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Sandia's Greg White chosen as a New Face of Engineering 2014

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia engineer Greg White has been chosen as one of the 2014 New Faces of Engineering, a recognition program that highlights the work of engineers ages 30 and younger.

Fusion instabilities lessened by unexpected effect

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Introducition of a secondary, weaker magnetic field into a fusion experiment at Sandia's Z machine unexpectedly reduced the plasma disturbance that customarily sinks fusion efforts.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: National Nuclear Security Administratoin

Pioneering path to electrical conductivity in 'tinker toy' materials to appear in Science

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories researchers have devised a novel way to realize electrical conductivity in metal-organic framework materials, a development that could have profound implications for the future of electronics, sensors, energy conversion and energy storage.

Journal: Science
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Engineer honored for contributions to precision strike systems

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

The chief engineer of Conventional Prompt Global Strike programs at Sandia National Laboratories has been honored with a national award for his outstanding contributions to precision strike systems.

Combustion chemist to be awarded Polanyi Medal for pioneering work at Sandia Labs

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories combustion chemist Craig Taatjes, whose groundbreaking work on Criegee intermediates has provided scientific insight into hydrocarbon combustion and atmospheric chemistry, has been selected to receive the prestigious Polanyi Medal by the International Symposium on Gas Kinetics.

Black hole birth captured by cosmic voyeurs

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Intelligent telescopes designed by Los Alamos National Laboratory got a front row seat recently for an unusual birth. "Los Alamos' RAPTOR telescopes in New Mexico and Hawaii received a very bright cosmic birth announcement for a black hole on April 27," said astrophysicist Tom Vestrand, lead author of a paper appearing today in the journal Science that highlights the unusual event.

Journal: Science

HIV virus spread and evolution studied through computer modeling

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are investigating the complex relationships between the spread of the HIV virus in a population (epidemiology) and the actual, rapid evolution of the virus (phylogenetics) within each patient's body.

Journal: Nature
Funder: National Institutes of Health

Converting natural gas to liquid transportation fuels via biological organisms

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories will use their expertise in protein expression, enzyme engineering and high-throughput assays as part of a multiproject, $34 million effort by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy aimed at developing advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation.

Funder: Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

Sandia's Katherine Guzman receives national Hispanic award for technical contributions

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

The Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corp. (HENAAC) recently named Sandia National Laboratories' Katherine Guzman one of its 2013 Luminary honorees. She received her award Oct. 5 at the 25th Anniversary HENAAC Conference in New Orleans. "This is an incredible honor," said Guzman. "I remember going to the HENAAC awards ceremony as an undergraduate and looking up at the award winners with awe, never imagining that one day I might be considered for such an award."

Plasmonic crystal alters to match light-frequency source

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A plasma-containing crystal, tunable by varying a voltage, could increase the bandwidth of high-speed communication networks and generally enhance high-speed electronics.

Journal: Nature Photonics
Funder: US Department of Energy/Basic Energy Sciences Program

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