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Awards Received by NIST Employees

Keyword

Organizational Unit

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Lawrence D. Nadel, Michael Garris, Heather Evans

For creating the NIST AI Community of Interest, which has galvanized cooperation across NIST to reap the benefits of AI for metrology.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Jonathan Fiscus, Haiying Guan, Andrew Delgado, Yooyoung Lee, Amy N. Yates

improvements in measurement science that advanced forensic detection and analysis of altered videos, audio, and imagery.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Darrin Dimmick, Angela Ellis, Gabriella Gomez

For providing unparalleled technical and administrative support to enable critical information retrieval research functions worldwide.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Alden Dima, Talapady Bhat , Benjamin Long , Jacob Collard, Rachael Sexton, John Elliott

For the rapid development and deployment of an innovative COVID-19 research system used globally to improve collective research knowledge-sharing.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Christopher Zangmeister, Jimmy Radney, Jamie Weaver, Matthew Staymates, Robin Materese , Riley Wilson , Richard Press, Leon Geršković

For characterization of the performance and usage of facemasks used to slow the spread of COVID-19, and communication of the results to the public.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Vytautas Reipa, Vincent Hackley, Blaza Toman

For design and development of a system of traceable measurements that enable risk assessments of nanoparticles that exhibit photocatalytic activity.

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.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Martin Chiang

For developing a suite of tools and a documentary standard to support advancements and improved clinical longevity for dental composite restorations.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Gheorghe Stan

For the invention, development, and industrial application of Intermittent Contact Resonance Atomic Force Microscopy.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Brian Maranville, Paul Kienzle, William Ratcliff

For the development of cloud-based data reduction and visualization software benefiting the U.S. and international neutron scattering communities.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Adrian Mitchell, Vivian Shirley, Michelle Wims, Jason Fellows, Darryl Hallman, James Crabill, Christian Colburn, Elaine Oliver

For superior Logistics Services and Site Services support to the NIST Boulder and Gaithersburg campuses during COVID Phase I reopening planning.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Joshua Pomeroy, Michael Stewart, Jr., Jonathan Wyrick

For developing new techniques to successfully manufacture atomic-scale electronic and quantum devices.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Nikolai N. Klimov, Zeeshan Ahmed, Tobias Herman

For the development of the silicon nanophotonic thermometer as a robust replacement for the widely used, 150-year-old, standard resistance thermometer.

2021 - Samuel Wesley Stratton Award---Mark Stiles

For seminal research on theoretical nanoscale magnetism, enabling development of spintronic read heads and nonvolatile magnetic memory for computers.

2021 - Safety Award---Stephen Banovic

For enabling vaccination against COVID-19 for NIST staff and regional federal employees

2021 - George A. Uriano Award---Marlon Walker

For leadership in developing and implementing MATTR service to connect NIST Laboratory capabilities and resources with needs of small U.S. manufacturers.

2021 - George A. Uriano Award---Samantha Maragh, Tara Eskandari

For establishing leader roles and building key industry partnerships to accelerate development of genome editing-based technologies to get products to market.

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.

2021 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---Alexey Gorshkov

Dr. Gorshkov’s creating strong interactions between photons gives a basis for technology using light rather than electrons to perform operations/computations.

2021 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---John Schiel

Dr. Schiel led NIST scientists in developing the world's first monoclonal antibody reference material, which assures the performance of biopharmaceuticals.

2021 - George A. Uriano Award---Ellen Ryan, Terese Manley, Craig Connelly, Gary Howarth, II, Joanne Krumel, Jeremy Glenn, Sarah Hughes

For establishing a program to facilitate competitiveness and innovation in the public safety communications research field.