, Sandia, sensors, socket, veterans

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

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

Study could help improve nuclear waste repositories

September 19, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Here’s the question faced by a team of Sandia National Laboratories researchers: How fast will iodine-129 released from spent nuclear fuel move through a deep, clay-based geological repository? Understanding that process is crucial as countries worldwide consider underground clay formations for nuclear waste disposal, because clay offers...

Categories: Chemistry, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: chemistry, nuclear waste, Sandia, waste repositories

Sandia researcher Yifeng Wang examines a clay sample from South Dakota as part of iodide experiments. A team of Sandia researchers is working to understand how fast iodine-129 released from spent nuclear fuel would move through a deep clay-based geological repository.

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’s Nancy Jackson named American Chemical Society Fellow

August 21, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A Sandia National Laboratories chemical engineer whose team partners with chemistry labs around the world to ensure chemicals are handled safely and securely has been named a 2013 American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellow. The prestigious honor, given by t…

Categories: Awards, Chemistry, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, chemistry, Sandia, women in STEM

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

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

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