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Office of the Director

Awards

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2020 - Silver Medal Award---John Jendzurski

For critical improvements to methods and tools for measuring the performance of traffic-speed-enforcement radar.

2020 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Jim Foti

For expanding the awareness and reach of ITL's research and publications through modernized external communications.

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Raymond Plante

For designing and deploying a novel standards-based system that preserves NIST research data for worldwide access and reuse now and in the far future.

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Maynard Scott Dewey

For developing and carrying out the world’s most precise measurement of the antineutrino-electron correlation coefficient in neutron beta decay.

2020 - Director's Award for Excellence in Administration---Daniel Sokolowski

For outstanding service to NIST, working across division and OU boundaries to ensure exceptional laboratory operations.

2020 - Distinguished Mentoring Award---Gerald Fraser

For exemplary mentorship and tireless advocacy for a brighter future for all staff, thereby exemplifying the core value of One NIST.

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Kaitlin Boeckl, Christian Enloe, Yuwen (Eugene) Hwang, Sheldon Pratt, Matthew Pugh, Jonathan Repaci, Carolyn Schmidt, WeiChung Wang, Brian Weiblinger, R. Allen Wilkinson

For automating cybersecurity assessment and authorization to dramatically increase real-time risk information for NIST leaders at reduced cost.

2020 - Gold Medal Award---Lili Wang, Paul C. DeRose, Linhua Tian

For transformative measurement innovations and services to enable the clinical use of flow cytometry and for advancing emerging biotechnologies.

2020 - William P. Slichter Award---Jamie Almeida

For organizing a consortium to validate a DNA genotyping method, database and materials to authenticate the identity of mouse cell lines.

2020 - Safety Award---Dwight Barry

For detailed attention to the safe operation of the ballistic range and the discovery and subsequent elimination of dangerous safety hazards.

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Joshua A. Gordon

For the development of the Pixel Probe Coordinate Measurement System, which has enabled unprecedented high-frequency antenna alignment accuracy.

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Denis Bergeron, Jeffrey Cessna, Ryan Fitzgerald, Dean Jarrett, Shamith Payagala, Neil M. Zimmerman

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

2020 - Gold Medal Award---Scott Glancy, Emanuel Knill, Andrew Wilson, Dietrich Leibfried

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

2020 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Lorna Buhse

For more than 40 years of consistent high performance as the only administrative office assistant for all ITL staff in Boulder.

2020 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Tobias Herman

For outstanding leadership in thermometry and humidity calibration services and successful management of the photonic thermometry CRADA project.

2020 - Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal---Donna F. Dodson

Recognized as one of the nation’s premier cybersecurity expert

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Aaron Gilad Kusne

For creating CAMEO, a groundbreaking autonomous AI system that accelerates the measurement, discovery and optimization of advanced materials.

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Arvind Balijepalli, Curt Richter

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

2020 - Director's Award for Excellence in Administration---Anita Vanek

For establishing collaborative partnerships, changing how administrative services are delivered, and shifting the service delivery culture at NIST.

2020 - Distinguished Mentoring Award---Amanda Forster

For unceasing and exceptional guidance and counseling of mentees to inspire scientific curiosity, cultivate technical skills and foster confidence.

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Christopher Currens, Kimberly Goode

For excellence in organizational development, advocating for and providing expanded learning opportunities that support NIST’s core values.

2020 - Gold Medal Award---Justin Zook, Nathanael Olson, Justin Wagner, Jennifer McDaniel, Lindsay Harris, Daniel Samarov, Hariharan Iyer, Peter Vallone, Megan Cleveland

For developing a suite of human genome metrology tools via a NIST-led consortium to make it possible to decipher life's code with unprecedented rigor.