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Alexander Maranghides Receives the 2025 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal

Alexander Maranghides
Credit: NIST

For decades of important research into how fires that occur in communities adjacent to wildlands spread, what can be done to prevent them and how to protect life and property.

Created July 2, 2025
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