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Associate Director for Laboratory Programs

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

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.

Amy Mensch is Selected for the 2025 ASME Lakshmi Singh Early Career Leadership Award

This award recognizes early-career women engineers who have demonstrated considerable leadership in, commitment to, and continued service to ASME. Sponsored by the Petroleum Division, the award honors the work of Lakshmi Singh, a talented early...

2025 - Resolve Award---Lili Wang

The Resolve Award celebrates individuals who uplift the world through science. Lili Wang of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory was presented with this award at CYTO 2025.

Jack Glover Receives 1906 Award

In recognition for his effective leadership of SC 45B/WG 17, as well as his role as project leader of IEC 62463:2024, Radiation protection instrumentation — X-ray systems for the security screening of persons.

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2025 - Letters to a Pre-Scientist Award---Sierra Miller

Letters to a Pre-Scientist (LPS) connects students to STEM professionals through snail mail to broaden students ’ awareness of what STEM professionals look like and do at work and inspire all students to explore a future in STEM. LPS asked their...

Dustin Cook Receives the 2025 Early Career Award in Engineering

For innovative research, technical leadership, and national-level engagement in the development of functional recovery building codes and performance assessment frameworks.

Ryan Snodgrass Receives 2025 William E. Gifford Award

Dr. Ryan Snodgrass is recognized for his outstanding contributions to the field of cryogenics, particularly in the areas of pulse tube refrigerators and Gifford-McMahon cryocoolers.

Siamak Sattar Receives the NIBS 2025 Innovator Award

NIST, FEMA, ATC, and STPI were awarded in recognition of their leadership and technical contributions to develop the NIST SP-1254 report to Congress titled “Recommended Options for Improving the Built Environment for Post-Earthquake Re-occupancy and...

Julia Sharp elected Vice President of the American Statistical Association

Julia Sharp has been elected to serve as Vice President of the American Statistical Association (ASA). During her tenure, she seeks to use her background in academia and government, along with her extensive ASA service, to tackle the challenges...

2025 - Federal Laboratory Consortium Impact Award---RaDAR Program

The RaDAR Program provides comprehensive drug testing data to 13 states and territories across the U.S. In total, more than 10,000 samples have been analyzed since the RaDAR Program began in October 2022, and notably, more than 6,500 samples were...

Kamel Saidi Receives 2025 Washington Academy of Sciences Leadership Award

For outstanding leadership and significant impacts on advanced manufacturing, construction, and emergency response capabilities and standards, particularly for the fields of robotics and 3D imaging.

Eric Link is Receives 2025 Washington Academy of Sciences (WAS) Excellence in Research Award in Engineering

To recognize a person for outstanding research contributions in any scientific or engineering discipline.

50 Years of Fire Safety Advances Site Receives Communicator Award of Excellence and Award of Distinction

The 50 Years of Fire Safety Advances website received a Communicator Award of Excellence in the General-Science and Technology category and an Award of Distinction in the General-Government category. The Award of Excellence is the highest honor. It...

Nicole Yunger Halpern Receives 2025 Early Career Scientist Award (ESCA) in Statistical Physics

For her outstanding contributions bridging statistical physics, thermodynamics and quantum information theory.

Li Piin Sung Receives 2025 Mattiello Lecture Award

For her exceptional contributions to the advancement of coating technology.

Marc Levitan Received the Distinguished Engineer Award

The TTU's Distinguished Engineer Award was established during the 1966–1967 academic year to recognize the most outstanding former students of the Whitacre College of Engineering. Since that time, 230 former students of the Whitacre College of...

Scott Jones Receives The 2025 ACI Young Member Award for Professional Achievement

For his contributions to advancing 3-D concrete printing technology, including technical publications, convention presentations, and service on ACI technical committees. He builds partnerships between industry and academia for national...

Jun Ye Receives 2025 Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis Prize

The award acknowledges Ye's groundbreaking work in optical clocks and frequency metrology, which has significantly advanced precision measurement and timekeeping. His contributions have deepened our understanding of fundamental physics and paved the...

2024 AAAS Fellow - Jeffrey W Lynn

Election as a Fellow honors members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society have distinguished them among their peers and colleagues.

Peter J. Mohr was named 2024 AAAS Fellow

Mohr was nominated for "for calculating fundamental quantum electrodynamical effects in atoms, leading the revision of the International System of Units, and providing the scientific community with adjusted values of the fundamental constants of...

D. Richard Kuhn elected AAAS Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected Rick Kuhn as an AAAS Fellow. Rick was awarded this honor for his distinguished contributions to the understanding of software faults and failures, and combinatorial methods...

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2025 - TMS Fellow Award---Ursula Kattner

The TMS Fellow Award is presented to The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) members who have made outstanding contributions to the practice of metallurgy/materials science and technology. The award includes a life membership to TMS and is...

Ann Virts Receives 2025 ASTM International James A. Thomas President's Leadership Award

The ASTM International James A. Thomas President's Leadership Award is an honor presented to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and contributions to the advancement of ASTM International's standards and activities. The award is...

Jordan Weaver Receives 2024 Journal of Manufacturing Processes Outstanding Reviewer Award

For providing exceptional quality and number of peer-reviews for the SME Journal of Manufacturing Processes.

Aspasia "Sissy" Nikolaou Receives 2025 Engineer of the Year

Awarded on the basis of her career successes, support to the university, and giving back to her communities. The University of Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Alumni Association selected her from among the University of Buffalo's...

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Buildings and Construction
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Chemistry
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Electronics
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Energy
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Environment
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Fire
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Forensic Science
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Health
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Information technology
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-Digital twins
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-Software research
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-Usability and human factors
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-Video analytics
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Infrastructure
Manufacturing
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-Process improvement
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-Product data
-Robotics
--Agility and adaptability
--Collaborative robots
--Dexterous grasping
--Manipulation
--Mobility and industrial autonomous vehicles
--Navigation / actuation / control
--Sensing and perception
-Supply chain
-Sustainable manufacturing
-Systems engineering
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-Technology commercialization
Materials
-Ceramics
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-Concrete / cement
-Materials characterization
--Composition and structure
--Mechanical properties
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-Metals
-Modeling and computational material science
-Polymers
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Mathematics and statistics
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-Image and signal processing
-Modeling and simulation research
-Numerical methods and software
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-Uncertainty quantification
Metrology
-Amount of substance
-Dimensional metrology
-Electrical / electromagnetic metrology
-Flow metrology and rheology
-Force metrology
-Humidity metrology
-Ionizing radiation metrology
-Mass metrology
-Metric
-Optical / photometry / laser metrology
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-Thermometry metrology
-Time and frequency metrology
-Weights and measures
Nanotechnology
-Nanobiotechnology
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--Lithography
--Self-assembly
-Nanofluidics
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-Nanophysics
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Neutron research
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Physics
-Atomic / molecular / quantum
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Public safety
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