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Associate Director for Laboratory Programs

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2023 - American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors President’s Medallion Award---Ed Sisco

Ed Sisco of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory was presented with the President’s Medallion at the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLD) Annual Symposium in Austin, Texas. This award is in honor of his distinguished service to...

Jennifer Marshall and Gordon Gillerman recognized at the NIOSH Science and Service Awards 2023

Jennifer Marshall and Gordon Gillerman of the NIST Standards Coordination Office received recognition for the value of their work with the National Personnel Protection Technology Laboratory on respirators as part of SCO’s COVID work. They were on a...

2023 - Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award---Christopher Soles

The Distinguished Alumni Lecture award is proudly presented to Christopher L. Soles for seminal contributions to materials research, as evident by published scholarship, patents/technology transfer, mentoring of early career materials researchers and...

2022 - 5 Sigma Physicist Award---Michelle Bailey

Michelle Bailey is being recognized as a member of the joint Optica/APS Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations report panel. She moderated the launch-webinar for the report and organized a presentation on the report at the “ Metrology for...

Raghu Kacker (ACMD) and D. Richard Kuhn (CSD) awarded the ICST Most Influential Paper Award (MIP)

Congratulations to Raghu Kacker (ACMD) and D. Richard Kuhn (CSD) for recently winning the Most Influential Paper Award (MIP) award for a paper they presented 10 years ago at the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and...

Jordan Weaver Receives 2022 Acta Materialia Outstanding Reviewer Award

The Outstanding Reviewer awards are for excellence in reviewing throughout the calendar year of 2022. These awards are selected by the Editors of Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Acta Biomaterialia and Materialia. Each recipient receives a...

Irena Bojanova honored with IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member Award

Irena Bojanova has been presented with the IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member pin and plaque as one of the distinguished core of dedicated volunteers whose leadership and service have made the IEEE CS the world's preeminent association of...

Ram Sriram Becomes a Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology

Congratulations to Ram D. Sriram for becoming a Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology. According to IET, the fellowship is given to "those respected professionals at the forefront of engineering, technology, or cognate disciplines...

2022 Bronze Medal Award

Dr. Meisenkothen is honored for the development of standards-based techniques for atom probe tomography. Application of these techniques enables nanometer-scale mass spectrometry and imaging to be performed with previously unattainable levels of...

Vladislav Gerginov Receives 2022 Distinguished Associate Award

For long-term and extraordinary contributions in support of NIST’s atomic clock and sensing programs.

Tara Fortier Receives 2023 SPIE Harold E. Edgerton Award in High-Speed Optics

In recognition of pioneering contributions to the development of frequency combs based on mode-locked lasers and their applications in metrology.

2022 - Gold Medal Award---Marc Levitan, Long Phan

For conception, research, development, and standardization of first‐ever tornado hazard maps and tornado load methodology for U.S. building design.

2022 - Silver Medal Award---Jonathan Weigand, Sorin Marcu, Fahim Sadek, Adam Pintar, Long Phan

For innovative research to measure and quantify effects of the alkali-silica reaction on the safety of nuclear power plants for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

2022 - Silver Medal Award---Timothy Quinn, Enrico Lucon

For measurements and standards to improve the reliability of cardiac devices, thus saving and improving lives.

2022 - Dean of Staff Award---Judah Levine

The Dean of Staff award honors the current employee with the longest tenure at NIST. The honoree receives a framed copy of an antique print of pioneering scientist Michael Faraday. A rare carbon print of this photo, now in NIST’s historical artifact collection, hung in the office of the first three NIST directors for four decades.

2022 - Silver Medal Award---Michael Bartock, Jonathan Hardis, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, James McCarthy, Suzanne Lightman, Karen K. Reczek, Jeffrey Sherman, Roger Brown, Michael Lombardi, Judah Levine

For strengthening the resilience of position, navigation, and timing infrastructure and services on which global commerce and national security rely.

2022 - Silver Medal Award---Nicholas Maliszewskyj, Kevin Pritchard, Jeffrey Ziegler, Charles Majkrzak, Jean Philippe Chabot, Louis Edward Binkley

For development of an ultrathin neutron detector with unprecedented counting efficiency, yet exhibits an exceptionally high signal to noise ratio.

2022 - Gold Medal Award---Michaela Iorga, David Waltermire, Dmitry Cousin, Alexander Stein, Stephen Banghart, Nikita Wootten, Wendell Piez

For enabling faster, more accurate, and lower-cost system implementations through automated assessment of security control effectiveness.

2022 - Silver Medal Award---Paul Butler

For leadership and foundational contributions to the world’s leading analysis tool of small-angle-scattering data used by thousands of researchers.

2022 Silver Medal Awardees Justin Wagner

2022 - Silver Medal Award---Justin Zook, Justin Wagner, Jennifer McDaniel, Nathanael Olson, Lindsay Harris

For improving the accuracy of DNA sequencing using the first complete human genome sequence and advancing clinical diagnoses and precision medicine.

2022 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Brian Story

For extraordinary service, dedication, initiative, and creativity in providing technical support for National Fire Research Laboratory experiments.

2022 - Gold Medal Award---John Teufel, José Aumentado, Katarina Cicak, Raymond Simmonds, Scott Glancy, Emanuel Knill

For pioneering experimental techniques to generate and precisely measure the quantum entanglement of two macroscopic mechanical resonators.

2022 - Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award---Christopher Holloway, Joshua Gordon, Matthew Simons, Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse, Nikunjkumar Prajapati

For seminal and groundbreaking work in Rydberg atom-based sensing, with revolutionary applications in communications, imaging, and manufacturing.

2022 - Gold Medal Award---Jun Ye

For the most precise measurement of the gravitational redshift using optical atomic clocks, further confirming Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity.

2022 - Gold Medal Award---Sumona Sarkar, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Laura Pierce, Steven Lund, David Newton

For leading the development of cell characterization standards and tools to improve manufacturing and quality assurance of life-saving therapies.

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Chemistry
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Electronics
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Forensic science
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Information technology
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-Digital twins
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-Interoperability testing
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--Mobile and wireless networking
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--Next generation networks
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-Software research
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Infrastructure
Manufacturing
-Additive manufacturing
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-Monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics
-Process improvement
-Process measurement and control
-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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Materials
-Ceramics
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-Concrete / cement
-Materials characterization
--Composition and structure
--Mechanical properties
--Thermal properties
-Metals
-Modeling and computational material science
-Polymers
-Superconductors
Mathematics and statistics
-Experiment design
-Image and signal processing
-Modeling and simulation research
-Numerical methods and software
-Statistical analysis
-Uncertainty quantification
Metrology
-Amount of substance
-Dimensional metrology
-Electrical / electromagnetic metrology
-Flow metrology and rheology
-Force metrology
-Humidity metrology
-Ionizing radiation metrology
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Nanotechnology
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--Lithography
--Self-assembly
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Performance excellence
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