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Taking Measure

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Kelley Rogers

Kelley Rogers is a technical program advisor for biosciences in NIST's Material Measurement Laboratory. She has been an active advocate for science education in public schools, and now knows that as a teenager, she should have listened more to her dad’s dinner conversations about quality assurance for manufacturing.

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I came to NIST in January 2015, not as a physicist, analytical chemist, or engineer, but as a biologist, a fit that surprised some of my friends from grad

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