Awards Received by NIST Employees

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Staymates, Gerskovic, Materese, Porter, Press and Wilson Receive Shorty Award for Face Covering Campaign

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media.

Dr. Marlon Walker Receives the 2020 NOBCChE Presidential Award

The National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) Presidential Award recognizes leadership as an advocate for underrepresented communities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

PLEASE NOTE: This collection is not comprehensive. Most of the awards highlighted in these pages are recent. We are working to make the collection more complete.

Tony Kearsley 2021 Winner of the Excellence in Research in Applied Mathematics Award

For outstanding contributions in the application of mathematics with impact in a broad range of fields, including physics, chemistry

2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics - Jun Ye

Ye has been a physicist at JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder, for more than 20 years. The prize

P. Jonathon Phillips Honored with Career Achievement Award

Dr. P. Jonathon Phillips is a world-renowned expert in computer vision, face recognition, and biometrics and a pioneer in developing

Ron Ross Receives Special Recognition Award from The American Bar Association’s Section on Science & Technology Law

For the enormous contribution made in the field of cybersecurity, particularly in the area of best practices and standards for cybersecurity

Aspasia Nikolaou Receives Metropolitan Section Civil Engineer of the Year for 2020 – 2021

In recognition of her character, professional integrity, and years of outstanding service to the civil engineering profession.

Awards Received by NIST Employees

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