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Material Measurement Laboratory

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2025 - TMS Fellow Award---Ursula Kattner

The TMS Fellow Award is presented to The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) members who have made outstanding contributions to the

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Adam Biacchi, Thinh Bui, Cindi Dennis, Michael Donahue, Angela Hight Walker, Thomas Moffat, Eric Rus, Weston Tew, Solomon Woods

For the development of three-dimensional, high-resolution temperature measurement and imaging of materials using embedded magnetic nanoparticles.

Christopher Soles, Katherine Evans, Polette Centellas, Edwin Chan

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Katherine Evans, Christopher Soles, Stephan Stranick, Edwin Chan, Polette Centellas

For the development and deployment of laser-based test methods to quantify the mechanical properties of polymers at ballistic rates of deformation.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---John Libert, Shahram Orandi, Bruce Bandini, Kenneth Ko, Matthew Staymates, Christopher Stafford

For the development of tests and metrics enabling the transition to the next generation of fingerprint acquisition devices.

2024 - ASTM International Emerging Professional---Ami Ahure Powell

Ami Ahure Powell was nominated and selected as an ASTM International Emerging Professional. As part of this selection, she is invited to

Five GreenNISTers Recognized as Part of the Department of Commerce's 2024 Class of Sustainability, Energy, and Environmental (SEE) Ambassadors

The Department of Commerce Office of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Programs (OSEEP) recently announced its 2024 Class of

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2024 - ASCE Norman Medal---Jumari Robinson

Jumari Robinson was among four researchers awarded the ASCE 2024 Norman Medal for their paper “ Experimental-Numerical Determination of the

2023 - William P. Slichter Award---Anthony Kotula, Kalman Migler, Angela Hight Walker

For partnering with industry to develop the rheo-Raman microscope and solve key issues with manufacturing of advanced polymers and other soft matter.

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2023 - Excellence in Tech Transfer---Thomas Moffat, Daniel Josell

For developing and transferring technologies needed by stakeholders to create microelectronic chips, quantum computers and new X-ray imaging methods.

2023 - APS Fellow---Dean M. DeLongchamp

For developing resonant soft x-ray methods to quantify polymer structure, order, and orientation, for making these tools available to the

Ursula Kattner and guest pose for a photo with her Gibbs Triangle Award in front of the water.

2023 - Gibbs Triangle Award---Ursula Kattner

Ursula Kattner of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory Materials Science and Engineering Division is the 2023 recipient of the Gibbs

2023 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---Edwin P. Chan

Dr. Edwin Chan is recognized for his outstanding contributions to NIST and the federal government. He developed innovative measurement

2023 - Life Sciences Invention of the Year---Ming Zheng

Annually, ovarian cancer is responsible for 184,000 deaths worldwide. Survival rates are strongly linked to the stage at which the disease

2023 - Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award---Christopher Soles

The Distinguished Alumni Lecture award is proudly presented to Christopher L. Soles for seminal contributions to materials research, as

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.

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

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 - 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 - 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.

Vivek M. Prabhu Named APS Fellow

For fundamental insight into the chain conformation, structure, phase separation, and interfaces of polyelectrolytes enabled by light and

Mark Stoudt Named ASM Fellow

For outstanding contributions to the scientific understanding of the structure-property relationships of additively manufactured alloys and

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Carelyn Campbell, Mark Stoudt

For the development of three patented metal alloys for the U.S. Mint, designed to lower the cost of U.S. coinage, via a rapid materials-by-design approach.

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Barry Schneider, Robert Hanisch, Carl Spangler, Walid Keyrouz, Andrew Reid, Timothy Blattner, Derek Juba, Robert Densock, Abdella Battou, Thomas Allison

For outstanding initiative in developing and deploying a new computational capability in support of NIST initiatives in big data and AI.

NIST researcher in a laboratory room looking at tall vertical microscope with multicolored wires emanating from it.

NIST Recognized by Microscopy Today

June Lau of NIST, Yimea Zhu of Brookhaven National Lab, and Chunguang Jing, Eric Montgomery, Yubin Zhao, Wade Rush, Ao Liu, and Ilya

Vivek Prabhu named ACS PMSE Fellow

For developing measurements that identify the resolution limit of the chemically amplified photoresists that are used in semiconductor

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