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Taking Measure

Just a Standard Blog

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.