LAB FELLOWSHIP RECRUITS WOMEN
Fellowship honors 1st female director
Sandia offers program, named for first female director, that is designed to promote sciences and engineering.
Sandia National Laboratories hopes to recruit women in the engineering and science fields with the help of a new fellowship program named after immediate past lab director and first woman in that job, Jill Hruby.
The Jill Hruby Fellowship Program will provide postdoctoral candidates with a three-year technical leadership development program, including mentoring by executives and exposure to national security policy. The program is aimed at women interested in becoming technical leaders in national security, according to a news release.
“I am honored to have a fellowship in my name to inspire science and engineering in public service, and that recognizes leadership as an important element of contributing to Sandia Labs and across the Department of Energy,” Hruby said in the lab news release.
The program will help participants lead technical areas at Sandia and other national labs and national security organizations. It complements the existing Truman Fellowship, which is geared toward developing researchers.
Hruby was Sandia’s director from July 2015 through April 2017, the first woman to lead a national security laboratory. She worked for Sandia for 34 years, first at its California site beginning in 1983. She moved to the New Mexico lab in 2010 as a vice president overseeing counterterrorism, homeland security, energy security and nuclear, biological and chemical security.
Hruby was replaced by Stephen Younger last spring when the lab changed management for only the second time in its history. National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, took over from Lockheed Martin, which had managed the lab since 1993.
The fellowship, which will begin in fall 2018, is open to all qualified applicants. Applications must be submitted by Nov. 1 at sandia.gov/careers; search for job number 658086.