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2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Steam & Chilled Water Generation Plant Group

For the sustained delivery of site utilities in support of NIST during significant construction upgrades to the Gaithersburg Plant operations.

Folk, Thomson, Conrad, Densock, Fisher, Bly, Smith, Ramsburg, Flanagan, Patel

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Beth Mary Bly, Bill Fisher, Cheri Smith, Deana Ramsburg, Alex Folk, Jatin Patel, Jerome “Jay” Thomson, Kevin Conrad, Lynn Flanagan, Rob Densock

For designing and constructing an innovative facility allowing stakeholders to collaborate and solve the nation’s pressing cybersecurity challenges.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Manny Mejias

For demonstrating exemplary leadership in the disposition of 255 legacy radioactive sources in a safe and regulatory-compliant manner.

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 - Bronze Medal Award---Colleen Hughes

For creating a positive transformation of e-learning materials and NIST staff’s mindset related to occupational safety and health training.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Melody Berry, Joseph Boone, John Connor, Jonathan Hazen, Sherwin McAdam, Carl Spangler, Micah Walsh

For architecting and deploying a secured Amazon Web Services environment in which NIST customers can directly develop and operate mission-specific solutions.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Matthew Boyd, Brian Dougherty

For development of testbeds for monitoring photovoltaic (PV) system performance that are providing critical datasets to the solar energy industry.

2016 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---Daniel Hussey

For pioneering contributions in neutron imaging, including the development of a highly sensitive neutron phase imaging technique and the demonstration of the world's first practical neutron microscope.

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.

Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations for the Year 2015

The Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations for the year 2015 was awarded jointly to three publications by groups at the TU Delft (The Netherlands), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria) and the National Institute of Standards...

Elham Tabassi - 2016 Women in Biometrics Award

Elham Tabassi, an electrical engineer in the Information Access Division, was one of four winners for the 2016 Women in Biometrics Award, which was presented by SecureIDNews and the Security Industry Association. She was selected from more than 100...

2016 Robert D. Thompson Memorial Award - Dr. Christopher W. Meyer

For continuing contributions and dedication to the development of temperature measurement standards, including effective leadership of subcommittee E20.09 on Digital Contact Thermometers.

Xiao Tang - 2016 Fellow of the American Physical Society

For outstanding contributions in optical technologies and systems, with application to quantum communications, spectrometry, and digital preservation.

2016 AIP Broadcast and New Media Award Winner

The Broadcast and New Media prize goes to Jennifer Lauren Lee for " How to Build Your NIST D.I.Y. Watt Balance," published August 17, 2015 by NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory. Her video’s comedic telling of redefining the kilogram won over the...

Brian Weiss Receives MVP Award - Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2016

The PHM2016 Most Valuable Player award was issued to Dr. Brian Weiss for his contributions to the organization and management of the panel sessions for the conference. Brian organized a record number of panel sessions for the 2016 conference...

MRI Project wins 2016 DoC Gold Medal

The group is recognized for transforming magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) into a quantitative tool for unambiguously diagnosing and monitoring disease by creating a suite of calibration standards, or "phantom," that for the first time enable MRI...

2016 Highly Cited Researchers - Jun Ye and Deborah Jin

Fellows Jun Ye and Deborah Jin (1968–2016) have been named Highly Cited Researchers for 2016 by Thomson Reuters. Ye and Jin are two of 110 people in the physics category in this year's list. This is a particularly poignant accolade for JILA, as...

2016 Governor’s Award - Cindy Regal and Konrad Lehnert

The Lehnert/Regal Quantum Machine Team has already racked up some major accomplishments on the path to these eagerly anticipated 21st century technologies. Their accomplishments include (1) the cooling of a drum made of about 1018 aluminum atoms to...

Boulder Campus Green Team Win 2016 Energy and Environmental Stewardship Award

The Boulder Campus Green Team is being awarded an Energy and Environmental Stewardship Award in the category of recycling for its effort to make the National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder campus a sustainable world class workplace...

IEEE Technical Award - Darine Haddad

For technical leadership in constructing the NIST watt balance and leading a measurement campaign to determine Planck’s constant to 34 parts in 1,000,000,000. In the record time of 5 years, Dr. Haddad assembled an apparatus that can realize the unit...

John Kitching Receives 2016 Rabi Award

For his pioneering work on Chip-Scale Atomic Devices.

2016 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Tara Lovestead

In 2016, Dr. Tara Lovestead, a Research Chemical Engineer in the Experimental Properties of Fluids Group, was selected to receive the 2013 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the US...

Roger Bostelman Receives 2016 Robert J. Painter Memorial Award

Roger’s work with F45 has been extremely noteworthy, and the Painter Award was especially suited to the proactive mindset he has brought to F45 and the rapid evolution of its standards activity.

International award for pioneering x-ray spectroscopy with superconducting transition-edge sensor microcalorimeters

This award presentation was primarily based on the team’s pioneering measurements of exotic atom x-ray emission with a TES microcalorimeter spectrometer. These demonstration measurements were performed on pionic helium and carbon and conducted at one...

John Kitching Named 2016 APS Fellow

For pioneering the field of chip-scale atomic devices, and integrating new ideas from atomic and optical physics and microscale engineering to enable development of precision quantum-based microscale sensors for a broad range of quantities.

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