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2023 - Life Sciences Invention of the Year---Ming Zheng

Annually, ovarian cancer is responsible for 184,000 deaths worldwide. Survival rates are strongly linked to the stage at which the disease is detected, with just a 29% five-year survival rate if the cancer has metastasized—the stage at which most...

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...

2023 - Hetényi Award for Best Research Paper Experimental Mechanics---Alexander Landauer

Experimental Mechanics publishes papers that address experiments and experimental systems, including theory and computational aspects, to characterize materials and material systems that push the boundaries of experimental mechanics. Alexander...

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...

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...

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...

Laurie Locascio Elected AAAS Fellow

Locascio was nominated for her "distinguished leadership of multidisciplinary science and technology programs in government and academia." This distinction is among the highest in the scientific community and honors scientists, engineers, and...

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 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 - 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---Timothy Quinn, Enrico Lucon

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

2022 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Amy Kolodin

For providing exemplary customer service and operational support in promoting NIST-wide human resource programs.

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.