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Photos of 2024 Portrait Gallery Honorees

2024 NIST Portrait Gallery Induction Ceremony

Thu, Oct 17 2024, 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT

Join us on October 17, 2024, for the NIST Portrait Gallery Induction Ceremony, celebrating five remarkable former NIST

Shelf Labels for Instant Noodles - Price Verification

2024 NCWM National Price Verification Survey

October 1, 2024

The National Council on Weights and Measures (NCWM) recently completed the 2024 National Price Verification Survey together with support from NIST OWM and...

Latest Updates on EPOs for Electrical Energy and Hydrogen Vehicle Fueling

October 1, 2024

OWM is pleased to announce the latest inspection and test procedures for two alternative vehicle fueling applications: Electrical Energy (EVSE for Vehicle...

DYK: NIST OWM Fun Facts

October 1, 2024

DYK: The Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) is the oldest office at NIST? NIST OWM’s principal mandate to “ fix the standard of weights and measures” is...

Info Hours Presented by NIST OWM: 2024 Series Successfully Completed!

October 1, 2024

This year, NIST OWM launched a new series of Information Hours, aka “Info Hours,” as an informal forum for our customers and stakeholders to engage in...

2024 - ASTM International Emerging Professional---Ami Ahure Powell

Ami Ahure Powell was nominated and selected as an ASTM International Emerging Professional. As part of this selection, she is invited to participate in the Emerging Professionals workshop in Orlando, Florida on November 11 and 12, 2024.

Short Descriptions of 2025 Benchmarks

Short descriptions of all 2025 sets of benchmarks and challenge problems for prospective challenge problem participants In response to...

David Sefcik reviews an inspection report with a Massachusetts Weights and Measures Official James Shattuck

NIST OWM Teams Up with Massachusetts for Price Verification Training

September 30, 2024

NIST OWM was delighted to provide a 2-day price verification training event based on the NIST Handbook 130 Examination Procedure for Price Verification for the...

2025 - Rising Star Award---Ashley Beasley Green

Ashley Beasley Green of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory Biomolecular Measurement Division is a 2025 recipient of the Rising Star Award presented by the American Chemical Society Women Chemists Committee for her leadership of and impactful...

Multifunctional 3D Printable Polymer-Metal Composites

Our goal is to support innovation and fundamental research in additive manufacturing (AM) of multifunctional materials with low energy consumption, facilitating

History

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) first became involved in fire safety in response to a 1904 complaint about the...

NIST Announces Award for Manufacturing Extension Center in Florida

September 26, 2024

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has made a cooperative agreement award to operate a Manufacturing...

2024 Science News 10: Scientists to Watch - Nicole Yunger Halpern

Physicist Nicole Yunger Halpern from the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the University of Maryland connects thermodynamics to modern quantum...

Freese and Nichols, Inc. 2024

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 2024 Award Recipient, Service Download Printable PDF Highest-Ranking Official* Brian Coltharp...

Alamo Colleges District  2024

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 2024 Award Recipient, Education  Download Printable PDF Highest-Ranking Official* Dr. Mike Flores...

Chickasaw Nation Department of Health

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 2024 Award Recipient, Health Care Download Printable PDF Highest-Ranking Official* Dr. Charles Grim...

Northeast Delta Dental

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

City of Henderson

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...

Read more about CNST NanoFab Frequently Asked Questions

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.

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