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Material Measurement Laboratory

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2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Robert Chirico, Ala Bazyleva, Joseph W. Magee, Vladimir Diky

For implementation of a data quality program to validate thermophysical property measurements prior to their publication in the technical literature.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Stephanie Outcalt

For leadership in development of novel instrumentation, standard practices for operation, measurement and uncertainty for vibrating tube densimetry.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Mark Iadicola

For advancing the state of the art in the rigorous use of digital image correlation for sheet-metal-forming limit-curve determination.

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.

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---Daniel Sunday, R. Joseph Kline

For the development of new X-ray measurements of the structure of self-assembling polymers for advanced lithography in the semiconductor industry.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Anne Andrews, Jason Boehm, David Holbrook, James St. Pierre, Michael Fasolka

For leadership, development, and implementation of the dramatically improved NIST Human Subjects Protection Program.

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...

2014 - Bronze Medal Award---June Lau

For innovative, cutting-edge analysis of magnetic nanostructures, which enabled significant advancements in next-generation electronic devices.

2014 - Bronze Medal Award---Joshua Martin

For development of Seebeck coefficient metrologies and standards that advance the commercialization of thermoelectric energy conversion materials.

2014 - Bronze Medal Award---Renu Sharma

For the development of in situ Raman spectroscopy within the environmental transmission electron microscope.

2014 - Bronze Medal Award---Thomas Gnaupel-Herold, Adam Creuziger

For the development of new analysis techniques for error determinations of crystallographic phase fractions, textures, and intergranular stresses.

2014 - Bronze Medal Award---Martin Chiang, Nancy Lin, Sheng Lin-Gibson

For development of a clinically relevant measurement and standardization program for critical evaluation of photo-polymerized dental restoratives.

2014 - Judson C. French Award---Margaret C. Kline

For resolving a critical measurement issue that threatened a NIST reference material used widely for forensics, and for its rapid re-certification.

2014 - Judson C. French Award---Alec Belsky, Hong (Sarah) Fang, Angela Y. Lee, Xin (Jennifer) Zeng

For creating the Calibration Support System for the NIST Calibration Services Program.

2014 - Colleagues' Choice Award---William Osborn

For collegial service and outstanding technical collaborations to advance materials measurements.

2014 - Safety Award---Elizabeth A. Mackey, Craig Vogel

For development and deployment of a fully automated Hazard Review and Approval System for use within the MML Safety Program and across NIST.

2014 - Gold Medal Award---Stephen Stein, Dmitrii Tchekhovskoi

For developing InChI, an algorithm that turns 3-D chemical structures into a unique strings of characters, enabling chemical data search and exchange.

2014 - Gold Medal Award---Chris Oates, Jun Ye, Andrew Ludlow

For exceptional scientific creativity and achievement in inventing and perfecting new types of atomic clocks with best-in-the-world performance.

2014 - Silver Medal Award---James Cline

For establishing world-leading metrology in crystal structure enabling the development and reliable use of advanced materials by U.S. industry.

2014 - Silver Medal Award---Erica L. Butts, Peter Vallone

For the development of rapid forensic DNA typing techniques that enable state of the art human identity testing and DNA biometrics.

2014 - Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award---Vladimir Orkin

For providing evaluated data and measurements of rate constants, global warming and ozone depletion potentials to the climate change communities.

2013 ICCES Lifetime Achievement Medal - Vinod Tewary

This Medal is awarded to an individual , from anywhere in the world, for sustained and significant contributions in the form of research, teaching, and service to the community, in any area germane to the ICCES series of conferences. The sum total of...

2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers - Jayne Morrow and Frank DelRio

Jayne Morrow, an environmental engineer in the Material Measurement Laboratory, is being honored for pioneering research on the properties of microbial systems, in particular the characterization of bacteria-surface interactions and the fate and...

Photo of 2012 UMD Invention of the Year Award

2012 Invention of the Year in Physical Sciences - Members of the Material Measurement Lab

University of Maryland, in collaboration with the National Institute for Standards and Technology and George Mason University, have developed a novel chemical sensor architecture by combining the sensitive transduction capability of semiconducting...

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