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Longtime Sandia leader named second-in-charge of national security lab
June 5, 2019 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Integrated Security Solutions Associate Labs Director Dori Ellis named deputy laboratories director effective June 28 after leading Sandia National Laboratories' California site. (Photo by Randy Wong) Click on the thumbnail for …
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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...
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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...
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Asian-American engineer sees prestigious national award as Sandia ‘career achievement’
February 20, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Ireena Erteza has engineering in her blood. She’s had a love for it as far back as she can remember. “My father showed me what it is to be a scholar and an engineer,” she said. “He was playful and creative. He gave me free rein to play...
Categories: Awards, Military / Defense
Former Sandia Labs executive named to National Science Board
November 16, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — President Barack Obama appointed former Sandia National Laboratories acting Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Julia Phillips to a seat on the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation. The president said Phillips and other recent appointees and to national boards are “fine public servants who...
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Path to success: Sandia women honored for leadership, science
August 26, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two women at Sandia National Laboratories were recognized by professional organizations for their leadership and groundbreaking scientific research. The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) recently gave Sandia President and Laboratories Director Jill Hruby — the first woman to lead a national security laboratory — its 2016 Suzanne...
High school girls recognized for math, science accomplishments
June 7, 2016 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Celeste Rohlfing, chief operating officer at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, congratulates Audrey Kurz, a student at Livermore Valley Charter Preparatory, for her outstanding achievement in math. Rohlfin…
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Geophysicist Marianne Walck named vice president of Sandia’s California laboratory
March 12, 2015 • New role includes leadership of Energy and Climate programLIVERMORE, Calif.—Sandia National Laboratories has appointed Marianne Walck vice president of Sandia’s California laboratory. She replaces Steve Rottler, who will become the deputy director and executive vice pres…
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Sandia’s Katherine Guzman receives national Hispanic award for technical contributions
October 31, 2013 • [caption id="attachment_8051" align="alignright" width="239"] Sandia's Katherine Guzman, who was recently named a HENAAC 2013 Luminary honoree. (Photo by Dino Vournas) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.[/caption]LIVERMORE, Calif.— The Hispanic Engineer Na…
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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…
New Mexico group wins money to educate public on climate science
June 20, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — With interest in climate change heating up, a New Mexico group has won a $3,000 American Chemical Society Presidential Climate Science Challenge Grant to help educate the public on climate science issues. The award to the Central New Mexico section of the ACS will help the group...
Science of soot lands Hope Michelsen in Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame
March 25, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Sandia National Laboratories scientist Hope Michelsen, who peers through atmospheric soot to learn about the air we breathe, has been named by the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame as the 2013 Outstanding Woman in Science. She is the first Sandia em…
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Keeping tabs on the world’s dangerous chemicals
February 15, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – In the chemistry labs of the developing world, it’s not uncommon to find containers, forgotten on shelves, with only vague clues to their origins. The label, if there is one, is rubbed away.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Sandia…
Engineering alternative fuel with cyanobacteria
January 7, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories Truman Fellow Anne Ruffing has engineered two strains of cyanobacteria to produce free fatty acids, a precursor to liquid fuels, but she has also found that the process cuts the bacteria’s production potential.[caption id=…
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Sandia shows monitoring brain activity during study can help predict test performance
September 10, 2012 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Sandia’s Susan Stevens-Adams wears a cap dotted with electroencephalography (EEG) sensors that are injected with gel to make sure they have good contact. EEGs are used as part of a study into memory and memory traini…
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Sandia’s CANARY software protects water utilities from terrorist attacks and contaminants, boosts quality
July 25, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Americans are used to drinking from the kitchen tap without fear of harm, even though water utilities might be vulnerable to terrorist attacks or natural contaminants. Now, thanks to CANARY Event Detection Software — an open-source software developed by Sandia National Laboratories in partnership with the Environmental...
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Sandia National Laboratories unlocks secrets of plague with stunning new imaging techniques
May 16, 2011 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="The difference between what was previously seen on the cell surface (left image) is dramatically different from what Jeri Timlin, Jesse Aaron, and Bryan Carson are now able to image (right). Orange areas correspond to th…
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Sandia and UNM lead effort to destroy cancers
April 18, 2011 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Melding nanotechnology and medical research, Sandia National Laboratories, the University of New Mexico, and the UNM Cancer Research and Treatment Center have produced an effective strategy that uses nanoparticles to blast cancerous cells with a mélange of killer drugs. In the cover article of the May issue...
Categories: Materials Science, Nanotechnology
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Tamara Kolda accepts high-performance-computing editorship of key journal
January 26, 2011 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Tamara Kolda has accepted a section editorship of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics’ Journal on Scientific Computing [SIAM SISC], overseeing the portion reserved for high-performance computing and software. “The journal just formed this section due to increased interest in computing,” Kolda said. “I was excited...
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Powering tribal lands: Sandia researcher to discuss off-grid, green technologies for rural areas at law seminar
April 30, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandra Begay-Campbell, leader of Sandia’s Tribal Renewable Energy Program and member of the Navajo Nation, will present “The Potential for Tribal Energy Resource Development in the Southwest” at the Tribal Energy in the Southwest Conference May 3-…
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Sandian honored by American Indian organization
November 24, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandra Begay-Campbell, a Sandia National Laboratories engineer and a member of the Navajo Nation, was selected for the prestigious Ely S. Parker Award by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society at an honors banquet Oct. 31 in Portland, Ore. Begay-Campbell, who has worked at Sandia for...
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Sandia’s Jerilyn Timlin earns NIH award for research into protein interactions
September 29, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jerilyn Timlin, a chemist at Sandia National Laboratories, has been presented by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with a New Innovator Award, one of 55 such awards granted by the NIH this year. The award encourages researchers to explore bold ide…
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Tameka Barrentine honored as Modern-Day Technology Leader
February 23, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Tameka Barrentine, computer scientist in the Software Engineering and Qualification Environments Department at Sandia National Laboratories, was named “Modern-Day Technology Leader” during the 23rd annual National Black Engineer of the Year Award (BEYA) Global
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