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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

Students to learn about Sandia’s global security work during state STEM event

February 26, 2018 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Students learned about sticky foam during the Sandia National Laboratories STEM Day in 2017. Sticky foam was first developed at Sandia in the late 1970s and used for security applications. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click the thum…

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

Topics: community, engineering and math, science, STEAM, STEM, technology

National Hispanic engineering organization honors two Sandia engineers

February 5, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The technical achievements of two Sandia National Laboratories weapons engineers have been recognized by Great Minds in STEM, an organization supporting careers in science, technology, engineering and math. Systems analysis manager Steven Trujillo was awarded for his professional achievements and Humberto Santacruz, a lead engineer on Sandia’s...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, diversity, engineering and math, HENAAC, Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference, science, STEM, technology

Sandia donates $25,000 to Valley Children’s Museum

January 31, 2018 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories has donated $25,000 to the Valley Children’s Museum in Dublin, California. The grant, made possible through Sandia’s gifts and grants program, will be used to update the museum’s exhibit space and curriculum with engineering-themed activities. “Sandia is honored to be a partner in bringing...

Categories: Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: engineering and math, science, STEM, technology, Valley Children's Museum

American Indian Science and Engineering Society honors two Sandia employees

January 16, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Ginger Hernandez and Tribal Government Program manager Laurence Brown have been honored by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society for their career accomplishments. Hernandez is the recipient of the AISES Technical Excellence Award and Brown has received the Government Partner Service Award....

Categories: Awards

Topics: AISES, American Indian Science and Engineering Society, diversity, engineering and math, science, STEM, technology

Sandia National Laboratories researcher Ginger Hernandez has been honored by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society with its 2017 Technical Excellence Award.

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

Showcase to spur commercialization of Sandia technologies

September 16, 2014, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A showcase that brought Sandia National Laboratories’ cutting-edge research and technology to the community the past two years has a new look and target audience. Instead of an annual daylong gathering open to the public, the re-envisioned Sandia Technology Showcase will become a yearlong series of events...

Categories: Media advisories, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, commercialization, economic development, economic impact, entrepreneurs, intellectual property, investors, IP, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, showcase, small business, tech transfer, technology

Tech transfer awards salute innovation, commercialization at Sandia Labs

August 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won four regional awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC is a nationwide network of more than 300 members that provides the forum to develop strategies and opportunities for linking laboratory mission technologies...

Categories: Awards, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, collaboration, DOE, economic development, economic impact, flc, H2FIRST, Mantevo, national laboratories, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, renewable, research, technology, technology transfer

Moly 99 reactor using Sandia design could lead to U.S. supply of isotope to track disease

June 16, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque startup company has licensed a Sandia National Laboratories technology that offers a way to make molybdenum-99, a key radioactive isotope needed for diagnostic imaging in nuclear medicine, in the United States. Known as moly 99, it is made in aging nuclear reactors outside the country,...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, diagnostic imaging, DOE, economic development, economic impact, engineers, licensing, molybdenum-99, national laboratories, national labs, nuclear medicine, partnerships, radioisotopes, reactor, research, startup, tech transfer, technology

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

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

Moving technologies from the lab to the marketplace

March 13, 2014, Media Advisory • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Representatives from national labs, universities and business will gather for a Cleantech Open Business Briefing on March 18 at Sandia National Laboratories’ Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC) to highlight how those entities are working together to develop clean technologies and take them into the marketplace. The Cleantech...

Categories: Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: business, economic development, innovation, Swalwell, technology

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

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

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

“Popcorn” particle pathways promise better lithium-ion batteries

June 11, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have confirmed the particle-by-particle mechanism by which lithium ions move in and out of electrodes made of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4, or LFP), findings that could lead to better performance in lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles, medical equipment and aircraft. The research is...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Batteries, battery, lithium-ion, science, technology

Scientists team with entrepreneurs to make business happen

May 2, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Hurricane Katrina whipped up huge, powerful waves that caused severe destruction in 2005 along the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas. The size and strength of the waves convinced Phil Kithil of Santa Fe there had to be a way to harness that energy. His invention of a...

Categories: Awards, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, NMSBA, partnerships, research, small business, tech transfer, technology

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 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

Sandia’s new fiber optic network is world’s largest

February 28, 2013 • Fiber optic network saves energy, moneyALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has become a pioneer in large-scale passive optical networks, building the largest fiber optical local area network in the world.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="S…

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: computing, fiber optics network, national laboratories, Sandia, technology, Tellabs

Sandia awards information technology contracts to three firms

February 13, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has issued three information technology contracts totaling $353 million over a potential term of seven years. The awards streamline IT contracting at the labs. “These contracts replace current IT contracts that are expiring,” said Chris Slater of the Sandia Procurement group. “We are integrating...

Categories: Awards, Computing, Operations / Budget

Topics: business, computer, computing, contracts, economic development, economic impact, information, IT, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, small business, technology

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