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- August 14, 2009 Lab News -- JBEI fires ‘opening salvo’ with paper on deconstruction of switchgrass; Complexity research offers new design methods to strengthen cyber security; Livermore Valley Open Campus proposal gets green light from NNSA; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News)
- July 31, 2009 Lab News -- Sandia wins five R&D 100 Awards, plays role in sixth; Sandia computer scientists successfully boot one million Linux kernels as virtual machines; High school students address homeland security challenges; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News)
- July 17, 2009 Lab News -- Purer water made possible by Sandia advance; Sandia to sponsor system dynamics conference July 26-31; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News)
- July 3, 2009 Lab News -- Sandia SAR technology seeks water on the moon; New SunCatcher power system unveiled at National Solar Thermal Test Facility; Robot rodeo helps save lives by familiarizing bomb squad members with a variety of robots and each other; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News)
- June 19, 2009 Lab News -- Joint cyberdefense training session held at Sandia; Weapon Intern Program connects past, present, future of the nation’s nuclear weapons enterprise; Riding4Hope looks forward to an experience of a lifetime; Skywatcher: Dick Spalding charts his own path to understanding the planet; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News)
- June 5, 2009 Lab News -- Elastic salt? That’s a stretch; Students present MEMS designs at Sandia contest; Test driving the future at the Hydrogen Road Tour; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News)
- May 22, 2009 Lab News -- Sandia successfully completes hydrogen storage system for GM; Red Sky at night, Sandia’s new computing might; Sandia, Purdue investigate new methods for monitoring and operating wind turbines; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News)
- May 8, 2009 Lab News -- Sandia researchers awarded significant positions in DOE’s $777 million Energy Frontier Research Center program; Closer to a hydrogen car: Cy Fujimoto’s more durable, flexible hydrocarbon polymer electrolyte membrane could be key; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News)
- April 24, 2009 Lab News -- Seeing the colors of the rainbow, on the nanoscale; Sandia’s long-running satellite programs among largest at Labs; Sandia hopping robots to bolster troop capabilities; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News)
- April 10, 2009 Lab News -- Liquid sunshine: Labs’ Sunshine to Petrol team expects innovative prototype to be working soon; Neutron scatter camera hits the road; Giggling Springs turns up the heat: Project utilizes geothermal spring for space heating; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News)
- March 27, 2009 Lab News -- We saw it coming: Asteroid monitored from outer space to ground impact; Dragons and damsels: Sandian’s photos at New Mexico Tech photo exhibit capture beauty of Bosque del Apache; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News)
- March 13, 2009 Lab News -- Research points way toward chameleon-like camouflage; Sandia drives innovation with transportation energy hub; Desalination of saline and brackish water becoming more affordable, Sandia researcher finds; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News)
- February 13, 2009 Lab News -- Diamond triple-point and formerly unseen carbon state determined by team of Sandia researchers; Study finds biofuels can provide help reduce petroleum dependence; Sandia’s diamond-like films on board NASA satellite; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News)
- January 30, 2009 Lab News -- Biorefinery in a plant- the next step in biofuel production; Sandia’s impact on New Mexico economy put on display at summit; Cognition symposium boggles mind; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News)
- January 16, 2009 Lab News -- In 2008 Sandia helped the nation move closer to first high level nuclear waste repository; Sandia adopts new DOE model agreements to allow universities/industry to use facilities; Sandia Science & Technology Park receives top achievement award; McCorkle cited for leadership; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News)
- December 19, 2008 Lab News -- Sandia counterintuitive simulation-After a certain point, more chip cores mean slower supercomputing; Sometimes walls aren’t the answer: Sandia group provides access delay options for high-value facilities; National Security Agency honors Navid Jam for videoconferencing security work; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News)
- December 5, 2008 Lab News -- Gigantic ‘nanotubes’ examined at CINT; Right-sized reactor may soon become reality; Cell analysis platform now available for licensing, partnerships; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News)
- November 21, 2008 Lab News -- Sandia/LANL researchers quietly aided DHS in 2007 Minneapolis bridge disaster; Microencapsulation project gives local entrepreneur warm glow; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News)
- November 7, 2008 Lab News -- Sandia’s FACT site goes big; Sandia hosts fourth Decade of the Mind symposium; Sandia’s entrepreneurial program is back; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- October 24, 2008 Lab News -- Sandia sensor technology may help save wild horses; Indoor sensor siting analysis maximizes effectiveness of chem/bio detectors; Sandia assesses ways to protect Albuquerque youth from cyber predators; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- October 10, 2008 Lab News -- Examining aircraft bomb issues; Red Storm helps Navy shoot down errant satellite; FBI unveils science of anthrax investigation; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- September 26, 2008 Lab News -- Sandia aids cleanup of Iraqi nuclear facilities, rad waste; ‘A small star on earth’; New DOE renewable energy program managed by Sandia; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- September 12, 2008 Lab News -- Molten diamond appears — then disappears — in Sandia nano experiment; Lean journey leads to Shingo Prize; Sandia research drives cleaner diesel engine design; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- August 29, 2008 Lab News -- Little building blocks yield grand results; Dealing with the aftermath of a bioattack; Going really green: Algae could fuel future; Antineutrino detector could monitor nuclear reactors; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- August 15, 2008 Lab News -- Sandia developing technology to secure coastal areas; Interns bring enthusiasm, fresh perspective to Sandia; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- August 1, 2008 Lab News -- The secret life of cells; Technique estimates how many people will fall sick in an epidemic; Rad detection for non-port-of-entry border sites; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- July 18, 2008 Lab News -- Cracking the secrets of ice; Reducing the cyber threat to the nation’s electrical power grid; Homeland Security Workshop gives students experience in complexity; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- July 4, 2008 Lab News -- Sandia takes three R&D 100 awards; Sandia announces 2008 Truman Fellowship recipients; Everyone’s reading about JBEI; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- June 20, 2008 Lab News -- Sandia scientists spend year developing computer model of Iraq surface water and related systems; Research aids understanding of retrovirus transmission between human cells; Solution to high-energy costs could lie underground; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- June 6, 2008 Lab News -- Mercury manometer moves from Sandia to NIST; Hydrogen workshop highlights growth, diversity of projects, future opportunities; Sandia-led competition announces this year’s winners for innovative student MEMS designs; Visit by USCAR delegation exemplifies auto industry’s ongoing confidence in, reliance on CRF research; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- May 23, 2008 Lab News -- Behind the scenes on the ‘hydrogen highway,’ Sandia leads hydrogen embrittlement research; Bidding for Sandia’s business just got more dynamic; Brochure outlines Sandia’s impact to New Mexico and Albuquerque economy; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- May 9, 2008 Lab News -- Engineer Steve Yearout marks 25th anniversary sending sensors into space; Wind farm may be on the way for Sandia, Kirtland Air Force Base; Biofuels work gets another adrenaline shot; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- April 25, 2008 Lab News -- Sandia simulations may explain nanoparticles ‘pinned’ to graphene; The physics of carbon nanotubes; Team developing viable biofuel for military aircraft; Innovative DOE program (with Sandia help) reaches out to touch you with solar; NASA tests HYTHIRM systems for thermal, optical imaging; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- April 11, 2008 Lab News -- Petroleum Studies 101: Sandia economist Arnie Baker lists multiple reasons for gasoline price jump; Global warming, energy security are drivers behind ERN’s ‘big idea’ initiative; Sandia licenses its less-than-lethal flash-bang technology; Sandia researchers: Global water shortage looms; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- March 28, 2008 Lab News -- Sandia researchers purposely damage batteries to see how much abuse they can take; BioWatch Indoor Reachback Center contributing to DHS effort; Sandia part of DOE project to provide clean energy in Hawaii; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- March 14, 2008 Lab News -- Sandia leads three-year alliance with companies interested in nanoparticle coatings, films; Refurbished Z continues its march into the future; Sandia teams with Russian researchers to develop way to determine work readiness for critical ops; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- February 15, 2008 Lab News -- Sandia, SES set new world record for solar-to-grid efficiency; Sandians demonstrate verve in transferring Labs technology to private sector; Fresh off innovative ‘bionic contact lens’ project, Harvey Ho brings growing reputation to Sandia; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- February 1, 2008 Lab News -- International scientists weigh new definition for kilogram; One million trillion computations per second envisioned by Sandia and Oak Ridge researchers; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- January 18, 2008 Lab News -- Sandia researchers develop integrated energy-water model for planning/management purposes; NISAC assists in California wildfires; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- January 4, 2008 Lab News -- Sandia supercomputer simulations offer new explanation of century-old Tunguska mystery; Up to 20,000 soldiers a year may be trained in nonkinetic engagement with video game enhancements; Did early Southwest Indians ferment corn and make beer?; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- December 7, 2007 Lab News -- Sunshine to Petrol project seeks fuels from thin air; Joint Sandia/NASA inspection system helps complete shuttle mission to space station; Lowering the rate of bioaerosol detection false alarms; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- November 23, 2007 Lab News -- Buckyball birth observed by Sandia CINT researcher Jianyu Huang; Yucca Mountain uses Sandia cognitive software to verify records management compliance; Sandia named a ‘fit business’ by California Wellness Task Force; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- November 9, 2007 Lab News -- Sandia to help NRC license new generation of nuclear power plants; Sandia’s ‘big brains’ could tackle alternative fuels, says Wall Street Journal automotive editor Joe White; Laurence Brown, Sandia’s tribal government relations manager; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- October 26, 2007 Lab News -- How to solve the most ‘wicked’ problems; HENAAC honors Juan Torres with Pioneer Award and recognizes Monica Martinez-Canales as an outstanding role model; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- October 12, 2007 Lab News -- Z rides again: Test shots signal reopening of large versatile accelerator; Sandia hydrogen sensor follows unusual technology transfer path; Sandia researchers to develop portable microfluidic platform for rapid detection of biotoxins; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- September 28, 2007 Lab News -- LDRD stars illuminate their work; Neutron scatter camera provides a new way to look at radiation; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- September 14, 2007 Lab News -- Sandia spearheads launch of innovative National Institute for Nano Engineering; TufFoam™ still riding high as option for surfboard blanks; Sandia, University of Texas System continue to forge stronger bonds; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- August 31, 2007 Lab News -- MESA, Sandia’s largest project, opens; Sandia, partners evaluate vehicle barrier performance for borders; Sandia researchers help to make cars smarter; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- August 17, 2007 Lab News -- FEMA, Sandia announce new integrated public alert and warning capability; Radiation detection on the high seas; Ground Truth real-time-strategy game is serious business for Sandia software engineer; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- August 3, 2007 Lab News -- Cognitive Science and Technology Program becomes Sandia initiative; Computer models helping resolve conflicts over water; Sandia gets HYPER about hydrogen research; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- July 20, 2007 Lab News -- Checking aircraft for defects can be done 24/7 with advances in detection; Sandia wins five R & D 100 awards; Journal of Physical Chemistry honors Jim Miller with Festschrift issue; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- July 6, 2007 Lab News -- Self-assembled nanostructures function better than bone as porosity increases; Sandia to play key role in Bay Area-based DOE bioscience center; Sandia team supports development of US Army’s new lightweight, high-caliber, self-propelled cannon system; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- June 22, 2007 Lab News -- Sandia adapts: Optical clamp proves simpler, less expensive than traditional adaptive optics; Home for developmentally disabled children becomes site for Sandia arsenic water removal experiment; Sandia inventions win key awards from Federal Lab Consortium, praise from Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- June 8, 2007 Lab News -- More than the sum of its parts-- nanoparticles unlock the future of superalloy metals; Directed-energy defense weapon tested at Sandia explosives facilities; Sandia assists 293 small businesses in 2006; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- May 25, 2007 Lab News -- Sandia research indicates that lightning was the likely cause of Sago Mine explosion; Sandia builds ties to California’s clean energy initiatives; California Site wins major environmental management award from DOE; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- May 11, 2007 Lab News -- Sandia out in full force for Intel International Science and Engineering Fair; Liz Holm serves on committee to study new technologies to deter counterfeit currency; Sandia invention to make parabolic trough solar collector systems more energy efficient; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- April 27, 2007 Lab News -- Rapid-fire pulse brings Sandia’s Z method closer
to goal of developing high-yield fusion reactor; Decon formulation, best known as an anthrax killer, takes on household mold; Nanoscience and computer modeling come to the aid of MEMS-scale engineering
; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- April 13, 2007 Lab News -- Handheld instrument assesses dental disease in minutes; Patternable surface chemistry makes for robust, versatile, and accurate biomolecule detection; Sandia signs memorandum of understanding with U of Illinois; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- March 30, 2007 Lab News -- Sandia researchers take new approach to understand biochemistry of immunity to pathogens; Sandia brings the stars within reach; Professional Development Program begins for postdoctoral students; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- March 16, 2007 Lab News -- Exceptional service from pole to pole; Ice created in nanoseconds by Sandia’s Z machine; Energy, water closely linked, DOE report to Congress says; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- March 2, 2007 Lab News -- Global nuclear detonation detection system keeps watch on the world 24/7/365; Swarmy the robot: An innovative solution to clean in tight spaces; Sandia brings the Light Initiated High Explosive facility back online for stockpile surveillance tasks; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- February 16, 2007 Lab News -- Hey, kid, you stole my dog: Workshop on stolen dog interests students in science; Sandia searches for unexploded ordnance; There’s gold (plating) in them thar hills (of Livermore)!; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- February 2, 2007 Lab News -- Sandia-developed MiniSAR flies for first time on Lockheed Martin unmanned aerial system; CRF team awarded more than six million hours of supercomputing processor time to better understand flame phenomena;Wind turbine blade designed by Sandia and partner is first of its kind; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- January 19, 2007 Lab News -- Simulation monitors traffic in contraband material; Researchers work in terahertz spectrum to develop next generation of screening devices; Theory aims to describe fundamental properties of materials and facilitate broad research; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- January 5, 2007 Lab News -- Sandia’s ’determined and dedicated’ Yucca Mountain team up and running; A safer food supply: Sandia and FDA team to make it so; Nuclear Weapons team celebrates milestone: ISO certification; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- December 8, 2006 Lab News -- Sandia research to focus on early detection of harmful algal blooms; Jess lives -- Latest version of popular productivity-boosting software tool is released for licensing; ‘Deeply impressed’ DoD official praises Sandia-sponsored homeland security program for teens in Needles, Calif., as best in nation; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- November 24, 2006 Lab News -- Red Storm upgrade boosts Sandia supercomputer to #2 in world; Researchers develop better sensor detection system; Explosive testing yields plume modeling data; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- November 10, 2006 Lab News -- TRUPACT-III drop test nets valuable data on waste cask; Sandia Labs applies rich legacy of engineering, science, and technology to today’s most pressing national security challenges; LDRD Day highlights new research directions; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- October 27, 2006 Lab News -- Sandia, UNM research shows brain injury may occur within one millisecond after head hits car windshield; Z-machine shockwaves melt diamond; Aerion tests supersonic business jet wing at sled track; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- October 13, 2006 Lab News -- Sandia to be lead lab for national center for solid-state lighting R&D; DOE Office of Science awards grants to Sandia computational science projects; Data-sharing web portal is designed to change how chemical science is done; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- September 29, 2006 Lab News -- Secretary Chertoff dedicates new NISAC facility; Phase diagram of water revised by Sandia researchers; Sandia LDRI sensor continues to monitor space shuttle missions; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- September 15, 2006 Lab News -- LOGIIC helps keep oil, gas control systems safe; Solar tower testing supports future NASA missions; The riddle of the desert glass; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- September 1, 2006 Lab News -- Sandia plays role in DHS program to bolster commuter train security; National nanotechnology Core Facility formally opens; Three lightning detection systems alert outdoor workers that electrical storms are in area; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- August 18, 2006 Lab News -- Sandia experts field flurry of media calls in wake of busted British terror plot; Sandia develops contaminant warning systems for EPA to monitor water systems in real time; Sandia biofuels initiative pushes forward with Monsanto CRADA — will stretch Labs’ bioanalytical imaging and analysis; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- August 4 , 2006 Lab News -- Sandia experimental package of piezoelectric films to be part of NASA space station experiment; Sandia researchers solve mystery of attractive surfaces, work featured in Nature; Michael Dell visits Sandia, signs plaque with Labs President Tom Hunter; The elite cyber defenders of Sandia; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- July 21, 2006 Lab News -- Sandia microshutters flying aboard tiny NASA satellites; Sandia brings cleaner water to Jemez Pueblo; Sandia-developed device determines how well wind turbines operate; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- July 7, 2006 Lab News -- Hot is the new cool -- High-temp electronics open new era of devices, applications in energy, weapons; Teaming with Rockwell Collins sends miniSAR soaring; Truman Fellowship Program announces scholars for 2006; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- June 23 , 2006 Lab News -- Sandia preemptive spark helps find intermittent electrical short circuits in commercial airplanes; Sandia applies a surety approach in creating solutions to energy challenges; Wipeout? Not. Sandia’s TufFoam™ churns up waves of interest — and agreements — from domestic surfboard makers; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- June 9 , 2006 Lab News -- Accelerating engineering innovation; Tiny plumbing: License expands access for researchers to microfluidic fittings; Sandia collaborates with KSU in successful flight computer demonstration; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- May 26, 2006 Lab News -- US Strategic Petroleum Reserve expansion project gets technical assist from Sandia researchers; Albuquerque’s TVI and Texas Tech win in Sandia MEMS design contest; Diana’s Homegrown rids the world of soggy sandwiches; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- May 12, 2006 Lab News --
Bird flu concerns prompt Sandia pandemic preparations; Desalination roadmap seeks technological solutions to make brackish water drinkable; The future is now for nuclear power, say lab directors; DHS turns to Sandia for tech transfer help; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- April 28 , 2006 Lab News -- Labs Director Tom Hunter talks about his first year, creativity, compliance, benefits, weapons, and more; New guidance aids responders in dirty bomb scenarios; Distinguished lecturer David Goodstein discusses concerns about the end of fossil fuels; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- April 14 , 2006 Lab News -- Sandia engineers test cruise missile to qualify W80-3 in electromagnetic environments; MESA’s Microlab and Microfab open; building dedication slated for April 21; New York City assignment exposes Sandia specialist to metropolitan bioterror mitigation; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- March 31, 2006 Lab News -- Setting the standards for hydrogen; Sandia researchers work to understand hydrogen risks, improve safety codes and standards; New Integrated Stockpile Evaluation program to better ensure weapons stockpile safety, security, reliability; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- March 17, 2006 Lab News -- Global Nuclear Energy Partnership -- Another step on a long and winding road; Report -- Address global water scarcity, water quality issues around the world now; California site celebrates 50 years and rededicates; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- March 3, 2006 Lab News -- Sandia and partners work together to build prototype electromagnetic mortar launcher for future armies; Sandia’s Z machine exceeds two billion degrees Kelvin; Red Storm is ranked the world’s most efficient supercomputer in two of six categories ; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- February 17, 2006 Lab News -- NNSA chief Linton Brooks, Labs Director Tom Hunter introduce Red Storm supercomputer to news media, public; Joint Sandia, LLNL, DHS bio-restoration demonstration helps large transport hubs prepare for bioterrorism; Tom Hunter joins President Bush in panel discussion at Intel on America’s global competitiveness; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- February 3, 2006 Lab News --
Clean coal leads the way to a hydrogen economy for US; Rich Diver invents new way to make hydrogen for fuel; A simple solution helps design complex microfluidic devices; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- January 20, 2006 Lab News -- Carbon sequestration: Can we bury or store global-warming greenhouse gas underground?; Sandia researchers collaborate to understand key phenomena controlling PEM fuel cell performance, durability; Sandia-developed BioDAC simulation helps integrate military, civilian bioterror responses; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- January 6, 2006 Lab News --
Sandia researchers seek ways to make lithium-ion batteries work longer, safer; Sandia signs energy CRADA with Sharp Corporation; BP Chief Scientist -- The end (of oil) is not near; and more . . .(Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- December 9, 2005 Lab News -- Researchers model nano-size battery to be implanted in eye to power artificial retina; Sandia researchers aim to keep points-of-entry safe through systems-level modeling of operations; Exciting beginning, interesting future: Z machine turns 20;
and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- November 25 , 2005 Lab News -- Sandia ‘RAP artists,’ White Sands techs free stuck radiation source; Lightbringer Debby Tewa provides expert advice about photovoltaic units to people on Indian reservations; DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program mobile facility moves to Niger for year-long stay; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- November 11 , 2005 Lab News -- Sandia demonstrates Athena tag for preventing tragic battlefield ‘friendly fire’ incidents; Sandia to conduct three workshops to gauge nation’s energy and water concerns; Clean energy, gnarly waves, and redundant cell phone nodes; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- October 28, 2005 Lab News -- Pilot Sandia treatment system that removes arsenic from water demonstrated at Rio Rancho well site; Sandia lends expertise, assistance during hurricane cleanup; ACG ‘Future of War’ Think-Fest produces many sparks, no fires; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- October 14, 2005 Lab News -- Sandia researchers determine that common anthrax sampling methods need improvement; Remotely controlled guns guarding Y-12 high-security sites; Exercise missile ‘accident’ shows nuclear readiness by Sandians and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- September 30, 2005 Lab News -- ARM-UAV program hosts planning for expedition; Sandia study looks at large-scale emergency evacuations; Sandians Nancy Jackson and John Debassige honored with American Indian Science and Engineering awards; and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- September 16, 2005 Lab News -- Answering the nation’s call: Sandia part of team assessing aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; Labs project advances next-generation secure wireless networks; Education and learning focus of Sandia/Lockheed Martin gift and more . . . (Click on issue date for .pdf version of Lab News.)
- September
2,
2005
Lab
News --
Sandia
researchers
study
methods
for
removing
arsenic
from
drinking
water
to
help
meet
new
EPA
standards;
Disintegrating
asteroid’s
dust
monitored
for
first
time;
Sandia
optical
sensors
contributed;
CINT
facilities,
enhanced
by
thousand-year-old
Chaco
culture
decorative
style,
nearing
completion;
and
more
.
.
. (Click
on
issue
date
for
.pdf
version
of
Lab
News.)
- August
19,
2005
Lab
News
--
President
Bush
visits
Sandia,
signs
sweeping
energy
bill;
Pre-ceremony
presentation
highlights
Labs’
energy
R&D;
August
8
great
day
for
solar
power
technologies;
and
more
.
.
.
(Click
on
issue
date
for
.pdf
version
of
Lab
News.)
- August
5,
2005
Lab
News
--
Back
in
space:
Sandia
assists
with
NASA
Discovery
return-to-flight
projects;
Two
Sandia
microChemLab
technologies
soon
to
search
for
toxins
in
nation’s
water
supplies;
Labs’
engine
research
aims
high:
Reduce
US
oil
imports
30
percent
while
achieving
ultra-low
emissions;
and
more
.
.
.
(Click
on
issue
date
for
.pdf
version
of
Lab
News.)
- July
22,
2005
Lab
News
--
Sandia-developed
ElectroNeedles
may
give
diabetes
patients
a
way
to
painlessly
check
glucose
levels;
Four
R&D
100
Awards
won
by
Sandia;
Materials
Society
holds
third
annual
materials
camp
for
teachers;
and
more
.
.
(Click
on
issue
date
for
.pdf
version
of
Lab
News.)
- July
8,
2005
Lab
News
--
Sandia
conducts
materials
tests
at
Solar
Tower
to
benefit
future
NASA
planetary
exploration;
Sandia
purchases,
installs
high-capacity
‘Thunderbird’
supercomputing
cluster;
Technical
Library
trio
makes
worldwide
change;
and
more
.
.
.
(Click
on
issue
date
for
.pdf
version
of
Lab
News.)
- June
24,
2005
Lab
News
‘Active
Denial
System’
could
boost
security
of
DOE
nuclear
assets;
Silly
Putty
probe
yields
non-silly
results
about
time-dependent
material
properties;
Tom
Sanford
shares
European
physics
prize
for
work
on
Z
.
.
.
(Click
on
issue
date
for
.pdf
version
of
Lab
News.)
- June
10,
2005
Lab
News
Sandia
Labs
Director
Tom
Hunter
announces
Sandia
reorganization;
MiniSAR
flies
for
first
time,
taking
images
with
resolution
of
4
inches;
Texas
Tech
wins
Sandia
MEMS
design
competition
.
.
.
(Click
on
issue
date
for
.pdf
version
of
Lab
News.)
- May
27,
2005
Lab
News
Z
accelerator
pushes
aluminum
plates
faster
than
Earth
moves
through
space;
Team
discovers
unsuspected
intermediates
in
the
chemistry
of
combustion;
Retiring
VP
Pace
VanDevender
looks
back
on
three
decades
at
Sandia;
and
more
.
.
.
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- May
13,
2005
Lab
News
Homeland
Security
Secretary
Chertoff
visits
Sandia,
speaks
highly
of
Labs'
antiterrorism
technologies;
Sandia-developed
game
helps
Special
Forces
learn
adaptive
thinking,
problem
solving;
Sandia's
'SMART'
radiation
detection
technology
is
helping
thwart
terrorists;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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- April
29,
2005
Lab
News
Sandia
assists
with
project
to
maintain
vehicles’
tire
pressure
automatically;
Working
to
make
New
Mexico’s
chile
industry
high-tech
and
healthy;
Innovative
Kansas
City
Plant
process
yields
lubricant
of
unprecedented
thinness
--
with
help
of
Sandia;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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- April
15,
2005
Lab
News
Paul
Robinson
to
leave
Labs
after
10
years,
Tom
Hunter
to
succeed
him;
Tom
Hunter
brings
years
of
diverse
experience
to
position
as
Director
of
Sandia
National
Laboratories;
Paul
Robinson's
tenure
as
Labs'
chief
marked
by
accomplishment,
growth;
and
more
.
.
.
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April
1,
2005
Lab
News
Sandia
assists
NASA
with
space
shuttle
rollout
test
;
Laser
detection
of
cancer
cells
reported;
Egyptian
engineers,
other
specialists,
learn
safe
handling
of
sealed
radioactive
sources;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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- March
18,
2005
Lab
News
Tiny
porphyrin
tubes
may
lead
to
new
nanodevices;
ARM-UAV
program
makes
it
to
the
arctic
for
first
time;
Forensic
gemology:
Stephen
Attaway’s
research
hobby
casts
new
light
on
origins,
history
of
Hope
diamond;
and
more
.
.
.
(Click
on
issue
date
for
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March
4,
2005
Lab
News
Sampling
‘small
atmospheres’
in
the
tiny
new
worlds
of
MEMS;
Success
story
for
Sandia’:
Munitions-destroying
Explosive
Destruction
System
shown
to
employees;
DOE
Secretary
Samuel
Bodman
visits
Sandia
Labs;
and
more
.
.
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on
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date
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February
18,
2005
Lab
News
Army
and
Air
Force
to
acquire
Sandia
Gauntlet
body
armor
for
field
evaluation;
Texas
police,
border
agents
using
Labs’
sniffer
to
nab
drug
traffickers;
Sandia,
UT
unveil
agreement
for
close
strategic
partnership;
and
more
.
.
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on
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date
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February
4,
2005
Lab
News
Sandia
tests
wing
sensors
that
will
be
used
on
NASA’s
next
shuttle
mission;
Sandia
researchers
seek
new
nonpolluting
ways
to
produce
hydrogen
fuel
from
water
and
sunlight;
GM
joins
with
Sandia
to
advance
hydrogen
storage;
and
more.
.
.
(Click
on
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date
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- January
21,
2005
Lab
News
Sandia,
Lockheed
Martin
develop
electromagnetic
missile
launcher
for
naval
shipboard
operations;
Researchers
develop
portable
device
that
can
detect
disease;
.
.
.
and
more
(Click
on
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date
for
.pdf
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- January
7,
2005
Lab
News
Sandia’s
Robinson,
Woodard
share
their
thoughts
on
the
state
of
the
Labs;
Optical
innovator
Jon
Weiss
uses
soda-straw-like
tubes
to
solve
three
widespread
problems;
Labs
computational
scientists
team
with
artists
to
capture
and
display
gigapixel-sized
images;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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- December
10,
2004
Lab
News
TSA
installs
Sandia
licensee’s
explosives-sniffing
walk-through
portal
at
airport
terminal;
Sandia
to
begin
testing
innovative
arsenic
removal
technologies;
Sandia’s
assistance
helps
lead
to
successful
launch
of
innovative
airplane
cargo
containers;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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- November
26,
2004
Lab
News
El
Paso
police,
Sandia
working
together
on
high-tech
approach
to
law
enforcement,
forensics
investigations;
How
Sandians
helped
keep
radioactive
materials
from
terrorists
at
Olympics;
Sandia,
National
Instruments
build
versatile
wireless
sensor
platform
for
use
by
scientists,
engineers;
and
more
.
.
.
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- November
12,
2004
Lab
News
Imaging
the
maelstrom
about
Z’s
center;
Labs
researchers
share
their
work
at
annual
biotech
conference;
National
laboratory
women
gather
at
LBL
to
explore
employee
pipeline
issues;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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- Oct.
29,
2004
Lab
News
Sandia
joins
forces
with
Stirling
Energy
Systems
to
build,
test
mini
power
plant
of
six
solar
dish
systems;
Presidential
Science
Advisor
John
Marburger
receives
Sandia
science
overview;
and
more
.
.
.
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- Oct.
15,
2004
Lab
News
Sandia
gets
DOE/NNSA
approval
for
Z
machine
refurbishment;
Labs,
Pantex,
NNSA
officials
dedicate
WETL,
the
new
state-of-the-art
weapon
testing
facility;
sandians
play
key
role
in
big
accident
response
exercise
in
Montana;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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- Oct.
1,
2004
Lab
News
Sandia
creates
tiny
motion
detector
1000
times
more
sensitive
than
any
known;
Weapons
Integration
Facility
breaks
ground
in
New
Mexico;
DHS
Undersecretary
McQueary
says
nation
better
prepared
for
homeland
defense;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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- September
17,
2004
Lab
News
Sandia
showcases
technologies,
capabilities
to
National
Guard;
Homeland
Security
scholars
work
on
key
projects
at
Sandia;
Strategic
Education
Plan
initiative
to
bring
renewed
commitment
to
continuous
education
at
Labs;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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- September
3,
2004
Lab
News
Sandia
researchers
team
with
Mexican,
university
partners
on
hydroponic
agriculture
tests;
Labs
and
Livermore
police
demonstrate
"sensor
management
architecture"
for
rapid
deployment
of
detection
system
;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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August
20,
2004
Lab
News
Sandia
aids
Navy
in
study
of
aircraft
carrier
operations;
Sandia
researchers
help
countries
secure
potential
"dirty
bomb"
materials;
Labs
president
C.
Paul
Robinson
shares
views
on
visionary
global
nuclear
future
vision;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
for
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August
6,
2004
Lab
News
Sandia
synthetic
aperture
radar
technology
used
in
search
and
rescue;
Sandia
researcher
grows
great
terahertz
crystals;
DOE,
Russian
labs
sign
pact
on
nuclear
power
cooperation;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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-
July
23,
2004
Lab
News
Long-awaited
Red
Storm
supercomputer
rising
at
Sandia;
Legislation
takes
aim
at
safe,
secure,
sustainable
water
supplies
through
technology,
national
policy
support;
Sandia
research
wins
two
R&
D
100
Awards;
Sandia
'Working
on
the
railroad';
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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July
9,
2004
Lab
News
NanoSummit
explores
nanotechnology
for
energy,
security
needs;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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June
25,
2004
Lab
News
Desalination,
removal
of
arsenic
to
be
focus
of
water
research
at
Sandia
for
next
few
years;
Researchers
from
Sandia,
LANL
achieve
wireless
nanocrystal
breakthrough;
Youssef
Marzouk,
Gregory
Nielson
named
Sandia's
first
Truman
Fellows;
Paul
Robinson
addresses
challenges,
possibilities
for
post-Cold
War
strategic
deterrence;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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June
11,
2004
Lab
News
Center
for
Integrated
Nanotechnology
breaks
ground;
Shuttle
Columbia
study
indicates
Sandia
shares
many
cultural
attributes
with
NASA;
Waste
Isolation
Pilot
Plant
overview;
Sandia
called
top
"employer
of
choice
in
Aviation
Week
survey;
and
more
.
.
.
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May
28,
2004
Lab
News
Sandia-designed
space
reactor
could
drive
in-orbit
salvage
tug;
Sandia,
University
of
Colorado-Colorado
Springs
to
collaborate
on
MEMS,
nano,
and
software
projects;
Sandians
propose
plan
to
simplify
security
measures
for
bioresearch;and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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May
14,
2004
Lab
News
Sandia
named
a
virtual
center
of
Excellence
for
hydrogen
storage
research;
DOE
Secretary
Abraham
on
hand
to
help
launch
Sandia
Joint
Computational
Engineering
Lab;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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April
30,
2004
Lab
News
Joint
Computational
Engineering
Lab
opens;
Sandia,
military
team
on
conventional
weapon
for
hardened
deeply
buried
targets;
Self-assembly
process
forms
durable
nanocrystal
arrays,
independent
nanocrystals
and
more
.
.
.
(Click
on
issue
date
for
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April
16,
2004
Lab
News
Sandia
researcher
brings
Bell
Labs
technique
to
wiring
molecules;
Combustion
Research
Facility
team
and
partners
measure
car's
particulate
emissions
driving
on
road;
and
more
.
.
.
(Click
on
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date
for
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April
2,
2004
Lab
News
Sandia
Carlsbad,
N.M.,
office
evacuated
after
well
blow-out;
Labs
prototypes
new
organizational
arrangement
for
MESA
research;
Sandia,
UT
institutions
announce
research
pact;
and
more
.
.
.
(Click
on
issue
date
for
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March
19,
2004
Lab
News
Labs'
tools
to
help
NASA
get
shuttles
space-bound
again;
Labs
launches
test
capabilities
revitalization
effort;
Sandia
researchers
among
those
named
as
Asian
American
engineers
of
the
year;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
for
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March
5,
2004
Lab
News
Sandia
technology
could
help
avert
friendly
fire
casualties;
Labs
symposium
focuses
on
hydrogen
storage,
other
emerging
technologies;
Sandia
team
heads
to
Central
America
with
energy
solutions;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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February
20,
2004
Lab
News
Sandia's
"inchworm"
activator
studies
friction
at
the
microscale;
California
site
team
solves
a
mystery
of
magnetism
and
chemistry;
Sandia's
President
and
executive
VP
discuss
state
of
the
labs;
Novel
simulations
harness
protiens
to
buold
new,
desirable
nanostructures;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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February
6,
2004
Lab
News
Sandia
decontamination
foam
liley
would
stop
SARS
virus;
MiniSAR
reduces
synthetic
aperture
radar
to
30-lb.
package;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
for
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January
23,
2004
Lab
News
Sandia/UNM
team
manipulates
platinum
at
nano
scale;
Labs
technology
helps
JPL
with
successful
Mars
landings;
Ultraviolet
fiber-based
laser;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
issue
date
for
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January
9,
2004
Lab
News
Labs
help
track
potential
dirty
bomb
material;
Sandia's
Airworthiness
Assurance
Center
acquires
Boeing
727
for
research
use;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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December
12,
2003
Lab
News
Sandia,
Columbia
U.
researchers
create
extremely
cold
molecules;
mock
bio
attack
drills
emergency
responders
at
SFO;
Shoes
for
Kids
program
enters
47th
year;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
for
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November
28,
2003
Lab
News
Overview
of
Sandia's
Kauai
Test
Facility;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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-
November
14,
2003
Lab
News
Ultraviolet
LEDS;
Cooperative
Monitoring
Center@Amman
opens;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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October
31,
2003
Lab
News
Sandia
researcher's
controllable
magnetic
particles;
Labs
announces
Truman
postdoc
felllowship;
Norm
Augustine
talks
leadership,
technology;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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October
17,
2003
Lab
News
Sandia
works
with
NASA
on
hypersonic
aircraft;
Sandia
Corp.,
NNSA
sign
'model'
GOCO
contract;
Sandia
Senior
VP
Tom
Hunter
talks
about
weapons
program;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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October
3,
2003
Lab
News
Sandia
researchers
develop
ultra-high-temperature
ceramics;
'New
Water'
meeting
attendees
discuss
use
of
brackish
water
resources;
Farewell,
Galileo:
Sandia's
rad-hardened
electronics
served
you
well;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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September
19,
2003
Lab
News
Sandia
nanolaser
research
could
extend
life;
Sandia,
NM
Tech,
LANL
sign
MOU
on
energetic
materials
research;
Sandia
names
Gosler,
Brinker
as
Fellows;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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September
5,
2003
Lab
News
Sandia
aids
NASA
in
Colubia
shuttle
accident
investigation;
Sandia,
Rockwell
Collins
sign
R&
D
MOU;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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August
22,
2003
Lab
News
Sandia
formally
breaks
ground
on
MESA
project
--
"a
momentous
day
for
Labs";
Explosive
destruction
System
gets
workout
on
both
sides
of
"pond";
Instant
Shooter
ID
Kit
being
used
in
combat
theaters;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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August
8,
2003
Lab
News
Sandia
researchers
create
nanocrystals
nature's
way;
Journey
toward
improved
business
systems
continues
at
Sandia;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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July
25,
2003
Lab
News
Sandia
researchers
win
or
share
seven
R&
D
100
awards;
Sandia
microdevice
rapidly
separates
proteins,
researchers
report
in
Science;
Public
health
officials,
Sandia
test
Labs-designed
antiterrorism
planning
tool;
and
more
.
.
.
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date
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July
11,
2003
Lab
News
Quantum
dots
used
in
solid
state
lighting
initiative;
Labs,
military
team
to
make
bases
"grid
free";
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
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June
27,
2003
Lab
News
Photoic
lattice
emissions
exceed
Planck's
Law;
Center
for
Integrated
Nanotechnology
advances;
Labs
President
Paul
Robinson
weighs
in
on
polygraph
rulemaking;
and
more
.
.
.
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on
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date
for
links
to
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2003
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Xyce
software
sparks
interest;
Labs
sign
pact
to
cooperate
on
nuclear
energy
R&
D;
Sandia,
Kurchatov
to
collaborate
in
some
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Sandia
Microhound
'sniffer'
goes
to
federal
emergency
responders
for
evaluation;
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MTI
satellite
completes
three-year
mission
objectives;
Labs,
Zircle
LP
sign
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tech
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help
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bonelike
scaffolding
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Homeland
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officials
like
what
they
see
at
Labs;
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nuclear
weapons
tester
device
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secure,
reliable
stockpile;
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aiding
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Yucca
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San
Francisco
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Airport
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up
on
chem/bio
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2003
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Annual
State
of
the
Labs
interview;
Labs
aids
Forest
Service
on
tanker
safety;
LEDS
have
bright
future;
Z
machine
produces
fusion
neutrons;
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.
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2003
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with
ports
on
security
issues;
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scientists
seek
cognitive
machines;
Researchers
study
antineutrino
production
as
reactor
monitoring
protocol;
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March
21,
2003
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VP
Jim
Tegnelia
talks
about
DoD
relationship;
Labs
researchers
developing
new
ways
to
conserve
water
in
agricultural
applications;
earth
penetrators;
and
more
.
.
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March
7,
2003
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Sandia
leaders
present
annual
State
of
the
Labs
report
to
the
community;
Labs
aids
in
stand-up
of
Homeland
Security
Department;
Sythetic
aperture
radar
comes
of
age;
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more
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.
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February
21,
2003
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Sandia
researchers
study
underground
carbon
dioxide
storage
options;
Labs,
Bureau
of
Reclamation
develop
desalination
technology
roadmap;
Consortium
honors
Extreme
Ultraviolet
Lithography
accomplishments;
Sandia,
UNM
launch
security
policy
think
tank;
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more
.
.
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7,
2003
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Sandia
research
reactor
back
on
line
after
upgrades;
sandia
develops
new
generation
of
microfuzes
for
safer,
more
reliable
and
secure
weapons
control;
and
more
.
.
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January
24,
2003
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Stockpile
surveillance
program
vital
to
managing
aging
stockpile;
SnifferStar
sniffs
outs
chemical
agents;
Telemetry
systems
for
flight
test
units;
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more
.
.
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10,
2003
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DOE
Secretary
Abraham
announces
extension
of
Lockheed
Martin
contract
to
manage
Sandia
National
Labs;
Sandia
scientists'
efforts
recognized
by
C
and
E
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2003
Sandia
org
chart;
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13,
2002
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Geothermal
energy
gets
boost
in
form
of
polyurethane
grout;
Sandia
scientist
sleuthes
smallpox
outbreak;
Visualization
hardware
brings
distant
collaborators
closer
together;
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November
29,
2002
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Smart
heat
pipes,
cool
laptops;
labs
scientists
win
prestigious
Gordon
Bell
supercomputer
award;
Carbon
sequestration;
and
more
.
.
.
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November
15,
2002
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Blast
suppression
foam;
Concurrent
design
and
manufacturing
at
Sandia;
Labs
researchers
involved
in
studying
fusion
energy
futures;
and
more
.
.
.
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November
1,
2002
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Sandia,
Cray
seek
to
build
world's
fastest
computer;
Marine
orders
decon
formulation
in
deployment
quantities;
Labs-developed
shooter
id
kit
helps
solve
real
crimes;
Reactor
experiments
provide
data
to
update
shipping
regulations;
and
more
.
.
.
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October
18,
2002
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B61
trainer
delivered;
Army
orders
decon
foam
in
deployment
quantities;
Polygraph
policy
update;
RSA
for
health
care
or
child
care
explained;
and
more
.
.
.
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October
4,
2002
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Jeff
Brinker
wins
DOE's
E.O.
Lawrence
Award;
Neutron
generator
team
attains
milestone;
Benefits
Choices
2003
info;
and
more
.
.
.
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20,
2002
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Retinal
prosthesis
advances;
Boeing,
Sandia
sign
CRADA;
Mexican
indigenous
group
views
labs'
solar
work;
and
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.
.
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6,
2002
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Paul
Robinson
on
9/11;
Miniaturized
lipid
biosensors;
CAMU
begins
treatment
at
chemical
waste
landfill;
and
more
.
.
.
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August
23,
2002
Lab
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Microarray
technology
could
aid
in
disease
diagnosis,
prevention;
Sandians
involved
in
Yucca
Mountain
research;
New
compound
could
immobilize
AIDS
virus;
and
more
.
.
.
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August
9,
2002
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Researchers
pursue
biologically
fueled
microcells;
Center
for
Integrated
Nanotechnology
advances;
Joint
Computational
Engineering
Facility
launched;
California
lab
gets
Genomes
to
Life
projects;
and
more
.
.
.
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July
26,
2002
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DOE
announces
"Genomes
to
Life"
grants;
Labs
explosive
detection
technology
deployed
at
CN
Tower;
President
Bush
reviews
DOE
labs'
counterterrorism
R&
D;
Sandia
and
Air
Forcde
test
arsenic
removal
technologies;
and
more
.
.
.
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12,
2002
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Sandia
teams
win
R&
D
100
awards;
Labs
VP
discusses
energy
and
critical
infrastructures;
Sandia/California
breaks
ground
on
new
Distributed
Information
Systems
Lab;
Lockheed
Martin
honors
Sandia
for
post
9/11
efforts;
and
more
.
.
.
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28,
2002
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Labs
purrsues
biotechnology
as
a
new
technology
area;
sandians
win
DOE
Weapons
Excellence
awards;
California
renames
IMTL
lab
MANTL
to
focus
on
micro
and
nanotechnologies;
Sandian
Merrill
Jones
retires
after
54
year
at
Labs;
and
more
.
.
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June
14,
2002
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Rings
around
the
Earth
a
clue
to
climate
change?;
First
EUVL
tool
on
order;
Labs
names
Osbourn
a
Sandia
Fellow;
Sandia
names
Dave
Nokes
as
newest
VP;
and
more
.
.
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May
31,
2002
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Sandia,
Lockheed
Martin
share
Presbyterian
Healthcare
Foundation
award;
Labs
helps
evaluate
simpler,
better
helicopter
rotor
system;
US,
Mexico
sign
bi-national
lab
pact;
and
more
.
.
.
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May
17,
2002
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Safer
building
glass;
rapid
prototyping
could
aid
in
spine
surgery;
testing
acceleration
data
recorders;
New
explosive
detection
portal
unveiled;
and
more
.
.
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May
3,
2002
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Researchers
observe
molecular
shuttling
that
mimics
cellular
behavior;
Tungsten
photonic
lattice
developed;
Labs,
industry
test
hydrogen-powered
locomotive;
Russian,
US
lab
directors
meet;
and
more
.
.
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April
19,
2002
Lab
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Vibration-powered
sensors
could
be
embedded
in
bridges,
structures;
Innovative
back-support
system
aims
to
alleviate
lower
back
pain;
Nanotube
transistors
could
have
more
functionality
at
reduced
size;
Paul
Robinson
Senate
testimony;
and
more
.
.
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5,
2002
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New
stun
device
is
reusable,
more
effective;
Labs
team
perfects
portable
cluster
computing;
One-way
network
link
is
secure;
and
more
.
.
.
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March
22,
2002
Lab
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Quiet
revolution
underway
in
solid-state
lighting;
Massive
MESA
project
advances
to
next
step;
RSVP
program
detects
disease
outbreaks;
OPSEC
practices;
Sandia
targets
play
key
role
in
missile
defense
test;
and
more
.
.
.
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March
8,
2002
Lab
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State
of
the
Labs
address
to
the
community
focuses
on
war
on
terrorism;
Homeland
Security
Director
Ridge
visits
Labs;
Anthrax
detector;
and
more.
.
.
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22,
2002
Lab
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Annual
Lab
News
State
of
the
Labs
interview
with
Paul
Robinson
and
Joan
Woodard;
DOE
approves
pension
plan
changes;
Sandia
technology
used
in
shoe
bomb
case;
and
more.
.
.
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February
8,
2002
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Gun
residue
detection
technology;
Nevada
Sen.
Harry
Reid
praises
labs,
cites
future
roles;
Explosive
Destruction
System
deployed
to
Aberdeen
for
more
tests;
and
more.
.
.
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January
25,
2002
Lab
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Water-solid
interface
behavior
explained;
Architects
receptive
to
surety
concepts;
Labs,
Goodyear
sign
umbrella
CRADA;
and
more.
.
.
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January
11,
2002
Lab
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water
resoruces
calculator;
Modernized
use-control
codes;
Sandia
Secure
Processor;
World's
smallest
microchain
drive;
and
more.
.
.
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14,
2001
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Hi-temp
electronics
could
boost
geothermal
research;
assesing
dam
security;
Assuring
'food-to-fork'
food
safety;
and
more.
.
.
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November
30,
2001
Lab
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Labs
demo
technologies
to
Homeland
security
Director;
and
more.
.
.
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November
16,
2001
Lab
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Labs
experts
help
assess
vulnerability
of
buildings
to
terror
attack;
Integrated
Nanoscience
Center
advances;
DAKOTA
software
to
be
available
for
free
download;
and
more.
.
.
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November
2,
2001
Lab
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Labs
experts
help
industry
analyze
chem
plant
security;
Labs-developed
bio/chem
foam
sees
duty
in
war
on
terror;
Labs
well-poised
to
aid
in
war
across
a
broad
front
of
technologies;
and
more.
.
.
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October
19,
2001
Lab
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DOE
national
labs,
industry
extend
next
generation
microchip
CRADA;
Labs-developed
bio/chem
foam
sees
duty
in
war
on
terror;
Sandia's
aggressive
hiring
program
on
track;
and
more.
.
.
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October
5,
2001
Lab
News
Sandian
offers
techniques
for
assessing
water
system
vulnerabilities;
Sandia
terrorism
expert
offers
views
on
bin
Laden
network,
and
more.
.
.
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September
21,
2001
Lab
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Sandians
respond
to
World
Trade
Center
attack
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August
24,
2001
Lab
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Articles
on:
Z-machine;
Nanoscience;
battery
advances;
national
energy
grid;
and
more.
.
.
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August
10,
2001
Lab
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on:
Tracking
blue
whales;
Labs
completes
work
on
chem
waste
;landfill
excavation;
Sen.
Jeff
Bingaman
on
energy
policy;
US,
Mexican
officials
explore
bi-national
lab
concept;
and
more.
.
.
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July
27,
2001
Lab
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on:
Sandia
researchers
win
R&
D
100
awards;
Labs
works
with
NRC
on
next-
generation
nuclear
plant
regulation;
Rep.
Heather
Wilson
on
balanced
energy;
and
more.
.
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July
13,
2001
Lab
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on:
Visulazation
corridor
displays
wall-sized
images;
Sandia
VPs
discuss
Global
Nuclear
Future;
Sen.
Jeff
Bingaman
hears
briefings
on
alternative
energy;
and
more.
.
.
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June
29,
2001
Lab
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Articles
on:
Pac
man-like
microfluidic
devices;
Sandia
researchers
working
on
tomorrow's
nuclear
plant
designs;
Sen.
Jeff
Bingaman
talks
about
nuclear
energy,
other
issues;
and
more.
.
.
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June
15,
2001
Lab
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Articles
on:
Sandia
teams
with
Emcore
on
optical
comm
devices;
Labs
software
makes
bomb
robots
smarter;
Sandia/Californians
seek
new
energy
efficiencies;
CPlant
code
released
to
public;
Sandia
security
team
competes
in
'Duel
in
the
Desert'
;
and
more.
.
.
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1,
2001
Lab
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on:
Sandia
sees
opportunities
in
nuclear
energy;
Diversity
strides
since
"Building
Bridges"
standdown;
Sandians
win
IEEE
pulsed
power
awards;
Sandia,
Lockheed
Matin
honor
science
teachers;
Peter
Esherick,
musician
and
physicist
;
and
more.
.
.
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on
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date
for
links
to
.pdf
and
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of
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May
18,
2001
Lab
News
Articles
on:
Upgrading
prison
security;
Russian
scientists
briefed
on
capitalism;
Labs'
health
care
costs
rising;
Venture
capitalists
hear
sales
pitches;
savings
bond
campaign
launched;
and
more.
.
.
(Click
on
issue
date
for
links
to
.pdf
and
html
versions
of
Lab
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May
4,
2001
Lab
News
Articles
on:
Cutting
the
chatter
in
milling
machines;
MicroChemLab
moves
toward
commercialization;
International
Arms
Control
Conference;
DOE
Secretary
Spencer
Abraham
visits
Sandia;
Employee
Recognition
Awards;
and
more.
.
.
(Click
on
issue
date
for
links
to
.pdf
and
html
versions
of
Lab
News.)
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April
20,
2001
Lab
News
Articles
on:
Industry
warms
up
to
promise
of
Cold
Spray
Extreme
excitment
marks
EUVL
event;
Nanostructures
change
color
to
mark
changes
in
environment;
Paul
Robinson
white
paper
addresses
21st
century
weapons
policy;
New
version
of
ALEGRA
code
released;
MTI
satellite
images;
Sandia
wood
artist
on
way
to
Smithsonian
craft
show;
and
more.
.
.
(Click
on
issue
date
for
links
to
.pdf
and
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versions
of
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April
6,
2001
Lab
News
Articles
on:
Compressed
air
as
an
energy
source;
pension
fund
analysis;
US-Mexico
bi-national
labratory;
Backyard
dream
train;
Sandia
HazMat
team;
"Pulse
stretcher"
timekeeper
counts
time
in
trillionths;
and
more.
.
.
(Click
on
issue
date
for
links
to
.pdf
and
html
versions
of
Lab
News.)
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March
23,
2001
Lab
News
Articles
on:
Downhole
fiber
optics
aid
well-drilling;
Dierect-write
system
enhances
building
small,
complex
multi-layer
electronics;
Sandians
rescue
snowbound
couple;
Distributed
Information
Systems
Lab
opens;
Sandia-Ardesta
CRADA
will
commercialize
MEMS;
and
more.
.
.
(Click
on
issue
date
for
links
to
.pdf
and
html
versions
of
Lab
News.)
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March
9,
2001
Lab
News
Articles
on:Arsenic
trapper
technology
could
help
cities
meet
tough
new
EPA
standards;
Sandia's
CTH
shock
code
gets
update;
Explosive
Destruction
System
neutralzies
'50s-vintage
sarin-filled
bombs;
Labs
president
and
executive
VP
spell
out
Labs
vision
in
community
address;
Sandia
exhibit
at
Alamagordo
Space
Center;
Retiree
is
famous
movie
director's
dad;
and
more.
.
.
(Click
on
issue
date
for
links
to
.pdf
and
html
versions
of
Lab
News.)
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February
23,
2001
Lab
News
Articles
on:
The
annual
"State
of
the
Labs"
interview
with
Labs
President
C.
Paul
Robinson
and
Executive
VP
Joan
Woodard.
Also,
Robotics
developments
at
DOE's
Pantex
site;
Z
machine
shoots
pellets
20
times
faster
than
a
rifle
bullet;
camcorder-size
iamgers
spots
gas
leaks;
Sandia
student
interns
to
fly
NASA's
"vomit
comet."
(Click
on
issue
date
for
full
publication;
use
bookmarks
in
.pdf
file
to
navigate
to
specific
stories.
For
a
straight
html
version
of
the
state
of
the
Labs
interview
click
here.)
-
February
9,
2001
Lab
News
Articles
on:
Molecular
"sieves"
that
trap
toxic
wastes;
Sandia's
aid
to
NM
small
businesses;
breakthroughs
in
thermal
battery
R
and
D;
Supporting
national
missile
defense;
National
Atomic
Museum-Hollywood
spy
collection;
Sandia's
Campus
Executives
program;
and
more.
(Click
on
issue
date
for
full
publication;
use
bookmarks
in
.pdf
file
to
navigate
to
specific
stories.
Tip:
Click
on
the
image
of
Jupiter
on
page
1
of
the
.pdf
document
to
read
about
Sandia's
contributions
to
NASA's
Galileo
project.)
-
January
26,
2001
Lab
News
Stories
on
the
world's
smallest
tracked
robots;
Senator
Pete
Domenici's
Sandia
colloquium;
Sandia-Celera-Compaq
'superdupercomputer'
agreement;
Sandia's
work
with
NASA
on
Space
Shuttle
mission;
Lidar;
.
.
.
and
more.
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on
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date
for
full
publication;
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bookmarks
in
.pdf
file
to
navigate
to
specific
stories.)
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January
12,
2001
Lab
News
Stories
on
Sandia
Science
Day,
neutron
generator
certification,
DOE
weapons
awards,
diversity
at
Sandia,
a
new
warhead
rad-monitor,
Former
Sen.
Spencer
Abraham
nominated
as
DOE
secretary,
and
more.
.
.
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on
issue
date
for
full
publication;
use
bookmarks
in
.pdf
file
to
navigate
to
specific
stories.)
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December
15,
2000
--
Pages
1-9
Lab
News
Stories
on
Gamma
irradiation
facility;Powerball
lottery
winners;
alloy
formation;
MESA
facility
funding
and
more.
.
.
(Click
on
issue
date
for
full
publication;
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in
.pdf
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specific
stories.)
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December
15,
2000
Pages
--
10-16
Lab
News
Stories
on
wind
power;
renewable
energy
programs
with
Mexico;
Trades
Training
Program;
DOE-Navajo
MOU,
and
more.
.
.
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on
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date
for
full
publication;
use
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in
.pdf
file
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to
specific
stories.)
-
December
1,
2000
Lab
News
Stories
on
Accident
modeling
software
for
nuclear
power
plants;
Labs
to
standardize
on
Dell,
HP
PCs
(and
Macs
and
Unix
boxes);
Former
KGB
officer
talks
about
Russian
intelligence;
and
more.
.
.
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on
issue
date
for
full
publication;
use
bookmarks
in
.pdf
file
to
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to
specific
stories.)
-
Cheesecloth-like
photonics
device
bends
light
with
little
loss
A
tiny
bar
that
in
appearance
resembles
cheesecloth
has
bent
infrared
beams
with
very
little
loss
of
light
in
laboratory
experiments
at
Sandia.
The
bar
is
fabricated
from
gallium
arsenide.
(November
3,
2000.
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on
headline
for
full
story)
-
Sandia's
lightweight
portable
chemical
vapor
detection
system
being
prepared
for
big
test
A
Sandia-developed
lightweight,
portable
chemical
vapor
detection
system
designed
to
identify
chemical
signatures
from
weapons
of
mass
destruction
proliferation
is
in
the
final
preparation
stages
for
the
big
test
--
a
field
test
simulating
a
chemical
release.
(November
3,
2000.
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on
headline
for
full
story)
-
Test
'pops'
scale
model
of
nuclear
plant
pressure
vessel
In
the
unlikely
event
of
a
severe
nuclear
power
plant
accident
such
as
a
core
meltdown,
the
cylindrical
steel
pressure
vessel
that
houses
the
reactor's
nuclear
fuel
rods
would
be
subjected
to
extremely
high
temperatures
and
internal
pressures,
perhaps
enough
to
rupture
the
vessel.
(November
3,
2000.
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on
headline
for
full
story)
-
Processing
and
Environmental
Technology
Laboratory
to
be
formally
dedicated
Nov.
8
Labs
Director
Paul
Robinson
heads
the
list
of
speakers
who
will
gather
Nov.
8
to
dedicate
Sandia's
Processing
&
Environmental
Technology
Laboratory
(PETL,
Bldg.
701),
a
$45.9
million,
151,000-square-foot
DOE
facility
that
provides
materials
support
for
nuclear
weapons
design,
manufacture,
surveillance,
maintenance,
and
dismantlement.
(November
3,
2000.
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for
full
story)
-
Trinity
Test
'brighter
than
20
suns
and
the
most
spectacular
sunrise
ever
seen,'
says
Ben
Benjamin
The
blast
that
lit
up
the
entire
New
Mexico
sky
at
5:29:45
a.m.
on
July
16,
1945
was
"brighter
than
20
suns
and
the
most
spectacular
sunrise
ever
seen."
(November
3,
2000.
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on
headline
for
full
story)
-
Hop
to
it:
Sandia
hoppers
leapfrog
conventional
wisdom
about
robot
mobility
A
hopping
machine
inspired
by
the
clumsy
jumping
of
grasshoppers
may
soon
give
robots
unprecedented
mobility
for
exploring
other
planets,
gathering
war-fighting
intelligence,
and
assisting
police
during
standoffs
or
surveillance
operations.
(October
20,
2000.
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on
headline
for
full
story)
-
Tragic
gas
explosion
propels
potential
pipeline
safety
technologies
onto
national
priority
list
In
a
flash
the
scene
out
of
a
Norman
Rockwell
painting
--
a
family
of
12
fishing
on
the
banks
of
the
Pecos
River
on
a
summer
afternoon
--
went
from
idyllic
to
tragic.
(October
6,
2000.
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on
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for
full
story)
-
Sandia
spin-off
company
to
commercialize
Labs-developed
microsystems
technology
In
what
VP
1000
Al
Romig
calls
a
"bold
and
important
move,"
Sandia
has
spun
off
a
private
company,
MEMX,
Inc.,
to
commercialize
Labs-developed
microsystems
technology.
(October
6,
2000.
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for
full
story)
-
Sandia
joins
Next
Generation
Economy
Initiative
to
establish
new
microsystems
industry
Sandia
executives
Al
Romig,
Lenny
Martinez,
and
David
Williams
may
soon
be
"fathers"
of
a
new
microsystems
industry
in
the
Albuquerque
area
that
promises
to
bring
thousands
of
high
paying
jobs
to
New
Mexico.
(October
6,
2000.
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on
headline
for
full
story)
-
Agreement
signed
to
create
a
'smart'
leg
Over
the
past
two
years,
Sandia
has
joined
forces
with
the
Russian
nuclear
lab
Chelyabinsk
70
and
American
private
industry
to
create
a
superior
prosthetic
foot
and
also
a
better
prosthetic
knee.
(October
6,
2000.
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for
full
story)
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Sandia
VCSEL
generates
ultraviolet
light
They
won't
cause
sunburns
or
be
found
in
tanning
salons.
But
the
first
prototype
solid-state
microcavity
lasers
to
operate
in
the
ultraviolet
(UV)
range,
with
the
capability
to
generate
the
white
light
most
prized
for
indoor
lighting,
have
been
demonstrated
by
scientists
at
Sandia
working
with
colleagues
at
Brown
University
in
Rhode
Island.
(October
6,
2000.
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story)
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Exploding
demand
for
top
training
prods
Labs
bomb
disablers
to
take
show
on
road
Back
in
1994
Chris
Cherry
(5932)
never
would
have
guessed
his
experimental
training
workshop
for
bomb
squad
members,
called
Operation
Albuquerque,
would
one
day
attract
the
international
pedigree
of
bomb
disabler
it
does
today.
(September
22,
2000.
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for
full
story)
-
Early
and
often:
That's
Sandia's
hiring
plan
for
FY01
and
beyond
Over
the
next
year,
Sandia
plans
to
hire
more
than
500
new
employees,
three-quarters
of
them
technical
staff
or
technologists.
And
that's
just
the
beginning.
(September
8,
2000.
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for
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story)
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Sandia's
'potentially
revolutionary'
material-modeling
software
receives
R&
D
100
award
Sandia's
R&
D
100
winner
this
year
is
a
team
led
by
Doug
Bammann
(8726),
a
principal
member
of
the
technical
staff
with
expertise
in
theoretical
and
applied
mechanics.
The
team
created
material-modeling
software
to
optimize
safe,
fuel-efficient
designs
and
to
reduce
waste
in
heat
treatment
of
gears
of
automotive
parts.
The
Sandia
team
is
among
20
winners
from
DOE
facilities
in
this
year's
competition
for
innovative
technology
sponsored
by
R&
D
Magazine.
(September
8,
2000.
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on
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for
full
story)
-
Hybrid
cars
coming:
Sandia's
lithium-ion
battery
research
paves
way
toward
American
electric
hybrids
In
15
years
Americans
will
be
routinely
driving
hybrid
electric
cars
performing
at
80
miles
per
gallon.
Today's
internal-combustion-engine-only
vehicle
will
become
an
artifact
of
history.
(September
8,
2000.
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for
full
story)
-
Your
input
needed
now
for
October
employee
security
meeting
Employee
input
is
now
being
sought
for
a
"town
hall"
security
meeting
in
early
October
to
make
sure
employees
have
the
information
they
need
to
properly
safeguard
sensitive
and
classified
information
and
materials
at
the
Labs.
The
meeting
will
also
give
employees
an
opportunity
to
provide
feedback
directly
to
Sandia's
upper
management
and
security
officials
about
what's
working
and
what's
not.
(September
8,
2000.
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for
full
story)
-
Keeping
track
of
the
trackers:
New
ham
radio/Internet
link
helps
keep
order
in
search-and-rescue
missions
A
couple
of
hundred
bucks'
worth
of
old
computer
and
radio
equipment
sitting
on
top
of
a
metal
cabinet
tucked
away
in
a
tiny
second-floor
supply
room
at
Sandia's
Robotics
building
could
someday
help
save
lives.
(September
8,
2000.
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for
full
story)
-
Sandia
research
may
resolve
major
issue
impeding
successful
magnetic
confinement
fusion
Sandia
researcher
Bill
Wampler
(1111)
and
a
Labs/industry/university
team
have
resolved
one
of
many
issues
impeding
successful
magnetic
confinement
fusion.
They
discovered
a
way
to
keep
the
fusion
plasma
from
eroding
divertor
walls
inside
tokamak
fusion
machines.
(August
25,
2000.
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on
headline
for
full
story)
-
Survey
shows
public
concerned
over
national
security,
still
supports
nuclear
arsenal
The
world
is
a
more
dangerous
place
than
it
was
during
the
Cold
War,
and
the
US
needs
nuclear
weapons
and
ballistic
missile
defenses
to
maintain
its
security.
Further,
while
the
stockpile
should
be
smaller,
funding
should
be
allocated
to
maintain
the
quality
of
the
deterrent.
(August
25,
2000.
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on
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for
full
story)
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Sandia's
off-the-shelf
'home-grown'
supercomputer
may
become
20th
fastest
in
world
One
thousand
three
hundred
new
computers
from
Compaq
Computer
Corporation
have
arrived
at
Sandia
to
increase
the
power
of
a
"home-grown"
Sandia
computational
cluster
that
already,
linking
only
600
desktop
computers,
ranks
44th
among
the
world's
fastest
supercomputers.
(August
11,
2000.
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story)
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Sandia
undertakes
new
initiative
to
improve
way
software
is
developed
at
Labs
You
can't
feel
it,
see
it,
or
touch
it,
but
by
leaps
and
bounds
it
is
becoming
a
dominant
force
in
our
lives.
"It"
is
software
that
is
found
in
everything
from
personal
computers
to
complex
military
systems.
Because
of
this
growing
reliance
on
software
and
demands
that
it
be
fail-proof
--
particularly
in
critical
areas
such
as
weapons
--
Sandia
has
undertaken
a
new
initiative
to
improve
the
way
software
is
developed
at
the
Labs.
(August
11,
2000.
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story)
-
Four-state
microsystems
'cluster
of
clusters'
proposed
Nearly
300
researchers
and
entrepreneurs
gathered
in
Albuquerque
to
hear
the
case
for
establishing
an
industrial
"cluster
of
clusters"
that
will
energize
communication
and
cooperation
between
microsystems
specialists
in
New
Mexico,
Arizona,
Colorado,
and
Utah.
The
occasion
was
the
second
Southwest
as
a
Region
of
Innovation
conference,
held
at
Albuquerque's
Convention
Center
on
June
27.
(July
14,
2000.
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story)
-
Group
seeks
to
preserve
history
of
Nevada
Test
Site
They
shook
the
world
for
a
living
--
now
they
want
to
make
sure
they
leave
a
mark.
(July
14,
2000.
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on
headline
for
full
story)
-
School
security
summer
workshop
draws
concerned
educators
to
Dallas
July
26-28
Theft,
vandalism,
drugs,
and
violence
on
US
school
campuses
have
principals,
parents,
and
law
enforcement
officials
wondering
what
they
can
do
to
make
their
schools
safer
for
students
during
the
coming
school
year.
(July
14,
2000.
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for
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story)
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New
Sandia
vertical
cavity
surface
emitting
laser
promises
to
reduce
cost
of
fiber
optics
connections
Sandia
researchers
have
developed
the
first
1.3-micron
electrically
pumped
vertical
cavity
surface
emitting
laser
(VCSEL)
grown
on
gallium
arsenide.
It
promises
to
reduce
the
cost
of
high-speed
fiber
optics
connections.
(June
16,
2000.
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story)
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Sandians
answer
the
call
to
help
Los
Alamos
colleagues
As
fire
swept
through
the
forest
surrounding
Los
Alamos
and
White
Rock
last
week
and
residents
streamed
down
The
Hill
ahead
of
the
flames
and
smoke,
Sandia's
Radiological
Assistance
Program
(RAP)
team
headed
to
sites
around
the
area
to
monitor
for
radioactive
contamination.
(May
19,
2000.
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story)
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Robotics
researchers
work
with
APD
to
define
the
next
generation
of
bomb
squad
technology
He's
fearless.
He
has
no
family.
And
he
doesn't
mind
a
dangerous
mission.
Eighteen
months
ago
the
Albuquerque
Police
Department
welcomed
into
its
bomb
disposal
unit
the
Remotec
Andros
5A
--
a
commercial
robotic
vehicle
with
three
cameras,
a
gripper,
and
a
double-barreled
bomb
disabler
originally
developed
by
Sandia's
Chris
Cherry
(5932).
(May
19,
2000.
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story)
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Sandia-developed
intelligent
software
agents
challenge
electronic
intruders
In
the
movie
"The
Matrix,"
malevolent
but
intelligent
security
agents
--
personifications
of
computer
programs
able
to
learn
--
defend
an
evil
worldwide
web.
Now
an
intelligent
software
agent
wearing
a
white
hat
and
able
to
defend
itself
alone
and
in
groups
on
today's
World
Wide
Web
has
been
created
at
Sandia.
(Sandia
counts
among
its
credentials
the
fastest
computer
in
the
world
[ASCI
Red]
and
the
fastest
"home-assembled"
computer
in
the
world
[C-Plant].)
(May
19,
2000.
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on
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for
full
story)
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New
deployable
thin-film,
ultralight
mirror
may
be
future
of
space
telescopes
and
surveillance
satellites
Researchers
at
Sandia
and
the
University
of
Kentucky
are
developing
enabling
technologies
for
a
new
thin-film,
ultralight
deployable
mirror
that
may
be
the
future
of
space
telescopes
and
surveillance
satellites.
(May
5,
2000.
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for
full
story)
-
Sandia
researcher's
device
uses
radio
frequency
heating
to
treat
enlarged
prostate
Millions
of
older
men
who
suffer
from
urinary
obstruction
and
associated
pain
caused
by
an
enlarged
prostate
gland
could
benefit
from
new
radio-frequency-treatment
technology
developed
at
Sandia.
(May
5,
2000.
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on
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for
full
story)
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Functioning
nanostructures
self-assemble
out
of
ink
Avoiding
the
need
for
molds,
masks,
and
resists
common
to
most
lithographic
processes,
nanoscopic
structures
that
self-assemble
with
functionality
have
been
produced
easily
and
cheaply
from
inkjet
printers
and
lithographic
pens
by
scientists
at
Sandia
and
the
University
of
New
Mexico.
(May
5,
2000.
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story)
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A
tough
year
for
Sandia:
Amid
great
science,
Labs
and
its
employees
face
problems,
pressures,
stresses,
strains
The
past
12
months
have
been
among
the
most
difficult
ever
for
Sandia.
Ramifications
of
spy
allegations
that
arose
just
over
a
year
ago
at
another
national
laboratory
cascaded
throughout
DOE
and
the
national
labs
system
and
affected
everyone
from
top
management
to
staff-level
employees.
We
sat
down
recently
for
the
annual
Lab
News
State
of
the
Labs
interview
with
Sandia
President
Paul
Robinson
and
Executive
VP
Joan
Woodard
to
get
their
take
on
the
situation
as
they
see
it
now.
(April
21,
2000.
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story)
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Epidemic
outbreaks,
biological
attacks
detectable
by
simple
electronic
reporting
method
In
a
Hollywood-style
biological
attack,
Bruce
Willis
or,
perhaps,
George
Clooney
would
be
expected
to
render
the
killer
virus
harmless
in
90
minutes.
Because
happy
endings
in
real
life
are
less
certain,
a
pilot
program
to
help
doctors
identify
and
contain
disease
outbreaks
has
begun
at
Sandia.
The
program
is
expected
to
become
operational
within
the
next
three
months.
(April
21,
2000.
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on
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story)
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Three-dimensional
proof
for
Ising
model
impossible,
Sandia
researcher
claims
to
have
shown
When
a
lake
freezes
over,
how
do
trillions
of
randomly
oriented
water
molecules
know
at
almost
the
same
time
to
align
themselves
into
crystalline
form?
Similarly,
when
iron
becomes
magnetized,
how
do
trillions
of
atoms
know
to
align
their
spins
almost
instantly?
(April
21,
2000.
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story)
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Sandia
satellite
launched
successfully;
technical
difficulty
worries
MTI
team
The
Multispectral
Thermal
Imager
(MTI),
the
product
of
Sandia's
first
full
satellite
development
program,
was
successfully
placed
into
orbit
early
Sunday
morning,
March
12,
by
a
Taurus
rocket
launched
from
Vandenberg
Air
Force
Base,
Calif.
(March
24,
2000.
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Sandia,
tribes
to
test
solar
electricity
generating
system
Sandia
will
join
forces
early
next
year
with
one
or
more
Native
American
tribes
to
test
a
new
solar
electricity
generating
system
that
will
be
the
power
source
for
a
water
pump.
The
unit
will
be
placed
on
Indian
lands
in
the
Southwest
where
it
will
pump
water
for
agricultural
purposes
and
be
close
enough
to
home
for
observation
by
researchers
in
Albuquerque.
(March
24,
2000.
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story)
-
Sandia,
Russian
lab
to
cooperate
on
radwaste
cleanup
A
group
of
Sandia
researchers
will
head
for
the
Central
Siberian
city
of
Zheleznogorsk
soon
to
expand
a
cooperative
program
with
Russian
counterparts
in
developing
technology
to
clean
up
waste
left
by
decades
of
plutonium
production.
(March
24,
2000.
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story)
-
Sandia
training
the
'Cyber
Defenders'
of
tomorrow
Sandia's
top
employee
met
its
newest
recently
when
Sandia
President
Paul
Robinson
toured
the
College
Cyber
Defenders'
(CCD)
program
where
Corbin
Stewart
(8910)
had
just
been
hired
as
a
limited-term
principal
technologist.
(March
24,
2000.
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Sandia
scientists
study
'natural'
alternative
to
cleaning
up
uranium-contaminated
sites
An
innovative
"natural"
alternative
to
cleaning
up
uranium-contaminated
sites
is
being
studied
by
Sandia
scientists
as
a
way
to
replace
costly
and
sometimes
ineffective
traditional
techniques.
(March
10,
2000.
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story)
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Women
in
technical
management
focus
of
project
led
by
Joan
Woodard
Women
in
technical
management
are
the
focus
of
a
project
being
led
by
Executive
VP
Joan
Woodard
that
takes
a
serious
look
at
how
female
managers
fare
at
Sandia.
(March
10,
2000.
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story)
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Cancer
cells
detected
in
seconds
by
'smart
scalpel'
A
"smart
scalpel"
mechanism
intended
to
detect
the
presence
of
cancer
cells
as
a
surgeon
cuts
away
a
tumor
obscured
by
blood,
muscle,
and
fat
has
been
developed
in
prototype
by
Sandia
scientists.
(March
10,
2000.
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story)
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New
semiconductor
alloy's
'crazy
physics'
makes
it
a
possible
photovoltaic
power
source
for
satellites
There's
"crazy
physics
going
on."
That's
what
Sandia
researchers
say
about
a
new
semiconductor
alloy,
indium
gallium
arsenide
nitride
(InGaAsN),
they
are
developing
for
possible
use
as
a
photovoltaic
power
source
for
space
communications
satellites.
(February
25,
2000.
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-
Sandia
completes
ground-up
redesign
of
new
DOE
Armored
Tractor
DOE
special
agents
who
transport
weapons
cargo
across
the
country
in
armored
18-wheelers
are
getting
new,
more
comfortable
rides
this
year
as
the
first
of
51
improved
Armored
Tractors
(ATs)
rolls
off
the
production
line.
(February
25,
2000.
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story)
-
Sandia-led
study
recommends
predictive
modeling
tools
to
head
off
future
power
failures
Now
that
the
Y2K
transition
is
safely
past,
you
might
want
to
put
those
extra
candles
and
flashlight
batteries
back
in
the
bottom
drawer
.
.
.
but
don't.
The
nation's
electric
power
grid
is
growing
increasingly
complex
and
interconnected,
with
a
greater
number
of
power
buyers
and
sellers
making
a
burgeoning
number
of
transactions.
And
restructuring
of
the
electric
utility
industry
is
bringing
uncertain
changes
in
the
way
the
grid
is
managed.
(February
11,
2000.
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EUVL
retains
promise
for
next-generation
chips
Extreme
Ultraviolet
Lithography
(EUVL),
the
advanced
microchip
patterning
technology
at
Sandia,
was
endorsed
for
continued
development
by
the
Sematech
industrial
consortium
at
a
December
workshop
on
lithography,
the
process
by
which
designs
are
projected
on
silicon
wafers.
(January
28,
2000.
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Sandia
joins
charge
into
21st
century's
nanotech
revolution
Sandia
and
several
other
DOE
national
labs
will
venture
further
into
the
truly
tiny
realm
of
atomic
and
molecular
maneuvering
following
an
announcement
of
a
"National
Nanotechnology
Initiative"
by
President
Clinton
last
Friday.
(January
28,
2000.
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story)
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Researchers
model
neutron
generator
in
hostile
radiation
environment
Virtual
testing
of
nuclear
weapons
is
reaching
new
highs
as
researchers
in
Simulation
Technology
Research
Dept.
15341
successfully
expand
the
capabilities
of
the
Integrated-Tiger
Series
(ITS)
Monte
Carlo
radiation
transport
computer
code
to
simulate
a
neutron
generator
in
a
hostile
environment.
(January
28,
2000.
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Sandians
take
new
approach
to
studying
human
failure
in
engineered
systems
Taking
a
lesson
from
nuclear
weapons
surety,
Chris
Forsythe
and
Caren
Wenner
of
Sandia's
Statistics
and
Human
Factors
Dept.
12323
have
come
up
with
a
new
approach
to
studying
how
and
why
engineered
systems
fail
due
to
the
actions
or
inaction
of
humans.
(January
28,
2000.
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Avalanche
victims
found
four
times
faster
with
new
Sandia-developed
'swarm'
algorithm
technique
If
a
skier
or
snowboarder
is
buried
under
an
avalanche
--
and
a
record
number
of
snow-sports
enthusiasts
died
last
year
in
avalanches
in
the
United
States
--
a
major
problem
for
rescuers
is
how
to
find
the
unfortunate
person
before
suffocation
or
frostbite
and
hypothermia
do.
Death
can
come
in
half
an
hour.
(January
28,
2000.
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MDL
team
delivers
first
in-house
fabricated
'mark
quality'
ICs
Foresight
by
the
designers
--
and
funders
--
of
Sandia's
Microelectronics
Development
Lab
(MDL)
in
1988
paid
off
handsomely
in
1999.
More
than
a
decade
after
the
facility
scrubbed
the
air
in
its
13,000
square
feet
of
clean
room
space
for
the
first
time,
Sandia
has
delivered
114
in-house-manufactured
microelectronic
components
for
W76-2F
redesign
Joint
Test
Assemblies
(JTAs).
The
delivery
of
the
in-house-produced
"mark
quality"
components
--
a
first
for
the
MDL
--
convincingly
validates
the
original
MDL
plan
that
called
for
it
to
be
able
to
serve
as
a
backup
production
facility
for
vital
weapon
components.
(December
17,
1999.
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Sandians
to
spend
New
Year's
readying
first-ever
Labs-integrated
satellite
for
launch
Launch
preparations
for
the
Department
of
Energy's
Multispectral
Thermal
Imager
(MTI)
satellite
begin
during
the
holidays
when
the
Sandia-integrated
satellite
--
the
Labs'
first
--
arrives
at
Vandenberg
Air
Force
Base,
Calif.,
from
Sandia/New
Mexico.
(December
17,
1999.
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Z
helps
astronomers
interpret
Chandra
satellite
data
In
an
inconspicious,
flat-roofed
building
in
Sandia's
Area
4,
a
machine
that
creates
temperatures
rivaling
those
of
the
sun
is
helping
physicists
examine
up-close
what
happens
to
iron
in
the
grip
of
black
holes
and
neutron
stars.
(November
19,
1999.
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story)
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Sandia
geothermal
technology
plays
key
role
in
killing
out-of-control
natural
gas
well
Sandia-developed
geothermal
drilling
technology
played
a
key
role
earlier
this
year
in
helping
"kill"
a
wildcat
natural
gas
well
in
California
that
blew
out
and
remained
out
of
control
for
six
months.
(November
19,
1999.
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story)
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Sandia
micromirrors
may
be
part
of
Next
Generation
Space
Telescope
Sandia-developed
micromirrors,
each
slightly
larger
than
a
cross
section
of
a
human
hair,
may
one
day
be
part
of
the
Next
Generation
Space
Telescope
(NGST),
the
successor
to
the
Hubble
that
will
peruse
the
universe
looking
for
remnants
from
the
period
in
which
the
first
stars
and
galaxies
formed.
(October
22,
1999.
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Sandians'
pursuit
of
ideal
engine
cycle
for
electricity
generation
wins
honors
As
he
investigated
creating
electricity
with
a
crankshaft
engine/generator
that
burns
hydrogen
fuel,
Peter
Van
Blarigan
of
Engineering
for
Emerging
Technologies
Dept.
8118
wondered
if
there
was
a
better
way
to
generate
electricity
in
an
internal
combustion
device.
(October
22,
1999.
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Turbulent
times
in
Washington
make
for
an
interesting
year
at
Sandia
Sandia
has
always
done
interesting
work,
but,
as
Paul
Robinson
made
clear
in
his
Oct.
13
employee
dialogue
sessions
in
New
Mexico
--
repeated
in
California
the
next
day
--
the
Labs
these
days
is
certainly
living
in
interesting
times,
as
well.
(Oct.
22,
1999.
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Portable
chemical
sensor
system
promises
new
way
of
detecting
underwater
explosives
A
portable
chemical
sensor
system
the
size
of
a
soccer
ball
being
developed
by
Sandia
scientists
promises
a
new
way
of
detecting
and
identifying
even
the
smallest
traces
of
explosives
under
water
--
whether
in
a
rice
paddy
or
deep
under
the
ocean.
(October
8,
1999.
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Rapid-fire
thermonuclear
explosions
for
Z
pinches
may
be
possible
A
simple
theoretical
concept
to
solve
the
staggeringly
difficult
problem
of
maintaining
intact
electrical
transmission
lines
around
rapid-fire,
laboratory-produced
thermonuclear
explosions
has
been
proposed
by
Sandia
researchers.
(Sept.
24,
1999.
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Researchers
use
cluster
analysis
to
identify
explosions
Sandia
researchers
Chris
Young
(6116)
and
Dorthe
Carr
(5736)
have
applied
a
concept
long
used
in
biology
for
classifying
organisms,
cluster
analysis,
to
a
new
discipline
--
seismology.
(Sept.
24,
1999.
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Five-level
layering
promises
more
reliable,
complex
micromachines
An
advanced
five-level
polysilicon
surface
micromachining
process
pioneered
at
Sandia's
Microelectronics
Development
Laboratory
(MDL)
promises
that
microelectromechanical
systems
(MEMS)
of
the
future
will
be
more
reliable
and
capable
of
doing
increasingly
complicated
tasks.
(Sept.
10,
1999.
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Software
crisis?
What
crisis?
Colloquium
speaker
offers
his
'superdistribution'
solution
The
crisis
in
software:
You've
probably
never
heard
of
it,
never
given
it
a
thought,
but
glimmers
of
the
crisis
are
evident
when
your
PC
crashes
with
monotonous
frequency
despite
the
fact
that
your
hardware
is
the
burliest
stuff
on
the
market.
When
something
goes
wrong
with
your
system,
you
just
know
it's
software-related
--
and
it
usually
is.
(Sept.
10,
1999.
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story)
-
Extraordinary
meteor
flash
caught
on
videotape,
thanks
to
unique
Sandia
all-sky-viewing
project
Late
on
the
night
of
Sunday,
Aug.
15,
the
Albuquerque
sky
lit
up
just
for
an
instant
as
bright
as
day.
Eyewitnesses
--
and
there
were
thousands
who
were
out
and
about
at
11:18
p.m.
that
night
--
didn't
know
quite
what
to
make
of
the
event,
but
everyone
who
saw
it
knew
they'd
witnessed
something
extraordinary.
(Sept.
10,
1999.
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on
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for
full
story)
-
Big
wigs,
big
blasts
initiate
Operation
Riverside
In
an
abandoned
city
landfill,
the
odor
of
gunpowder
wafted
past
a
crowd
of
150
people,
a
few
in
gray
corporate
suits,
but
most
wearing
black
caps
and
T-shirts
identifying
them
as
members
of
police
departments
ranging
from
Los
Angeles
to
New
York.
(August
27,
1999.
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story)
-
MESA
--
Sandia's
largest
project
ever
--
wins
DOE
nod
for
conceptual
design
The
largest
construction
project
ever
proposed
by
Sandia
--
the
Microsystems
and
Engineering
Sciences
Application
(MESA)
facility
--
has
received
DOE
approval
for
the
Laboratories
to
proceed
with
a
conceptual
design.
(August
27,
1999.
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story)
-
Group
celebrates
super
switch's
100
million
pulses
They
weren't
popping
champagne
corks,
but
there
was
celebration
nonetheless
in
Department
15333
earlier
this
month
when
researchers
achieved
a
milestone
with
a
High
Gain
PhotoConductive
Semiconductor
Switch
(PCSS).(August
27,
1999.
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-
Miniaturization
of
chemical
preconcentrators
brings
better
bomb-detecting
and
drug-sniffing
devices
You
might
call
it
an
"electronic
dog."
Researchers
in
Contraband
Detection
Dept.
5848
are
working
this
summer
on
a
hand-carried
gadget
that,
like
a
trained
police
dog,
could
sniff
out
the
vanishingly
faint
odors
of
drugs
and
bombs
at
airports,
border
crossings,
military
installations,
and
schools.
(August
13,
1999.
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story)
-
Remote
sensor
will
analyze
gas
from
one
to
two
miles
away
Imagine
a
soldier
on
a
battlefield
looking
through
a
pair
of
binoculars
and
detecting
from
afar
the
nature
of
gas
being
emitted
in
a
smoke
cloud.
There's
no
need
to
obtain
a
sample
of
the
gas
or
even
get
close
to
it.
Instead,
the
detection
is
made
from
a
safe
one
or
two
miles
away.
(August
13,
1999.
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story)
-
Quantum
dots'
repulsion
helps
determine
lasing
characteristics,
Sandia
researchers
find
In
the
children's
pastime
of
connect-the-dots,
images
form
as
dots
are
linked.
(August
13,
1999.
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story)
-
Virtual
reality
training
tool
pits
rescue
teams
against
computerized
terrorist
attack
In
the
emergencies
of
tomorrow
--
when
rescue
personnel
may
need
to
treat
mass
casualties
following
release
of
a
nerve
agent
in
a
shopping
mall,
theme
park,
or
subway,
for
instance
--
there
will
be
no
second
chances.
Rescuers
who
become
victims
of
a
terrorist
attack
can't
save
lives.
(July
30,
1999.
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for
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story)
-
American,
Russian
nuclear
labs
work
together
to
develop
artificial
knee
for
landmine
victims
A
letter
expressing
"deepest
gratitude"
from
a
Russian
landmine
victim
fitted
with
a
newly
developed
artificial
foot
demonstrates
one
reason
for
the
initiation
of
a
second
prosthetics
project
between
Sandia
and
the
Ohio
Willow
Wood
Company.
(July
30,
1999.
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story)
-
Labs
team
ponders
future
safety
of
Yucca
Mountain
How
safe
will
a
potential
Yucca
Mountain
nuclear
waste
repository
be
in
10,000
years?
That's
the
question
scientists
have
been
trying
to
answer
for
almost
two
decades.
(July
30,
1999.
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story)
-
Sandia
research
group
synthesizes
nonradioactive
substitute
to
aid
nuclear
waste
clean-up
Synthetic
goods
are
generally
modeled
on
scarce
but
desirable
materials
--
diamonds,
fine
wools,
even
fruit
juices.
(July
16,
1999.
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story)
-
Sandia
research
projects
earn
three
R&
D
100
awards
Three
Sandia
research
groups
have
won
R&
D
100
awards
in
the
1999
competition,
according
to
editors
at
R&
D
Magazine,
which
sponsors
the
annual
contest.
(July
16,
1999.
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on
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for
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story)
-
Sandia
researchers
develop
world's
fastest
encryptor
The
world's
fastest
encryption
device,
developed
at
Sandia,
which
encrypts
data
at
more
than
6.7
billion
bits
per
second
--10
times
faster
than
any
other
known
encryptor
--
may
soon
be
protecting
data
being
transmitted
from
supercomputers,
workstations,
telephones,
and
video
terminals.
(June
18,
1999.
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story)
-
Sandia
computing
team
wins
SuParCup
Gold
Medal
for
parallel
crash
simulations
A
Sandia
team
received
the
gold
medal
(first
place)
prize
in
the
SuParCup
high-performance
computing
competition
last
weekend
(June
12)
in
Mannheim,
Germany.
The
prize
is
awarded
for
"an
outstanding
contribution
in
the
field
of
parallel
computing."
(June
18,
1999.
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story)
- Researchers
push
Z
machine
to
new
limits
to
test
radiation
effects
Sandia
researchers
Chris
Deeney
(1644),
Christine
Coverdale
(15344),
and
Victor
Harper-Slaboszewicz
(15344)
pushed
the
Z
machine
to
new
limits
last
month
when
they
used
the
world's
most
powerful
X-ray
source
to
test
effects
of
radiation
on
materials
in
experiments
designed
to
mimic
the
response
that
would
occur
near
a
nuclear
explosion.
(June
4,
1999.
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story)
- Improved
equipment
battles
'dark
side'
of
telemedicine
Telemedical
devices
already
for
sale
in
local
drug
stores
include
glucometers,
helpful
for
diabetics,
that
monitor
blood-sugar
levels,
store
the
data,
and
send
it
encrypted
to
physicians
via
the
Internet
for
diagnosis
--
a
savings
in
time
and
effort
for
everyone
concerned.
(June
4,
1999.
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for
full
story)
- Like
Superman,
Mark
Rodriguez
peers
inside
lithium
ion
battery
with
X-ray
vision
As
part
of
Sandia's
efforts
to
build
a
better
lithium
ion
battery,
Mark
Rodriguez
of
Materials
Characterization
Dept.
1822,
along
with
David
Ingersoll
and
Jill
Langendorf
of
the
Lithium
Ion
Battery
R&
D
Dept.
2521,
have
developed
a
method
to
view
real-time
changes
batteries
undergo
as
they
charge
and
discharge.
(June
4,
1999.
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story)
- Winds
and
tides
toss
up
retiree's
messages
on
distant
shoresSo,
what
are
the
odds,
would
you
think?
If
you
were
to
toss
a
message
in
a
bottle
into
the
wine-dark
sea,
do
you
think
you'd
ever
get
a
reply?
"Nah,
not
in
a
million
years,"
the
realist
in
you
says.
(June
4,
1999.
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story)
- Sandia's
Classified
Waste
Landfill
project
uncovers
artifacts
of
Labs'
early
days
There's
a
fascination
in
uncovering
things
long-buried,
an
eager
anticipation,
a
sense
--
a
hope?
--
that
uncovered
objects
brought
into
the
light
have
within
them
the
power
to
shed
light
--
on
who
we
are,
where
we
come
from,
why
we're
where
we
are.
(May
7,
1999.
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story)
- First
shipment
to
WIPP
marks
end
of
a
25-year
era,
and
a
new
beginning,
for
Sandia
For
the
big
rig
carrying
the
first
containers
of
transuranic
waste
to
DOE's
Waste
Isolation
Pilot
Plant
(WIPP)
near
Carlsbad,
N.M.,
in
the
late
hours
of
March
25
and
early
hours
of
March
26,
1999,
it
was
an
easy,
mostly
downhill
trek.
(April
9,
1999.
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- Skunk
Works
artiste:
Sandia
robot
paints
first
F-117
Nighthawk
at
Lockheed
Martin's
development
facility:
A
robotic
system
developed
at
Sandia
has
successfully
painted
the
first
F-117
Nighthawk
fighter
inside
a
hangar
at
Lockheed
Martin's
Advanced
Development
Projects
group,
better
known
as
the
"Skunk
Works,"
in
Palmdale,
Calif.(March
26,
1999.
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- Self-assembled
nanospheres
may
help
against
disease
or
terrorism,
or
as
fillers
and
coatings:
Self-assembling
nanospheres
that
fit
inside
each
other
like
Russian
dolls
are
one
form
of
a
broad
range
of
submicroscopic
spheres
created
in
the
past
12
months
at
Sandia.
The
achievement,
which
has
medical,
industrial,
and
military
potential,
is
featured
in
the
March
18
issue
of
the
journal
Nature.(March
26,
1999.
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-
Sandia
ships
pieces
of
nuclear
history
to
TVA:
It
was
meant
to
light
the
way
toward
a
brave
new
world
of
oceangoing
commerce:
Proud
freighters
ploughing
the
seas
as
their
nuclear
reactors
silently,
cleanly,
and
efficiently
converted
water
to
steam
to
turn
banks
of
mighty
turbines.(March
26,
1999.
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story)
-
Sensor
to
become
'canary
in
a
mine'
for
lab
on
a
chip:
Acoustic
wave
chemical
sensors,
each
no
bigger
than
a
shirt
button,
promise
to
play
an
important
role
in
Sandia's
initiatives
to
develop
integrated
microsensor
systems
that
can
detect
minute
traces
of
dangerous
chemicals.(March
26,
1999.
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story)
- Roadmap
envisions
future
of
robotics,
defines
steps
to
get
there:
In
the
year
2020
microscale
robots
with
the
ability
to
crawl,
fly,
and
swim
will
work
together
to
perform
monitoring,
surveillance,
and
intelligence
operations.
Larger
robots
will
clean
up
radioactive
spills,
removing
humans
from
hazardous
situations.
Still
others
will
assemble
weapons
components
that
are
now
tediously
built
in
clean
rooms
by
people
using
microscopes
and
tweezers.(March
12,
1999.
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for
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story)
- Labs'
decontamination
foam
may
be
tomorrow's
best
first
response
in
a
chem-bio
attack:
Emergency
personnel
responding
to
a
terrorist
release
of
chemical
or
biological
warfare
agents
will
be
faced
with
a
dilemma:
If
they
enter
the
scene
without
knowing
the
dangers,
they
might
become
victims.
If
they
wait
to
evaluate,
more
people
might
die
--
or
worse,
an
agent
could
spread
and
cause
widespread
casualties(March
12,
1999.
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story)
- Mysterious
nanopatterns
probed
by
Sandia
team:Get
organized!
Scientists
have
found
that
nanometer-scale
islands
of
metals
and
semiconductors
deposited
on
a
crystal
surface
self-organize
into
ordered
arrays.
When
this
process
takes
place
on
a
single-atom-thick
film
of
silver
sprinkled
with
sulfur,
a
lacework
pattern
emerges
with
surprising
precision.(March
12,
1999.
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story)
- Fuzzy'
algebra
offers
hard-core
data
for
nuclear
weapons
safety
probabilities:
One
day
about
five
years
ago
a
safety
analyst
presented
Arlin
Cooper
of
High
Consequence
Surety
Engineering
Dept.
12331
an
analysis
of
the
safety
probability
of
a
nuclear
weapon
precise
to
three
decimal
points.
Arlin,
who
routinely
reviews
safety
analyses,
was
astounded.
How,
he
asked,
could
anyone
know
so
exactly
how
safe
a
device
was
when
so
many
variables
--
like
the
possibility
of
human
error
or
faulty
parts--
were
uncertain?
(February
12,
1999.
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story)
- Portable
structure
tester
may
bring
better-built
homes,
shopping
malls,
skyscrapers:
Insurance
adjusters
who
reenter
an
area
the
day
after
a
hurricane
never
know
specifically
how
a
structure
was
destroyed.
Did
a
window
pane
shatter,
creating
a
momentary
pressure
surge
inside
that
pushed
the
roof
off
like
a
pop-gun
cork?
Or
did
a
gust
of
wind
pry
up
the
eaves
of
a
house
and
peel
away
the
roof
like
a
sardine
can
lid?
(January
29
1999.
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on
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story.)
- Robocasting:
Joe
Cesarano
develops
breakthrough
way
of
fabricating
ceramics:
Sandia
engineer
Joe
Cesarano
(1831)
has
developed
a
revolutionary
new
way
of
fabricating
ceramics
that
requires
no
molds
or
machining.
Called
robocasting,
it
relies
on
robotics
for
computer-controlled
deposition
of
ceramic
slurries
--mixtures
of
ceramic
powder,
water,
and
trace
amounts
of
chemical
modifers--
through
a
syringe.
The
material,
which
flows
like
a
milkshake
even
though
the
water
content
is
only
about
15
percent,
is
deposited
in
thin
sequential
layers
onto
a
heated
base.
(January
29
1999.
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story.)
- Tiny
'Micro
Guardian'
promises
to
safeguard
nuclear
weapons
in
big
way:
One
of
the
most
complicated
micro-systems
Sandia
has
ever
built,
the
"Micro
Guardian"
trajectory
safety
subsystem,
will
be
tested
in
the
next
few
weeks
for
the
first
time
after
more
than
a
year
of
research
and
development.
(January
15,
1999.
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story.)
- On
a
roll:
Building
on
teamwork,
W76
recertification
program
moves
from
one
success
to
another:
Sandia's
four-year-old
W76
Neutron
Generator
Recertification
Program
--
a
key
player
in
DOE's
overall
stockpile
stewardship
effort
--
has
met
with
such
a
high
degree
of
recent
success
that
the
British
hired
this
diverse
Labs
group
to
do
the
recertification
work
on
the
neutron
generator
assembly
in
a
similar
British
nuclear
weapon.
And
now,
DOE
has
assigned
the
program's
team,
led
by
Norm
Schwentor
(14302),
to
work
on
a
similar
effort
for
the
W78
Minuteman
warhead.
(January
15,
1999.
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story.)
- Sandia
to
radiation
harden
Intel's
'crown
jewel'
Pentium
processor
for
space
and
defense
needs:
It
didn't
come
wrapped
in
pretty
paper
and
a
bow,
but
the
US
government
got
a
welcome
holiday-season
"present"
from
Intel
on
Dec.
8,
when
the
chip-making
giant
and
the
Department
of
Energy
jointly
announced
that
the
company
is
providing
a
no-fee
license
to
Sandia
to
redesign
Intel's
Pentium®
processor
into
a
radiation-hardened
chip
for
space
and
defense
uses.
The
new
radiation-hardened
Pentium
(RHP)
will
provide
a
nearly
tenfold
increase
in
processing
power
over
the
highest
performing
rad-hard
chips
in
use
today.
(December
18
1998.
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story.)
- Labs
sky-watching
gear
helping
study
long-term
global
climate
change
from
remote
Pacific
island:
El
Nino
was
every
weatherman's
favorite
scapegoat
in
1998,
taking
the
blame
for
eight
months
of
meteorological
mayhem
across
much
of
the
Northern
Hemisphere.
But
for
those
trying
to
forecast
the
weather
beyond
the
middle
of
next
week,
El
Nino
is
at
least
an
accessory
in
the
greatest
climate
caper
of
all.
(December
18
1998.
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story.)
- Lithium
battery
research
may
bring
electric
cars,
smaller
batteries
to
our
future:
Efforts
by
a
team
of
Sandians
from
Centers
1800,
6100,
and
1500
to
improve
the
lithium
ion
battery
may
mean
that
one
day
soon
people
will
be
driving
affordable
electric
cars
and
operating
their
CD
players
and
cellular
phones
on
smaller,
longer
lasting
batteries.
(December
4,
1998.
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story.)
- Program
that
'sees'
beyond
three
dimensions
may
save
lives
by
better
classifying
data
:
Data
classification,
often
considered
a
humdrum
task,
really
is
no
such
thing
when
the
stakes
are
high
enough.
Quick,
errorless
identifications
are
needed
of
chemicals
released
on
a
battlefield,
explosives
found
in
an
airport,
or
substances
collected
on
interplanetary
explorations
where
no
options
exist
for
astronomers
to
have
a
second
look.
Physicians
analyzing
complicated
medical
images
and
certain
environmental
analyses
also
require
accurate,
quick
answers.
(December
4,
1998.
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on
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for
full
story.)
- Three
innovative
Sandia
projects
win
DOE
Basic
Energy
Sciences
materials
awards:
Research
on
thin
transparent
coatings
that
mimic
seashells,
how
atoms
move
on
a
surface,
and
microlasers
that
analyze
single
human
cells
won
Sandia
three
DOE
Basic
Energy
Sciences
awards
for
materials
research
for
1998.
(December
4,
1998.
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on
headline
for
full
story.)
- DOE
joins
state
of
Alaska
in
promoting
fuel
cell
energy
for
remote
arctic
villages:
Sandia
has
assembled
what
may
be
the
country's
largest
collection
of
hydrogen-powered
proton
exchange
membrane
(PEM)
fuel
cells
from
different
companies.The
fuel
cells
and
associated
hardware
from
three
vendors
are
destined
for
the
University
of
Alaska
at
Fairbanks,
where
they
will
be
tested
and
hardened
for
arctic
climates
for
eventual
deployment
in
remote
villages.
Fuel
cells
produce
electricity
and
heat
by
combining
hydrogen
and
oxygen
to
create
water.
(December
4,
1998.
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on
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for
full
story.)
- E-mail
failure,
subsequent
recovery
lead
to
some
hard-won
lessons
learned:
Sometimes
"lessons
learned"
come
easy.
Sometimes
they
come
hard.
The
more-than-week-long
e-mail
outage
that
directly
affected
some
2,200
Sandians
was
a
lesson
learned
the
hard
way.
(December
4,
1998.
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on
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for
full
story.)
- Sandia
and
Compaq
Computer
Corp.
team
together
to
set
world
record
in
large
database
sorting:
Just
as
scientists
need
very
fast
number-crunching
computers
to
replace
physical
testing
with
computer
models,
business
people
need
a
corollary
procedure:
very
fast
data
sorting
--
the
ability
to
manipulate
huge
amounts
of
data
rapidly.
(November
20
1998.
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on
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for
full
story)
- Sandia
photonic
crystal
confines
optical
light:
In
perhaps
their
greatest
success,
Sandia
researchers
Shawn
Lin
(1712)
and
Jim
Fleming
(1723)
have
created
a
three-dimensional
photonic
crystal
that
confines
light
at
optical
wavelengths.
The
proof-of-principle
device
may
prove
commercially
important
to
the
fiber-optics
communications
industry
because
the
technique
it
embodies
appears
to
be
the
cheapest,
most
efficient
way
to
bend
light
entering
or
emerging
from
optical
cables,
says
Shawn.
(November
20
1998.
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on
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for
full
story)
- CoMPASS
enterprise
modeling
lends
new
direction,
speed
to
engineering
revolution:
The
weapons
complex
is
turning
to
information
technology
to
hasten
a
revolution
in
engineering.
This
approach
promises
significant
gains
in
efficiency,
says
Len
Napolitano,
Manager
of
Advanced
Concepts
Dept.
8130.
He
heads
a
project
that
is
creating
a
distributed,
integrated
model
of
the
DOE
weapons
complex.
The
model
will
be
used
to
help
predict
the
consequences
of
decisions
about
issues
ranging
from
dismantlement
requirements
to
refurbishment
schedules
to
capital
investments,
helping
decision-makers
evaluate
whether
the
complex
can
meet
changing
demands
with
anticipated
resources
over
the
next
10
to
30
years.
(November
20
1998.
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story)
- New
technology
cleans
up
residue
from
Sandia's
early
Cold
War
weapons
test
program:
They'd
mount
the
weapon
on
a
rocket-fired
centrifuge
and
spin
it
like
crazy,
putting
its
systems
under
tremendous
g-forces.
They'd
push,
push,
push
the
weapon,
trying
to
discover
the
outer
edges
of
its
particular
envelope.
(November
20
1998.
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on
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for
full
story)
- Three
DOE
labs
eye
radiography
solution
to
weapons
safety
issues:
A
DOE-
sanctioned
race
among
three
national
labs
promises
to
help
resolve
the
issue
of
how
to
assure
the
reliability
and
safety
of
nuclear
weapons
in
the
national
stockpile
without
the
use
of
nuclear
testing.
(November
6,
1998.
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on
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for
full
story)
- Our
man
in
Iraq:
Jim
Lee
spends
67
intense
days
combing
47
sites
as
a
UN
weapons
inspector:
Jim
Lee
may
be
a
good
ol'
boy
from
East
Texas,
but
he
never
thought
he'd
step
into
anything
like
this.
Jim,
Manager
of
Accident
and
Consequence
Analysis
Dept.
6413,
spent
67
days
earlier
this
year
as
an
arms
inspector
in
Iraq,
ranging
the
countryside
not
in
a
Chevy
pickup
but
a
UN-flagged
Nissan
Pathfinder,
looking
for
ominous
signs
of
life
in
Iraq's
aborted
nuclear
weapons
program.(October
23,
1998.
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for
full
story)
- Nobel
connections:
Sandia
has
ties
to
two
1998
Nobel
laureates
in
physics
and
chemistry
- World's
smallest
combination
lock,
developed
at
Sandia,
promises
to
foil
computer
hackers:
The
world's
"smallest
combination
lock,"
a
minuscule
mechanical
device
developed
at
Sandia,
promises
to
build
a
virtually
impenetrable
computer
firewall
that
even
the
best
hacker
can't
beat.
(October
9,
1998.
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on
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for
full
story)
- Sandia
Washington
workshop
participants
say
'surety'
message
needs
refining,
but
idea
sound:
They
gathered
at
the
National
Academy
of
Sciences
building
in
Washington,
D.C.,
to
decide
whether
to
adopt
a
new,
infant
sibling
into
the
family
of
scientific
understanding.
(October
9,
1998.
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on
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for
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story)
- Compact
'enhanced
fidelity
instrumentation'
will
boost
confidence
level
of
weapons
flight
tests:
Maintenance
of
the
nation's
nuclear
stockpile
demands
a
rigorous
testing
program.
The
test
regime,
or
stockpile
surveillance,
includes
periodic
flight
testing
of
instrumented
test
models
of
a
given
weapon
--
as
close
to
the
real
thing
possible
--
called
Joint
Test
Assemblies,
or
JTAs.
Stockpile
surveillance
tests
(non-nuclear),
while
always
vital,
have
assumed
paramount
importance
in
the
present
climate,
with
no
new
weapons
in
the
pipeline
and
the
average
age
of
weapons
in
the
stockpile
the
oldest
in
history.
(October
9,
1998.
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story)
- Labs'
photonic
crystal
bends
microwaves
around
tight
corner:
On
the
heels
of
his
July
16
Nature
paper
with
Jim
Fleming
(1723)
on
their
artificial
silicon
lattice
that
efficiently
bends
infrared
light
(Lab
News,
Sept.
11),
principal
researcher
Shawn
Lin
(1712)
strikes
again
in
a
paper
in
today's
(Oct.
9)
issue
of
the
journal
Science.
In
it,
Shawn,
Edmond
Chow
(1712),
and
Vince
Hietala
(1716)
explain
how
they
used
another
lattice
--
this
one
made
of
alumina
--
to
bend
microwaves
around
90-degree
corners
within
radii
smaller
than
a
wavelength.(October
9,
1998.
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story)
- Sandia
expertise
helps
nations
of
former
Soviet
Union
safeguard
stockpiled
nuclear
materials:
Chester
Hine,
an
engineer
in
International
Projects
Dept.
5823,
will
never
forget
visiting
a
research
reactor
at
a
small
institute
in
the
former
Soviet
Union
where
he
encountered
nuclear
material
stored
in
a
dilapidated
wooden
shed.
(September
25,
1998,
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on
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for
full
story)
- Sandia
human
resources
team
visits
Chelyabinsk-70,
Moscow
to
help
Russian
labs
address
'people'
issues:
A
team
of
Sandia
human
resources
experts
and
their
counterparts
and
technical
managers
at
two
Russian
weapons
laboratories
have
completed
an
"historic"
series
of
workshops
intended
to
help
the
Russians
come
to
grips
with
modern
human
resources
issues.
(September
25,
1998,
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on
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for
full
story)
- Working
photonic
lattice,
a
dream
for
a
decade,
fabricated
at
Sandia:
By
interlocking
tiny
slivers
of
silicon
into
a
lattice
that,
under
a
microscope,
appears
to
be
formed
by
toy
Lincoln
logs,
Sandia
scientists
believe
they
have
solved
a
major
technical
problem:
how
to
bend
light
easily
and
cheaply
without
leaking
it,
no
matter
how
many
twists
or
turns
are
needed
for
optical
communications
or
(potentially)
optical
computers.
(September
11,1998.
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on
headline
for
full
story)
- MicroNavigator
team
moving
to
take
IMEMS
technology
from
prototype
to
product:
Mike
Daily
of
Integrated
Microsystems
Dept.
1738
and
a
team
of
more
than
40
in
Sandia's
Microelectronics
Development
Laboratory
(MDL)
are
moving
full
steam
ahead
to
bring
a
prototype
three-axis
accelerometer
chip
and
the
processes
required
to
make
it
to
product
status.
(September
11,1998.
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on
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for
full
story)
- Sandia
program
encourages
use
of
renewable
energy
technologies
in
eight
Mexican
states:
Marcos
Alvarez,
a
cattle
rancher
in
the
desert
of
Baja
California,
Mexico,
faced
a
dilemma
each
year
that
cost
him
many
thousands
of
pesos
and
the
loss
of
some
of
his
herd.
(September
11,1998.
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on
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for
full
story)
- Bracing
ourselves
against
terrorism,
natural
disasters,
and
deterioration:
Deadly
attacks
on
US
targets:
Two
US
embassies
in
Africa,
the
US
Capitol
Building,
Khobar
Towers,
the
Oklahoma
City
federal
building,
the
World
Trade
Center.
Costly
natural
disasters:
Hurricane
Andrew,
$16
billion;
Northridge,
Calif.,
earthquake,
$25
billion;
the
northeast-US
blizzard
of
'93,
$1.6
billion.
Add
in
fires,
mud
slides,
tornadoes,
riots,
vandalism,
and
deterioration
due
to
aging,
and
you've
got
what
amounts
to
a
significant,
and
growing,
national
concern.
(August
28,1998.
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story)
- Labs
brings
rural
community
leaders
to
Albuquerque
to
help
boost
economic
development
statewide:
Business
leaders
and
state
and
local
officials
from
across
New
Mexico
gathered
in
Albuquerque
on
Monday
to
discuss
how
technologies
can
help
bring
educational
services,
improved
health
care,
and
jobs
to
rural
communities
statewide.
(August
28,1998.
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on
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for
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story)
- Tests
ensure
satellite
electronics
endure
long-term
radiation
exposure:
In
May
a
satellite
hovering
high
above
Kansas
failed,
causing
the
first-ever
national
paging
outage,
affecting
up
to
45
million
pager
users
in
the
country.
The
PanAmSat
Corp.-owned
Galaxy
IV
satellite,
which
was
insured
for
more
than
$160
million,
may
never
be
returned
to
service,
leaving
a
spacecraft
weighing
almost
three
tons
and
with
a
wingspan
of
81
feet
spinning
above
the
central
US.
(August
14
1998.
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on
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for
full
story)
- Sounds
of
drilling
heard
again
at
Mammoth
Lakes:
For
the
first
time
since
1993
the
sounds
of
drilling
in
the
Long
Valley
Exploratory
Well
near
Mammoth
Lakes,
Calif.,
are
being
heard
as
researchers
resume
their
quest
to
discover
how
deep
magma
flows
under
the
tree-lined
mountain
terrain.
(August
14
1998.
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full
story)
- Sandia
Mentorship
Program
pays
off
for
New
Mexico
Tech
student,
who
finds
a
career
through
Sandia
work:
When
Sandia
scientist
Tim
Boyle
(1846)
met
Bernadette
"Bernie"
Hernandez
(1846)
four
years
ago,
she
was
a
Rio
Grande
High
School
senior
looking
for
a
part-time
job.
What
she
found
in
Tim's
laboratory
was
a
career.
(August
14
1998.
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story)
- National
study
sponsored
by
Sandia
shows
public
believes
US
still
faces
nuclear
threats:
The
Cold
War
has
been
over
for
more
than
seven
years,
but
most
Americans
continue
to
believe
the
US
remains
at
risk
of
nuclear
conflict,
and
they
support
maintenance
of
a
stockpile
of
nuclear
weapons
to
ensure
the
safety
of
the
country.
(July
31,
1998.
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on
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for
full
story)
- Sandia
is
raising
a
home-grown
computational
plant:
The
plant
resembles
a
pumpkin
vine
whose
crop
is
high-performance
computing.
In
place
of
pumpkins
are
microprocessor
nodes,
hooked
together
with
vine-like
networks.
(July
31,
1998.
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on
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for
full
story)
- Sandia's
three
1998
R&D
100
award-winning
technologies
detect
the
mostly
invisible:
Every
12
months
R&D
Magazine
names
its
choices
for
the
year's
100
most
outstanding
technical
advances.
(July
17,
1998.
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story)
- As
microcircuits
heat
up,
inexpensive
Sandia
substrate
may
keep
tomorrow's
chips
cooler:
In
a
few
years
a
dime-size
microchip
may
be
home
to
as
many
as
10
million
transistors.
But
the
electrical
resistance
created
as
all
those
snug
circuits
zap
electrons
back
and
forth
is
causing
even
today's
microprocessors
to
get
hot
--
really
hot.
(July
17,
1998.
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story)
- Scientists
mimic
structure
of
seashells
to
make
tough
coatings::
Humanity
has
valued
seashells
for
their
beauty
and
utility
for
thousands
of
years.
But
even
alchemists
never
tried
transmuting
base
materials
into
the
microscopic
interlayering
necessary
to
create
a
shell's
strength,
hardness,
and
toughness.
(July
17,
1998.
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story)
- A
matter
of
timing:
Labs'
micromachine
prototype
performs
job
of
quartz
crystals:
Within
the
next
few
years,
your
watch,
television,
and
computer
may
all
contain
microelectromechanical
systems
(MEMS),
micron-size
machines
being
developed
at
Sandia.
(July3,
1998.
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story)
- Sandia
research
agreement
with
Numotech
to
help
create
home-use
oxygen-healing
facility:
In
the
presence
of
wheelchair-bound
Bill
"Willie"
Shoemaker
-
America's
winningest
jockey
until
an
auto
accident
severely
injured
his
spine
in
1991
-
Sandia
representatives
last
Friday
signed
a
$5.76
million
cooperative
research
and
development
agreement
(CRADA)
with
California-based
Numotech,
Inc.,
a
company
that
conducts
research
about
wounds
and
designs
new
treatments.
(June
19,
1998.
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story)
- 'Protonic'
memory
chip
wins
a
1998
Discover
Award:
During
an
Academy
Awards-style
ceremony
at
Epcot
Center
recently,
the
innovators
of
Sandia's
memory-retentive
computer
chip
received
one
of
ten
Discover
Awards
for
Technological
Innovation.
The
awards
are
presented
annually
by
the
editors
of
Discover
magazine
for
the
year's
top
inventions.
(June
19,
1998.
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story)
- Patented
pothole
patcher
patches
potholes
pronto:
Leo
Mara
usually
commutes
on
foot
the
two
miles
from
his
home
to
work
at
Sandia.
But
one
day,
as
he
inched
along
a
bumpy
road
in
his
van
past
a
repair
crew,
he
dreamed
of
a
bus-sized
vehicle
that
would
fix
potholes
as
it
drives
over
them.
That
dream
is
now
the
laboratory
technician's
first
patented
invention.
(June
19,
1998.
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- Sandia
gearing
up
for
50th
anniversary
celebrations,
observances
in
1999:
A
Sandia
National
Labs
50th
anniversary
logo
has
been
developed
for
use
throughout
1999
-
the
Labs'
anniversary
year.
(June
19,
1998.
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story)
- Sandians
write
book
on
Civil
War
in
New
Mexico:
During
his
many
long
work-related
trips
to
Washington
over
the
past
several
years,
John
Taylor,
Manager
of
Nonproliferation
Initiatives
Dept.
5335,
squeezed
in
time
to
pore
through
135-year-old
journals,
letters,
and
military
records
at
the
National
Archives.
(June
19,
1998.
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story)
- Sandia
Science
and
Technology
Park
soon
a
reality:
A
fast-track
project
that
began
in
May
to
build
the
first
facility
in
the
new
Sandia
Science
and
Technology
Park
should
be
finished
by
October
and
operating
soon
thereafter.
The
formal
groundbreaking
ceremony
for
the
new
EMCOREwest
building
took
place
May
28,
at
the
Albuquerque
site
just
northeast
of
Kirtland
Air
Force
Base's
Eubank
gate.
(June
5,
1998.
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on
headline
for
full
story)
- Sandia's
precision
MEMS
reliability
tests
advance
future
of
micromachine
systems:
Microelectromechanical
systems
(MEMS),
those
microscopic
marvels
that
promise
to
revolutionize
the
electronics
industry,
are
useless
unless
they
are
reliable.
So
says
Bill
Miller,
Manager
of
Reliability
Physics
Dept.
1728,
whose
18-member
group
is
charged
with
determining
the
reliability
of
Sandia's
MEMS.
"We
constantly
ask
the
questions
-
how
reliable
are
they
and
can
we
use
them
in
real
applications,"
Bill
says.
(June
5,
1998.
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on
headline
for
full
story)
- Tracking
disease
outbreaks
may
help
detect
rogue
bioweapon
research:
When
an
outbreak
of
a
rodent-borne
disease
now
known
as
the
hantavirus
killed
more
than
a
dozen
people
in
the
southwestern
United
States
in
spring
1993,
the
US
had
some
explaining
to
do.
The
outbreak
was
sudden,
it
was
often
fatal,
and
it
was
confined
to
a
region
where
plenty
of
military
research
takes
place.
To
some
it
looked
like
the
US
might
have
been
experimenting
with
biological
agents
forbidden
under
current
treaties,
and
that
the
bug
somehow
had
gotten
out
among
the
populace.
(June
5,
1998.
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on
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for
full
story)
- Visiting
Scholars
Program
at
Cooperative
Monitoring
Center
aims
to
help
make
world
a
safer
place:
In
another
time
and
place
Nazir
Kamal,
an
international
relations
expert
from
Pakistan,
and
Pravin
Sawhney,
a
journalist
and
former
major
in
the
Indian
army,
might
have
found
themselves
on
the
opposite
sides
of
the
political
fence.
But
at
Sandia's
Cooperative
Monitoring
Center
(CMC),
where
they
participate
in
the
two-year-old
Visiting
Scholars
Program,
they
are
working
together
as
a
team
to
help
resolve
historical
conflicts
between
their
two
countries.(May
22,
1998.
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on
headline
for
full
story)
- 'Accidents
are
unacceptable':
Sandia
lends
its
safety,
reliability
expertise
to
the
FAA:
Sandia's
role
in
helping
the
Federal
Aviation
Administration
(FAA)
design
a
new
systematic
approach
to
airline
safety
was
highlighted
during
an
FAA
news
conference
last
week
in
Washington,
D.C.
The
FAA
expects
the
new
program
to
help
its
nationwide
team
of
3,700
airline
inspectors
more
effectively
track
safety
trends
and
spot
problem
areas
in
the
nation's
fleet
of
aging
commercial
aircraft.
(May
22,
1998.
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on
headline
for
full
story)
- Refrozen
food
detector
patented
by
Sandia
group:
If
frozen
food
thawed
on
the
cross-country
truck
transporting
it,
was
then
refrozen,
and
you
bought
it,
how
would
you
know
it
wasn't
fit
to
eat?
Perhaps
by
a
color
change
in
a
very
inexpensive
thaw
indicator
placed
in
the
package.
(May
22,
1998.
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on
headline
for
full
story)
- Students
shed
Cold
War
mentality
in
cyber-age
Russia
pen-pal
program:
Their
parents
spent
their
school-age
years
learning
to
mistrust
Russians.
But
for
the
19
second
graders
in
Janet
Sanchez's
Petroglyph
Elementary
School
classroom,
Russians
aren't
reason
to
"duck
and
cover."
They're
pen
pals,
friends,
summer
camp
companions,
perhaps.
They're
a
good
reason
to
check
your
classroom's
e-mail.
(May
8,
1998.
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on
headline
for
full
story)
- CRADA
to
fast-track
commercialization
of
new,
more
sensitive
radiation
detector:
A
frequent
collaborator
and
customer
of
Sandia's
nuclear
materials
monitoring
user
facility
has
entered
into
a
cooperative
research
and
development
agreement
to
make
more
sensitive
room-temperature
radiation
monitors.
(May
8,
1998.
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on
headline
for
full
story)
- 'Human
presence
detector'
device
fails
controlled
tests
conducted
by
Sandia:
A
Sandia
double-blind
test
of
an
instrument
that
its
manufacturer
said
could
detect
the
presence
of
human
beings
at
a
distance
through
any
material
found
no
evidence
that
it
could
do
so.
(April
24,
1998.
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on
headline
for
full
story)
- Sandians
seek
tiny
chemistry
lab
on
a
chip:
Much
the
way
the
invention
of
telescopes
and
radio
powerfully
extended
what
we
can
see
and
hear,
the
faint
but
informative
presence
of
trace
chemicals
may
one
day
be
discerned
by
sensors
on
bands
of
small
vehicles
that
cooperatively
canvass
the
countryside.
(April
24,
1998.
Click
on
headline
for
full
story)
- Wear-resistant,
diamond-like
coating
created
by
Sandia
Eliminate
stress,
the
saying
goes,
and
you
live
longer.
Apparently
the
same
is
true
of
certain
diamond
coatings.
A
team
of
Sandia
scientists
has
developed
a
simple,
inexpensive
way
to
relieve
the
normal
internal
stresses
of
amorphous
(noncrystalline)
diamond
films
-
a
significant
advance
in
producing
wear-resistant
coatings.
(April
10,
1998
issue;
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on
headline
to
see
full
article)
- Sandia
formally
proposes
to
design
accelerator
expected
to
produce
high-yield
fusion
Permission
to
prepare
a
conceptual
design
for
a
next-generation
accelerator,
X-1,
was
formally
requested
this
week
by
Sandia
President
C.
Paul
Robinson
in
a
letter
to
DOE
headquarters.
If
funded,
X-1
would
be
expected
to
reach
initial
operating
capability
by
about
2007
and
high-yield
fusion
by
about
2010
as
well
as
provide
important
data
for
the
nation's
stockpile
stewardship
program.
(April
10,
1998
issue;
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on
headline
to
see
full
article)
- Powerful
new
laser
imaging
technique
pinpoints
nitric
oxide
emissions
formation
Combustion
researchers
are
completing
another
chapter
of
the
story
regarding
diesel
emissions
by
showing
when
and
where
nitric
oxide
(NO)
forms
inside
an
operating
diesel
engine.
John
Dec
of
Combustion
in
Engines
Dept.
8362
has
already
shed
light
on
fuel
distribution
and
soot
formation
during
diesel
combustion,
changing
old
assumptions
with
new
data
from
laser
diagnostics.
(A
special
research
engine
equipped
with
quartz
windows
in
the
combustion
chamber
is
used
for
these
investigations.)
Recently,
John
and
colleagues
turned
to
NO,
which
is
either
formed
rapidly
in
the
flame
zone,
or
more
slowly
in
the
adjacent
gases
as
a
result
of
high
temperatures
generated
by
combustion.
(April
10,
1998
issue;
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on
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to
see
full
article)
- Sandians
can't
let
Y2K
stop
nuclear
detonation
detection
If
anybody
is
motivated
to
deal
with
Year
2000
problems,
it's
the
Sandians
working
on
the
US
Nuclear
Detonation
Detection
System.
They
have
to
be.
If
the
system
stops
working,
the
US
loses
its
ability
to
use
satellites
to
monitor
for
nuclear
test
ban
treaty
violations.
(April
10,
1998
issue;
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on
headline
to
see
full
article)
- Sandia
beating
swords
into
plowshares
-
really
Sandia
is
getting
into
agriculture,
but
don't
look
for
crops
or
herds
or
flocks
back
toward
Coyote
Canyon.
Rather,
Sandians
will
be
promoting
sustainable
development
through
the
use
of
20
years
of
experience
in
waste
management
and
environmental
risk.
(April
10,
1998
issue;
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on
headline
to
see
full
article)
- Labs
patents
cool
tool
to
produce
better
microchips
A
device
expected
to
be
potentially
less
expensive
and
more
effective
than
any
on
the
market
in
helping
cool
silicon
wafers
during
the
chip
manufacturing
process
has
been
patented
in
prototype
by
researchers
at
Sandia.
(March
27,
1998
issue;
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on
headline
to
see
full
article)
- NASA,
Sandia
drawing
nearer
an
expanded
and
more
formalized
research
relationship
A
high-level
delegation
of
Sandians,
including
Executive
VP
John
Crawford,
Division
1000
VP
Bob
Eagan,
and
directors
from
centers
in
several
divisions,
traveled
to
NASA's
Jet
Propulsion
Laboratory
earlier
this
month
to
help
forge
a
new
relationship
between
NASA
and
Sandia.
And
this
week,
Bob
led
a
similar
delegation
on
a
visit
to
Goddard
Space
Flight
Center
in
Maryland
to
continue
a
round
of
high-level
exchanges
of
information.
(March
27,
1998
issue;
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on
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to
see
full
article)
- Cooperative
Monitoring
Center
welcomes
world
arms
control
experts
to
Albuquerque
next
week
Some
180
internationally
known
experts
representing
the
United
Nations,
NATO,
and
about
40
countries
will
gather
in
Albuquerque
April
3-5
to
discuss
the
spread
of
chemical,
biological,
and
nuclear
weapons
and
the
technologies
required
to
monitor
them.
(March
27,
1998
issue;
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on
headline
to
see
full
article)
- Nation's
investments
in
stockpile
stewardship
paying
off,
Paul
Robinson
tells
Senate
Armed
Services
subcommittee
Congress'
investments
in
science-based
stockpile
stewardship
have
already
begun
to
show
results,
Sandia
President
and
Labs
Director
C.
Paul
Robinson
told
a
Senate
Armed
Services
subcommittee
in
Washington
last
week.
He
urged
continued
strong
support.
(March
27,
1998
issue;
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on
headline
to
see
full
article)
- Actor
Charlton
Heston
lends
big
voice
to
Sandia's
little
machines
in
new
video
production
Sandia's
micromachines
are
tiny
little
marvels,
but
now
they
have
a
spokesman
who
is
bigger
than
life.
Charlton
Heston,
one
of
the
world's
most
recognized,
admired,
and
honored
actors,
provides
onscreen
and
voice-over
narration
for
Sandia's
new
microsystems
(i.e.
micromachines
and
integrated
microelectronics)
promotional
video.
(February
27,
1998
issue;
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on
headline
to
see
full
article)
- Z
machine
on
another
dramatic
climb
toward
fusion
conditions
Researchers
at
Sandia's
Z
-
the
former
dark
horse
among
accelerators
meant
to
produce
conditions
required
for
nuclear
fusion
(Lab
News,
Aug.
1,
1997)
-
have
increased
the
machine's
X-ray
power
output
by
nearly
10
times
in
the
last
two
years.
(February
27,
1998
issue;
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on
headline
to
see
full
article)
- Sandia
is
'very
sound,'
Paul
Robinson
tells
audience
of
community
leaders
at
State
of
the
Labs
talk
The
state
of
the
Labs?
Healthy,
financially
stable,
and
advancing
the
technology
for
national
security.
That
was
the
gist
of
the
message
delivered
by
Labs
President
C.
Paul
Robinson
and
Executive
VP
John
Crawford
during
the
annual
community
"State
of
the
Labs"
address
on
Feb.
19.
(February
27,
1998
issue;
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on
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to
see
full
article)
- Archimedes
in
action:
Assembly
planning
software
gets
a
job
in
private
industry
Archimedes
is
alive
and
well
and
about
to
go
to
work
big
time
for
private
industry.
Not
the
Greek
mathematician
and
inventor,
of
course,
but
Archimedes
3.0.
(February
27,
1998
issue;
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on
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to
see
full
article)
- Sandia
scientists
develop
first
reproducible
quantum
transistor
Improvements
in
the
transistor
of
the
future
may
not
rely
on
decreasing
its
size
but
rather
on
a
radical
change
in
operation
made
possible
by
a
quantum
mechanical
transistor
created
at
Sandia.
(February
13,
1998
issue;
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on
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to
see
full
article)
- Paul
Robinson
joins
President
Clinton
aboard
Air
Force
One
Flying
toward
Albuquerque
on
Air
Force
One,
Sandia
President
and
Laboratory
Director
C.
Paul
Robinson
spoke
earnestly
with
President
Bill
Clinton.
Among
the
topics
of
the
30-minute
discussion:
science-based
stockpile
stewardship,
the
START
II
Treaty,
labs
funding,
and
counterterrorism.
(February
13,
1998
issue;
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on
headline
to
see
full
article)
- Disabling
the
Unabomber's
final
bomb:
Objective
was
not
just
to
defuse
it,
but
to
surgically
defuse
it,
says
Chris
Cherry
One
night
in
April
1996
Sandia
bomb-disablement
expert
Chris
Cherry
got
an
urgent
call
at
home
in
Albuquerque.
It
was
the
Federal
Bureau
of
Investigation.
The
FBI,
investigating
Unabomber
suspect
Theodore
Kaczynski's
cabin
in
Montana,
had
found
a
bomb.
The
investigators
said
they
could
not
continue
on
into
the
cabin.
(February
13,
1998
issue;
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on
headline
to
see
full
article)
- Thousands
of
ice
comets
bombarding
the
atmosphere?
High-altitude
plumes
from
meteoroids
invoked
instead
Intense
controversy
over
the
past
decade
has
swirled
around
the
assertion
by
two
space
scientists
that
thousands
of
house-sized
snowballs,
or
icy
comets,
are
striking
Earth
each
day.
Their
claim
that
up
to
30,000
such
small
comets
strike
Earth's
atmosphere
every
day
is
derived
from
observations
by
the
Dynamics
Explorer-1
satellite
of
transient
dark
spots,
or
holes,
in
the
upper
atmosphere's
far-ultraviolet
dayglow
emission.
(January
30,
1998
issue;
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on
headline
to
see
full
article)
- Cooperative
monitoring
goes
online
as
field
trial
expands
to
storage
magazines
"Good
job,"
remarked
a
Russian
visitor
upon
leaving
an
old
storage
magazine
at
Sandia/California
that
had
been
instrumented
with
the
latest
monitoring
systems.
The
visitor,
one
of
five
from
Russia's
Arzamas-16
and
Mayak
nuclear
research
facilities,
had
just
participated
in
a
ribbon-cutting
ceremony
capping
a
year
of
successful
lab-to-lab
collaboration
in
nuclear
material
monitoring
technology.
(January
30,
1998
issue;
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on
headline
to
see
full
article)
- New
portable
voltage
standard
heads
to
NASA
facilities
following
Sandia
training
A
three-day
hands-on
course
held
recently
at
Sandia's
Primary
Standards
Laboratory
has
provided
the
training
necessary
for
technicians
to
operate
a
new
transportable
voltage
standard
at
NASA
facilities
throughout
the
US.
(January
30,
1998
issue;
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on
headline
to
see
full
article)
- 'Lab-on-a-chip'
efforts
show
progress
The
effort
by
Sandia
researchers
to
build
a
self-contained
chemistry
laboratory
in
a
handheld
device
received
high
marks
as
well
as
guidance
in
the
project's
second
review
by
an
independent
panel
at
Sandia/California
in
December.
(January
16,
1998
issue;
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on
headline
to
see
full
article)
- Digital
paleontology:
Producing
the
sound
of
the
Parasaurolophus
dinosaur
It's
a
roar
from
the
past.
The
distant
past.
The
Late
Cretaceous
to
be
exact.
Scientists
at
Sandia
and
the
New
Mexico
Museum
of
Natural
History
and
Science
have
collaborated
to
recreate
the
sound
a
dinosaur
made
75
million
years
ago.
(December
19,
1997
issue;
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on
headline
to
see
full
article)
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