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Core Values and Concepts

The Baldrige Criteria are built on the following set of interrelated core values and concepts. These beliefs and behaviors are embedded in...

Baldrige Criteria: Thirty Years of Evolution = Revolutionary Change

Alternate Text Version From Thirty Years of Evolution = Revolutionary Change by Harry Hertz “The Baldrige Cheermudgeon” The Baldrige...

Classroom Experiments and Educational Materials

Classroom Experiments A series of experiments have been designed to introduce grade school students to phenomena commonly seen in neutron...

Research Experience for Teachers (June-Aug)

The NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) offers science high school teachers the opportunity to learn how scientists think and how they...

NIST Summer Institute for Middle School Science Teachers

The NIST Summer Institute for Middle School Science Teachers, a collaboration between NIST and local school districts, is an innovative...

UMD Travel Assistance Program

This program provides a stipend of up to $500 to help offset travel and subsistence expenses to users with a neutron proposal that has been...

CHRNS Student Travel Assistance Program

CHRNS PROGRAM TO SUPPORT GRADUATE STUDENTS' VISITS TO THE NCNR As part of its education and outreach effort, CHRNS is pleased to offer U.S...

Facility Tours

The NCNR is a national center for research, that uses neutrons to study a wide variety of materials and physical phenomena. To do this it...

Opportunities and Resources for K-12 Teachers

CHRNS supports K-12 education in a numerous ways. A unique CHRNS program, Research Experiences for Teachers, RET, gives high school teachers...

The CHRNS SHIP Program at the NCNR

The Summer High school Internship Program (SHIP) is an NIST-wide, 8-week internship program which provides high school juniors and seniors...

The CHRNS SURF Program at the NCNR

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program is an NIST-wide, 11 or 9 weeks, paid internship program which provides students...

CHRNS Summer School on Neutron Scattering

July 27-31, 2026 The deadline for submitting applications is midnight on March 9, 2026. The 32 th Center for High Resolution Neutron...

NRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship

NIST's Postdoctoral Program supports a nationwide competitive postdoctoral program administered in cooperation with the National Academy of...

Financial Assistance for Visiting Scientists

CHRNS Student Travel Assistance Program As part of its education and outreach effort, CHRNS is pleased to offer U.S. university-based...

Multiscale Polymer Dynamics in Hierarchical Carbon Nanotube Grafted Glass Fiber Reinforced Composites

August 27, 2019

NIST researchers utilized a suite of techniques typically reserved to investigate polymer dynamics and structure in nanocomposites with dispersed fillers to...

CHRNS Education and Outreach

The Center for High-Resolution Neutron Scattering (CHRNS) provides a wide variety of Educational and Outreach activities catering to the...

Six people stand in front of a tan building, cutting a blue ribbon

NIST Unveils New Laboratory Building for Improved National Radiation Measurements

September 24, 2019

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday to unveil a...

OSTP Director Pens Letter to U.S. Research Community

September 17, 2019

Today, the Director of The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Dr. Kelvin K. Droegemeier, sent a letter to the U.S. research community...

U.S. Survey Foot: Training/Outreach Events Calendar

Completed U.S. Survey Foot Webinars April 25, 2019. Fate of the U.S. Survey Foot after 2022: A Conversation with NGS December 12, 2019...

U.S. Survey Foot: Resources

General Information A Tale of Two Feet - This article explains how NOAA and NIST are preparing to drop U.S. survey foot and adopt the...

U.S. Survey Foot: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Explore the answers to commonly asked questions. Q. Why is this change being made? Q. Who has the authority to define units of measure in...

U.S. Survey Foot: Revised Unit Conversion Factors

Approximate decimal SI equivalents for measures commonly given in U.S. survey feet and exact equivalents for the foot that will be adopted...

NIST Awards $498,845 to Workcred, Inc.

September 23, 2019

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) has awarded a new cooperative...

OSAC Celebrates National Forensic Science Week

September 23, 2019

Forensic science can be a powerful force in support of justice and public safety. Properly applied, it clears the innocent and helps convict the guilty. The...

Calibration LAP

The Calibration Laboratories Accreditation Program (LAP) was developed by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) at...

2019 Fellow of the American Physical Society - William D. Ratcliff

For seminal neutron scattering studies of the magnetic order and spin dynamics in multiferroic materials

Schematic of unresolved imaging of a periodic structure. Extracting deep-subwavelength information from such images requires mastery of several techniques; this project seeks to integrate machine learning for metrology.

Quantitative Nanoscale Imaging Through Artificial Intelligence

Key industrial optics-based measurements of nanoscale structures are growing ever-more complex due to increasing device and materials complexity. To meet these

Cybersecurity in Your Community

K12 | Higher Education & Industry | Tips Examine cybersecurity's impact on society through resources available in your neighborhood...

A photo illustration of a hand holding forceps editing DNA

NIST Seeks Comments on Genome Editing Terms

September 18, 2019

The NIST Genome Editing Consortium seeks feedback on terms and definitions specific to genome editing. The purpose of this project is to encourage the use of a...

Node Summary (Process Controller)

primaryNode (primary) When written, updates the set point for the primary control loop and then waits for the hardware to either reach the...

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