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Office of the Director

Awards

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2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Craig Schlenoff, William Harrison, Anthony Downs, Pavlo Piliptchak, Murat Aksu

For developing an innovative simulation-based robot agility competition that has spurred breakthrough solutions to industry’s robotics challenges.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Keith Stouffer, Timothy Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Michael Pease, Jeffrey Cichonski

For development and dissemination of the first detailed cybersecurity guidelines specifically for protecting small and medium-sized manufacturers.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Rick Davis

For development of new Standard Reference Material cigarettes for regulatory compliance testing of the ignition propensity of residential furnishings.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Lawrence D. Nadel, Michael Garris, Heather Evans

For creating the NIST AI Community of Interest, which has galvanized cooperation across NIST to reap the benefits of AI for metrology.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Christopher Zangmeister, Jimmy Radney, Jamie Weaver, Matthew Staymates, Robin Materese , Riley Wilson , Richard Press, Leon Geršković

For characterization of the performance and usage of facemasks used to slow the spread of COVID-19, and communication of the results to the public.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Alden Dima, Talapady Bhat , Benjamin Long , Jacob Collard, Rachael Sexton, John Elliott

For the rapid development and deployment of an innovative COVID-19 research system used globally to improve collective research knowledge-sharing.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Michael Brundage, Rachael Sexton

For developing an innovative method to integrate human expertise with machine learning to extract manufacturing knowledge from technical data.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Daniel Wheeler, Trevor Keller, Jonathan Guyer, James Warren

For leading a community-sourced effort that established a foundation for building trust in phase field simulations used for advanced materials design.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Adrian Mitchell, Vivian Shirley, Michelle Wims, Jason Fellows, Darryl Hallman, James Crabill, Christian Colburn, Elaine Oliver

For superior Logistics Services and Site Services support to the NIST Boulder and Gaithersburg campuses during COVID Phase I reopening planning.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Brian Maranville, Paul Kienzle, William Ratcliff

For the development of cloud-based data reduction and visualization software benefiting the U.S. and international neutron scattering communities.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Srivalli Telikepalli, Dean Ripple, Michael Carrier, Kristen Steffens, Christopher Montgomery, Nicholas W. M. Ritchie, John Lu

For development of a novel reference material that mimics the particles found in protein-based drugs and supports accurate measures of drug quality.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Chin-wen Chou, David Hume, David Leibrandt, Dietrich Leibfried, Tara Fortier, Scott Diddams, Alejandra Collopy

For breakthrough metrology to control and entangle atomic and molecular ions, providing powerful new approaches to quantum computing and networking.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Andrei Kolmakov

For pioneering scanning-electron-beam imaging and spectroscopy of materials in gas and liquid media.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Joshua Pomeroy, Michael Stewart, Jr., Jonathan Wyrick

For developing new techniques to successfully manufacture atomic-scale electronic and quantum devices.

2021 - Director's Award for Excellence in Administration---Dorothy Smothers

For exemplary contributions and stewardship in administering NIST’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Program.

2021 - Director's Award for Excellence in Administration---Stephen Banovic, Brian Brass, Michael Blumer, Jeffrey Good, Wing Wong, James Michael Blackmon, Kevin Dyrdahl, Jay Peterson

For excellence in developing, communicating, and implementing NIST COVID-19 health and safety protocols to provide a safe working environment.

2021 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Laura Espinal

For her leadership in creating the Parents Network to unite and support caregivers at NIST during a time of crucial need.

2021 - George A. Uriano Award---Ellen Ryan, Terese Manley, Craig Connelly, Gary Howarth, II, Joanne Krumel, Jeremy Glenn, Sarah Hughes

For establishing a program to facilitate competitiveness and innovation in the public safety communications research field.

2021 - Samuel Wesley Stratton Award---Mark Stiles

For seminal research on theoretical nanoscale magnetism, enabling development of spintronic read heads and nonvolatile magnetic memory for computers.

2021 - William P. Slichter Award---Lyle Levine, Brandon Lane, Kalman Migler, Shawn Moylan, Mark Stoudt, Maureen Williams, Jonathan Seppala, Thien Phan, Ho Yeung, Sandra Young

For establishing the AM Bench Test Series to increase the reliability of simulations of additive manufacturing processes that are critical to industry.

2021 - Safety Award---Brian Brass, Andrew Persily, Steven Emmerich, Lisa Ng, Charles Bowers, Christian Colburn, Danielle Swarts, Carrie Kelly, Drew Comley, George Potts, Jr.

For developing research-based guidelines and best practices to maximize the impact of campus ventilation systems, which prepared NIST for Phase 1 reopening.

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