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Awards Received by NIST Employees
Notice: This collection is not comprehensive. Most awards included are recent. We are working to make the site more complete.
Congratulations to Dr. Davina Pruitt-Mentle for receiving the 2018 Government Leadership of the Year Award. Pruitt-Mentle has spent over 20 years researching and coordinating cybersecurity education programs. She joined the National Initiative for...
In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the understanding of nanoscale magnetic phenomena through ground-breaking theoretical studies of exchange coupling, exchange bias, magnetic damping, and spin transfer torques.
For the development of stable, reproducible, and accurate atomic clocks based on optical lattices, and the use of those clocks to probe fundamental atomic interactions and quantum many-body systems. Read more on JILA website.
The 2018 IUPAP Young Scientist prize for the Commission on Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (C15) was awarded to Dr. Alexey Gorshkov for outstanding contributions on quantum properties of interacting cold atoms, cold dipolar matter, quantum...
Congratulations to Naomi Lefkovitz who received the Federal 100 award for promoting the development of trustworthy systems that protect individuals’ privacy and civil liberties. In 2017, she published a NIST Internal Report that introduces a systems...
Congratulations to Donna Dodson for receiving the Federal 100 Award . Dodson was a seasoned and steady influence on federal cybersecurity policy in 2017 as new leaders settled into the White House, the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense...
Congratulations to Joshua Franklin for receiving the Federal 100 Award. Franklin literally wrote the book on mobile device security. He had a huge impact last year as one of the authors of NIST’s Mobile Threat Catalogue, and he was responsible for...
Congratulations to Wo Chang for receiving the INCITS Merit Award. For more than 10+ years as a member with significant contributions to at least two international SCs or WGs in a technical contributor or leadership role and demonstrated continuous...
Congratulations to Eric Simmon for receiving the INCITS Service Award. Eric Simmon is recognized for his outstanding service to the INCITS organization through committee work or duties during the past year. His achievements will be honored at the...
For his outstanding contributions to the use of concrete materials, products, and structures in the areas of education, research, development, design, construction, and management
Project Leader Enrico Lucon, from the MML Applied Chemicals and Materials Division, received the 2018 ASTM International Award of Merit for exceptional and sustained technical and leadership contributions to ASTM International; task group leadership...
Dr. Nesbitt was selected for the Humboldt Foundation Weidereingladung Award based on research conducted as part of his official NIST duties in problems in chemical physics, including detailed studies of catalysis, interactions of molecules with...
Congratulations to Chris Stafford (Functional Polymers Group) for being selected as a Fellow of the Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) for 2018. He is being recognized for “for the...
Mark McLinden, of MML's Applied Chemicals and Materials Division, was awarded the rank of Fellow in the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. The presentation was made at the Winter Meeting of ASHRAE January 20 in...
The 2017 list focuses on contemporary research achievement: only Highly Cited Papers in science and social sciences journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection during the 11-year period 2005-2015 were surveyed.
Paul was recognized for his contributions to the development of various committee standards related to quantitative analysis of Portland cement and his exceptional work on behalf of the subcommittee on compositional analysis (C01.23).
Congratulations to Ram D. Sriram for being granted Senior Member status in the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in recognition of his achievements and long-standing efforts in the field of artificial intelligence and long...
For establishing the High-Frequency Structural Simulator (HFSS) computer modeling system at NIST for creating complex electromagnetics simulations to assist in research across multiple OUs.