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NIST Staff Receive 2022 Communicators Award of Distinction for Video Animation

NIST's video "Post-Quantum Encryption: the Good, the Bad, and the Powerful" received a Communicators Award of Distinction in the Technology for Online Video category from the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA). Individuals recognized by the...

Dr. Ram D. Sriram Elected to the 2022 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the election of Ram Sriram, Chief, Software and Systems Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology to its College of Fellows. Dr. Sriram was nominated...

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Keith Stouffer, Timothy Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Michael Pease, Jeffrey Cichonski

For development and dissemination of the first detailed cybersecurity guidelines specifically for protecting small and medium-sized manufacturers.

2022 Ron Brown Excellence Award Ellen Voorhees

2021 - Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award---Ellen Voorhees

For leading the design and implementation of the NIST TREC COVID Challenge that provided unprecedented capability in accurately retrieving reliable, contemporaneous information for the global fight against COVID-19.

2021 - Silver Medal Award---Varun Verma, Adriana Lita, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Thomas Gerrits, Martin Stevens, Robert Horansky

For advancing quantum communication and imaging applications by creating novel high-efficiency single-photon detectors and kilopixel arrays

2021 - Silver Medal Award---Jason Blake, Robert Gendler, Blair Heiserman, Mark Trapnell, Eric Trapnell, Dylan Yaga, Murugiah Souppaya

For development of the first free public cybersecurity SCAP 1.3 content for the macOS Catalina (macOS 10.15) and Big Sur (macOS 11).

2021 - Silver Medal Award---Jeffrey Hudgens, Kyle Anderson, Ioannis Karageorgos, Robert Brinson, III, Frank Delaglio, Luke Arbogast, John Marino, Ryan Evans, Anthony Kearsley

For developing and promoting adoption of methods to determine protein structure that increase patient access to life-saving biosimilar drugs.

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Peter Vallone, Megan Cleveland, William Valiant, Erica Romsos, Carolyn Steffen, Nathanael Olson, Stephanie Servetas, Hariharan Iyer

For rapid development of NIST’s first RNA research-grade test material for detection and diagnostic measurements of COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA.

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Oliver Borchert, Douglas Montgomery, Kotikalapudi Sriram, Patrick Gleichmann

For developing innovative technologies that resolved critical internet vulnerabilities and dramatically improved internet robustness.

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Naomi Lefkovitz, Kaitlin Boeckl, Nakia Grayson, Maihuong Nguyen, Lisa Carnahan, Victoria Pillitteri, Adam Sedgewick, Dylan Gilbert

For exceptional leadership in developing, and driving adoption of, a novel framework to manage privacy risk while maximizing the beneficial uses of data.

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Ellen Voorhees

For creating an unprecedented ability to accurately retrieve reliable, contemporaneous information on COVID-19 to fight the 2020 pandemic.

2021 - Judson C. French Award---Carolyn Steffen, Erica Romsos, Katherine Gettings, Kevin Kiesler, Lisa Borsuk, Hariharan Iyer, Peter Vallone

For development and characterization of a next-generation forensic DNA Standard Reference Material using a diverse suite of molecular techniques.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Vytautas Reipa, Vincent Hackley, Blaza Toman

For design and development of a system of traceable measurements that enable risk assessments of nanoparticles that exhibit photocatalytic activity.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Srivalli Telikepalli, Dean Ripple, Michael Carrier, Kristen Steffens, Christopher Montgomery, Nicholas W. M. Ritchie, John Lu

For development of a novel reference material that mimics the particles found in protein-based drugs and supports accurate measures of drug quality.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Alden Dima, Talapady Bhat , Benjamin Long , Jacob Collard, Rachael Sexton, John Elliott

For the rapid development and deployment of an innovative COVID-19 research system used globally to improve collective research knowledge-sharing.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Darrin Dimmick, Angela Ellis, Gabriella Gomez

For providing unparalleled technical and administrative support to enable critical information retrieval research functions worldwide.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Jonathan Fiscus, Haiying Guan, Andrew Delgado, Yooyoung Lee, Amy N. Yates

improvements in measurement science that advanced forensic detection and analysis of altered videos, audio, and imagery.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Lawrence D. Nadel, Michael Garris, Heather Evans

For creating the NIST AI Community of Interest, which has galvanized cooperation across NIST to reap the benefits of AI for metrology.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Yan Lu, Paul Witherell, Benjamin Long

For the development of an additive manufacturing materials database and data portal to accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Robert Commarota, Cerasela Constantin, Sushama Singh , Simon Frechette , Eric Shirley, Andrea Medina-Smith, Elisabeth Mansfield, Douglas Montgomery, Peter Gehring, Fernando J. Cintron

For development of an IT system to modernize and simplify NIST's publication processes

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Physics World 2021 Breakthrough of the Year

The Physics World 2021 Breakthrough of the Year goes to two independent teams for entangling two macroscopic vibrating drumheads, thereby advancing our understanding of the divide between quantum and classical systems. The winners are Mika Sillanpää...