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Newswise: Sandia studies vulnerabilities of electric vehicle charging infrastructure
Released: 15-Nov-2022 10:05 AM EST
Sandia studies vulnerabilities of electric vehicle charging infrastructure
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With electric vehicles becoming more and more common, the risks and hazards of a cyber attack on electric vehicle charging equipment and systems also increases. Jay Johnson, an electrical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, has been studying the varied vulnerabilities of electric vehicle charging infrastructure for the past four years.

Newswise: Great Minds in STEM salutes Sandia Labs engineer
Released: 10-Nov-2022 11:15 AM EST
Great Minds in STEM salutes Sandia Labs engineer
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Sandia National Laboratories mechanical engineer Frank DelRio likes to think small — microscopically small. His groundbreaking work in nanomechanics and nanotribology earned him a trip to Pasadena, California, recently for the 2022 Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference, where he was honored for his technical achievements.

Released: 24-Oct-2022 2:25 PM EDT
At Sandia Labs, a Vision for Navigating When GPS Goes Dark
Sandia National Laboratories

A team at Sandia National Laboratories is reengineering a quantum inertial sensor into a compact, rugged device so the technology can safely guide vehicles where GPS signals are jammed or lost.

Newswise: Investigating Stockpile Stewardship Applications for World’s Largest Computer Chip
Released: 24-Oct-2022 1:50 PM EDT
Investigating Stockpile Stewardship Applications for World’s Largest Computer Chip
Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories and its partners at two other national labs have announced a project to investigate the application of Cerebras Systems‘ Wafer-Scale Engine technology.

Newswise: Accolades spotlight shines on Sandia Labs
Released: 19-Oct-2022 1:05 PM EDT
Accolades spotlight shines on Sandia Labs
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Sandia National Laboratories’ Robin Jones and Kimberly Pino recently were recognized by Profiles in Diversity Journal as Women Worth Watching in Leadership award winners for 2022, while Sondra Spence received a Women Worth Watching in STEM award.

Released: 19-Oct-2022 12:05 PM EDT
Society of Women Engineers bestows awards on 3 Sandia staff, including its highest honor
Sandia National Laboratories

The Society of Women Engineers has bestowed awards on three Sandia National Laboratories employees. Senior scientist Tina Nenoff received the society’s highest honor, the Achievement Award.

Newswise: Burping bacteria: Identifying Arctic microbes that produce greenhouse gases
Released: 17-Oct-2022 9:30 AM EDT
Burping bacteria: Identifying Arctic microbes that produce greenhouse gases
Sandia National Laboratories

As greenhouse gases bubble up across the rapidly thawing Arctic, Sandia National Laboratories researchers are trying to identify other trace gases from soil microbes that could shed some light on what is occurring biologically in melting permafrost in the Arctic.Sandia bioengineer Chuck Smallwood and his team recently spent five days collecting lakebed soil and gas samples.

Released: 11-Oct-2022 11:05 AM EDT
Ink flows to meet surging demand for national security research
Sandia National Laboratories

The nation’s largest national laboratory is embarking on a major expansion of its network of academic partners to meet the surging demand for national security science and engineering.

Newswise: Most Promising Engineer of the Year honor goes to Sandia scientist
Released: 6-Oct-2022 10:40 AM EDT
Most Promising Engineer of the Year honor goes to Sandia scientist
Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories research and development manager Bishnu Khanal was recently honored with the Most Promising Asian American Engineer of the Year award for his work in next-generation optical lithography process development for numerous technologies, along with his deep-reaching community service.

Newswise: Propelling wind energy innovation
Released: 29-Sep-2022 3:30 PM EDT
Propelling wind energy innovation
Sandia National Laboratories

Motivated by the need to eliminate expensive rare-earth magnets in utility-scale direct-drive wind turbines, Sandia National Laboratories researchers developed a fundamentally new type of rotary electrical contact. Sandia is now ready to partner with the renewable energy industry to develop the next generation of direct-drive wind turbines.

Released: 28-Sep-2022 12:05 PM EDT
Scientists chip away at a metallic mystery, one atom at a time
Sandia National Laboratories

Based at Sandia National Laboratories, a team of scientists believes the key to preventing large-scale, catastrophic failures in bridges, airplanes and power plants is to look — very closely — at damage as it first appears at the atomic and nanoscale levels.

Released: 12-Sep-2022 11:05 AM EDT
Through the Quantum Looking Glass
Sandia National Laboratories

An ultrathin invention could make future computing, sensing and encryption technologies remarkably smaller and more powerful by helping scientists control a strange but useful phenomenon of quantum mechanics, according to new research recently published in the journal Science.

Newswise:  Pipelines for Progress
Released: 23-Aug-2022 12:30 PM EDT
Pipelines for Progress
Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories is sharpening its recruitment focus on select historically Black colleges and universities with its Securing Top Academic Research and Talent, or START, program.

Newswise: Back to the drawing board: Reinventing offshore wind turbines
Released: 16-Aug-2022 10:35 AM EDT
Back to the drawing board: Reinventing offshore wind turbines
Sandia National Laboratories

In order to design radically new idea offshore wind turbines, Sandia National Laboratories engineers first needed to build a design tool capable of modeling the physics vertical-axis wind turbine, or a new "drawing board."

Released: 10-Aug-2022 10:05 AM EDT
Sandia Science & Tech Park continues to strengthen economy
Sandia National Laboratories

Since 1998, companies and organizations in the Sandia Science & Technology Park have paid nearly $7.2 billion in wages and generated more than $4 billion in taxable personal consumption, according to a new report.

   
Newswise: “We’ve Got the Power”: Sandia technology test delivers electricity to the grid
Released: 9-Aug-2022 9:55 AM EDT
“We’ve Got the Power”: Sandia technology test delivers electricity to the grid
Sandia National Laboratories

For the first time, Sandia National Laboratories researchers delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the Sandia-Kirtland Air Force Base electrical grid.

Released: 2-Aug-2022 11:30 AM EDT
Can an Algorithm Teach Scientists to Write Better Quantum Computer Programs?
Sandia National Laboratories

A new research project, funded by an Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award, will help quantum computer scientists write better programs that fail less often.

Newswise: Employee honored for disability inclusion, advocacy
Released: 25-Jul-2022 1:05 PM EDT
Employee honored for disability inclusion, advocacy
Sandia National Laboratories

Heather Spalding, a business lead at Sandia National Laboratories, was recently recognized as an Employee of the Year by CAREERS & the disABLED magazine for her advocacy efforts, professional accomplishments, community outreach initiatives and more.

Released: 21-Jul-2022 1:45 PM EDT
Sandia applied mathematician wins DOE Early Career Research Award
Sandia National Laboratories

Guiding highly complex simulations with real-world, very fine data.

Released: 19-Jul-2022 11:05 AM EDT
Radar Gets a Major Makeover
Sandia National Laboratories

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working to replace legacy analog radars commonly used by the military with a new, digital, software-defined system called Multi-Mission Radio Frequency Architecture.



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