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Material Measurement Laboratory

Awards

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2017 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Jared Ragland

For designing and developing data-handling tools for qualitative and quantitative analysis of environmental samples.

2017 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Maureen Williams

For extraordinary commitment to the NIST mission and significant "above-and-beyond" support of all of her co-workers.

2017 - Silver Medal Award---Elizabeth Drexler, Andrew Slifka

For advancing the safe, effective use of hydrogen for fuel and manufacturing by spearheading science-based improvements to hydrogen pipeline codes.

Chulock, Quick, Hovis, Montgomery, Diaz, Alderoty, Lauren, Johnson, Carlson

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Dana Rae Diaz, Joan Carlson, John Quick, Lisa Chulock, Jeffrey Harris, Scott Montgomery, LaDonna Lauren, Neil Alderoty, Frances Johnson, Patrick Hovis

For creating the Undelivered Order Review application, significantly automating the return of obligated but undisbursed funds back to OUs across NIST.

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Sheng Lin-Gibson, Sumona Sarkar, Steven Lund

For development of an experimental and statistical framework for comparing cell-counting measurements fundamental to biotechnology.

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Kurt D. Benkstein, Pamela Chu

For developing precise and low-cost calibration and verification methods in the field for chemical detectors that monitor chemical-warfare agents.

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Nancy J. Lin

For deployment of a quantitative yeast material that enables safe on-site training for first responders to increase confidence in biothreat detection.

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Bruce Ravel

For the exemplary application of a unique data analysis and visualization system used globally by synchrotron X-ray absorption spectroscopists.

Zook, Samarov, Harris, McDaniel, Salit, Catoe

2017 - Judson C. French Award---David Catoe, Lindsay Harris, Jennifer McDaniel, Marc Salit, Justin Zook, Daniel Samarov

For development of a suite of whole-genome human reference materials designed to advance clinical applications of genome sequencing.

2017 - William P. Slichter Award---Michael J. Tarlov

For leading industry and government stakeholders to develop and adopt measurement standards to ensure reliable manufacturing of protein therapeutics.

2017 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Carol A. Driver

For exceptional leadership in the creation of an effective and efficient administrative team after the formation of MML's Chemical Sciences Division.

2017 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Justin Zook

For his exemplary work in basic and applied science, and in standards development needed for our nation to implement the powerful tool of whole genome sequencing, and for his humanitarian efforts to support healthcare in developing countries.

2017 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---Marcus T. Cicerone

For his key contributions to the fields of label-free chemical imaging and biological therapeutics.

MML Researchers Win Journal of Materials Science Cahn Prize for Best Paper of 2017

The work is available at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10853-017-1355-4

MML Group Leader Frank DelRio Named ASME Fellow

Group Leader Frank DelRio, leader of the Fatigue and Fracture Group in the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division, has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The ASME Committee of Past Presidents confers the...

Christopher Stafford Named 2017 American Physical Society Fellow

Congratulations to Chris Stafford (Functional Polymers Group) for being selected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society for 2017. He is being recognized for “developing innovative techniques to enhance physical understanding of polymer thin...

Andrei Kazakov and Mark McLinden of MML Awarded 2017 DoC Gold Medal

Mark O. McLinden and Andrei F. Kazakov of MML, along with Piotr A. Domanski of EL, were awarded a 2017 Department of Commerce Gold Medal. The group was recognized for performing a systematic and exhaustive search for the next generation of...

Andrew Slifka and Elizabeth Drexler of MML Awarded 2017 DoC Silver Medal

Andrew Slifka and Elizabeth Drexler were recognized for providing the ASME hydrogen pipeline code committee the scientific basis for revising its design and construction codes, reducing the material and labor required for new hydrogen pipelines while...

Marcus Cicerone Receives 2016 Arthur S. Flemming Award

Dr. Marcus Cicerone was recently recognized for outstanding federal service through seminal contributions to the field of label-free chemical imaging, by introducing broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (BCARS) microscopy, and to the field...