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Material Measurement Laboratory

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2022 - George A. Uriano Award---Lisa Jean Fronczek, Kelley Rogers, Zack Valdez, Zahraha Brunner, Jessica Strickler, Jannet Cancino, Dean Iwasaki, Nuria Del Carmen Martinez, Michelle Liu

For leadership in response to the CARES Act appropriations to enable advanced manufacturing to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the pandemic.

Huong Giang T. Nguyen, Laura Espinal, Blaza Toman Bronze award

2022 - Bronze Medal Award---Huong Giang T. Nguyen, Laura Espinal, Blaza Toman

For the determination of high-pressure reference isotherms of nanoscale porous adsorbents.

2022 - Judson C. French Award---Enrico Lucon, Raymond Santoyo

For outstanding customer service by creating a digital verification program for Charpy impact test standards involving >1,900 customers per year in 60 countries.

2022 - Silver Medal Award---Timothy Quinn, Enrico Lucon

For measurements and standards to improve the reliability of cardiac devices, thus saving and improving lives.

2022 - B. Stephen Carpenter Award---Vincent A. Hackley

For fostering international cooperation between standards bodies, industry, and government, resulting in numerous standards for nanomaterials.

2022 Silver Medal Awardees Justin Wagner

2022 - Silver Medal Award---Justin Zook, Justin Wagner, Jennifer McDaniel, Nathanael Olson, Lindsay Harris

For improving the accuracy of DNA sequencing using the first complete human genome sequence and advancing clinical diagnoses and precision medicine.

2022 - Bronze Medal Award---Mary Bedner, Jacolin Murray, Aaron Urbas, Walter Wilson

For developing analytical methods to characterize the safety and effectiveness of hand sanitizers used to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

2022 - Bronze Medal Award---Ronald B. Goldfarb, Dianne L. Poster, John Henry J. Scott, Kathryn Miller, Karen J. Wick

For excellence in editing and publication management of articles for the Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

2022 - Gold Medal Award---Sumona Sarkar, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Laura Pierce, Steven Lund, David Newton

For leading the development of cell characterization standards and tools to improve manufacturing and quality assurance of life-saving therapies.

Weihua Ji and William E. Wallace Bronze award

2022 - Bronze Medal Award---Weihua Ji, William E. Wallace

For elevating the DEA’s public mass spectral reference library of seized drugs to a high level of reliability with new data quality assurance methods.

2022 - Bronze Medal Award---Ryan Murphy, Kathleen Weigandt, Paul Salipante, Steven Hudson

For development of innovative technology to probe simultaneously the structure and the rheology of complex fluids under extreme shear.

2022 - Bronze Medal Award---Frederick Meisenkothen

For advancing the use of standards-based methods to enable quantitative, accurate, and repeatable measurements with atom probe tomography.

Kathryn Beers to be presented with the Mark Scholar Award by the American Chemical Society

Kathryn Beers is being awarded the Mark Scholar Award by the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry (POLY) in recognition of her excellence in in

Adam J. Fleisher Presented with the Peter Werle Award

A. J. Fleisher's work has led to advances in optical measurements of isotopic composition, including stable carbon isotope ratios and

William Luecke Recognized with ASTM Award of Merit

For dynamic and outstanding leadership in the organization of editorial and terminology advances in mechanical testing and calibration

Elizabeth Strychalski Named Outstanding Young Scientist

Dr. Strychalski founded and leads the Cellular Engineering Group at NIST, working to provide a foundation of measurements needed to support

Amanda Moors Recognized for NIST Biorepository Work

Amanda Moors began her biobanking career with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2005 and serves as the Program

Sara Orski to receive the Charles Gordon Award from the Chemical Society of Washington

Sara Orski is receiving the Charles Gordon Award from the Chemical Society of Washington (CSW), the DC local section of ACS, in recognition

2021 - Distinguished Mentoring Award---Jennifer Lynch

For mentoring and inspiring generations of young scientists to pursue the research they love, helping and inspiring them every step of the way.

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 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---John Schiel

Dr. Schiel led NIST scientists in developing the world's first monoclonal antibody reference material, which assures the performance of biopharmaceuticals.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Martin Chiang

For developing a suite of tools and a documentary standard to support advancements and improved clinical longevity for dental composite restorations.

2021 - Silver Medal Award---Joshua Martin, Winnie Wong-Ng, Martin Green

For developing critical thermoelectric standards, instrumentation, and metrologies that enable the commercialization of energy conversion materials.

2021 - Distinguished Career Award---Michele Cooley

For a career of federal service and outstanding administrative and organizational contributions to NIST and other agencies spanning over 40 years.

2021 - William P. Slichter Award---Lyle Levine, Brandon Lane, Kalman Migler, Shawn Moylan, Mark Stoudt, Maureen Williams, Jonathan Seppala, Thien Phan, Ho Yeung, Sandra Young

For establishing the AM Bench Test Series to increase the reliability of simulations of additive manufacturing processes that are critical to industry.

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