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Office of the Director

Awards

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2016 - Judson C. French Award---Ricky Seifarth, Kevin Chesnutwood, Samuel Ho

For restoration and recalibration of the NIST 4.45 meganewton (1 million pounds-force) force standard that serves as the world's largest primary force standard.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Therese McAllister, Erica Kuligowski, Stephen Cauffman, David Butry

For outstanding leadership in developing the Community Resilience Planning Guide, a planning process to help communities increase disaster resilience.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---George Rhoderick, Michael Kelley, Walter Miller, Jr., Jennifer Carney

For developing Standard Reference Materials with the unprecedented accuracy required for climate-science measurements of atmospheric greenhouse gases.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Honeyeh Zube, J’aime Maynard

For leadership, development, and implementation of highly successful and robust Cooperative Research and Development Agreements for NIST.

2016 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Amy Eckstine

For outstanding administrative expertise and customer service in the area of retirement and benefits services to federal employees.

2016 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Weston J. Utsler

For technical service and exceptional attention to customer service.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Clayton Moorman, Ryan Winpigler, Glen Morris, Gary Young

For demonstrating exceptional leadership and judgment in the performance of their duties at NIST on July 18, 2015.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Brian Brass

For advancing a positive safety culture at NIST based on a risk-based hazard review process that integrates safety into all of NIST's work.

2016 - George A. Uriano Award---Ronald Jones

For the creation of nSoft, a new engagement model to enhance industry use of neutron measurements and participation in NIST programs.

2016 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Andrew Ludlow

For developing and perfecting optical lattice atomic clocks as the most stable and accurate clocks in the world, which will have future impacts on advanced communications and a broad range of precision measurements far beyond timekeeping.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Zeeshan Ahmed

For developing an innovative program in silicon and fiber photonic sensors that is enabling new applications for traceable thermodynamic measurements.

2016 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---Charles Romine

For outstanding leadership and management in information technology standards, measurement and research, addressing some of the most complex IT challenges facing the United States.

2016 - Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award---Michael A. Boss, Kathryn E. Keenan, Stephen E. Russek, Karl F. Stupic

For creating standards that transformed magnetic resonance imaging into a quantitative tool to diagnose and treat traumatic brain injury and cancer.

2016 - Judson C. French Award---Thomas E. Lipe

For meeting the needs of the aerospace and defense communities by delivering a new generation of accurate and inexpensive ac voltage standards.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Bryan Barnes, Richard Silver

For pioneering advances in optics by imaging structures 30 times smaller than the wavelength of light with near atomic accuracy.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Michael Riley, Aaron Forster, Stephanie Hooker

For the rapid deployment of a new capability to measure the mechanical properties of impact-mitigating materials for the Head Health Challenge III.

Selepak, Kuligowski, Fernandez, Reneke, Hagwood, Peacock, Averill

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Richard Peacock, Paul Reneke, Charles Hagwood, Michael Selepak, Marco Fernandez, Jason Averill, Erica Kuligowski

For development, analysis, and dissemination of a building evacuation database to improve occupant safety during fire incidents.