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Office of the Director

Awards

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2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Peter Mell

For technical achievements, innovation, and leadership in computer-network defense methods used in government and industrial systems.

2018 - Gold Medal Award---Marc Levitan, Emil Simiu, Adam Pintar

For extraordinary, innovative efforts to accurately characterize and map extreme winds across the U.S. to ensure a safe and economical built environment.

2018 - Director's Award for Excellence in Administration---William Clark

For exemplary technical proficiency in developing reports to assist OUs in managing contracts and grants, improving the organizational health of NIST.

2018 - Safety Award---Jeremy Garst

For planning and implementing an emergency spill/flood-control kit program for the NIST Boulder campus to mitigate flood damage on the campus.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Damian S. Lauria, Peter E. Bradley, Matthew Connolly, Andrew Slifka

For development of in-situ mechanical test methods to facilitate first-ever direct evidence of two H₂ embrittlement theories in structural materials.

Boone, Luptak, Sherman, Jenkinson, Levine

2018 - Silver Medal Award---Joseph Boone, William Jenkinson, Joseph Luptak, Aaron Fein, Judah Levine, Jeffrey Sherman

For launching the next-generation NIST Internet Time Service, which handles over 40 billion requests every day.

2018 - Edward Bennett Rosa Award---Bala Muralikrishnan, Prem Rachakonda, Meghan Shilling, Roger Bostelman, Geraldine Cheok, Joseph Falco, Marek Franaszek, Jeremy Marvel, Kamel Saidi, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud

For outstanding contributions to ASTM standards for performance evaluation of 3D imaging systems used in a wide range of critical applications.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Daniel J. Flynn, Paul J. Liposky, Anthony J. Norbedo, Ricky P. Sprow

For excellence and perseverance during the planning and execution of the 2017 NCNR reactor outage.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Thomas R. Gentile

For groundbreaking advances in neutron spin-control tools and methods which are now routinely used around the world to advance material science.

Tseng, Allen, Gates, Venable, Mendonca, Raedeke, Hernandez, Kau, Materese, Stoughton

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Laura A. Gates, Paul Hernandez, Robin Materese, Jason Stoughton, John Allen, Joe Kau, Matthew Mendonca, Jon Raedeke, Ada CYW Tseng, John Venable

For technical and operational excellence in seamlessly launching NIST's external and internal websites in the Drupal content management system.

2018 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Keith Martin

For outstanding research and writing about NIST's rich history, ensuring the U.S. public and NIST staff appreciate the agency's key role in U.S. technological progress.

2018 - George A. Uriano Award---Jacqueline DesChamps

For providing exemplary service to support key Baldrige programs, oversee OU-wide support services, and manage and provide customer-service functions.

Leber, Schmitt, Virts, Filliben, Messina, Bostelman

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Roger Bostelman, Elena Messina, David Schmitt, Ann Marie Virts, James Filliben, Dennis Leber

For foundational technical contributions to ASTM F45 performance standards that enable manufacturers to optimize their use of industrial unmanned vehicles.

2018 - Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award---Thomas Perkins

For significantly advancing biomedical understanding of crucial proteins by creating the world's best biological atomic force microscope.

2018 - Gold Medal Award---Randolph Elmquist, Dean G. Jarrett, George Robert Jones, Jr., Marlin E. Kraft, Alireza Panna, Shamith Payagala, Albert Rigosi

For a new quantum-based primary resistance standard, replacing a fragile, complex and expensive system with a robust, simple and affordable one.

2018 - Director's Award for Excellence in Administration---Aimee Generoso-Nguyen, Jeremy Lawson

For supporting NIST objectives and core values by strategically changing and expanding access to diversity/risk-management/organizational-health education.

2018 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Annie J. Smith

For exceptional administrative service in the establishment and operation of NIST's Communications Technology Laboratory and NIST Boulder Laboratories.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Jason P. Killgore

For pioneering viscoelastic AFM, a quantitative method for mapping mechanical properties of materials with nanometer-scale spatial resolution.

2018 - Silver Medal Award---Nicholas Paulter, Lawrence Hudson, Ronald Tosh

For the development of critical improvements to image quality assessment methods for security-screening X-ray imagers.

2018 - B. Stephen Carpenter Award---Michael Lombardi

For creating the SIM Time Network, a collaboration that makes world-class time metrology accessible to 24 nations throughout the Americas.

Davis, Avila, Plante, Vanek, Zhang, Chung, Pandya, Medina-Smith, Greene

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Regina L. Avila, Andrea Medina-Smith, Kimberly A. Tryka, Anita Vanek, Thomas Chung, Christopher Davis, Pradip Pandya, Jon Zhang, Gretchen Greene, Raymond Plante

For significantly improving the public's ability to find, access and use NIST data.