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Taking Measure

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Georgia Harris

Georgia Harris joined the NIST Office of Weights and Measures in 1990. Her work includes proficiency testing, documentary standards activities, and education and training of laboratory metrologists, as well as metrology outreach efforts primarily at the university level. In her spare time, you can probably find her hiking, camera in hand, with her husband.

Teaching Metrology Abroad as a Fulbright Specialist

March 8, 2017

It seems that I have been a teacher nearly my entire life. One of my first jobs as an early teen was helping to teach gymnastics to elementary students. Before

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