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Awards Received by NIST Employees

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Natarajan Wins FEI Image Award

One of the November winners of the 2016 FEI Image Contest

Sae Woo Nam, Lita, Shalm, Verma, Mirin, Allman, Stevens, Bierhorst, Glancy, Gerrits, Migdall, Bienfang, Wayne

2016 - Gold Medal Award---Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML), Information Technology Laboratory (ITL)

For being the first in nearly 50 years of attempts to achieve a loophole-free test of Bell’s theorem, confirming the predictions of quantum mechanics. Nearly 20 NIST employees and associates from PML and ITL contributed to this achievement.

2016 - Gold Medal Award---Michael A. Boss, Kathryn E. Keenan, Stephen E. Russek, Karl F. Stupic

For creating standards that transformed magnetic resonance imaging into a quantitative tool to diagnose and treat traumatic brain injury and cancer.

2016 - Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award---Michael A. Boss, Kathryn E. Keenan, Stephen E. Russek, Karl F. Stupic

For creating standards that transformed magnetic resonance imaging into a quantitative tool to diagnose and treat traumatic brain injury and cancer.

2016 - Safety Award---Daniel J. Gilmore

For continuously being an exemplary and genuine leader and champion of the importance of the OFPM Safety Vision of "Everyone Home Safe Everyday."

2016 - Safety Award---T. Mitch Wallis

For demonstrable leadership in instilling a culture of safety in the multi-user, multi-laboratory Precision Imaging Facility.

2016 - Equal Employment Opportunity/Diversity Award---Joseph W. Magee

For a lasting commitment to fostering research opportunities for a diverse pool of young scientists through the SHIP, SURF, and PREP programs.

2016 - Equal Employment Opportunity/Diversity Award---Geraldine Cheok, Hannah Lee, Katherine Lee, Hui-min Huang, Jun Li, Katherine Hong

For exemplary stewardship in accomplishing, commemorating, and sharing a NIST-wide cultural experience through the Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month Program.

2016 - Director's Award for Excellence in Administration---Karen J. Combs

For relentlessly exceptional administrative service and mentoring in support of the NIST mission across multiple divisions and operating units.

2016 - Director's Award for Excellence in Administration---Dawn St. Hilaire

For outstanding customer service and leadership in providing exemplary employee-relations support and advice to the NIST community.

2016 - Colleagues' Choice Award---David Leibrandt

For the development of open-source hardware and software designs for a state-of-the-art digital servo that is being rapidly adopted by researchers inside and outside of NIST.

2016 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Amy Eckstine

For outstanding administrative expertise and customer service in the area of retirement and benefits services to federal employees.

2016 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Elif Karakas

For providing exceptional customer focus and innovation in automating processes and managing secure data for online applications that serve both internal and external stakeholders and support NIST's mission.

2016 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Steven Lund

For enhancing the quality, rigor, and effectiveness of critical measurement programs across the biological and physical sciences at NIST.

2016 - George A. Uriano Award---Mark Troppe

For singular leadership of MEP's unprecedented efforts to improve competitiveness of small US manufacturing enterprises through revitalized relationships with state economic development strategies.

2016 - George A. Uriano Award---Xiaohong Gu

For leading the deployment of new measurement-science tools to industry, for service-life prediction and product-failure reduction in the solar-energy market.

2016 - George A. Uriano Award---Ronald Jones

For the creation of nSoft, a new engagement model to enhance industry use of neutron measurements and participation in NIST programs.

2016 - Samuel Wesley Stratton Award---Craig Brown

For revealing molecular mechanisms that yield great improvements in gas-separation and catalytic processes in microporous materials.

Zimmerman, Cessna, Bergeron, King, Pibida

2016 - William P. Slichter Award---Brian E. Zimmerman, Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Lynne E. King, Leticia Pibida

For partnering with industry to co-develop and disseminate SI-traceable nuclear medicine imaging phantoms, now being shipped with new PET scanners.

2016 - Edward Bennett Rosa Award---Allison Barnard Feeney, Yung-Tsun Lee, Jennifer L. Marshall

For outstanding contributions to the development of standards to design safer and more efficient patient compartments in automotive ambulances.

2016 - Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award---Brian Dougherty, A. Hunter Fanney, William Healy, Lisa Ng, Joshua Kneifel, Farhad Omar, Dustin Poppendieck, Harrison Skye, Tania Ullah, W. Vance Payne

For development of a unique experimental testbed to support the building industry's delivery of energy-efficient, comfortable, and healthy homes.