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2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Lisa Ng, Brian Polidoro

For developing innovative methods for predicting air leakage in commercial buildings, significantly improving the design of energy-efficient buildings.

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 - Bronze Medal Award---Peter Mell

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

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Katrice Lippa, Michael Nelson, Blaza Toman

For the development and implementation of a metrological system for determining the purity of organic chemical compounds.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---William A. Kimes, James E. Maslar, Brent A. Sperling

For development and application of in-situ optical methods that increase quality and yield during nanoelectronic device manufacturing.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Thomas Forbes, Edward Sisco

For extraordinary innovation in the development of new mass-spectrometric techniques for the chemical analysis of emerging explosives threats.

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 - 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.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---David A. LaVan, Feng Yi

For developing innovative methods to measure the reactions of micro- and nano-sized samples within an electron microscope and mass spectrometer.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Brian R. Burnham, Joseph Mahlberg, Wayne Pierce, Ruben A. Rodriguez

For extraordinary design and engineering in achieving LEED-CI Platinum ratings for the renovations of Wing 3 and Wing 6 of Building 1.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---John Barton

For leading the development of legal metrology standards for "app-based" transportation-network measurement systems used in ride-hailing applications.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Brian Alberding, Joshua Hadler, Edwin Heilweil

For developing the rigorous measurements needed to assess the efficacy of commercial laser-protective eyewear in common laboratory conditions.

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.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Dustin Hite, Dietrich Leibfried, David Pappas, Andrew Wilson

For innovations in surface-science and material-preparation technology that overcame a longstanding barrier to implementing ion-trap quantum computing.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---David W. Allen, Catherine Cooksey, Benjamin Tsai

For creating the first-ever robust compilation of human skin reflectance data needed for medical imaging, machine vision, and security applications.

Fischer, Bailey, Eastman, Schaefer, Scott

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Dawn Bailey, Mary Eastman, Barbara Fischer, Christine Schaefer, LouAnn Scott

For developing, authoring, and maintaining Blogrige, the official blog of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.

2018 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---Ralph Jimenez

For his leadership in creating new tools to observe and measure the internal chemistry and biology of individual living cells in real time, accelerating previous studies by factors of 10,000 and more.

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.

Shao Guodong Receives WinterSim Distinguished Service Award

Recognized for his contributions towards the organization of the INFORMS Winter Simulation Conference

Dave Wineland Receives 2018 Micius Quantum Prize

For his groundbreaking experiments that opened the way to quantum computing and quantum metrology with trapped ions.

Ellen Voorhees Named ACM Fellow

For contributions in evaluation of information retrieval, question answering, and other language technologies

Tom Perkins Named 2018 AAAS Fellow

Perkins was elected for his pioneering advances in high-resolution studies of single biological molecules.

Paul Black and William Majurski Paper Named 20 Year ICFEM Most Influential Paper Award

For ICFEM's 20 Year Most Influential Paper Award Entitled, "Using Model Checking to Generate Tests From Specifications"

Michael Brundage Honored by American Society of Mechanical Engineers for Leadership in Manufacturing

Michael P. Brundage, a resident of Bethesda, Md., and engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, has been named the recipient of an achievement award by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)....

Ram D. Sriram Selected as ACM Distinguished Member

Dr. Ram D. Sriram of NIST's Information Technology Laboratory has been selected as an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Member. Dr. Sriram received this honor for outstanding scientific contributions to computing.

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