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Associate Director for Laboratory Programs

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2024 - Dr. Willie E. May Award for Distinguished Career at NIST---Winnie Wong-Ng

For contributions to the understanding of structural chemistry and phase stability of complex technological materials.

2024 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---Jeffrey Sherman

Recognized for technical and managerial leadership of the atomic clock ensemble that serves as the nation's source of official time.

2024 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Tae Joon Cho

For generous giving of time, support, and expertise to many colleagues, resulting in highly productive outcomes for nanomaterial metrology efforts.

2024 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Susan Schima

For excellence in the essential microfabrication work that has enabled multiple generations of chip-scale clocks and quantum sensors.

2024 - Director's Award for Excellence in Administration---Ami Reisinger, Joyce Scott, Gwynaeth Broome, LeeAnn Ginsburg, Ebonee Fitzgerald, Taylor Avery

For exemplary service, dedication, and commitment in supporting and enabling the timely, effective conduct of multiple NIST disaster investigations.

2024 - Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal---Marc Levitan, Long Phan

These awardees with the Tornado Winds Load Team created the world’s first tornado-resistant building codes, conducting groundbreaking research that will save lives and protect critical facilities like schools, hospitals and emergency centers from extensive property damage.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Joseph Main, Fahim Sadek, Jonathan Weigand

For developing the scientific basis for the first U.S. standard for prevention of catastrophic collapse of buildings.

2024 - Distinguished Mentoring Award---Christina Hacker

For outstanding mentorship and guidance of numerous postdoctoral associates and early-career staff.

2024 - Presidential Rank Award---John Lehman

Recognized with a Distinguished Rank for sustained extraordinary accomplishments.

2024 - Gold Medal Award---Johannes Hubmayr, James Beall, Shannon Duff, Leila Vale, Michael Link, Tammy Lucas, Michael Vissers, Jeffrey Van Lanen, John Mates, Jason Austermann

For developing the novel sensors that enable the most advanced cosmic microwave background observatory to unravel the mysteries of the early universe.

2024 - Safety Award---Peter Lowell, Alvin Flores, John Nibarger

For the development and evolution of a comprehensive safety program for NIST's Boulder Micro-Fabrication Facility cleanroom.

2024 - Gold Medal Award---Charles Majkrzak, Christoph Brocker, Nicholas Maliszewskyj, Brian Maranville, David Hoogerheide, Alexander Grutter, Paul Kienzle, Daniel Ogg, Douglas Ogg, Stephen Pheiffer

For the development of the world's best neutron reflectometer, providing unprecedented information on buried interfaces with sub-nanometer resolution.

2024 - Safety Award---Donald Harriss, Lisa Soucy, Stephanie Layman, Terese Manley, Christopher Dennis

For creating and executing a safety plan for an uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) competition, enabling safe indoor flight of UAS prototypes during the event.

2024 - Samuel Wesley Stratton Award---Scott Papp

For pioneering research in the development and applications of microresonator frequency combs and nonlinear nanophotonic systems.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Austin McDannald, Brian DeCost, Howie Joress, Aaron Gilad Kusne

For development and distribution of generalized frameworks for autonomous experimentation targeted to a variety of materials science applications.

2024 - Gold Medal Award---Ho Yeung, Brandon Lane

For developing groundbreaking machine control solutions that allow U.S. manufacturers to make better products using additive manufacturing systems.

2024 - Edward Bennett Rosa Award---Amy Phelps

For leadership in the development and launch of a new conformity assessment program for the FDA's approval of medical devices for sale in the U.S.

2024 - Presidential Rank Award---John Kitching

Recognized with a Distinguished Rank for sustained extraordinary accomplishments.

Kerrianne Buchanan, Mary Theofanos, Yee-Yin Choong

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Yee-Yin Choong, Mary Theofanos, Kerrianne Buchanan

For groundbreaking research on youth cybersecurity and privacy, transforming how we protect and educate the new generation of digital citizens.

Nicole Yunger Halpern Receives 2024 Katharine B. Gebbie Young Investigator Award

For “innovative technical contributions to the emerging field of quantum thermodynamics, while vivifying the subject in the public consciousness."

2024 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Tara Fortier

For passionate mentorship to advance the communication skills and technical expertise of current and future NIST staff members.

Dean G. Jarrett Named 2025 IEEE Fellow

For contributions to high resistance metrology and measurement standards and techniques.

Hans Nembach Named 2025 IEEE Fellow

For contributions to the development of novel magnetodynamic measurements of thin films and nanostructures.

2024 - Presidential Rank Award---Nada Golmie

Dr. Nada Golmie, a NIST Fellow and globally recognized expert in wireless communications, has made significant contributions advancing U.S. wireless technology. With decades of experience, she has led programs focused on advancing next-generation...

John Lehman Receives 2024 Presidential Rank Award

John Lehman is a senior research scientist whose team leads the world in carbon-nanotube based coatings for detectors used in earth and space radiometry.

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