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Kathryn Beers Named Director of NIST’s Material Measurement Laboratory

May 6, 2024

Beers managed NIST’s Circular Economy Program, which supports the nation’s transition to an economy in which materials retain their value through repeated

Paul Witherell was elected as an ASME Fellow

For outstanding achievements in mechanical engineering.

Amy Mensch Received The Early Career Award

For exemplary contributions in the engineering profession in 10 years or less since graduation, including research advancements, leadership

Department of Commerce Announces New Actions to Implement President Biden’s Executive Order on AI

April 29, 2024

Announcements include draft guidance documents, a draft plan for international standards, and a new measurement program opening for public comment.

Circular Economy Product Design and Digital Thread

The Circular Economy: Product Design and Digital Thread project focuses on better managing how products are designed, made, and used in response to the

NIST Awarded Cyber Policy Award for CSF 2.0 Efforts

On April 24, 2024, NIST was awarded the 'Ecosystem Champion Award' at the inaugural edition of the Cyber Policy Awards in Washington, DC

Technical Language Processing Meeting with image showing Artificial intelligence looking at smart city, connected with planet through global mobile internet on phone.

Technical Language Processing Community of Interest 2024 Meeting

Tue, Sep 24 - Wed, Sep 25 2024

Join Us for the 2024 TLP COI Meeting and Workshop The Technical Language Processing Community of Interest (TLP COI) in

Enabling and Using Traceability and Data Linking for Sustainable and Efficient Supply Chains

Traceability is becoming increasingly crucial in and across multiple sectors and is critical to identifying and connecting value chain data. For example

MBE & QIF Summit 2024

April 16, 2024

The MBE Summit has brought academia, government, and industry experts together for over 10 years to share the challenges, implementation issues, and lessons

Human-Centered AI

2024 Award for Excellence in Research in Applied Mathematics

Congratulations to Justyna Zwolak, who has been selected by the Washington Academy of Sciences (WAS) to receive its 2024 Award for

Jonathon Phillips elected AAAS Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected Dr. P. Jonathon Phillips as an AAAS Fellow. Dr. Phillips was

NanoFab Tool: Zeiss Gemini 560 Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope

The Zeiss Gemini 560 Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM) is a high resolution FE-SEM which provides nanoscale imaging from 100 mm diameter

Circular Economy Closed Loop Recovery

High-demand consumable products made from plastics, or those such as consumer electronics like mobile phones, laptops, etc., are particularly problematic and

Julie Borchers Distinguished Mentoring award

2024 Sustained Research Prize of the Neutron Scattering Society of America - Julie Borchers

For groundbreaking contributions to understanding the structure and behavior of magnetic nanostructures using neutron techniques, and for

2024 Fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America - Michihiro Nagao

For seminal neutron scattering studies revealing new dynamic modes in soft membranes. https://neutronscattering.org/2024/04/congratulation

2024 Fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America - Yun Liu

For his substantial contributions to the understanding of concentrated colloidal solutions using neutron scattering and his significant

2024 Fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America - Peter Gehring

For seminal contributions to the understanding of the dynamics and structures of relaxor ferroelectrics using neutron scattering and for

Temperature & Humidity Group

Moonlight Measurement on a Hawaiian Volcano

April 22, 2024

For several years, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been building a robotically operated moonlight

Advanced Informatics and Artificial Intelligence for Additive Manufacturing

Advancements in additive manufacturing are progressively driven by digital technologies, with advanced sensors and measurements informing increasingly complex

Metric in Sports: Track and Field

NICE Webinar: Empowering Refugee Communities in Cybersecurity Roles

Wed, Jun 12 2024, 2:00 - 3:00pm EDT

The presentation slides are available here. Download the Continuing Education Units form . Provide event feedback here

Fundamental Measurements for Metal Additive Manufacturing

Critical parts for defense, aerospace, and medical applications must be formally qualified prior to use. Currently, extensive empirical testing consisting of

Data Management and Fusion for AM Industrialization

The maturation of additive manufacturing (AM) into an industrialization (wide-scale production) technology requires an expanded notion of integration of both AM

Advanced Machines, Monitoring, and Control for AM

Metal Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing (AM) has revolutionized the manufacturing industry by directly producing functional metal components from

Metrology for AM Model Validation

Multi-physics and data-driven models are necessary to simulate, study, and optimize metal additive manufacturing (AM) processes, such as powder bed fusion (PBF)

A Standard for Quantifying Yohimbe in Dietary Supplements

April 17, 2024

SRM 3383 Yohimbe-Containing Solid Oral Dosage Form is part of a continuing collaboration with NIH-Office of Dietary Supplements to develop dietary supplement

An SRM for Measuring Arsenic in Shellfish

April 16, 2024

NIST has developed many environmentally relevant Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) over the years, including whale blubber, fish and mussel tissues, human

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