Awards

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Shannon Duff Receives 2024 Arthur S. Flemming Award

Shannon Duff has received a 2024 Arthur S. Flemming Award in the Applied Science and Engineering category for her outstanding federal service in establishing a program to produce sensor arrays for measurements of the cosmic microwave background...

2025 William E. Gifford Award - Ryan Snodgrass

Dr. Ryan Snodgrass is recognized for his outstanding contributions to the field of cryogenics, particularly in the areas of pulse tube refrigerators and Gifford-McMahon cryocoolers. His research has advanced the fundamental understanding of these...

2024 Distinguished Associate Award - Gregory Jaehnig, Dante Jones, Matthew Koc, Richard Lew, and Robinjeet Singh

Related to the Gold Medal “For developing the novel sensors that enable the most advanced cosmic microwave background observatory to unravel the mysteries of the early universe.”

2024 Distinguished Associate Award - Anna Vaskuri

Related to the French Award “For reducing the uncertainty in calibration of the world network of gravitational wave observatories.”

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Kimberly Keinath

For exceptional administrative support and unusual effort to acquire and share new skills during an extended period of reduced staffing levels.

2024 - Gold Medal Award---Johannes Hubmayr, James Beall, Shannon Duff, Leila Vale, Michael Link, Tammy Lucas, Michael Vissers, Jeffrey Van Lanen, John Mates, Jason Austermann

For developing the novel sensors that enable the most advanced cosmic microwave background observatory to unravel the mysteries of the early universe.

Tammy Lucas, John Nibarger, Peter Lowell, Daniel Schmidt

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---John Biesecker, Peter Lowell, Tammy Lucas, John Nibarger, Daniel Schmidt, Joel Ullom, Michael Vissers

For developing an innovative process to fabricate superconducting interconnects for circuits with applications in astrophysics and quantum science.

2023 Distinguished Associate Award - Johnathon Gard

For the development of a cryogenic camera based on superconducting sensors and for its first use in space to obtain X-ray images of a supernova remnant.

2023 Distinguished Associate Award - Malcolm Durkin

For the development of a cryogenic camera based on superconducting sensors and for its first use in space to obtain X-ray images of a supernova remnant.

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---W. Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Carl Reintsema

For the development of a cryogenic camera based on superconducting sensors and for its first use in space to obtain X-ray images of a supernova remnant.

2023 R&D 100 Award - Hyperspectral X-ray Imaging Detector (HXI)

Category: Mechanical/Materials Developers: Los Alamos National Laboratory Co-Developers: National Institute of Standards, Boulder, CO; University of Colorado, Boulder, CO United States Product Description: The hyperspectral x-ray imaging (HXI)...

2022 Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics - Jordan Wheeler

Research focus: My research is focused on building detectors for astronomical cameras, much like the sensor in a smartphone. Unlike the sensor in a phone, the detectors I work on are for the type of light that is lower energy than visible/infrared...

2023 Joseph F. Keithley Award - Joel N. Ullom

For the development of ultrasensitive multi-pixel transition-edge-sensor calorimeters and spectrometers for applications in astrophysics, nuclear security, materials analysis, and metrology.

2022 R&D 100 Award - SOFIA: Spectrometer Optimized for Facility Integrated Applications

Category: IT/Electrical Developers: Los Alamos National Laboratory Co-Developers: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), University of Colorado – Boulder United States Product Description: SOFIA (Spectrometer Optimized for Facility...

2022 Department of Commerce Energy & Environmental Stewardship Award - Energy and Water Conservation Project

Recognized for the design and implementation of a successful freshwater conservation project. By using largely existing NIST infrastructure, existing capacity in a closed loop of recycled cooling water, and minimal new hardware costs, this project is...

2021 Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics for Early Career Researchers - Paul Szypryt

For the past few decades, charge-coupled devices (CCDs) have been a dominant technology in optical to near-infrared (NIR) astronomy, but more recently, instruments incorporating superconducting detector technologies, particularly microwave kinetic...

2021 Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics - Jake Connors

Astrophysics in the far-infrared (30μm < λ < 300μm) is relatively unexplored as compared to the optical (Hubble), near- and mid-infrared (James Webb Space Telescope) and sub-mm (ALMA & Cosmic Microwave Background experiments) bands which surround it...

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Jason Austermann, James Beall, Gene Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, Jeffrey Van Lanen, Michael Vissers, Jordan Wheeler

For enabling terahertz and millimeter-wave cameras of unmatched size and sensitivity, now deployed on terrestrial and sub-orbital telescope missions.

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Awards

Shannon Duff Receives 2024 Arthur S. Flemming Award

2025 William E. Gifford Award - Ryan Snodgrass

2024 Distinguished Associate Award - Gregory Jaehnig, Dante Jones, Matthew Koc, Richard Lew, and Robinjeet Singh

2024 Distinguished Associate Award - Anna Vaskuri

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Kimberly Keinath

2024 - Gold Medal Award---Johannes Hubmayr, James Beall, Shannon Duff, Leila Vale, Michael Link, Tammy Lucas, Michael Vissers, Jeffrey Van Lanen, John Mates, Jason Austermann

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---John Biesecker, Peter Lowell, Tammy Lucas, John Nibarger, Daniel Schmidt, Joel Ullom, Michael Vissers

2023 Distinguished Associate Award - Johnathon Gard

2023 Distinguished Associate Award - Malcolm Durkin

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---W. Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Carl Reintsema

2023 R&D 100 Award - Hyperspectral X-ray Imaging Detector (HXI)

2022 Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics - Jordan Wheeler

2023 Joseph F. Keithley Award - Joel N. Ullom

2022 R&D 100 Award - SOFIA: Spectrometer Optimized for Facility Integrated Applications

2022 Department of Commerce Energy & Environmental Stewardship Award - Energy and Water Conservation Project

2021 Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics for Early Career Researchers - Paul Szypryt

2021 Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics - Jake Connors

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Jason Austermann, James Beall, Gene Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, Jeffrey Van Lanen, Michael Vissers, Jordan Wheeler

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Jozsef Imrek

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Johnathon Gard

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Joseph Fowler

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Dan Becker

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Kelsey Morgan

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Christine Pappas

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Abigail Wessels

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