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Associate Director for Laboratory Programs

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Ram Sriram Named IEEE Fellow

Ram D. Sriram, Chief of ITL’s Software and Systems Division, has been named an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

image of a 3D volume reconstruction of a forest of carbon nanotubes (CNT) embedded in epoxy

Natarajan Wins FEI Image Award

One of the November winners of the 2016 FEI Image Contest

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Terrence Udovic

For the discovery of unparalleled superionic conduction in solid electrolyte materials suitable for rechargeable battery applications.

2016 - Director's Award for Excellence in Administration---Karen J. Combs

For relentlessly exceptional administrative service and mentoring in support of the NIST mission across multiple divisions and operating units.

2016 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Tara Lovestead

For pioneering research toward simple, inexpensive detection of trace levels of chemicals in vapors with unprecedented sensitivity; for enabling revolutionary advances in homeland security, forensics, and food safety; and for support of learning-based childcare.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---George Rhoderick, Michael Kelley, Walter Miller, Jr., Jennifer Carney

For developing Standard Reference Materials with the unprecedented accuracy required for climate-science measurements of atmospheric greenhouse gases.

2016 - Samuel Wesley Stratton Award---Craig Brown

For revealing molecular mechanisms that yield great improvements in gas-separation and catalytic processes in microporous materials.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Steven Brown, Keith Lykke

For delivering innovative measurement solutions urgently needed to characterize sensors on NOAA’s latest-generation polar-orbiting weather satellites.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Kevin McGrattan, Randall McDermott, Glenn Forney, Craig Weinschenk, Richard Peacock, Anthony Hamins, Blaza Toman

For development of the Fire Dynamics Simulator fire model, an achievement in the practical application of science to fire-safe design of structures.

Folk, Thomson, Conrad, Densock, Fisher, Bly, Smith, Ramsburg, Flanagan, Patel

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Beth Mary Bly, Bill Fisher, Cheri Smith, Deana Ramsburg, Alex Folk, Jatin Patel, Jerome “Jay” Thomson, Kevin Conrad, Lynn Flanagan, Rob Densock

For designing and constructing an innovative facility allowing stakeholders to collaborate and solve the nation’s pressing cybersecurity challenges.

2016 - Judson C. French Award---Ricky Seifarth, Kevin Chesnutwood, Samuel Ho

For restoration and recalibration of the NIST 4.45 meganewton (1 million pounds-force) force standard that serves as the world's largest primary force standard.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Zeeshan Ahmed

For developing an innovative program in silicon and fiber photonic sensors that is enabling new applications for traceable thermodynamic measurements.

2016 - Safety Award---T. Mitch Wallis

For demonstrable leadership in instilling a culture of safety in the multi-user, multi-laboratory Precision Imaging Facility.

2016 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Adam Creuziger

For developing measurement methods for advanced materials needed by the U.S. automotive industry to manufacture lightweight vehicles, providing metallurgical expertise to government agencies, and contributing to science education and international clean water programs.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Michael Riley, Aaron Forster, Stephanie Hooker

For the rapid deployment of a new capability to measure the mechanical properties of impact-mitigating materials for the Head Health Challenge III.

2016 - George A. Uriano Award---Ronald Jones

For the creation of nSoft, a new engagement model to enhance industry use of neutron measurements and participation in NIST programs.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Luke Arbogast, Robert Brinson, John Marino

For Nuclear Magnetic Resonance methods that determine the atomic structure of monoclonal antibody biopharmaceuticals with unprecedented resolution.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Robert Keller

For pioneering a revolutionary method that improves the spatial resolution of scanning electron microscope-based electron diffraction by more than an order of magnitude.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Anne Andrews, Jason Boehm, David Holbrook, James St. Pierre, Michael Fasolka

For leadership, development, and implementation of the dramatically improved NIST Human Subjects Protection Program.

2016 - Judson C. French Award---Thomas E. Lipe

For meeting the needs of the aerospace and defense communities by delivering a new generation of accurate and inexpensive ac voltage standards.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Gary Zabow

For demonstrating a novel all-magnetic alternative to medical imaging through developing a class of nanoscale radio-frequency probes for diagnostics and treatment.

2016 - Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award---Michael A. Boss, Kathryn E. Keenan, Stephen E. Russek, Karl F. Stupic

For creating standards that transformed magnetic resonance imaging into a quantitative tool to diagnose and treat traumatic brain injury and cancer.

2016 - Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award---Patrick Abbott, Eric Benck, Zeina Kubarych, Edward Mulhern, Corey Stambaugh, Leon Chao, David Newell, Stephan Schlamminger

For establishing a mise en pratique to realize the redefined unit of mass and transfer mass measurements to working standards for dissemination.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Mark Iadicola

For advancing the state of the art in the rigorous use of digital image correlation for sheet-metal-forming limit-curve determination.

2016 - George A. Uriano Award---Xiaohong Gu

For leading the deployment of new measurement-science tools to industry, for service-life prediction and product-failure reduction in the solar-energy market.

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