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Taking Measure

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Nenad Ivezic

Nenad Ivezic is the leader of the Process Engineering Group in the Systems Integration Division of the NIST Engineering Laboratory. He received his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from the University of Belgrade and MS and Ph.D. degrees in computer-aided engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He and his wife, Ljiljana, a librarian at the Library of Congress, live in Bethesda, Maryland, where they raised their two daughters, Vera and Jovana.

Getting Food on Our Tables From the U.S. and Around the World, Safely and Less Wastefully

November 13, 2019

I’m still amazed to see strawberries, avocados and watermelons in my grocery store out of their “normal” season. As amazing as this is, I know it means that my

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