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Material Measurement Laboratory

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2026 - Dal Nogare Award---Andre Striegel

The Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley honors Dr. André Striegel of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory with the prestigious Dal Nogare Award, given to an outstanding scientist in the field of chromatography. He is honored for his...

Aaron Rowane Receives 2026 Early Career Award from Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data

Aaron Rowane received the 2026 Early Career Award from the Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data for outstanding research in thermophysical properties and phase equilibria.

2025 - Katharine B. Gebbie Young Investigator Award---Ran Tao

The NIST Sigma Xi Chapter honors Dr. Ran Tao of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory with the prestigious Katharine B. Gebbie Young Investigator award. The award recognizes Dr. Tao's pioneering research and leadership in the field of rheology...

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Linhua Tian, Paul DeRose, and Lili Wang Receive Editors Best Original Paper Award from Clinical Cytometry

Linhua Tian, Paul DeRose, and Lili Wang of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory are co-authors, along with NIH researchers*, on a manuscript titled “ Standardization of Flow Cytometric Detection of Antigen Expression.” This paper has been...

Veruska Malavé Receives 2025 Reviewer of the Month Award from Communications Engineering

Communications Engineering recognizes Veruska Malavé of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory as the September 2025 Reviewer of the Month for exceptional contributions to peer review. The editorial team acknowledges reviewers who "have made a...

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2025 - Award in Recognition of Technical and Scientific Excellence---Ashley Beasley Green, David Bunk, and Melissa Phillips

Ashley Beasley Green, David Bunk, and Melissa Phillips of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory received the Award in Recognition of Technical and Scientific Excellence from AOAC International for their work as members of the AOAC Gluten and Food...

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2025 - ChemLuminary Award---PoWER Team

The PoWER: Polymer Women Empowerment & Research team was selected for the ChemLuminary Award “Most Unique Project funded by a Division Innovative Project Grant” for advancing equity and inclusion in polymer science. The project blended research...

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2025 - ChemLuminary Award---Chris Stafford, Chris Soles, Et Al.

Chris Stafford and Chris Soles (NIST Material Measurement Laboratory) and Dhriti Nepal (Air Force Research Laboratory) were selected for the ChemLuminary Award “Outstanding Global Partnership” for building an international bridge between two...

2025 - ACS Fellow---Karen Phinney

The American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellows Program recognizes ACS members for "their outstanding achievements in and contributions to the science and the profession and for their equally exemplary service to the Society."

2025 - Resolve Award---Lili Wang

The Resolve Award celebrates individuals who uplift the world through science. Lili Wang of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory was presented with this award at CYTO 2025.

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2025 - Letters to a Pre-Scientist Award---Sierra Miller

Letters to a Pre-Scientist (LPS) connects students to STEM professionals through snail mail to broaden students ’ awareness of what STEM professionals look like and do at work and inspire all students to explore a future in STEM. LPS asked their...

2025 - Federal Laboratory Consortium Impact Award---RaDAR Program

The RaDAR Program provides comprehensive drug testing data to 13 states and territories across the U.S. In total, more than 10,000 samples have been analyzed since the RaDAR Program began in October 2022, and notably, more than 6,500 samples were...

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2025 - TMS Fellow Award---Ursula Kattner

The TMS Fellow Award is presented to The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) members who have made outstanding contributions to the practice of metallurgy/materials science and technology. The award includes a life membership to TMS and is...

2025 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Ann Debay

Dr. Ann Debay of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory has had remarkable successes in measuring the atomic makeup of advanced materials that are at the core of many of our Nation’s cutting-edge and established industries. Her research involves...

2025 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Kyle Anderson

In the last decade, Dr. Kyle Anderson of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory has established himself as an internationally recognized technical leader in the field of hydrogen-deuterium mass spectrometry (HDX-MS), a technique which facilitates...

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2025 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Megan Cleveland

Dr. Megan Cleveland of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory has focused her research on clinical diagnostics and biomanufacturing. She has contributed much to developing advanced materials for digital PCR and next generation sequencing. Cleveland...

2025 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Samantha Maragh

Dr. Samantha Maragh of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory is a preeminent expert on genome editing technologies and is recognized as the world’s leading expert on genome editing standards. Maragh established and leads the NIST Genome Editing...

2025 - Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award---Callie Higgins

The SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award recognizes manufacturing engineers, age 35 or younger, who have made exceptional contributions and accomplishments in the manufacturing industry.

2025 - Rising Star Award---Ashley Beasley Green

Ashley Beasley Green of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory Biomolecular Measurement Division is a 2025 recipient of the Rising Star Award presented by the American Chemical Society Women Chemists Committee for her leadership of and impactful...

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2024 - EPA Scientific and Technological Achievement Award---Monique Hunter, Jason Kralj, Stephanie Servetas, and Scott Jackson

Monique Hunter, Jason Kralj, Stephanie Servetas, and Scott Jackson of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory Biosystems and Biomaterials Division were recently recognized with an EPA 2024 Scientific and Technological Achievement Award (STAA) for...

2024 - Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award---Jessica Reiner, Benjamin Place, Alix Rodowa, Jennifer Lynch, Jared Ragland, Niksa Blonder, Bruce Benner Jr., John Kucklick, Catherine Rimmer, Carlos Gonzalez

For establishing a measurement infrastructure for the global assessment of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS).

2024 - Director's Award for Excellence in Administration---Christina Davis, Adrian Mitchell, Laurell Phillips, Karen Smith, Terraine Wiggins, Richard Brogden, Gustavo Moreno, Jared Sawyer, Jason Fellows, Anthony Newman

For providing exceptional service to NIST remote sites, enabling uninterrupted supplies of high-purity gases and liquid helium.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Austin McDannald, Brian DeCost, Howie Joress, Aaron Gilad Kusne

For development and distribution of generalized frameworks for autonomous experimentation targeted to a variety of materials science applications.

2024 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Tae Joon Cho

For generous giving of time, support, and expertise to many colleagues, resulting in highly productive outcomes for nanomaterial metrology efforts.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Denis Bergeron, Richard Essex, Ryan Fitzgerald, Jacqueline Mann, Shin Muramoto, Svetlana Nour, Gordon Shaw, R. Michael Verkouteren

For pioneering development of instrumentation and methods to precisely dispense and validate milligram quantities of radioactive liquid samples.

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