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Dr. Nina Rodriguez, her husband, and her young son and daughter outside.
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! In our latest Women in Defense Programs blog, meet Dr. Nina Rodriguez, a civil engineer who keeps NNSA’s production mission going, and celebrates #HHM by going to speak with and inspire students in local Hispanic communities
Dr. Nelson standing in front of the Office of Defense Programs collage at NNSA headquarters.
In our fifth installment of the Women in Defense Programs series, meet Dr. Sarah Nelson. Within the Office of Research and Development, Dr. Nelson oversees some seriously cutting-edge science and facilities that support our nuclear stockpile.
Headshot of Laura Fornicola
Meet Laura Fornicola, who leads #NNSA engagements with our nuclear security partners in the United Kingdom, ensuring stability for our nation and our allies. Laura helped grow a two-person team into the Office of International Programs.
Katie Duncan Headshot
Meet Katie Duncan, whose love for #WWII history led to her role at NNSA as a uranium expert supporting our nuclear stockpile, from the upcoming Uranium Processing Facility to reestablishing depleted uranium manufacturing.
The three principal components of Sandia's micro chem lab for gas-phase detection and analysis are small enough to fit easily inside a snow-pea pod. The left-most component is the surface acoustic wave sensor array, the lab's detection mechanism. The center one is a preconcentrator that absorbs or adsorbs chemical vapors. The right one that looks like a tiny CD is a miniature gas chromatograph column. Together they can collect, concentrate, and analyze a chemical sample weighing less than a single bacterium
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