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Taking Measure

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Laurie Locascio

Laurie E. Locascio is the Acting Associate Director for Laboratory Programs. As Acting ADLP, she provides direction and operational guidance for NIST's scientific and technical mission-focused laboratory programs and serves as principal deputy to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST director, among other duties.

NIST biomedical engineer Laurie Locascio places a water sample on a highly sensitive, inexpensive "lab-on-a-chip"

Who Are You, Little Girl? Being a Woman, and a Leader, in Science

March 22, 2017

Like a lot of scientists, I am very goal-oriented, so after I got my Ph.D. in toxicology, I set out to become a leader in my field by the time I was 40. To get

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