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Material Measurement Laboratory

Awards

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2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Christopher Zangmeister, Jimmy Radney, Jamie Weaver, Matthew Staymates, Robin Materese , Riley Wilson , Richard Press, Leon Geršković

For characterization of the performance and usage of facemasks used to slow the spread of COVID-19, and communication of the results to the public.

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---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---Daniel Wheeler, Trevor Keller, Jonathan Guyer, James Warren

For leading a community-sourced effort that established a foundation for building trust in phase field simulations used for advanced materials design.

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 - Bronze Medal Award---Gheorghe Stan

For the invention, development, and industrial application of Intermittent Contact Resonance Atomic Force Microscopy.

2021 - Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award---Lee Yu, Clay Davis, Savelas A. Rabb

For advancing the metrology of arsenic, and for the development of SI-traceable arsenic SRMs, needed to ensure human health and food safety worldwide.

2021 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Ashley Boggs

For outstanding advocacy, leadership and devotion to the forward progress of "One NIST" in science, equity, diversity and inclusion.

2021 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Laura Espinal

For her leadership in creating the Parents Network to unite and support caregivers at NIST during a time of crucial need.

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 - 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 - 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 - Gold Medal Award---Lili Wang, Linhua Tian, Elzafir Elsheikh, Sarah Inwood, Sheng Lin-Gibson

For rapidly developing quantitative antibody assays and advancing global standards to underpin development of COVID-19 clinical tests and vaccines.

2021 - George A. Uriano Award---Samantha Maragh, Tara Eskandari

For establishing leader roles and building key industry partnerships to accelerate development of genome editing-based technologies to get products to market.

2021 - Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal---Callie Higgins

Dr. Higgins Invented a potentially revolutionary technology to detect and remedy microscopic flaws that threaten the safety/reliability of 3D-printed products.

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.

2021 - Edward Bennett Rosa Award---Elijah Petersen

For leadership in the development of an international guidance document on conducting ecotoxicity testing of manufactured nanomaterials.

2021 - Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award---Carl Simon, Jr.

For development and transfer to industry of tools to quantify quality attributes of manufactured fiber-based scaffolds for the regenerative medicine industry.

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.