Awards

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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.

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...

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 - 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.

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2024 - William (Mickey) Haynes Symposium Award---Marcia Huber

The Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, the leading international conference in the field, is held every three years in Boulder, Colorado. Associated with the Symposium is an award presented to individuals who demonstrate long term and...

2024 - Yeram S. Touloukian Award---Mark McLinden

For major advancements in the HVAC&R and chemical industries, excellence in thermophysical property research of working fluids, and for advocating compliance with international regulations to satisfy often-competing requirements for performance...

2024 - Institute of Physics Fellow---Vinod Tewary

In June 2024, Vinod Tewary of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory Applied Chemicals and Materials Division was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK.

2024 - ACS Colorado Annual Section Award---Jason Widegren

Dr. Jason Widegren of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory was presented with the 2024 ACS Colorado Section Award on May 8, 2024. A social hour, dinner, and program were held to celebrate, and Jason gave a seminar titled, "A New Direction for...

2023 - Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award---Mark McLinden, Ian Bell, Tara Fortin, Marcia Huber, Mark Kedzierski, Gregory Linteris, Stephanie Outcalt, William Vance Payne II, Aaron Rowane, Harrison Skye

For identifying non-flammable, low-global-warming-potential alternatives to the widely used refrigerant HFC-134a for U.S. military applications.

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2023 - ASTM AM CoE Young Professional in Additive Manufacturing Award---Jake Benzing

Jake Benzing of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory Applied Chemicals and Materials Division Fatigue and Fracture Group is a 2023 recipient of the ASTM International Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) Young Professional in...

2019 - Best Paper---Bell, Domanski, Linteris, and McLinden

This collaboration between the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) and the Building Energy and Environment Division of the NIST Engineering Laboratory (EL) investigated refrigerant blends as...

2023 - Laurance S. Reid Award---Eric Lemmon

Dr. Eric Lemmon of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory Applied Chemicals and Materials Division Thermophysical Properties of Fluids Group at the NIST Boulder, CO campus has been named the 2023 recipient of the Laurance S. Reid Award of the...

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.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Robert Commarota, Cerasela Constantin, Sushama Singh , Simon Frechette , Eric Shirley, Andrea Medina-Smith, Elisabeth Mansfield, Douglas Montgomery, Peter Gehring, Fernando J. Cintron

For development of an IT system to modernize and simplify NIST's publication processes

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Sherwin McAdam, Hing Pan Wong, Tracy Retterer, Karla Sims, John Furgerson, Daniel Dender, William Clark, Jody Sandel, Hong Zhang, Yali Zhang

For developing and implementing an acquisition management tool providing transparency and visibility to customers, leadership, and acquisition professionals.

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.

Callie Higgins Honored for Service to America

Callie Higgins was named a 2021 Emerging Leader for inventing a groundbreaking technology to detect and remedy microscopic flaws that threaten the safety and reliability of 3D–printed products, potentially revolutionizing the medical, plastics...

Nik Hrabe Honored by ASTM International

Nik Hrabe of the Fatigue and Fracture Group (647.02) in the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division has been selected to receive the ASTM International Additive Manufacturing Young Professional Award for leadership of standards development in the...

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2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Charles E. Oliver, Katie Schlatter, Tiffany Atchison, Michael Blumer, Ray Holiday, Jody Sandel, Norman Bergren, Margaret Crews, Tim Drapela, Petrina Potts

For developing and implementing a central ordering and delivery program for compressed gases and liquid cryogens for the NIST Boulder campus.

2019 - Distinguished Mentoring Award---Jason Killgore

For his tireless ability to motivate mentees to be inquisitive and innovative while guiding scientific research to impactful new directions.

Mark McLinden Honored by Institute of Refrigeration

Dr. McLinden is cited for “applying state-of-the-art thermodynamic property tools to address a key challenge facing the industry, namely the identification of new, environmentally friendly refrigerants.”

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Jason P. Killgore

For pioneering viscoelastic AFM, a quantitative method for mapping mechanical properties of materials with nanometer-scale spatial resolution.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Damian S. Lauria, Peter E. Bradley, Matthew Connolly, Andrew Slifka

For development of in-situ mechanical test methods to facilitate first-ever direct evidence of two H₂ embrittlement theories in structural materials.

Ian Bell and Monika Thol Named “Emerging Investigators” by Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data

Ian Bell of MML's Applied Chemicals and Materials Division was named as an Emerging Investigator in the field of chemical thermodynamics by the Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, in a special issue of the journal published July 12, 2018 by the...

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