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Kathryn Keenan Named 2021 Scialog Advanced Bioimaging Fellow

Kathryn Keenan has been named a 2021 Scialog Advanced Bioimaging Fellow. Scialog Fellows collaborate in high-risk discovery research and communicate their findings at annual closed conferences. The Advanced Bioimaging Fellows have wide-ranging...

Judith Mitrani-Reiser is appointed as Vice President of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute

Congratulations to Dr. Judy Mitrani-Reiser for her appointment as Vice President of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) for the upcoming year. Judy will perform this service in addition to her role on the Board of Directors of EERI.

Kevin Jurrens Receives ASTM Award of Merit, with accompanying title of ASTM Fellow

For extraordinary productivity, outstanding contribution, and unwavering leadership in developing standards related to Additive Manufacturing, and for significant contributions to the relevance of ASTM International Committee F42 on Additive...

Ram D. Sriram Named Recipient of a 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

The Distinguished Alumnus Award (DAA) is the highest award given by IIT Madras to its alumni in recognition of their achievements in their respective field of expertise.

Toman, Ma, and Nelson Received the CITAC Best Paper of 2020 Award

Blaza Toman and Yong Ma of the Information Technology Laboratory, along with Michael A. Nelson from the Material Measurement Laboratory, recently received the CITAC Best Paper of 2020 Award for their Metrologia paper " Optimizing Experiment Design...

Distinguished PTTI Service Award - Michael A. Lombardi

Mr. Lombardi was recognized for system development and leadership in the successful delivery of the U.S. time and frequency standards signals to a variety of domestic and international Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications (PTTI)...

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Joseph Fowler

For the development of versatile and scalable readout firmware that will enable new microcalorimeter instruments with larger arrays of faster sensors.

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Abigail Wessels

For experimental and theoretical work that led to improved understanding of superconducting x-ray sensors and new capabilities in x-ray spectroscopy.

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Dan Becker

For the development of versatile and scalable readout firmware that will enable new microcalorimeter instruments with larger arrays of faster sensors.

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Esther Baumann

For development and translation of ultra-precise gas sensing technology with application to the oil/gas industry, defense and atmospheric science.

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Csilla Szabo-Foster

For enabling rapid and accurate x-ray analysis of materials and higher nuclear security through sensor breakthroughs and world's best reference data.

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Christine Pappas

For experimental and theoretical work that led to improved understanding of superconducting x-ray sensors and new capabilities in x-ray spectroscopy.

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Kelsey Morgan

For experimental and theoretical work that led to improved understanding of superconducting x-ray sensors and new capabilities in x-ray spectroscopy.

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Johnathon Gard

For the development of versatile and scalable readout firmware that will enable new microcalorimeter instruments with larger arrays of faster sensors.

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Jozsef Imrek

For the development of versatile and scalable readout firmware that will enable new microcalorimeter instruments with larger arrays of faster sensors.

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Jenny Wu

For the first demonstration of quantum gate teleportation with trapped ions, showcasing a crucial step toward large-scale quantum computation.

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Fabrizio Giorgetta

For development and translation of ultra-precise gas sensing technology with application to the oil/gas industry, defense and atmospheric science.

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - David Wineland

For the first demonstration of quantum gate teleportation with trapped ions, showcasing a crucial step toward large-scale quantum computation.

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Charles Waduwarage Perera

For developing an SI-traceable self-calibrating system for radioactivity measurement services which reduces the need to handle radioactive sources.

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Son T. Le

For developing novel, best-in-class electronic biosensors being used to test and quantify therapeutics developed at NIH for Alzheimer's disease.

Figure 1 from "Microscopic origin of inhomogeneous transport in four-terminal tellurene devices"

Featured Article in APL 2D Transistors Collection

The Quantitative Nanostructure Characterization group's recent paper titled "Microscopic origin of inhomogeneous transport in four-terminal tellurene devices" has been featured in a collection of Applied Physics Letters (APL) on two-dimensional (2D)...

Irena Bojanova was Selected as Recipient of the 2020 IEEE TCCLD Outstanding Service Award

For founding the IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD) and for overall leadership service to IEEE and the world.

Doug Montgomery Honored in the 2020 New Internet IPv6 Hall of Fame

For leading the USGv6 Program at NIST that provides the technical infrastructure (i.e., standards profiles, product test programs, test and measurement tools, and security guidance) necessary to drive the US Government’s adoption of IPv6 technologies...

Michael Moldover Receives 2021 Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal

For establishing spherical acoustic resonators as the foundation of the kelvin in the International System of Units.

2020 - Gold Medal Award---Jacob Taylor

For leadership in shaping the nation’s quantum science agenda, resulting in the National Quantum Initiative Act and its implementation infrastructure.

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