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Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 2024 Award Recipient, Nonprofit Download Printable PDF Highest-Ranking Official* Richard Derrick...

Mike Stocker working with EVSE equipment

NIST OWM-ANL Co-Host Inaugural EVSE Metrology Training Event

September 30, 2024

Several of the NIST OWM staff teamed up with Ted Bohn of Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) to deliver a one-day hybrid workshop and training event on electric

Metric Week 2024: Measure Up with Metric Education

October 2, 2024

National Metric Week ( October 6 to 12, 2024) is an opportunity to draw attention to the educational and economic benefits of metric system measurements

Iris Experts Group Public Comments

OSAC Public Comments Since OSAC has its own public comment process, any document submitted to OSAC will utilize the OSAC public comment...

Dinelka Jagada tallies team scores during NIST Metric Est Game.

2024 NIST Internship Reflections

October 1, 2024

During the summer of 2024, the NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory’s ( PML) Office of Weights and Measures ( OWM) hosted two undergraduate students through the

Map of RMAP regions without state listing

78 Combined Regional Measurement Assurance Program (C-RMAP)

Sun, Jun 1 - Thu, Jun 5 2025

NIST Handbook 143, Section 5.2, Table 2 notes that annual attendance at the RMAP training session is required for

ACMD Seminar: Neural Circuit Models for Evidence Accumulation and Graded Information Transfer in Decision Making

Lindsey Brown Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, 3:00-4:00 PM ET...

Yellow grass surrounds a wooden boat dock that extends into a shallow wetland. Across the water is a small town of buildings and trees.

NIST Funds Climate Measurements Center of Excellence at the University of Vermont

September 20, 2024

The agreement includes an award of $2.7 million appropriated by Congress for this purpose.

Quantum Matters in Material Sciences (QMMS)

Wed, Feb 19 - Thu, Feb 20 2025

As part of the JARVIS workshop series, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is organizing the 4 th

TMMC: Reference Adsorption Isotherms for N2/CO2 Mixtures in Metal-organic Frameworks

Transition-Matrix Monte Carlo (TMMC) simulations of binary mixtures of N 2 and CO2 [1-10] were performed at T = 300 K and 350 K in the ZIF-8...

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Instruments

Analytical Electron Microscope The Titan 80-300 is a transmission electron microscope (TEM) equipped with spectroscopic detectors to allow...

New Smoke Alarms Are Better at Detecting Fires but Still Beep for Bacon

September 18, 2024

NIST research in a kitchen fire laboratory shows that updated smoke detectors still produce nuisance alarms during cooking.

Building a Cybersecurity and Privacy Learning Program: NIST Publishes SP 800-50r1

September 12, 2024

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-50r1 (Revision 1), Building a Cybersecurity and Privacy Learning Program, provides updated guidance for developing and

Finding 500,000: Addressing America’s Cybersecurity Workforce Gap

June 26, 2024

Referenced Speaker

Rodney J. Petersen

The purpose of the hearing was to examine ways in which the federal government is addressing America’s cybersecurity workforce gap.

Named Finalist in 2024 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists - Alexey Gorshkov

Advanced the design of large interacting quantum systems through pioneering research at the intersection of quantum physics and information

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NIST’s Long Phan and Marc Levitan Receive Service to America Medal

September 10, 2024

The award recognizes their efforts to develop standards and building codes to make structures resistant to tornadoes.

TIME Recognizes Elizabeth Kelly as one of the 100 most influential people in AI

On September 5, 2024, TIME included Elizabeth Kelly, director of the United States Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute, on its list of

Benchmark Results for Mixtures of TraPPE Molecules

The purpose of these pages is to provide some explicit results from Monte Carlo simulations for mixtures of TraPPE molecules [1,2]. It is...

View from near ceiling shows NCNR guide hall filled with big pieces of scientific equipment, including several long cylindrical "guides" running toward the far end of the room.

New Report Highlights Economic Value of Neutron Science to U.S. Industry

September 5, 2024

Research using neutron beams provides an economic return far larger than the cost of building and operating neutron facilities, according to an economic impact

Sustainable Metals Processing and Alloy Development

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is committed to advancing sustainability in the metals processing industry by developing cutting-edge

NIST MEP Center State Competition FY2025

Back to Closed Federal Funding Opportunities UPDATE: This opportunity has closed. Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) The NIST Hollings...

2053 Advanced Mass Seminar

Mon, Jul 28 - Thu, Aug 7 2025

The 9-day, hands-on Advanced Mass calibration seminar focuses on the comprehension and application of the advanced mass

Five GreenNISTers Recognized as Part of the Department of Commerce's 2024 Class of Sustainability, Energy, and Environmental (SEE) Ambassadors

The Department of Commerce Office of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Programs (OSEEP) recently announced its 2024 Class of