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Awards Received by NIST Employees

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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.

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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.

2016 - Judson C. French Award---Thomas E. Lipe

For meeting the needs of the aerospace and defense communities by delivering a new generation of accurate and inexpensive ac voltage standards.

2016 - Judson C. French Award---Ricky Seifarth, Kevin Chesnutwood, Samuel Ho

For restoration and recalibration of the NIST 4.45 meganewton (1 million pounds-force) force standard that serves as the world's largest primary force standard.

2016 - Judson C. French Award---Hua-jun He, Jamie Almeida, Kenneth Cole, Steven Choquette, Steven Lund

For development of the first-ever cancer-gene copy-number Standard Reference Material for diagnosing cancers: NIST SRM 2373.

2016 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Alex Farrell

For operation, maintenance, and sustained support of the Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility (SURF III) as the primary national ultraviolet radiation standard for critical space programs.

2016 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Nune Atyan

For outstanding Interlibrary Loan customer service in support of the research needs of NIST Gaithersburg staff.

2016 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Michael Lewis

For providing exceptional service to cryogenic flow calibration customers to support custody transfer of cryogenic fluids.

2016 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Weston J. Utsler

For technical service and exceptional attention to customer service.

2016 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Erika White

For outstanding management and continuous improvement of administrative programs within the Office of Acquisition and Agreements Management.

2016 - Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award---Patrick Abbott, Eric Benck, Zeina Kubarych, Edward Mulhern, Corey Stambaugh, Leon Chao, David Newell, Stephan Schlamminger

For establishing a mise en pratique to realize the redefined unit of mass and transfer mass measurements to working standards for dissemination.

2016 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Adam Creuziger

For developing measurement methods for advanced materials needed by the U.S. automotive industry to manufacture lightweight vehicles, providing metallurgical expertise to government agencies, and contributing to science education and international clean water programs.

2016 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Tara Lovestead

For pioneering research toward simple, inexpensive detection of trace levels of chemicals in vapors with unprecedented sensitivity; for enabling revolutionary advances in homeland security, forensics, and food safety; and for support of learning-based childcare.