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7-Apr-2021
Retaining knowledge of nuclear waste management
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Experts at Sandia National Laboratories just began their second year of a project to capture important, hard-to-explain nuclear waste management knowledge from retirement-age employees to help new employees get up to speed faster.
1-Apr-2021
Reusable respirator could ease COVID-19 medical mask shortages
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Medical professionals struggling with persistent shortages of N95 masks might soon get relief from a Sandia National Laboratories invention -- a comfortable, reusable, sterilizable respirator that could ease demand during current or future health crises.
12-Aug-2020
Sandia Science & Tech Park spurs economic growth
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
A new, independent report has concluded that the Sandia Science & Technology Park contributed significantly to the local economy in 2018-19 by adding 310 jobs and generating increases in economic activity and tax revenue to the city and New Mexico.
5-Aug-2020
Helping protect medical professionals
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
A media comprised of a sandwich of materials, tested by Sandia National Laboratories, is being manufactured into N95-like respirators that could be used in local medical facilities. The project originated from the urgent need for personal protective equipment when the COVID-19 outbreak began.
15-May-2020
Sandia Labs wins 4 national tech transfer awards
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories won four technology transfer awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium. The awards are ranked as some of the most prestigious honors for federal laboratories and industry partners that demonstrate outstanding technology transfer achievements.
15-May-2020
Teens pay it forward, use 3D printers built at Sandia to make face shields
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Teens who built 3D printers during a weeklong robotics camp at Sandia National Laboratories last year have used them to make more than 3,000 face shields that have been donated to medical professionals and first responders in New Mexico.
15-May-2020
Sandia tests distillery's hand sanitizer developed to address severe shortage
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
In response to the severe, widespread shortage of hand sanitizer during the COVID-19 pandemic, Wayward Sons Craft-Distillery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, reconfigured its operations to produce a hand sanitizer they named Elbow Bump, and worked with Sandia National Laboratories to test and confirm that it meets standards set by the World Health Organization and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
7-May-2020
Sandia tests distillery's hand sanitizer developed to address severe shortage
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Distillery-developed hand sanitizer is leaving a New Mexico warehouse as quickly as it disappeared from grocery stores after Sandia National Laboratories helped confirm the product meets all federal requirements for distribution.